I loved it. It was an experience that no movie or book can match on an emotional level. It sounds silly to say it about a video game but the story is well written, its paced well, the characters feel real. Their loss becomes your loss and their conviction becomes your own resolve. Ellie is one of the best characters in recent memory for me. Feisty, wit, USEFUL, yet still innocent (until David comes and ruins everything) because she never knew any better. The slew of jokes she tells during the library shootout, before and after, is one of those little moments that make the game feel so real.
The gameplay itself is not revolutionary but it works well for the tone of the game. The game overall is nothing short of amazing and I'm hoping it will win a few game of the year awards against that titan GTAV.
EDIT: I really don't understand the movie argument about it and even for Uncharted. IF you put the fucking controller down, the game doesn't play itself. Even during the cinematic events, you will die or just stand there. Why? Because it's a game. TLoU is not a game where you decide the fate of mankind. You are shown the story of these two people, which you follow along and experience it through the brutal and gutwrenching gameplay and the cutscenes, until you reach the climax and then the game is done. You don't decide their fate because that would turn Joel's character, something that the game works all through out to showcase, on its heads by becoming some sort of heroic savior of humanity. I have no problem with people disliking the TLoU or stating that other games do it better, that's a fair enough argument to be debated, but telling people that it's no better than just watching a movie is just wrong.
"Trick shot? The trick is NOT to get shot." - Lucian
