Well I finished the SP Mode, I have to saw I really enjoyed it from start to finish BUT I do now have a reason to take it from a 10 to a 9.
Spoilers BELOW!
Spoilers BELOW!
The final level sees you rescuing Ellie from the fireflies. Joel has learned that to get the cure Ellie has to die, this doesn't sit with Joel and so the relationship kinda comes full circle. Joel now sets out to get her and in the process killing armed fireflies who up this point had been good guys and I guess still are as its Joel who is now the villain. Anyway the key point I thought that was handled badly is when Joel enters the operating theater. 3 Doctors essentially surrender with 1 waving a scalpel. Joel has NO choice here, he can't decided its for the greater good and he can't knock out or threaten the doctors, all you can do is kill em.
This for me let down the story, it would have been braver to allow the player to decided what path Joel should take and the developers could still force the one ending they had in mind. Other then that its an epic gaming!
This for me let down the story, it would have been braver to allow the player to decided what path Joel should take and the developers could still force the one ending they had in mind. Other then that its an epic gaming!