She’ll later growl obscenities like “Eat shit…!” at a woman whose throat she’s just slit. Over the course of the game, Ellie grows more enraged. Even if the parallels drawn between these characters are about as subtle as Abby’s 7-iron, they’re still artfully done.
Those seemingly divisive narrative choices produce a result that’s brilliant. At face value, it seems infuriating: A total stranger kills our hero from the first game, and then we’re supposed to play as her for 12 hours!? These shocking, broad strokes were the focus of a devastating batch of leaks that surfaced in April. Last of Us 2 is her revenge story in equal measure. Joel killed Abby's father at the end of the first game, and then we’re asked to play as Abby for the second half of this one. The Last of Us 2 starts out as a revenge story but spends an exhausting 24 hours of gameplay trying to convince us that this is not supposed to be fun. The sequel steps back into this world five years later when a moody, adult Ellie embarks on a quest for revenge to the ruins of Seattle after a new character named Abby murders Joel with a golf club while Ellie is forced to watch. A brilliant, surprising story with hollow characters The price we all pay for Joel’s sentiment is The Last of Us Part II, which metes out the consequences of the first game’s perfect ending. The game doesn’t cast judgment on his choice, so we’re left to answer this moral question ourselves: Did Joel do the right thing? So Joel murders dozens of people to save Ellie. Ellie, who’s immune to the virus, is the key to developing a vaccine, but the vaccine would kill her. In the first Last of Us, protagonists Joel and Ellie feel like real people in a dismal world where the Cordyceps brain infection wiped out most of the population. Joel's gotten even older in 'The Last of Us Part II.' Naughty Dog / Sony Entertainment LLC
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