MY Last of us experience

So tell me your thoughts on this.

SO I played TLOU2

AND what to give my thoughts on feeling on what should of happen.

SO right off the bat, i think they should of introduce a BRAND new set of characters then relying on the protagonist from the first game. I know they wouldn’t use them again unless they have an story reason, but let be honest, it was for marketing purposes to get OLD fan into this game and MONEY!!!!

So let me start off with the positive.

* SO like the previous game, Naughty .Dog. is pushing the hardware to the limit in term of scope and graphic. Like man everything look great....in a post apocalypse kind of way. BUT for the Ellie section, it seem like an copy & paste from the last GAME & doesn't breath anything new. IT NOT until the Abbey section were we go to new location, scenario, & lighting change that seem like an different game (the forest area and END game village location).

* If the game actually told you in some tutorial that show you can do limb damage, back flip, and close action SUPER attack, this is like a mini RE4 game. (problem is that they don't). LIKE HELL, if you spent time for looking for every corner for the PILL for upgrade, you can upgrade your SHELL for explosion arrow that MAKE you an god.....at the near end section of an character.

NOW let go to the negative

* THIS GAME IS TOO LONG (20+hrs). these are some few games that felt like it was dragging and pacing was so slow in the past. FF7R, I beat that game in 33Hrs for an 5hr prologue of the main game & yet I had fun the whole way through. like i felt burn at the end for TLOU2

* Story

LIKE i said earlier, it should of been an anthology.

The reason why I like the first TLOU is that it was Grounded & very reality. there was no coincidence in that game. When you get ambush by the guard back in the QZ zone in the first game, it obvious there gonna be patrol around. WHEN your at the hotel section and fight that thug from Water drowning you, Elie is able to save you because there was a scuffle there easier and was able to hear the sounds & go there. there was nothing absurd and fake happening there. there story ended there & should of been left alone

NOW FOR TLOU2: THIS game has SO MANY freaking coincidence it not even funny. LIKE I'm suppose to believe that Abby just happen to run into Joel & tommy & got her revenge.
* THAT Most of ElLie KILL list were already dead because of the Scar civil war. Hell, if she never came most of them would of been dead by then. Same thing for the ending, if Elie never went to California, Abby would of been dead.

It doesnt help that it was the WRITER from WESTWORLD who work on this game (which had no involvement from the first game) & the other CO-director Bruce, here to help Neil Druckmann with some of his decision making

* The game's ordering of events is nightmarish.

You play 7 hours as one character. Killing people across 3 days with each day,  having a forced flashbacks to an unrelated moment in the character's past. Most of which add nothing.

Then right as the tension and excitement reaches a high,  you experience those 3 days again as another character. This time however there is basically no tension because you know the next 7 hours your character is alive, and 90% of the people you interact with are dead.

This needs more than just a chronological mode like Beyond 2 Souls, you need a rewrite in which the game actually wants to tell you a story with tension and characters you're allowed to care about.

MUSIC: I dont know if it was me.................but there was no outstanding music in this game, like name a theme that caught your attention in here? the first game , i have a huge list on my library but here, except for the revenge ellie theme, nothing stand out

END reslut: i dont hate this game, I LOVE the first one, even platinum it (which took me 30+ hrs to beat it 3 times and the multiplayer) but everything special about that first game was not in here. I give this an 8.0 BUT i would not recommend this game (which doesnt matter since it sold 4 million copies)