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This is probably the best zombie game I've ever played. That being said, I don't play many zombie games because zombies scare the shit out of me. But The Last of Us Part 1 is just really good. First of all the visuals are immaculate, and absolutely stunned me when I first saw it. The characters are also good, with Joel and Ellie being absolute badasses. The story is also very solid, except for the ending, which kinda was eh, but I'll talk about that a bit more later. The gunplay was eh, I was playing on controller, as I thought that was the way the devs intended it to be played, which made some of the gunplay absolutely unbearable, otherwise it was decent. There are like 6 zombie types, but I think all of them are just either normal zombies or clickers with varying HP, and I wish they made more unique types of zombies. I really liked the idea of moving slow as to not attract the clickers, and wished more zombie games included something like that, except sometimes there were a lot of clickers and it made the gameplay REALLY slow, but honestly, I can kinda overlook that. Speaking of which, the whole "open the door and then there is a zombie or enemy" thing got really old after the 5th or so time. Now as I've said, the plot is REALLY good. I love the beginning bit to meeting people like Bill and Henry. What happens with all the characters are also really interesting, and when we have other people with us, it makes the story feel less alone and isolated. I also liked the plot with David, and thought it was extremely fun and interesting. The only things I didn't like was that the whole "lets go to a new city" thing was kinda repetitive, which is why I liked the David portion of the story. The ending also was kinda eh, like I get that Joel is very fond of Ellie and doesn't want to kill her, but to me, I didn't really feel the bond that Joel had with Ellie, because the plot skipped seasons. Of course they had to make the game short and not long, but I wish there were deeper conversations and dialogue as I feel what we got was a bit too surface level enough for me to care about the characters, even though I did care about them. However, I didn't care about Ellie enough to kill the fireflies and prevent the vaccine from being made, and I think if you wanted the player to trade the cure of the infection that plagues humanity for a kid, you should at least let us get to know the kid a bit more. They do this with Joel making promises to Ellie, like getting Joel to sing, teaching Ellie the guitar, or teaching her how to swim, but again, I feel its all very surface level and would have preferred a deeper dive into the two. Otherwise, this was an extremely good game and I can't wait for The Last of Us Part 2 on PC.

Reviewed on Dec 14, 2023


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