The Last of Us Part I Review (м)
Soo.... after about 15 hours, I'm done with the game.
It was the first time I played it, and I was blown away. I can honestly say that it's now one of my top 3 favorite games of all time.
Yes, I've heard about negative feedback, disastrous review ratings and horror stories about constant crashes, exploding PCs, potatoes that suddenly turn into chips.
Personally, I had one crash after about 10 hours, while I played around with the photo mode.
Well, I also had a visual bug where Ellie walked through a bush and suddenly started flying for about 2 seconds, but that's really it.
Other than that, I was completely stunned. The scenery is AMAZING. So many gorgeous areas. The level design is outstanding. So many gorgeous nuances and details.
Graphics as a whole, just really well done, and then there are areas in the snow for example where it's almost photorealistic. Even in my first playthrough, I took tons of screenshots cause there was so much to see.
Voice acting is just great. The characters and their voices fit really well together.
Music is amazing, too. Sound effects are great.
The strongest part of the game is the story.
The writing, the characters and their biographies, how people interact and bond with each other, how the story unfolds, always packed with enough suspense to keep you interested, just perfect.
One thing that bothered me were the sometimes really wonky looking animations, especially for the horses and riding part. The controls there felt weird, too.
What else is to be said? Hmm. Partly you're walking in thin corridors, but there are also many areas where you've got freedom to explore.
Enemy AI is kinda dumb, so my usual arch enemy, the stealth parts, weren't much of an issue.
By playing you collect unlock points, which you can use to buy new skins for your characters, weapons, gear, or even unlock cheats for your next playthrough, like unlimited ammo, one hit melee kills, and many other things...
One odd thing to mention is crafting. For some upgrades, Joel is really "adding" parts to the guns, and then there are upgrades where he just takes a cloth, rubs the gun and then tadaa! -upgrade done- . uhm...?
Yeah well, overall i did enjoy the game a lot and i will replay it a few times, cause there are quite a lot collectables to find.
And then... sadly a very long wait for Part 2.
Overall, The Last of Us is an outstanding game, which is now one of my top 3 favorites. It has wonderful music, perfect voice acting, an amazing story, the graphics and especially the world design and level of detail are as good as it can get right now. 59,99$/€ for just about 15 hours of playtime sounds like a lot, but for me it was worth it.