The first shooter to make me dislike violence.
My biggest problem is narratively the story boils down to “violence begets violence, and that’s bad.” I like most of the characters, and I like what the game tries to do with them. But ultimately it’s a cover shooter where you are forced to complete violence even if you don’t want to. There were sequences where I wanted to not kill any of the characters and I’m forced to.
What makes Last of Us 1 a bit better is that I forgot about all of the heinous actions carried out by Joel, and then by the end it’s a narrative double whammy of having it be for nothing and watching his descent into full madness.
Here, your revenge plot has the writings on the wall instantly of what it’s going to force you to do, and the consequences of it. No politics to discuss, no morality, just tragedy to experience.
My biggest problem is narratively the story boils down to “violence begets violence, and that’s bad.” I like most of the characters, and I like what the game tries to do with them. But ultimately it’s a cover shooter where you are forced to complete violence even if you don’t want to. There were sequences where I wanted to not kill any of the characters and I’m forced to.
What makes Last of Us 1 a bit better is that I forgot about all of the heinous actions carried out by Joel, and then by the end it’s a narrative double whammy of having it be for nothing and watching his descent into full madness.
Here, your revenge plot has the writings on the wall instantly of what it’s going to force you to do, and the consequences of it. No politics to discuss, no morality, just tragedy to experience.