Caesar’s First

I’m honestly disappointed to have waited 7 years for a sequel to easily my favorite game and have it be this underwhelming. It looks great, they added some cool new gameplay features, and you can tell hard work was put into it. But my god, it’s like the director(s) don’t understand what made the first game such a success. The first game was what cemented to me that video games could tell a moving story. Focus less on the gameplay because the message and story were just that good, and be viable. So, if that’s your formula and the story isn’t good... you’re left with this, the last of us part 2. The plot is full of holes. The story almost completely ignores the emotional attachment to the characters they completely nailed in the first one. The story is a jumbled mess of flashbacks at times that make little sense. If you’re looking for quality story telling to the next part of what happens to Joel and Ellie, I’m afraid you’ll be let down. I don’t know what else to say, how do you go from making one of the most consistent, gritty, popular, thought provoking games of all time to this mediocre, occasionally fun nonsensical story?