While this game is rightfully praised for it's story, I found the gameplay incredibly addicting and the level design was gorgeous (although fairly straightforward). This gets the highest recommendation.
The story left me feeling a bit hollow, as I obviously wanted to root for Joel and I felt for him greatly, but I feel his actions at the end are …
While this game is rightfully praised for it's story, I found the gameplay incredibly addicting and the level design was gorgeous (although fairly straightforward). This gets the highest recommendation.
The story left me feeling a bit hollow, as I obviously wanted to root for Joel and I felt for him greatly, but I feel his actions at the end are disingenuous at best and greedy to the point of human extinction at worst. I understand that he had grown to love Ellie, and to tell her the truth would have put an undue burden on her head, but it also conveniently saves him from having to treat her as someone with their own agency and allows her to continue to exist in his mind as a proxy daughter. I feel for the guy considering what he has been through, but the fact that he played out his grief therapy in such a way that he may have doomed the human race is like a gut punch. I have heard a lot of people say they would do exactly what Joel did, and that the Fireflies had plenty of shots before Ellie to extract an inoculation. I got the feeling that Ellie was quite special, based on the dialogue by the doctors and the head Firefly. They had to do what they had to do. Brutal.
