The Last of Us is a good game…nothing more, nothing less

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Norris2k said:

 

The point of the game is to make you feel the first character background, pain, motivation and evolution toward this exact choice, not toward a choice, or the difficulty or openess of a choice. What you ask for is legitimate, especially for a game, but this is in contradiction with this purpose (as I assume, given they don't give you the choice). Here, it's supposed to be an artistic choice, and not a limitation, and this emotion driven direction is perhaps what gave the game such a reputation. You can still think it would have been better with a choice or a different ending, but it's not supposed to make it feel poor/cheap, it's exactly  supposed to be the opposite. What you say is that you could choose different options, what I think the games says is exactly that he don't have any other options.

I think it's a good game regardless of what I think about the ending. I had fun playing it, just wished it lasted a bit longer.

You can still have your artistic vision and have both endings. They could have locked the second option for a second playthrough if they where so hell bent on wanting you to experience the "Joel saves Ellie" outcome.