[Locke]

Had another several hour sitting on The Last of Us, the longer I play the more BioShock I feel, from the use of Ellie and her Dynamic with Joel to the way the storytelling is played through world building as you play. And honestly I'd rather be playing BioShock Infinite right now...

To give credit where credit is due, the level design for the game does improve as you progress, becoming more dynamic and more open the longer you play.

Still though pretty much any enjoyment gleamed was swiftly dashed by the inclusion of the 'Clickers', monsters with superhuman hearing who can kill you in a single hit. I found myself having to redo every room about five times, approaching the room more boringly than the last until I eventually just turned the difficulty down because I was bored.

They are some of the worst examples of artificial challenge that I've seen, even on easy it takes several trial and error runs to actually get past a room with a Clicker or two in it, unharmed. And I know this is a survival game, but I dunno 'running past every cool monster you meet' just seems like a really boring main tactic for a video game.

I guess the only good thing to be gleamed from that shitty device are the Runners. Runners are pathetic hordes of zombies which are like screaming punching bags for all your frustrations, after agonisingly crawling around in the dark to get past another fucking Clicker section, getting to finally draw the pipe from your back and go wild is really really satisfying.

Speaking more about specifically characters, story etc. The acting in this game is stunning, and although the in game graphics are so so, the detail of the animation in the cutscenes is brilliant. Joel is a really fun character to play as.