I’ve written a lot about , both in its original video game form as well as the HBO television adaptatio🎃n. was especially formative for my understanding of video games, and in some ways it changed the way I view the world and my own relationshiꩵps.
The series, however, is undeniably bleak. It’s peppered with horror and tragedy, and though there are light moments of beauty,🍌 each game explores dark themes that often veer into nihilism and pessim𒆙ism.
Now we know that 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Last of Us Part 3 will eventually be ma🌌de, and there🐷’s no reason it won’t be as dark and pessimistic as the two games that came before it. After all, the series is set in a post-apocalyptic world filled with dangerous monsters and even more dangerous people. Both games explore flawed pro🍃tagonists who do terrible things, turning them into the villains in other people’s stories. These are not happy, light-hearted games, and I’m not sure I’m emotionally prepared to play another in today’s world.
Why Are We Still Discussing 🧔The Last of Us Part 2’s Ending?
ꦚThe Last of Us Part 2 has an ending that goes beyond⛎ good or bad choices, and asks you to feel it rather than understand it.
Because have you looked around lately? Everything sucks. Climat♌e change is spiralling even further out of control than it already was, and the cost of living is rising while wages stay the same. Companies get richer and CEOs become billionaires while the people doing the actual labour struggle to afford rent. The industry I work in faces layoffs every week, and every week I see a new wave of talented, hardworking developers and journalists struggling to find work. It increasingly feels like everything is being made to extract the most money possible from consumers to their detriment. Wars are being waged and children ar🃏e dying in them. Everywhere I look, there is a reason to lose hope that the world will ever start getting better.
I’ve found that recently, turnin🌟g to mo▨re optimistic media has helped. I wrote about how despite being naturally inclined to nihilism, and that’s the kind of media I think the world needs. Like Kasuga, I always want to find a reason to keep moving forward, even if that reason is as small as getting to pet a cat on the street. If we don’t keep moving forward, how will the world ever get better? Giving up and resigning ourselves to certain doom only ensures we won’t have a chance at making things better.
The Last of Us is not an optimistic series, and that’s where its strengths lie. It dives deep into heavy themes and explores what drives people to do evil thin🥃gs, but that potential for darkness is becoming increasingly difficult for me to swallow. As everythin𒊎g around me gets worse, I’m not particularly inclined to want to play more games about how terrible people are.
Statements🍌 from director Neil Druckmann have made it even harder to engage with a potential third game after he that the second game’s themes were inspired by his regret of his own feelings of rage and revenge when he saw a video of two IDF soldiers being killed by a mob. The politics of the game itself have also been compared to Israel and Palestine, with the game . When the writer of a game about ending cycles of violence implies that in this one case, violence is justified, it’s hard to believe that any of it means anything. It feeds right back into the cruelty of the world.
I don’t doubt that whatever Naughty Dog makes will, at the very least, be moving and thought-provoking. After all, that’s what the studio is good at, and it’s proven its skill over and over again. For all we know, this game will lean into the moments of hope and lightness that we’ve seen peppered into previous games, showing us another way to look at an objectively terrible world. But if it doesn’t, I don’t know how much more bleakness my spirit can take. It will be a long time before we see this game come to light, and a lot could change in that time. Things could be better. Things could b𒁏e worse. Only time will tell, but I know that if thi꧂ngs stay as they are, it’s going to be really hard for me to face whatever The Last of Us Part 3 has to tell me.
🍸Grounꦰded 2 Raises The Question Of If The Last Of Us 2 Was Worth It
The Last of Us 2 was a 🐓generatio🧸nal achievement in video games, but was it worth the human cost?