Having made it through The Last of Us once, I'm now about halfway through the second time around, still playing on normal difficulty. I'm still getting killed, but not as often and really only when I make mistakes on especially hard encounters. More often, what's happening is I make it through an encounter but I take a lot of hits and my health goes down.
Playing this game has me really thinking about this whole world of video games and how they have emerged as a new and in many ways more immersive entertainment experience than books, movies, or TV. The Last of Us, in particular, immerses the player in a dystopian, post-apocalyptic future similar to The Walking Dead, where humans live in quarantine zones or quasi-sovereign settlements, and where other humans are just as dangerous, if not more so, than the zombies, or in this case, the infected.
End of the world scenarios seem quite popular these days, though I don't think that's a new development. The idea of the end of days goes back to early Christianity, and probably much earlier than that.
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