Took me a while to finish as I'm a completionist and it became a chore to finish this game as I would go days without wanting to play it but I had to see it through. At the end of the day this game is proof that critics get things wrong as I don't understand how anyone could give this game 10/10 given the gameplay itself was as generic as you will see lacking any variety. The gameplay boiled down to spending hours looting abandoned buildings mixed with the odd repetitive encounter against zombies or humans and after about 15 hours it felt like a chore to get see things through. It's one thing to sit and watch a depressing movie for a couple of hours and another to spend 25-30 hours or more playing a depressing downer of a game. Games still need to have an element of fun and there's very little here once you get into the repetitive cycle of moving from one environment to the other. After the credits rolled I realized that the best ending for the first game was for Joel to let the doctors operate on Ellie because letting her live was bad for everyone including gamers that were hoping for a sequel that was at least on the same level of the first game.
This game will get all the glory but Days Gone was a far superior game.
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