No. The first game is freaking overhyped. The gameplay was alright and well-polished, but nothing that hadn't been done before a million times. The story, on the other hand...the writers and animators knew how to hit all the right points to make the biggest emotional impacts, so it appeals to critics that mistake melodrama for good writing, but if you can look past all the scenes that the game INSISTS you must shed tears for, you can see there a lot of holes in the plot and worldbuilding that don't hold up. Never mind that at the end of the day, this is just another zombie story with that "humans are the real monsters" theme that's been beaten to dust.
As for the second game...the story is complete nihilistic garbage that critics also mistake for good writing, and utterly destroys what redeeming themes existed in the first game. And that's without taking the woke aspects of it into account.
No. The first game is freaking overhyped. The gameplay was alright and well-polished, but nothing that hadn't been done before a million times. The story, on the other hand...the writers and animators knew how to hit all the right points to make the biggest emotional impacts, so it appeals to critics that mistake melodrama for good writing, but if you can look past all the scenes that the game INSISTS you must shed tears for, you can see there a lot of holes in the plot and worldbuilding that don't hold up. Never mind that at the end of the day, this is just another zombie story with that "humans are the real monsters" theme that's been beaten to dust.
As for the second game...the story is complete nihilistic garbage that critics also mistake for good writing, and utterly destroys what redeeming themes existed in the first game. And that's without taking the woke aspects of it into account.