![]() While the first entry, Drake’s Fortune, is a fun-enough experience (and should be played if you want to play the whole series), things really come together in the first sequel: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, which remains one of t he best and most fun action games you can currently play. In Uncharted you’ll explore abandoned ruins with perilous climbing challenges, get into tense shootouts with the bad guys, and hopefully score some sweet treasure along the way. ![]() It was internally referred to as “Dude Raider,” given its obvious similarities to another well-known PlayStation-originated series. The Last of Us emerged at the end of the PS3’s life, and prior to it winning us all over with a brutal and lasting tale of the struggles of survival and found family, Naughty Dog made waves on the console with Uncharted. The sounds of the rats, particularly when they swarm toward bags of meat (in-game objects you can use to divert their attention), create a delightfully unnerving feeling that will send a chill through your body.Īside from TLoU’s sequel, and unless you’re looking for a dramatic change in genre, A Plague Tale is perhaps the best game to play after traveling across the country with Joel and Ellie. When faced with swarms of rats in A Plague Tale, the stealth scenarios challenge you with balancing light and shadows instead of facing the threat through direct violence, something that Amicia wouldn’t be capable of and is clearly impossible given the scale of the swarms.Ī Plague Tale also has gorgeous music and sound design. A Plague Tale doesn’t have the same shooter gameplay to fall back on and as a stealth game, it’s a bit more nuanced. Though clickers and bloaters present their own unique challenges for Joel, the gameplay scenarios in TLoU are more of an amplification of the same gameplay loop whether you’re fighting humans or infected: Sneak around, do a stealth kill, default to third-person shooter mode if you get spotted. The game also has a far more maternal tone, with less masculine-coded aggression across the board.Ī Plague Tale also features a dramatic change of pace with its plague-spreading rats than TLoU does with its infected. The result is a very different tone in both narrative and gameplay, one that I’d argue doesn’t celebrate or default to violence the way TLoU frequently does. Amicia though? Without the years of experience of survival and misery that make up Joel, she, and by extension you as the player, must persist in spite of obvious vulnerability and will hopefully not come out the other end bitter and cynical. ![]() TLoU easily frames Joel as someone who’s more than up to the challenge of surviving and fighting off hostile human forces and infected. First, Amicia and Joel are wildly different characters. ![]() Where these two games diverge, however, is where things get really interesting. Younger in age, and prone to panic attacks, Amicia is all that stands between Hugo and a world that offers no kindness. Like Joel, Amicia is responsible for the safety of a younger and much more vulnerable person: Her brother Hugo. On paper, A Plague Tale and The Last of Us have a number of dramatic similarities: Both chronicle the story of two survivors who must rely on each other in a world ripped apart by an unstoppable plague. Honestly, play it before going onto TLoU’s sequel. Innocence ought to be at the top of your list after wrapping Joel and Ellie’s adventure. Asobo Studio’s survival game set in 14th century France is an excellent follow-up to The Last of Us. ![]() If you’ve been holding out on A Plague Tale: Innocence since its debut in 2019, it’s time to change that. ![]()
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