The Last Of Us Remastered

The Last Of Us Remastered (PS4)

How do I get Ellie across here??? The ever reliable pallet floating in the water.

How do I get over this fence?!!!! Boost your buddy over the wall

I don't really like xray modes in stealth games. And yes I do know you can turn it off, but I think the "normal" difficult experience shouldn't be designed around being able to see the position of every enemy at all times. The level design needs to be able to guide the player to be able to find the enemies themselves. PLEASE KEEP COVERING UP YOUR COOL GRAPHICS SO THE WHOLE SCREEN CAN BECOME GREY AND SHOW ME THE OUTLINES OF ENEMIES. The xray in this game is a lot less egregious than the Batman Arkham games, though which made you pretty much spam it all throughout the game and it was almost impossible to fight enemies without it.

I like the story and combat but all the looting, boosting Ellie over walls, grabbing planks of wood to use as bridges and dragging pallets through bodies of water as rafts gets old pretty fast and at a point becomes filler to an otherwise exceptional game.

I won't spoil anything here but the story really picks up in the second half.

Also who thought it was a good idea to remaster this game on PS5 it looks great here.

8/10