Finally got around to playing The Last of Us 2, and man what a letdown. I had to force myself to sit down and finish it just to see if there was any payoff or satisfaction, but there wasn't. The game is a joyless slog, more concerned with one-upping itself with each new brutally violent set piece than telling a remotely interesting story. The gameplay is decent, but gets very repetitive and the artificial difficulty constraints are so dumb (I'm wearing a backpack, but for some reason can't hold more than a few bullets for each gun)
This is a game more than any other I can think of that skated by on reputation alone to the GOTY awards, because I cannot see how this is better than a 7/10
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