“Just let us all be gamers and stop trying to make Kim Kardashian’s mobile game more profitable than it already is.”— Jodi Smith, pajiba.com
“My partner hates playing online games, but this weekend I made him try Fall Guys and now our relationship is in peril.”— Ash Parrish, kotaku.com
“Killing Abby may have provided Ellie with momentary satisfaction at justice being served, but it wouldn't have changed anything. Joel would still be dead, and the cycle of violence would have continued.”— Noelle Corbett, cbr.com
“That’s intimacy, when you get down to it: knowing someone well enough to lovingly press their buttons.”— Patricia Hernandez, polygon.com
“It was a poignant reminder that human achievement has been leveled by the pandemic, too.”— Theresa DeLucci, tor.com
“People rarely change in horror fiction – they follow instincts and enact rituals until they meet their doom. Ellie’s inability to divert from her quest for blood gradually reveals her, not as a victim, but as a vengeful demonic entity, as ceaseless and uncompromising as the ghostly onryō of Japanese…”— Keith Stuart, theguardian.com
“Sometimes, bad things happen to people, and they never get better. People just do their best to deal with the pain.”— Bernard Boo, denofgeek.com
“It's a bleak, pessimistic world, and exploration issues aside, I didn't exactly want to leave it.”— Kallie Plagge, gamespot.com
“When I would write graphic violence ... I would feel so zen. It was ... like four hours of therapy.”— Halley Gross, latimes.com
“Whatever we say here ultimately doesn’t matter. Everything you need to understand the story is in the game, and whatever players take from it… their interpretation is right.”— Neil Druckmann, indiewire.com
“Are critics who were upset by the game’s violence crybabies? Are they entitled gamers? Are they just mad at SJWs? Is anyone who dislikes this game immediately a black mark to shun and mock?”— Erik Kain, forbes.com
“The Last of Us Part 2 offers a profound and thoughtful attempt to cause the player to dwell on what it means to aim a gun at another human being and pull the trigger.”— Simon Parkin, theguardian.com
“Just as you grew to love Ellie, you'll become attached to other characters too.”— Benjamin Levin, cnn.com
“She is the only thing saving this story from being a very dull, stock revenge tale, viewed entirely from Ellie’s side.”— Paul Tassi, forbes.com
“We are so used to just cutting through legions of bad guys in video games that we’re stunned when a game bothers to show us the other side.”— Paul Tassi, forbes.com
“Animal Crossing presents a fresh yet manageable middle ground, a contained island paradise of life and color instead of a limitless open world.”— Gabe Bergado, teenvogue.com
“Every day, one rock in town has the potential to drop around 16,000 Bells, if you hit it with your shovel fast enough.”— Julia Lee, polygon.com
“As is tradition for Pokémon, each version of this game has exclusive Pokémon, and this one has some version-exclusive gym leaders as well.”— Gita Jackson, kotaku.com
“Now the question is, can Paramount Animation re-do an entire movie in a few months' time?”— AJ Willingham, cnn.com
“Wokescolds are the new representatives of moral panic. We've seen plenty of moral panic before in the United States, from worries about violent video games, to concern about allegations of sex abuse at day care facilities. But never have we seen a moral panic of the stunning breadth of today's woke…”— Ben Shapiro, townhall.com