User blog comment:Inkie Twig/A Year in Gaming - A Review/@comment-1263839-20141230131906/@comment-1263839-20141231023638

Spec Ops: The Line was being deliberate with its lack of creativity in the gameplay department. Even then it had some cool movements like running away from sand and dust storms.

TLoU has no such excuse. It's just formulaic to a fault. We should applaud it's efforts and that it did at least try to add depth to characters and stuff, but I agree it's no breakthrough and other than being a somewhat nice experience it's not really brilliant. As a comparison, my 2013 GOTY Remember Me might have had very hit and miss writing, but it easily won me over because it worked so hard on its cool ideas (however original or not) and the world building was top notch (if only as a twist on the typical dystopia future bollocks).

Also I hate the ending, but that's just preference really.