Those were a great detail! I'm glad they could at least have a few years of relative peace, with time to pursue creative outlets. Joel's whittling, Ellie's songwriting.
Social media seems to be hyper-focused on the misery in this game as if that's all it is every second, but like... walking through the woods? Or even exploring the overgrown Seattle city? Really amazing.
Yes! My tastes generally run towards 'dark, but not bleak'. What I'd heard about The Last of Us, Part II made me worry it would be a bleak game, but it's got these little touches of colour in the darkness, these reminders that things like love and humour and beauty exist. It's not going 'EVERYTHING IS MISERABLE, ALL THE TIME,' and that means I'm a lot more likely to care when things are miserable, rather than just going 'more of this? really?'
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Those were a great detail! I'm glad they could at least have a few years of relative peace, with time to pursue creative outlets. Joel's whittling, Ellie's songwriting.
Social media seems to be hyper-focused on the misery in this game as if that's all it is every second, but like... walking through the woods? Or even exploring the overgrown Seattle city? Really amazing.
Yes! My tastes generally run towards 'dark, but not bleak'. What I'd heard about The Last of Us, Part II made me worry it would be a bleak game, but it's got these little touches of colour in the darkness, these reminders that things like love and humour and beauty exist. It's not going 'EVERYTHING IS MISERABLE, ALL THE TIME,' and that means I'm a lot more likely to care when things are miserable, rather than just going 'more of this? really?'