Quick Look: The Last of Us Part II

@robertforster:

hey Robert I thought you were great in Medium Cool and Jackie Brown. Anyway I felt you were supposed to be more scared of the main characters rather than empathize with them for the most part. I have to say, some times I definitely got into "yeah fuck all of these awful people they can burn in hell mode" Ellie was in, though.

Man this game was stellar. Definitely the most fun I've had with a stealth game since MGSV, even if it isn't as great or complex as that game obviously gets. The best bits were when more than one faction were in a single encounter area and you could get them to interact and fuck each other up, or take advantage of the chaos of their existing skirmish you walked in on. Those sorts of complex systems you can kind of only see on games of this scale, and the more that's developed in more games the better in my opinion. I don't know if I want another Last of Us (even if this is certainly ND's best game so far) but I definitely want them or someone to continue and improve/expand this kind of stealth game.

I hope Naughty Dog parlays the guitar controls into some sort of standalone little PS5 music game. I think the PS5 has a (slightly?) larger touchpad so it could be even better.

All these comments are just one complaint after another for one reason or another, good lord. Also, still in a pandemic a year later.