This time around, we’re at least given some insight as to why Drake is such a jerk. What’s your problem, guy? Why are you just running around killing people and destroying ancient architecture? I’m definitely leaving this rail company a bad review. The more I play Uncharted, the more I want to get him up on an autopsy table and see what makes him tick. He’s vanilla, likable, and inoffensive, so you don’t get scared driving your meat car. If he did shrug and turn around, where would that leave you? He’s a magical force that you drive through a narrative because someone needs to chug down that railway. Instead, he just seems to be driven by the mystery of things, which doesn’t seem like a valid reason to put bullets in the faces of everyone you pass. Then when it turns out that the treasure is probably cursed in some way, he doesn’t shrug and turn away, so he can’t be motivated by money. I like to tease that he just enjoys killing scores of his fellow man, but really, what’s he doing? He hears that some explorer may have dropped their treasure somewhere, and he sets out after it. When you really dig down into his core, he has absolutely no idea what he’s doing and no motivation to be doing it. Nathan Drake is a character who can only exist as a video game protagonist.