Der er ret bred enighed om at The Last of Us fortæller en af de bedre historier vi har set i den moderne spilhistorie, men spørger du showrunneren på den kommende HBO-serie, Craig Mazin, der desuden gav os den glimrende Chernobyl-serie, så tager han lige skridtet videre:
I et interview med Empire er han ikke bleg for tage store ord i munden, og kalder det den "bedste historie i et spil nogensinde".
"It's an open-and-shut case: this is the greatest story that has ever been told in video games."
Han slår desuden ned på at historien forbliver enormt jordbunden hele vejen igennem, og at det i sig selv er en sjældenhed blandt spilfortællinger:
"They didn't shoot anything out of their eyeballs. They were just people. And that, in and of itself, is remarkably rare in games. The fact that they kept it so grounded, and really made you feel - I had never experienced anything like it, and I've been playing video games since 1977."
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