I finished TLOU (P1) for the first time and chose Grounded difficulty

It took me 40 hours, but with environments as detailed as these, I really enjoyed exploring. Honestly I spent time melee'ing drapes and shelves with misc items just to see how things moved. I stood underneath some tinkling water from above and gazed in awe that it was actually colliding with my players head and splashing instead of just clipping through it. I broke... so much glass. It was great! I really enjoyed the game.

The stealth mechanics and enemy AI is consistent with very few forced encounters (and even then, if you sprint and crouch to the right spot on time, you can stealth almost every single mission (including the last!) in the game). I'm a few hours through P2 now but I wanted to share that my experience was awesome and it's quickly become one of my favorite games of all time! I still need to play the DLC with Ellie as well and maybe do another runthrough on NG+ :)