The Last of Us/YMMV

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  • Hilarious in Hindsight: Several people noted Ellie's resemblance to Elliot Page, before Naughty Dog changed her character model to remove this. And then at E3 2012, Sony unveiled Quantic Dream's new title, Beyond - Two Souls... starring Elliot Page. Cue Epileptic Trees springing up that Ellie's character model changing was down to this.
  • Hype Backlash: Not only for the numerous awards despite many gamers seeing the gameplay part as unimpressive, but also for the repeated statement of many critics that it was making games more "mature", like every video game before was child's play or something.
  • Incest Yay Shipping: It's downplayed since technically they are not father and daughter, but the most popular pairing on the fandom is not surprisingly Ellie and Joel.
  • Jerkass: While survival is clearly more important then morals in a world this bad, you can't help but think Joel chooses to kill other people a little too easy.
    • Not to mention shooting down a wounded man begging for mercy in the trailer. That said, the man was strangling Joel a few seconds before.
  • Nightmare Fuel: The 1st trailer. Picture a fungus literally blooming out of the entire top half of your face after having grown into your brain to take control of it and thus use you as its own personal vessel.
    • According to the E3 footage, the gameplay looks like it's no slouch in this department. Death occurs realistically, and characters will act like they're in pain before they die. And by the end of the footage, without breaking into a cutscene, the game prompts you, as Joel, to aim a shotgun at an enemy's head as he begs for his life. When he dies, there's a red spot where his head was, and the last moment of gameplay is the gunshot that you have just fired. This is Naughty Dog's darkest game yet.
  • They Changed It, Now It Sucks: Negative reactions to new art style of the PS5 version can be resumed in "everything looks uglier".
  • True Art Is Angsty: Probably the most glorious example of the 2010s. This game is unrelentingly bleak, to not say depressive, and won many awards for supposedly making the entire media of videogames "grow up".
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