My second glitch.
PS4 didn't let me get the other glitch, because the video saving didn't work half the game.
The game is done.
tl;dr the game is great fun. Weak points are the length, pacing and story. I say a 9.5/10. A bit of a step down from the original for me.
Spoiler for Hidden:
I want to replay the first game, and just see how things are different. My memory might not be exact. From memory some things feel better here and some things feel worse.
I feel a bit bothered by this game. With the first game every action felt reasonably justifiable to me.
With this game though, it feels like they throw the punch line out in the first third of the game, that revenge just gets more revenge. (Jesse says something to that effect). But here there were a fair amount of actions that just felt wrong in the first place. And they came with huge consequences.
Like Nora, wasn't the worst death. That felt reasonably justifiable. She was kind of being psychotic towards the end...
But several of the other deaths didn't feel that way. Even in the moment it felt like why did it have to go that way. And it gets so much worse when they go back and show what they were the past few days. The story almost feels cringeworthy at times with how bad everything just has to feel.
I don't think it's a bad story. I think it's a good one, but the actions feel much much harder to justify. It feels like Ellie should have learned the lesson a lot sooner.
When she was living with Dina and the baby that is what should have been the end I think.
Also this kind of felt like a throwback to Jak and Daxter. In that game, basically the first mission is corralling the cows much like how Ellie corrals the sheep.
It felt like at this point the lesson had been learned. Ellie was moving on with her life, and Tommy just comes in and says nope you promised me.
(Edit: a couple people talked about this already, but I think a part of the pacing issue was that I wasn't expecting Abby's storyline to go so long. Like I was expecting it to be fairly quick, and then I was hoping it'd just be a shorter timeline of what happened leading up to it, instead, they filled it with basically as much content as the first part. Which sucks when it ended up on a cliffhanger. I feel like a lot of the story could have been rearranged better for impact and pacing.)
Gameplay feels slightly refined from the first game. No major differences. It was a really nice touch that Abby and Ellie had differences. Not just in how they move and act, but actual gameplay differences. Different weapons. It just feels like the kind of thing that could have been made into two separate games.
The game play overall is the real highlight of the game of course.
Sound design is awesome. The music when you find the scars strung up the wlf's was perfectly enthralling. I didn't feel like the rest of the game quite captured the level of feeling I had there. The first scars encounter was pretty darn close. I said before the whistling, and the differences of tactics made them feel like the best of the other humans and infected.
The 3D audio overall worked decently. Didn't matter all the time, but it really had it's moments. There was a moment in a broken down building where I heard a bird and was half expecting there to be one after I took my headphones off. There were a few little delightful moments like that.
Visually the game is quite stunning. I was trying to take quite a few pictures and videos but generally it took a few minutes before the video feature even became available. And the pictures generally took like half a minute before they even were available.