I've never actually played it on story mode. I just know that the purpose is to make the gameplay sections trivial and non-challenging. It doesn't result in just watching cutscenes because there's still a lot of story in between all the cutscenes - probably most of it, actually, as TLOU part 1 was at the time it came out by far the best game to implement important narrative into the gameplay sections. It's just that you probably won't have to re-try sections of the game because they're not going to challenge you.
I'm pretty sure you can switch the difficulty partway through, though, so you could try it and amp it up if you want more of a challenge. I was just suggesting the method that would take the least time. Regardless, my main point was just it's worth playing in video game form; it's probably not going to be the best TV show in history but for my money it's still the best video game.
Oh, and definitely do not start with Part 2, that's just a terrible idea for many reasons. In short, it's longer, slower, grimmer, more of a grind to get through, and overall not as good a game.
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