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Why The Last Of Us Was An Awful Story

With anticipation for The Last of Us getting its own HBO adaptation, I felt like writing about why the game doesn't deserve this and that even before its much maligned sequel, it's writing was always terrible. I will praise the game’s opening. It’s a legitimately horrifying sequence showing the start of the zombie apocalypse that avoids turning into the kind of power fantasy we often see it depicted as in video games. But the game’s attempts at realism sadly end up holding it back once the main story kicks off. Then we have the game’s story. It’s a dull slog with our main characters Joel and Ellie walking across the wilderness to the revolutionary group the Fireflies. The game’s post apocalyptic setting isn’t interesting like in say, Fallout, Fist of the North Star, or Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Its stand out trait to set it apart from other post apocalyptic settings is that it’s a giant cesspool of pain and suffering in the name of realism. So you don’t get to meet any