Once again I would strongly doubt I will complete 5.2, let alone 52. I can never sit still for long enough.
However, I did complete a game yesterday, and it's easily hands down the fucking worst game I have ever played. In all of my 48 years on this earth. So what was it? The Last Of Us 2. Now I had heard it wasn't a very happy game back at launch. I did not get myself caught in the shenanigans because I knew that would likely spoil the game. However, I didn't feel £50-£60 to be miserable was worth it so I waited for it to be cheaper. I did, however, want to know the story having loved the first one so much.
What can I say? it's a shitty, miserable, nihilistic waltz through the shittiest story I have ever seen. There will be spoilers. I would hope that this long after launch any one would have played it already, but if you haven't and fancy a 25 hour torture session then stop reading now.
This game is the miserable kid who doesn't respond to humour, or happiness, or anything else other than sitting in the corner in a pile of its own fucking shit. Every single chance it had (and there were fucking LOADS) to grant some long overdue happiness it tears up, throws on the floor and pisses on. Why? shock value? I wasn't shocked at all. I had seen 8 seasons of The Walking Dead before it got a bit too nasty for me and so I stopped watching it. IE, the flips of happiness and misery were all misery so I decided I had seen enough. And that is exactly what this game does for 99% of the time. Makes you fucking miserable. Forces you to do things you don't want to do (and make you put down the controller and walk away) yet for some reason as a human you still have that hope in the back of your mind that makes you want to do it, even though it forces you against what you feel. It does this so many times. Like making you play as a character you are supposed to hate for over 12 hours. By the time it was done? I liked her more than Ellie. By the time it was done I fucking hated every one in the game.
This includes ole "Bipolar Tommy". You see when Joel dies Tommy doesn't want any of it. The man clearly had a modicum of sense. Yet Ellie talks him into dragging himself, alone (not sure why) half way across the USA to kill these people. And then when they get down to all but one? Bipolar Tommy decides he has had enough and yup, walks away. So you end up in a lovely farm house with Ellie's female partner and her baby. You think that maybe, just maybe, the game will end peacefully and happily. But nope ! ole Bipolar Tommy rocks up, has just split up with his wife and now wants to convince Ellie to ditch her life and go off on another revenge mission. Which, will come as no surprise to you at all, she does. Off she goes again. Only when you finally get to this girl who they left alive she doesn't kill her. Instead she gets her fingers bitten off, stopping her from playing the guitar, and going back to a deserted farm house TO BE MISERABLE. Which is how the game ends.
As for sickening nasty shit? oh, it has it all. You kill someone's pet dog and then a couple of hours later you play a flashback where you are forced, as the owner, to play with the dog. Pet it and throw a toy for it to retrieve. HAVE SOME GUILT YOU MOTHER FUCKERS !!!! You even kill a pregnant woman. Which for some fucking reason Ellie doesn't see until she's stabbed her in the throat.
The last 5 hours of the game were a real slog. But it's that human hope that keeps you in the game. "Maybe Abby will find the Fireflies and Ellie will meet Abby and they will go off for Ellie to provide the cure?" NOPE ! even Ellie dying would be far to happy for you cunts SO HERE HAVE ANOTHER HEAP OF MISERY.
By the time it is over? you are actually fucking relieved. Which left me feeling one way. I really hope this is the last of them. IE, they tore down the first game, burnt it into ash, pissed on it to make concrete and then chucked it into the sea. A self destruct mission from the very start. By the time it's over? you just hate every one. Maybe, in fact, I felt more empathy for Abby. But basically you are just left feeling that you wish they would all just fuck off and never come back. Ever.
Two stupid love triangles simultaneously, both of which are just fucking dumb. I liked the fact that Ellie was into girls, and I liked how Abby was buff and had no tits. Those parts of it I did like. That was about it for me. Every other moment of the game was pure misery, apart from about two times it flashes back to the first game and gives you some of the old magic. Then it's back to shitting on you from a great height, forcing you to watch a bunch of vacuous cunts and even play as them.
Ugh.