I don't really have much to say about the campaign than what I really already said about in my original review. I mainly here to check out the updates and the No Return mode that was added. A ten dollar price tag to upgrade was pretty nice. The extra's here are really good and you get quite a bit of content, especially if your a first timer. There's a lot of reasons to replay here. I especially love the commentary features and behind the scenes podcasts you can listen to while you play.
As for No Return mode ultimately I am not a fan. Which is a shame cause the gameplay is as good as ever but I feel like the RNG on this mode is really bad. It's fun playing as the other characters with their own uniuqe skills and loadouts. It really does kinda feel like a Last of Us version of a Resident Evil minigame. The best part of Last of Us part 2 is the gameplay. Although the balance is all over the place. Some stages are really easy and give you a ton of loot and others enemies just infinitly spawn in aggression in the most inconvient places. I think the vast majority of the time I died was from instant deaths from clickers spawing from behind me. A lot of the stages force you to play a certain way and it can be over really fast in your favor or not. I found it more frustrating than anything. I would have a thrilling stage of cat and mouse with a enemey set then load up in the next stage and immeaditly lose. Some gametypes are much harder than others. Invisible enemies was the worst. I can see why others like it but to me it's appeal is fleeting. As soon as I get into a run it's over. Even when you when it feels empty, not much to work towards. It's a fine distraction from the main game but it's not something I'm going to put time into.
Platinum #202
As for No Return mode ultimately I am not a fan. Which is a shame cause the gameplay is as good as ever but I feel like the RNG on this mode is really bad. It's fun playing as the other characters with their own uniuqe skills and loadouts. It really does kinda feel like a Last of Us version of a Resident Evil minigame. The best part of Last of Us part 2 is the gameplay. Although the balance is all over the place. Some stages are really easy and give you a ton of loot and others enemies just infinitly spawn in aggression in the most inconvient places. I think the vast majority of the time I died was from instant deaths from clickers spawing from behind me. A lot of the stages force you to play a certain way and it can be over really fast in your favor or not. I found it more frustrating than anything. I would have a thrilling stage of cat and mouse with a enemey set then load up in the next stage and immeaditly lose. Some gametypes are much harder than others. Invisible enemies was the worst. I can see why others like it but to me it's appeal is fleeting. As soon as I get into a run it's over. Even when you when it feels empty, not much to work towards. It's a fine distraction from the main game but it's not something I'm going to put time into.
Platinum #202