Easy Mode Is Actually for Adults
Video games can be arduous. But real life is hard enough.
A decade before The Last of Us had a popular HBO adaptation, it was a lauded zombie-apocalypse video game that infuriated me. What I remember most about the 2013 title was how Joel, the game’s main character, would get bitten or mauled to death so many times that my outbursts would wake up my toddler daughters in the next room. After mistiming my moves yet again during a frenzied attack, I’d squeeze the black plastic of my PlayStation controller until my hands ached.
It never occurred to me that I could change the difficulty of the game. After all, , like many titles, allows
