The Last Of Us Part Two (Whats with the user score?)

I read a meta-review of the game, and it basically said that reviewers agreed that the game is violent to the point of being disturbing, and that characters make curiously bad choices to advance the plot that results in that violence, but that the focus on Ellie and the LGBT aspect make it a good game. I'm paraphrasing, of course. I only watched one review, after reading that, and it did go into how too graphically violent the game is but gave it a perfect score anyway.

My personal point of view is that games have become way too graphically violent, and that it's cynical to put LGBT and such to offset that. It may be a positive aspect to portray strong women and LGBT, but putting that alongside extreme violence doesn't make things better but rather worse, diminishing the idea of inclusion by its association with the violence.

Personally speaking, I couldn't give two shits about user scores and blah blah blah. I watched a couple hours of the game on Twitch (from a favorite streamer), and it looked damned good to me. In my opinion, if people are rating this game poorly, they're not basing it on how good the game is, but on some personal/political metric beyond my understanding.

Probably the only game that makes me want a Playstation.

I want to write a big rant on how the "progressives (lol)" or SJWs are destroying the entertainment medium we love but that would probably be like screaming in deaf ears.
I've seen various playthrough videos and not gonna lie, the graphics are great. That's just it. Next, we have all kind of porns like literal porn, misery porn, muh revenge porn - all with subverted expectations (Thanks GoT S05-08 and Sequel Trilogy).

Then comes the Woke stuff, with literal LGBT shit shoved right in and justify the actions. I mean, the characters don't have any trait, other then they are gay. Oh and they are almost always right and never the villains!

Now before some actual SJW jumps to kill me here, I'd like to clarify something: Woman, Gay people (hell anything from LGBT+++++++ shade) in a game does not mean it's woke and bad. But when it's forced and there for only token points and for shitting on players/viewers, it's woke.

Which brings me to Naughty Dog. I'm no Sony fanboy but got a PS4 for cheap last summer. Started Uncharted series and enjoyed them for what they were: Walking simulators with easy puzzles & Michael Bay set pieces, and a little bit of gunplay in between. I enjoyed them, then came Uncharted 4. I was excited because it was well received and universally loved. Fucking boring, slow "game". It's less gameplay and more walking shit but now with (minor) woke stuff. A strong woman of color, beating the shit out of not one but two white males. Twice! Ignoring that, the main issue was that the game was not a game anymore. I still liked it but not as much as 1st & 2nd one (3rd one is my least liked for different reasons). And this is why I have skipped The Lost Legacy.

Now comes TLoU 1 - Loved the graphics but the gameplay was there for like a couple of hours only and fucking same as Uncharted. It's literally glorified walking simulator and has won multiple awards! Cannot believe that. Anyway, the story seemed like written for some edgy young adults but was OK, nothing ground breaking. A solid 7/10 "game".

Now, watched the playthrough of TLoU P2 and they made the protagonist a dumb cunt, who provides their whole detail to anyone they meet. (Mind you, He was super cynical in P1, which is why he survived). Then, he gets beaten by a strong woman (literally! I mean where did "she" found all those steroids in an apocalypse?). Then we play as daughter duos and change perspectives mid-game and then some. Then the ending comes and the expectations are subverted even more because "muh, revenge bad, mkay!". The gameplay is similar to the first one with minor changes so it's literal walking sim still.

So, If I had bought the game, the score would be something like this (for 3 major factors):
Graphics: 9/10
Gameplay: 5/10
Story: 1/10
Average: 5/10. So, it's an average game but almost all the "game journalists" have given 10/10 for including LGBT characters (Literally written in many reviews).

I'm ready for the blacklists from the SJWs. Fuck some progressives & SJWs. They are the modern racists.

Oh. I kinda hoped that this whole "let's review-bomb this game because the devs dared to make the main character gay" was our local thing (here it's almost unanimously hated on any gaming site), that was pretty naive of me.

The last of us is my favourite game ever, even before I got to play it. But sadly I won't buy part 2 until there's a sale. I hope it's not that bad. I tried to avoid the spoilers but I saw some stuff about transgender people. I hope the critiques are not just from people who are transphobic...

https://youtube.com/watch?v=6T3FdAdvNCI

The difference between the user reviews and the critic reviews is that the users didn't get paid. Guess they have that in common with the employees who made the game.