I really wasn’t bothered by the few forced woke moments in the game, it didn’t detract from the experience for me. If anything I appreciated that female empowerment didn’t take the form of all the male characters being morons or uncontrollable and violent. They all get killed, but I consider it a small victory. Having played through it finally I guess I’m not seeing what all the hubbub is about, really good game imo. And I didn’t love the first one, I think it had a much better story. This one has much better gameplay though, so I’m good.
I really wasn’t bothered by the few forced woke moments in the game, it didn’t detract from the experience for me. If anything I appreciated that female empowerment didn’t take the form of all the male characters being morons or uncontrollable and violent. They all get killed, but I consider it a small victory. Having played through it finally I guess I’m not seeing what all the hubbub is about, really good game imo. And I didn’t love the first one, I think it had a much better story. This one has much better gameplay though, so I’m good.
I agree. Although I think the first game had a better story even though Ellie being the cure was pretty cliche to me. But it was much more straight forward and simple and felt more like a good B movie as opposed to Part 2 that feels more like a very complex and artistic Hollywood film.
My biggest problem with the "wokeness" is that they had to explain to me that Lev was trans instead of leaving me to make my own judgement's and figure it for out myself. I was also completely fine with Joels death, I just wish you played as Young Abby first, saw your Dad die, played up to the theater and then half way through the game switched to young Ellie and played from the there in chronological order.
That would have put Joel's death little more than halfway past the mid point in the story and would have made the climax much more impactful.
I didn't have a problem with the story, I had a problem with the directing choices.[/QUOTE]
Edit I tried to reply to what you said highrider but your quote got fucked up when I was typing. And I'm not sure how to fix it.