A lot of people turned on this game in a really severe way over the years. I definitely don't think it deserved the ridiculous amount of praise it got at the time (and still gets from plenty of folks) but it's Fine. It is a pretty okay game.

Joel sucks at the end but it's always kinda fucked up to me when people say that he robbed Ellie of her choice to sacrifice herself? Like, she's a traumatized child and the Firefelies are deliberately preying upon her survivor's guilt, I think it's unreasonable to treat her like a principled, rational adult.