Minecraft Launcher not opening game

Error appearing after selecting "play" option:

[19:11:40] [Client thread/INFO]: (Session ID is token:db8f216ce4564a09bb01e1af4129dbd3:20d7603085364fd099448403da764baf)
Exception in thread "Client thread" com.google.gson.JsonSyntaxException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Expected BEGIN_ARRAY but was STRING at line 1 column 1
at com.google.gson.Gson.fromJson(Gson.java:815)
at com.google.gson.Gson.fromJson(Gson.java:768)
at lu.b(SourceFile:151)
at lu.<init>(SourceFile:43)
at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.<init>(SourceFile:155)
at bpp.<init>(SourceFile:41)
at avf.<init>(SourceFile:293)
at net.minecraft.client.main.Main.main(SourceFile:124)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Expected BEGIN_ARRAY but was STRING at line 1 column 1
at com.google.gson.stream.JsonReader.beginArray(JsonReader.java:338)
at com.google.gson.internal.bind.CollectionTypeAdapterFactory$Adapter.read(CollectionTypeAdapterFactory.java:79)
at com.google.gson.internal.bind.CollectionTypeAdapterFactory$Adapter.read(CollectionTypeAdapterFactory.java:60)
at com.google.gson.Gson.fromJson(Gson.java:803)
... 7 more
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM warning: Using incremental CMS is deprecated and will likely be removed in a future release