Probably the most experimental Naughty Dog game in recent memory? Not to be confused with ambitious (that goes to The Last of Us Part II), but they were really trying a bunch of new things here. It's not as good as Uncharted 4 (playing both back-to-back hurts this game quite a bit), but this is a fantastic game when you look at it as a wholly separate entity. Chloe's my favorite character in the franchise and Nadine is my favorite villain, so their banter was always fun to hear and it carries the game pretty hard since it's just them for the most part. The gameplay's just as good, if not better than Uncharted 4's (this is the first Naughty Dog game that truly nails their "Wide Linear" design approach), and the story's relatively simple but well told. the only two things that hurt this game are the lack of location variety and its short length. All in all, it's really good send-off to Naughty Dog's Uncharted games (because we all now some other studio's probably working on Uncharted 5 right now)

Reviewed on Feb 13, 2023


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