Pretty solid overall. I enjoyed a lot of the boss fights, but the regular enemies became repetitive after a while. Most fights 1 on 1 fights felt too easy, and fights against multiple enemies felt too unfair, like there simply was no way to avoid getting hit. Couple that with not the best platforming in the early stages of the game, and a story that is sooooo full of itself despite being nearly the same as bloodborne (from what I've heard; Bloodborne is still on my backlog). Also, there's no NG+ (though devs say it will be added in an update), and the 'post game' locks you out of most of the sidequests and completing the game, which really goes against the metroidvania half of the gameplay.

A near perfect conclusion to the series. It did start to drag just a little bit near the end, but my investment with the story and the characters was enough to overcome that. I absolutely loved seeing the characters in a slightly more mature story, with how they handled Drake's struggle to adapt to a 'normal' life and how that struggle affected his relationship with Elen. I also love that it did this without invalidating the happy endings from the previous games. I think why lot's of people were upset about Last of Us 2 is that the first game's ending was essentially undone/perverted by it, which isn't true here. I also absolutely loved how they evolved the gameplay with slightly more 'open' level design and actually interesting stealth mechanics, since the stealth sequences were what I despised the most from the previous game; now I can actually see how Uncharted progressed into The Last of Us style gameplay. Still need to play Lost Legacy before moving on to that series.