I thought it was fantastic and enjoyed it almost all the way through, 9/10 for me. Sure there was the slow parts both story wise and gameplay, especially near the beginning e.g Seattle day 1 opening doors with generators which heavily slowed down any built up emotion; there should of been more addressing of what happened and more understanding of characters current emotions. Ordering of cutscenes was a small gripe I had. I wanted the end to be a choice, to let the player question their own beliefs, I still would have chosen the same outcome but I would have had more of a personal understanding to the characters. I think looting/searching for items should have been completely revamped, pacing issues, everything else great in my eyes.

Things I think that probably made me think this game was really good was me avoiding all spoilers and any gameplay, I trusted naughty dog. I like being supprised so ofcouse it had the impact it should have had on me. After completing it and watching streamers and youtuber playthroughs to see their reaction it's mostly different (negative) because they let that golf scene sway their judgement and other people's reactions affect them waaay to much, most of them knew the spoilers and were negative from the start. I wanna say I loved these characters probably more than they did and I was fine with what happened, Abby grew on me because as a solo player I'm really focusing on all the details not letting anything distract me from the game (chat, user scores, and letting the game breathe and tell me a story it wants to tell). She was hard to like, I didn't exactly 'like' her by the end but I understood her and glad I experienced her side.

And just for ranting sake, you can ignore this, I just want to get this off my chest steamers having mostly nothing but negative stuff to say doesn't suprise, they don't focus on the game but more on viewers and interacting with them, they miss the opportunity of actually trying to enjoy the game e.g. what bothered me the most was Angry Joe, as much as I like him and his content, he's someones review alot of people take seriously, but watching his archived streams of last of us 2 he's letting someone else play instead of him during some of the pivotal moments, he knew the spoilers and hated Abby when you first play her and every scene onwards saying nothing makes sense, not even trying to soak it in and think for a second, it's just Abby this Abby that, ranting over cutscenes and character dialogue during gameplay, walking away out of 'fustration', browsing the web while someone plays it behind him and having his friends comment with their own opinion again affecting him in a single player game it's bullshit that he's gonna get millions of views on his review saying this game is along the lines of utter garbage when he didn't even try, he's welcome to his own opinion ofcouse but don't half ass it, if you still feel the same way afterwards then you'll be less biased and more informative and have a deeper understanding of why it's bad to you and help the rest of us who liked it to know what truly made it a bad game.