'The Last of Us' Makes Players Feel Really Bad—And That’s Great

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'The Last of Us' Makes Players Feel Really Bad—And That’s Great
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Very few games even attempt to make a player genuinely feel bad, and fewer succeed.

Thanks to improvements in the game’s AI, enemies react to what you do to them. Shoot someone to death in view of their squad-mate? Said squad-mate will cry out in terror and sorrow as their friend falls. Take off someone’s leg with that shotgun? They’ll writhe and scream in anguish, desperately crawling away from you.introduced dogs into the game, and upon killing them their owners will react with the pain anyone who has lost a pet can feel in their bones.

Across both games, the gameplay forces the player to ponder the morality of the characters. Is Joel a good person? Are Ellie or Abby bad people? The lines between all of them are left deliberately murky, but the history of violence they share is presented as something to be held against all of them. In a vacuum, any of their decisions could be justified, but morality doesn’t exist in a vacuum.

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