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I want games that go further to challenge our expectations and actively disrupt our ideas of what a game like this could or should be. And yet I appreciate that Uncharted 4 is a game that seems to recognize its own point on the trajectory. It may be the culmination of a storied franchise but in terms of where this leaves us for the development of the genre, we’re still all just teenagers, looking ahead and speculating about what the future might hold. And I think there is something beautiful about that, awkwardness and all.

If you’ve finished Uncharted 4 or don’t care about spoilers, read Carolyn’s follow-up piece to our review, which examines the game’s ending and other aspects of the game that we haven’t previously discussed.