Dude you didn't even watch the video based on what you're saying. I love the Souls series but comparing it to The Last of Us is nonsense. If you watched the video you'd understand that Druckmann used cut-scenes to show things that weren't necessarily fun from a game-play perspective but important enough to establish a certain relationship and show character demeanor, such as the beginning with his daughter giving Joel a watch. And beyond that, the video even goes into how through gameplay, you gain an emotional connection to these characters where over time, something as simple as boosting Ellie up, which you had done numerous times before, isn't the same because something is off about her due to what transpired in the chapter before it.
A "regression in storytelling," my butt. And for the record, I think The Last of Us does everything and more that the Souls games do. It has dialogue, items to inspect and read, conversation, and environmental storytelling, just the same as in the Souls games. But what do Souls games lack? A deeper inspection of the character you play as. You can argue that Souls games have a much deeper lore and history, one that's more difficult to parse, but that has no bearing on whether it's better at telling its story (which it isn't).
