The Last Guardian's puzzles weren't smart but it didn't matter, it was an amazing game. It's sad that technical issues and a lack of variety made The Last Guardian get mixed reception, because to me it's the whole "video games as an experience" done right. It is like a video game movie, with cinematic jaw dropping vistas and physics, but it has way more game in it than most comparable titles. It's like a "cinematic platformer" if you will.
The biggest trapping of the Last of Us is that it pretty much encapsulates every arc that's every been important to a zombie tale. You know it's bad when you haven't seen zombie movies before, and you only played one zombie game before The Last of Us, and yet you can still spot every arc from a mile away. In particular the moment the black kid and his older brother showed up, I was like "Oh wow that's ... wait a minute ... nobody talked about these guys in their rev- ooooh they gonnna dddddddddddddddddiiiiiiiiie". The most memorable sections of the game to me where the Ellie winter part and the town part.
"I felt like it actually dragged on for a bit too long. The whole thing with the fireflies always having moved on to the next city before you ever got there did kind of bugging me. It just felt like, how many times are they gonna keep moving?"
I don't know why, but this really made me laugh, haha!
Anyways i'm going to vote for Last Guardian as best game.
Also the last of us left behind dlc was great. I wish it was ... longer and focused on on Eli's relationship more ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
