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Back in the summer of 2020, during the first year of COVID lockdowns, two first-party PlayStation games were released back-to-back, just a month apart: Ghost of Tsushima and The Last of Us: Part 2 . Upon release, Ghost of Tsushima was pretty beloved by a specific right-wing culture-war gamer crowd, who placed it on a pedestal specifically as a way to directly attack The Last of Us: Part 2 .

While The Last of Us: Part 2 is far from perfect (for example, Neil Druckmann, the game’s creator and co-director, took inspiration from the Israel-Palestine conflict that was criticized for both-sidesism ), but the game’s sin on release for many on the political ri

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