The fact that I was fifty times better at "The Last of Us" indicates how much Naughty Dog has improved since it made this game. There is far too much annoying jumping and balancing on ledges. Sometimes there is no real rhyme or reason behind the direction of the jumps or just how you're supposed to make them. Sometimes the game just wants you to press super hard on the direction and jump button. In other words, the controls are god awful.
I almost always use a shotgun when I have choice in these shooter games. Not in this game. Drake is so slow to turn the gun and so delicate at close range that it's pathetic, which makes the final level excruciatingly horrible. In the final level, you're supposed to take on any number of monster and human opponents at close range-- monsters that are very adept at close range combat, which is far from Drake's specialty. Even if you had a pistol and a rifle when you entered the level, they force you to use a shotgun, which, as I mentioned, he is unbelievably unwieldy at using.
Overall, it was fairly fun, and the story was fairly good. But I literally wouldn't replay this game if you paid me. I bought the trilogy game set. I'm hoping that the next game is a vast improvement. If it isn't, I will abort the series.
I almost always use a shotgun when I have choice in these shooter games. Not in this game. Drake is so slow to turn the gun and so delicate at close range that it's pathetic, which makes the final level excruciatingly horrible. In the final level, you're supposed to take on any number of monster and human opponents at close range-- monsters that are very adept at close range combat, which is far from Drake's specialty. Even if you had a pistol and a rifle when you entered the level, they force you to use a shotgun, which, as I mentioned, he is unbelievably unwieldy at using.
Overall, it was fairly fun, and the story was fairly good. But I literally wouldn't replay this game if you paid me. I bought the trilogy game set. I'm hoping that the next game is a vast improvement. If it isn't, I will abort the series.