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The Last of Us totally blew me away
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I just couldn't get into part 2 and dropped it after the Joel scene. It just felt so over the top in trying to be depressing and I didn't feel like slogging through a game that would twist the narrative just for the shock value.
Part one had moments of "everything that can go wrong will go wrong", but part 2 felt like it jumped the shark (which felt more validated after reading the synopsis online).
I disagree with part 2 “jumping the shark”. The first game starts out with
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Joel’s daughter being killedPeople dying at the start of a zombie apocalypse is standard fair at this point. Finding someone in a post apocalyptic world based only on their name years later in a world where everyone is just barely surviving was a bit ridiculous.
It felt a bit like the inverse of Game of Thrones (where it felt like anyone could die), the second part decided this person must die.
If you had played the rest, the explanation for how they found him is pretty plausible.