Took me FOREVER to finish. I took lots of breaks because life, and because the combat was kinda stressful (in a good way I guess?), but for me personally it didn't really have a lot of hooks to keep me playing. It felt like a drag. The ending reminded me of how I felt watching Return of the King extended edition. I just wanted it to end already, and the game seems to present an ending only to keep going on... Then I thought I knew how it would end... I just needed to play out this other perspective, ok - oh wtf there's a whole other plot to deal with now?! Legit thought I had like 10 minutes of the game left and then 2 hours later I'm still trying to end it. (OK I was also having fun blowing people up with trap mines)

I don't think this game was made for me. The first game absolutely was and I knew nothing would top that. At times - maybe most of the time 🤔 - I felt like I was playing a fan fiction. It had all the angst, trauma and sex (I love cringe stuff so this was quite entertaining) scenes that one could ask for in a fan fic. Maybe if I read some, I'll find where naughty dog got their inspiration from!

I liked the improved game controls and combat. There was just too fucking much of it. I really liked playing as different characters. Also some of the combat I found super intense and needed moral support to get through, the soundtrack really added to the intensity.

I'm undecided on whether I'll play this again but probably not.