This game is hard for me to review, because parts of it are executed flawlessly and other parts feel like they were developed by people who have never played a video game before.

Like ok, obviously the game looks amazing. You really feel like you're going on a journey across America. It's almost odyssey-esque, with every stop along the way feeling unique, with it's own quirks. The attention to detail is just absurd, it's crazy how much effort must have been put into this.

The story is really good too, in parts anyway. The dialogue is great and the acting is phenomenal, especially for a video game. The overall story however, literally hits every single zombie cliche ever. It's almost funny how obvious it is, with that being said though I was still into the story because of how well fleshed out the characters were.

These things are all great (amazing even!) but the gameplay hits some serious hiccups along the way. The main combat is pretty fun, stealthing around and managing your equipment is satisfying. I also respected the game for having the guts to let you just walk around and explore towns, these were some of the best parts of the game for me. There are just so. many. pointless. tasks. Like it's kind of a meme by now, but god the amount of ladders you need carry is infuriating. And by the twentieth time I had to push Ellie across a body of water on a raft, I was ready to punch a hole in my tv. The boring, annoying parts of this game do serious damage to the overall product and really drag it down for me. I don't care too much about replayability in games but the thought of having to play the last of us again is nauseating.

Overall the last of us does way more things right than it does wrong and is probably a must play, maybe, I can't decide.

Oh also the music is really good.