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petr1kov · 1 year ago

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Penny for your last of us thoughts? 🪙

No pressure - I just saw your post and love to talk about TLOU. I loved TLOU 1 as a teen and still do but hate Duck-man and have basically erased TLOU2 from my brain. Would love to hear what you think!

to give credit where credit is due, i think joel and ellie are good characters who had a very compelling relationship with each other, which is why the first game worked at all.

that being said, i've always taken issue with the way society's collapse is portrayed on most zombie stories and it's no different on this series, but it annoys me a little more than usual because it does try to take itself seriously and fails to provide a perspective more interesting than presenting us with a literal trolley problem at the end of the game (in a rather contrived scenario).

i like some of the ideas both parts 1 and 2 try to tackle, especially the messy way we deal with grief and trauma, but i think that it ultimately never escapes a very surface level 'humans are selfish' read of the world that is presented as fact, which is disappointing considering its main strength is the way it handles ellie and joel's relationship in the story

#ask #well that and a bunch of stuff on part 2. i had the impulse to defend it for a while bc ppl attacked it for bullshit reasons (being 'woke')#but yeah it kind of is a mess even just story-wise. the way ellie's relationships were written was kind of atrocious #jesse and dina and tommy are not well integrated into the story. like at all #abby's side was better on this regard but it also had major pacing issues with the flashbacks #and. of course. the offensive palestine -> seraphites parallel #ultimately though i just feel that tlou thinks it's smarter and deeper than it actually is which is annoying enough on its own

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