A fun, dark, and atmospheric horror game that can give you a good jump scare once in awhile, despite the cute yellow raincoat-wearing protagonist. To experience this game at it's creepiest, I highly recommend playing at night with all of the lights off.

A level in this game typically has you navigate through creepy, dark areas while solving a bunch of puzzles to get to the end. To see where you are going, you will need to illuminate the way with your trusty flashlight. But beware, there are all sorts of giant creatures that will attack if they hear or see you. If you are looking for an extra challenge and/or are a trophy hunter, there are also a number of hidden items and secrets you can try to uncover, increasing this game's replay value.

While I enjoyed playing through this game and the horror of being spotted by one of the giant creatures (even though I swore I was being careful enough!), it does have it's flaws, mainly the controls. The game sometimes has you navigate over thin platforms and it can be difficult to tell what plain you are on, causing you to constantly fall off and having to try again. There is also a segment on the last chapter of the DLC where you have to use the right joystick to shine your flashlight on enemies. Since pushing the right joystick also turns the flashlight on and off, using the same joystick to control the direction of the flashlight becomes really frustrating when you are constantly turning it off by accident, causing you to redo the entire section. There were parts where I just wanted the level to be over with because of this kind of unfair frustration.

Overall, if you are looking for a short and simple game to play and are into atmospheric horror and puzzle games, this game is probably right up your alley.

Since the story of the first Last of Us was so well crafted and had an ending that just left me wanting to know what will happen next to Joel and Ellie, this sequel was one of my most anticipated PS4 games for years. Well, I have finally gotten around to playing it, and I must say that while it is an improvement over the first game in a lot of ways, the story was a huge disappointment, which is unforgivable for me since the story is what made the first game stand out as much as it has.

The first impression that I got when starting this game was how much more ambitious it seems compared to The Last of Us Remastered. The environments are much larger and are rendered with much more detail. There is even a semi open world segment fairly early on. The animations are also much improved. I was specifically impressed by how much more satisfying it is to dispatch enemies by sneaking up on them since you can now hear their neck snap or hear when the knife you hold up to their throat punctures their jugular vein so that you can feel exact point that the enemy is killed.

Regarding the story, there were a few parts of it that I really liked, specifically Ellie's flashback scenes. But the overall story is not as well thought out as the first game's story. In the first game, every chapter and interaction brings more development and depth to the two main characters. In this one, this seems to rarely be the case. I just felt like nothing happened to make me care about any of the newly introduced characters, but at the same time, it is important to care for them in the context of the story they are trying to tell. Because of this, the ending fell kind of flat for me and I was left a little disappointed.

In summary, If you liked the first one for the gameplay, I think playing this is a no brainer since Naughty Dog has done a good job building on it. If you like the first one for the story, then I would suggest giving this one a try; you might not feel the same way about it as I have. If you didn't like the first one, then why the hell are you reading this?