On this occasion, we will provide a review of The Last of Us Part I Remake, which was just released on September 2, 2022 on the PS5 platform. We thank Sony and Naughty Dog for giving us the opportunity to try The Last of Us Part I Remake.
This review is made based on the author's personal experience when playing the game from start to finish. For gamers who have never played this game, you don't need to worry. Because this review is clean from spoilers regarding the contents of the story to the plot twist which is popular among fans. Let's just start discussing the review of The Last of Us Part I Remake!
Story
Still the same as the previous version, The Last of Us Part I Remake tells the adventures of Joel and Ellie in carrying out a task in a world after the chaos that occurred due to the spread of a mutant fungus named Cordyceps in the United States 20 years ago. The outbreak paralyzed various sectors so that the residents there had to survive from the mutated monsters infected by the fungal outbreak and even from other humans who formed their own stronghold and some of them started to make a mess.
This game will give you the adventures of Joel and Ellie in the long and long main story of TLoU. This remake version also presents the Left Behind story which focuses on Ellie's adventures with her friends before she meets Joel after the outbreak in the United States.
For new players, the story in The Last of Us Part I Remake is an exciting experience that can lead them to explore every existing character, starting from Joel, Ellie and many more. But for players who have played this game before, feelings of boredom might arise in their minds. But for big fans of the TLoU franchise, this isn't a problem because this game made by Naughty Dog always presents a story that can make their emotions go up and down.
Gameplay
As I explained before, Naughty Dog provides several improvements to the gameplay features of The Last of Us Part I Remake. This increase will be easy for you to feel when facing enemies or Clicker monsters. One of them is the aim system which now feels smoother even when your character abilities or weapons haven't been upgraded at all. In addition, the interaction of melee battles is also more flexible and is almost close to the flexibility that existed in TLoU 2, but does not eliminate the features in the previous version of the first game.
Apart from the gameplay features in facing opponents, there are still more improvements that have been made by the developers in this game that I cannot explain one by one. You can feel the experience yourself when playing the game The Last of Us Part I Remake. It can be said that the gameplay features in this game are the result of Naughty Dog's technology development in The Last of Us Part 2. So the developers are providing their best improvements in terms of gameplay in the game for new players or old players.
But what is very unfortunate in this game, the cover system is a little annoying for me. In general, games with a cover system behind walls or piles, the game will provide button features such as X or others to be able to cover completely to avoid enemy views. But in this game, the cover system is only limited to you moving your character on walls or piles. This sometimes makes me feel uncomfortable and doubt whether the character is really hiding or just crouching behind a wall or pile.
Graphic
Talking about the graphics of The Last of Us Part I Remake, I don't think there's any need to doubt it. The Last of Us Part I Remake presents extraordinary graphical improvements, starting from views of locations, buildings, platforms and even the character models in this game have been improved to make them look more realistic.
In addition, there is a mode called Fidelity Mode developed by Naughty Dog which provides an increase in graphic quality that can be realized on the PS5 console.
This mode can produce high quality graphics at 4K resolution with 30 FPS performance. Apart from Fidelity Mode, there is also a Performance Mode which focuses more on game performance which is capable of producing framerates of up to 60 FPS with balanced resolution quality. With these two features, you can choose the quality of the game you want.
