But I’ll try anyway in hopes I can convey a fraction of what makes this game so special to me. I’m basically not allowed to talk about everything that transformed this game from one I was extremely skeptical of, especially as a queer woman of color, into one of my favorite games of all time. But it’s also difficult being as honest to my experience as possible considering the extremely tight restrictions for this game imposed by its review guidelines. It’s hard for me to talk about The Last of Us Part II partly because of love - it’s difficult to discuss something I adore as intensely as this game. It conveys how love - in its equal potential to be merciful and violent - is intrinsically tied with survival. It shows love at its most positive, between two people whose love is rarely normalized in media as the driving force behind a powerful, overwhelming, all-consuming quest of anger, murder and retribution as a means of defining identity and community, where we belong and where we are dehumanized. For a game ostensibly about hate, The Last of Us Part II revolves around the complexities of love.
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