The Last of Us Part II honours the original game by fully immersing players in a beautifully rendered world of despair, violence and horror, but never letting it overwhelm the flawed humanity of the main characters. Joel – what he did to save Ellie, and the destructive power of the immense lie he told her when she asked him for the truth – is a constant presence throughout the entire game, not just during flashbacks, but in every moment we spend with Ellie and Abby.
The biggest problem with TLOU 2 is TLOU 1
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If the doc had one line like "I have a daughter" or any type of role in tlou1 other than being a random character then tlou2 would make more sense and it would be easier to sympathize with Abby imo.
I personally think they could make Abby daughter of Marlene instead.. Now, Druckmann just did what Kojima did WITH ground zeroes and TPP. He made a random NPC (Metic) an important character just for the sake of plot twist.
This is a great write up. It's not pretentious and it has clear prose. The writer clearly gets it without relying on "buzz" words. 10/10
Put a daily common social controversial theme in the game.......Checked
Put a cheap a revenge story in it........................Chec ked
Make everyone pissed after playing it from some hours......Checked
Ridiculous out of nowhere sex scene just to grab your attention ......Checked.(well at least gave me good WTF and LOL )
if you think that's defying conventional story telling well then gaming is officially on the decline , this is more like a very cheap effortless story creation imo, ND didn't want to put too much brains into creating the story this time around.