Status timebias Mar 15, 2020
Attempting this again. I set it aside, about two-thirds through the story, on 3rd January 2018, and never came back to it—not quite due to deliberate abandonment, but I guess I wasn't so gripped that I couldn't put down the controller. Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection having been a PS+ giveaway two months ago brought me back.
It looks a …
Attempting this again. I set it aside, about two-thirds through the story, on 3rd January 2018, and never came back to it—not quite due to deliberate abandonment, but I guess I wasn't so gripped that I couldn't put down the controller. Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection having been a PS+ giveaway two months ago brought me back.
It looks a little more dated than I remember—perhaps due to the contrast of playing shortly after a session on Bluepoint's lush remastering of Shadow of the Colossus—but it's fine for its age, and even rather lovely in places. The platforming feels more like guiding a series of pre-made animations than having absolute control over the avatar, but at least it's more consistent in that regard (albeit not without the occasional frustrating moment) than SotC. (I'm just comparing these two games because I happened to play them on the same day—and they were remastered by the same company.) The gun battles are about the right level of complexity for me—I enjoy a bit of third-person shooting, but I'm not great at it—but I recall them getting a bit repetitive. We'll see how it goes.
Anyway—I've resolved to complete it, this time!