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I tried to sabotage the hype for myself by diving straight into all the leaks and rumors that surfaced in April. Part of it can be blamed on journalist’s curiosity. After all, these leaks were huge, and my level of excitement was already pretty low. Seeing these leaks would’ve affirmed my biases. And sure enough, what I saw and read left me severely disappointed and angry. The leaks made the story sound trite, uninspired and misguided. βI knew it,β I thought. βThey never should’ve made a sequel.β This was my mind-set as I booted up βThe Last of Us 2.β
By the end of it, I had changed my mind. Despite my early and strict skepticism of the premise, I now believe the sequel to βThe Last of Usβ feels justified. It dives deeper into character motivation than ever before, and it’s at least as good as the first game, which many believed to be almost perfect.