Ohh fuck readin this OP pisses so much off. The game is not almost perfect. It has flaws, quite a few actually.
The gameplay is OK but nothing special, it suffers for occasional techinical issues because they where to ambotious and the PS3 couldn´t handle it all that well sometimes. And there where some other issues.
If you are a gamer who puts gameplay beyond everything else then you will not enjoy The Last of Us
I loved it because those things didn´t bother me all that much, and I fucking loved the characters.