![]() ![]() So many graphical marvels appeared in the imagery that I lost count. This is one of the prettiest games with it comes to graphics on the PS4. This new game also has its bookend ending, and all I will say about that, for now, is that it involves a guitar. Can you get justice and closure without sacrificing your soul? The main characters go on a long journey to discover something about themselves. It is about what you would sacrifice to take revenge. Joel saved a life, and he said the world be damned.Īnd now Joel has to live with that choice in Part II. It says, “Whoever saves one life saves the world entire.” That quote came to mind as I finished the game. When I finished the first game, I thought about a quote from Steven Spielberg’s film, Schindler’s List, about the German man who saved Jews during the Holocaust. What made his choice easier is that, throughout the entire game, we learned what a shitty place the world had become. Joel made the choice of a parent, and it was easier to make that choice even though the fate of the world was at hand. He had to choose how much he was willing to sacrifice for somebody he loved. By the end of the game, he had to decide whether to save Ellie or watch his surrogate daughter die. Fighting the zombies takes skill and stealth, and too often the human enemies are worse.Īt the beginning of The Last of Us, Joel loses his teenage daughter at the start of the pandemic. The graphic violence is horrific, but more often than not, Joel does it in the name of protecting Ellie, and later on it’s Ellie protecting Joel. I was deeply touched by the story of the teenage girl Ellie and gruff smuggler Joel - two survivors of the zombie apocalypse who spend their days just trying to survive. The story of the first game came with a bookend ending that resonated for me. I’d like to say so much more, but that would be spoiling the story.įlashbacks are an interesting tool for a storyteller because they give you a way to learn something about a character who is dead in its present but still alive in your memory. ![]() This can be very frustrating until you learn the reason for the flashbacks, and that makes the dramatic impact so much bigger. You’ll see the characters get put into an excruciating situation, and then you’ll have to wait, as the story moves back in time to a flashback that will explain how you got into that situation. ![]() ![]() This story is told in a series of flashbacks and flash-forwards in a timeline. I believe that nobody tells better stories than Naughty Dog. I’ve already begun to sound like I want to rewrite Naughty Dog’s script. In fact, Naughty Dog has gone out of its way to mislead us into thinking what the game is about. But you shouldn’t place stock in everything that they have led you to believe. Naughty Dog vice president Neil Druckmann (who directed The Last of Us Part II) and the company’s own trailers have spoiled a lot of the story. But the good thing about those delays is that I did not encounter any showstopper bugs in the game on my PS4 Pro. We have waited for this game for a long time, with multiple delays. If there was a solace, I played this one together with my middle daughter, who was too young to play such a serious game when the first one debuted.īut I was so much happier in the sadness of the world of The Last of Us Part II, and I was so disappointed to snap out of it after each play session and emerge in today’s reality. It’s so eerie to play the game about a post-pandemic zombie apocalypse during a pandemic, with sirens for emergency vehicles going off in the background in real life. Despite my initial misgivings, I’m glad they went down this road, because it made me question my sense of right and wrong. But Naughty Dog committed itself to this unpopular direction. The original won numerous Game of the Year awards, and it’s my favorite game of all time.Įarly on, I detested parts of the story. With more than 100 million PS4s sold, Sony has a chance to sell tens of millions of copies of this game (as of 2018, The Last of Us sold 17 million copies). ![]()
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