yes I always wanted to be a power ranger honey

edit: shit I keep thinking about this game's 𝘮𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴.

Its vision can be seen in retrospect, while remembering the impact of each one of the plot beats, and the sounds of all of the things that fall and break.

I don't do strategy games very much, but this one is just made for all kinds of people, transcending its genre.
It's such an interesting piece of art that it became one of those games that resonate with folks who don't play videogames at all.
So if you have someone who's not a "gamer", with no serious interest in the medium, maybe show'em this one. If they like good artistic works in general, this might just be that one videogame capable of igniting that spark we all felt some day in the past.
I'm going to join this one with the (few) other exceptional strategy games I've played: Chroma Squad, into the breach, and overland; now, I can feel there is a common thread connecting all those but I’m not yet sure what it is.
Anyways a good palate cleanser after all the halo ive been playing.

𝕭𝖑𝖔𝖔𝖉𝖇𝖔𝖗𝖓𝖊 stands tall, amidst the Lords, in its frightening excellence. It looks down on us, puny mortals, because it knows that it is 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐧𝐭.

Centuries from now, gamers from the future will be rediscovering 𝕭𝖑𝖔𝖔𝖉𝖇𝖔𝖗𝖓𝖊 for the 12th or so time. And they will rejoice, and bask in its gothic, obscure incandescence, once again.

Millennia from now, future empires will come into contact with the existence of 𝕭𝖑𝖔𝖔𝖉𝖇𝖔𝖗𝖓𝖊. Entire civilizations will collapse below the weight of the knowledge that it came from the people of planet Earth.

Eventually, future technology will enable us to see the everlasting impact this game made on the time-space continuum, existence itself warping around the point where it was unleashed onto the universe.

𝕭𝖑𝖔𝖔𝖉𝖇𝖔𝖗𝖓𝖊 cannot ever return, because it never went away. And thus we cannot go back.

But I’m glad that humanity has sealed its fate, to never achieve time-travel, because this means I got to play 𝕭𝖑𝖔𝖔𝖉𝖇𝖔𝖗𝖓𝖊.

It made me buy a ps4.

Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us is a 2013 masterpiece that perfected what had started back on Uncharted 2 - the formula being adapted to a 'mature western survival horror cinematic action game', with enough grit to attract the attention of hordes of baby-mans that enjoy feeling like adults by consuming “complicated violent male daddies” media.
Anyway, jokes aside, this is a fantastic game, the kind of game so good that, back then, generated fresh interest in the medium from folks that weren’t already into it. In other words, The Last of Us is probably one of the great examples of games that made people into gamers. Yes, gamers are not people.

Nowadays, shows its age with some of the level design, but still, we have here an unflawed absolute hit - if you can stomach what it offers and what it entails.

Played it "remastered" on ps4.