What a game!! There's a ten / ten here, but there's too much!

The follow up to one of my favorite games ever!! It's got a lot of really amazing parts to it, in fact I don't think much of it is really bad... It's just not put together very well. The game is divided between two main protagonist's stories which come together during the climax.... Sounds cool right? Except that you are IN THE MIDDLE of said climax when the stories switch over... and it's nearly 10 hours until you're back to it. You're then moved over to our previous antagonist of (oh hi Abby!) ad we're introduced to the other side of our story - a pity that we already know the fate of all of these people so there's no reason at all to get attached to them! But of course they're not very likeable at all anyway so that's fine... The gameplay is solid stealth/action and the AI is superb. Map transitions are a bit rough and once you get in the swing of things you learn how to skip right past enemies to the "zone breaks" to move onto the story. So yeah - the story. A tale of bitter revenge for a man who doesn't really deserve to be avenged...? There's a nice 'twist' that Ellie KNOWS he's not worth avenging but that makes it all the more bittersweet of a story - she gives up nearly everything good in her life to not even go through with avenging her 'dad'. We get some nice moments to contextualize all of our characters bad decisions. It's a game full of 10/10 moments that just don't come together into a proper cohesive whole.

Final Score - B