how cringe is it compared to the first one?

[Smexy]

i could barely make it through the left behind dlc in the first one, but I still want to play this one, but how cringey and forced is the story?

[Tommy Wiseau]

Oh its bad. The game takes every opportunity to remind you that ellie and dina are NOT just friends, then you have abby idk what she is supposed to be. Female or transgirl? Your guess is as good as mine, anyways theres a uhmmm adult scene with here where your forced to see her nude and its not pleasant.

[OBreezy7]

then dont ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ play it.

[SkankHunt42]

ITS A WOKE LIB GAME!

[CrankWavё]

Bro its masterpiece wym

[Meanest_lesbian]

just go join the rates if being reminded that half of humanity are women offends you so much

[IDrankHerPeriodBloodOnAccident]

Originally posted by SkankHunt42:

ITS A WOKE LIB GAME!

I also wanna annex Donald Trumps bumhole.

[IDrankHerPeriodBloodOnAccident]

Originally posted by Tommy Wiseau:

Oh its bad. The game takes every opportunity to remind you that ellie and dina are NOT just friends, then you have abby idk what she is supposed to be. Female or transgirl? Your guess is as good as mine, anyways theres a uhmmm adult scene with here where your forced to see her nude and its not pleasant.

Sometimes when I'm in the shower.. I think about him.. Donald Trump.

[Tommy Wiseau]

Originally posted by IDrankHerPeriodBloodOnAccident:

Originally posted by Tommy Wiseau:

Oh its bad. The game takes every opportunity to remind you that ellie and dina are NOT just friends, then you have abby idk what she is supposed to be. Female or transgirl? Your guess is as good as mine, anyways theres a uhmmm adult scene with here where your forced to see her nude and its not pleasant.

Sometimes when I'm in the shower.. I think about him.. Donald Trump.

What a username

[Nordik]

2/10 ragebait

[GIJammer]

Very little of it is cringe besides the bit where seemingly homophobia is a major concern for some people in a world ending apocalypse.

That bit is dumb to the point of cringe, but the rest of the narrative's shortcomings have less to do with 'cringe' and more to do with hypocrisy, triteness, and smugness.

That said, still an impressive game and worth playing for reasons other than the story themes. It's just weird the series degraded so starkly on that front, but it still plays well and has incredibly production values.

[Myrkul]

The game has much more humanity than the first one.

[Sneep Snorp]

The story was hated at launch still is by some but it’s honestly not that bad just first impressions are everything and several characters set really, really bad ones and the writers did take some creative risks that didn’t pay off very well, as a whole though there are more positives than negatives but some of the negatives do leave a pretty lasting impact through whole narrative it’s hard to overlook them. Sorry I’m being so vague I don’t want to actually give any details

[It Who Grinds Flesh]

If you're a gooner, it will be cringe.

If you're a well adjusted human being, it's great.

[007..]

Originally posted by ...:

The game has much more humanity than the first one.

It has so much humanity that even bigot sandwich felt human

[Ecks Theory]

Its cringy and forced as any story youre ever likely to see.

Right off the bat, Abby travels 900 miles through all manner of nasties on the chance that a guy shes looking for might be in the state. Then, she has an argument with Owen over how they are going to get him to talk, and tell them where Joel is. Like, this isnt something they would have discussed BEFORE travelling 900 miles through the nightmare world of the last of us.

This leads Abby to run off in a huff, get lost in a snow storm, run into a horde of fungus zombies, and then get chased. And right when shes about to die, she is saved by not only the very guy that shes looking for, but also the guy she was hoping he would lead her too.

Then, the two guys who have lived in the area for 5 years + are lost, but Abby, who has been in the area for about 2 hours, knows exactly how to get back to her camp.

And then when they offer up their names to this group of strangers, they dont react at all when theres a MASSIVE tonal shift in the room to the sound of their names. And Joel gets shot in the leg, because hes too busy making ♥♥♥♥♥♥ jokes.

The whole game is as about as contrived as a piece of fiction get be. And theres a lot of "and then this happens" instead of "this happens, because that happened". ITs just dishonest writing from start to finish.

And yes, Joel was killed not to make the story happen, but because Neil Druckman is a culture war moron who hated that Joel was liked so much, and wanted to get rid of him. And at the same time, wanted to put all his failed ideas from the first game that were rejected by his bosses into the 2nd game now that they were gone and he was in charge.

Theres far too much focus on all the culture war nonsense in the game. Like, youre struggling to survive in a world thats trying to eat you, rape you, groom you, kill you, and many more things. But you still have time to sit around and think about your gender identity... There nothing wrong with being LGBT, but this was the wrong game to introduce the stuff. Its so forced and cringe, and because of its inclusion, you cant have an honest conversation about how horrible the story and characters really are.

And if nothing else, youre going to wear out your triangle button playing this game. Its criminal how simple the game play is.