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Ben Kendrick Jan 30, 2023

HBO's "The Last of Us" demonstrates the limits of the game's narrative—and perhaps the limits of story-driven video games in general, @[email protected] writes: http://on.theatln.tc/y4HNchj

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/1619896950047870976

'The Last of Us' proves that TV is better without video games

HBO’s adaptation of The Last of Us offers a definitive case for games’ narrative impoverishment.

The Atlantic

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Ben Kendrick

I get this perspective but disagree. Sure, the Bill story was expanded in an excellent way the game couldn’t but I’d argue the end of TLOU and the subversion in Part 2 will be superior because the player is forced to sit with their own actions in a way viewers won’t.