BROKEN BEAUTY

THE LAST OF US PART 2 REMASTERED is a feature-rich iteration on an imperfect game

- Justin Wagner

If you were around for the release of The Last of Us, you'll remember that it felt like a watershed moment for the medium. There had been plenty of good videogame stories before, but few with such good performance capture as to draw comparisons with film and prestige television. The Last of Us Part 2 came out in a different time, seven years after the first game sent its waves through the industry.

Performance fares well enough the first few hours on my RTX 3060 Ti with the opening's snowy landscapes only harried by a texture bug here and there, but once I got to the game's iconic cityscapes the lack of optimization became more obvious.