I finished it last night and really enjoyed it start to finish. The music and voice acting was especially great, Amazon gave me the soundtrack for free and ive been meaning to listen to it. I feel my only complaint is that it didnt feel as smooth as the uncharted games.

You can start a new game with all of your perks and I plan to just rip through to keep the pace and story as tight as possible. I spent so much time sniffing around for stuff that I lost the sense of urgency that most of the sequences should have. Not yet though, as great as it was it was pretty heavy and I need some time away from it. time for a simple platformer or something.

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I thought I knew how it would end when I reached the last sequence but was pleasantly surprised they didnt go that route. That said, I also regretted Ellie wasnt given the choice because you know she would have gone through with it, I think any of us would have. Joel was pretty damn wrong....he just wasn't capable of letting her go. The game was just too dark to go that route.

The gay porn thing didnt bother me, It rang pretty true to her character after the way Bill treated her, and to the way teenagers act in general. I like to think that if Bill had been halfway decent to her she wouldnt have stolen the mag from him. I realize it was implied that Bill was gay but I didnt really know until after the magazine reveal and I think that was the point of the sequence.

It's an interesting discussion, I like that Bill was gay, it wasn't necessary for the plot but it made his character much more 3 dimensional to me. Sadly, gay people are the butt of easy jokes all the time in the real world, why not for characters in the last of us as well?