A game that has a full solid 10 is a game that I had to judge! Despite what people think of the damn game, I will still judge it, no matter how small the pet-peeve is! Well, my sister rented the game and watched he play and beat the game, I saw it and thought it was amazing, the game has so much to it that I had to try it myself. When I came to play the intro, I almost stopped because of the boredom I had to face. Hello and welcome to this possibly controversial thought blog. Probably won't be.
The beginning has you start as regular old Nathan Drake in a boat running away from bandits trying to capsize you. It's exciting at first, but then it turns into too much of a story build game. "What's wrong with that StarterPack?" Well, when you mix story and gameplay, you have to make sure you don't have too much of either side. This game has the story boiling over the rim of the pot and the gameplay just seems to be filler. Once you're finished with this event, almost dying and become believed to be dead, you go to a flashback to when Drake was a kid. If you ask me, it's cool to see that kind of flashback, the animations are amazing and the dialogue are well acted. I liked it, but there was one problem, boring tutorial. I was actually surprised that they didn't ask the player to give him a tutorial or not since this was the fourth installment of the original. I know their can be some changed mechanics to it, but the game is basically the same from the originals as far as I can see in regards to gameplay.
I know it's to get newer players to be familiar to the game, but why keep this boring part of the game in there. I would have loved to skip this in the game, but I guess this part of the game can be kept in. After that, you find yourself in a Spanish Prison. Cool to see some culture, but portrayed so poorly. I guess they can be forgiven since the main character just wanted to see some lost treasure near the prison. I like how the game shows you the combat mechanics in that one scene, but (I bet you expected that) why have the player get full opportunity to get waled on? I left the controller on the couch one time since it was in a load time, and the game began in that scene where you are beaten by a Spanish dude. I left for about 5 minutes and the screen was in an almost red outline. I stood, watching this guy wale on Drake, and saw nothing happen to him. Just the game trying to give you some simple tutorial on how to punch. I don't know why they thought that no punishment to this tutorial was left out. "But StarterPack, this is a tutorial. It's suppose to make you learn." I know, but in most tutorials, they still give you the chance to fail and learn from mistakes. You can die over and over and still be in the same tutorial just so the game can teach you to learn from your mistakes. "But StarterPack, that would be very annoying." Yes, and that would force the player to be more focused on the game instead of fooling around. This game, since it overflows with storytelling, there is no room for death in the game, no punishment. I know, you can still die in the game, but there has to be some element of death for the player to avoid. "But there is!" But, that would be a one mistake thing, you would have to retrace your steps and fix your mistake. "Isn't that how most games do it?" No, they give you a difficult situation with a variety of ways to complete and fail. Uncharted is a one mistake thing, you can only die this way in this scene and that way in that scene.
Another thing I find annoying about this game is how the game's transitions from cinematic to gameplay. I mean, you don't know how many times I found that the game has put me in a running segment. Why do that? Why have this awesome scene go on and have me runaway for the character? That's not gameplay! That's a running simulator! I wish the game had some good transitions to gameplay since the game's narrative is awesome, I like it, but why ruin it with so many boring parts in the game? You just survived that boat crash! Now here's a climbing segment! So just climb... That cliff edge? That seems easy. You have to do that for half an hour! I really don't understand the fame of this game since the only good thing about it was the story and I feel that it's just a shame to see that this is the only good quality to it.
To move on, the multiplayer segments of the game seemed out of place. You remember that in Bioshock 2? Of course not, because the game didn't need it! It feels very unnecessary to have that in the game, a horde mode and a vs. mode just seemed like they wanted some more players to the community. I actually want the game since the only good gameplay in the game is the multiplayer. "What about Last of Us? That game had a story and gameplay elements to it!" Well, I love the game and the game's multiplayer seems fitting the game's story. I actually like it. "What? But those games are practically the same." No. You are wrong. Both of them are completely different. The Last of Us had a great balance of story and gameplay, they made you intrigued in the story and the gameplay was not a running segment after every scene or transition. They didn't through in the worst of it and make you play a segment where you have to take down enemies in a boat. Last of Us made you be the little girl in the scenes and instead of making it a long cinematic. Well I went off track, the game's multiplayer is fun and is the only reason I want to buy it is because of the multiplayer.
"But StarterPack, the game is great and is the sad end to the game's franchise. Why don't you feel the same." Well, for starters, I felt the same about the others when I played them. "How dare you!?" I'm sorry, it's just that the game needed more gameplay to it, instead of long cinematics, no matter how good they were. Trust me, I liked the first game, it was amazing and a new kind of game at the time, but now it's just old and feels rewrapped as something new. I know there can be some great fans out there that say that the game is great and a legend and I agree to that, I just don't think it deserves the massive praise it's getting. I know that's a counter to my own claim, but I just think the game should have minor praise, you know what I mean? "You're just trying to be like EgoRaptor." Okay, I guess we're done.
I hope you enjoyed this possibly hated entry of mine. I had fun with it and I hope not many will hate on me for not liking the Uncharted series. I hope you understand my opinion and again, I hope you enjoyed this and 'til next time...
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