I didn't even want to play the game when it switched to Abby.
I turned all the difficulty settings down and thought 'i'll just get through this', but the more time I spent with her, I started loving Abby and her relationship with Lev.
At the end, seeing her crucified and so diminished, I hated being Ellie beating on her and was so happy she let her go.
I don't think I've hated a character as much as Abby and then ended up rooting for her. You'll never forgive what she did to Joel as she'll never forgive what Joel did to her Dad, but it felt like a unique gaming experience where you ended up feeling equally empathetic to both characters.
If anything, Ellie felt the most monstrous at the end, but I also totally understand her point of view. If anything, I just wanted her to walk away and spare us the final, brilliant, chapter.
It's a really sad story which 'both sides' it without ever sitting on the fence. It's as horrible as circles of violence and revenge are.
It's a challenging, visceral experience that could be applied to almost every news story from the fear of immigrants to the genocide we are seeing commited by Israel.
On top of that, it's a brilliantly engineered game with a mechanic that's at the very top end of the triple A releases.
It's almost incredible this game exists.
It won't be for everyone, but I'm so fecking happy and amazed that so much was invested in making something as good as this. It's like Warner's letting Christopher Nolan do whatever the feck he wants because he made The Dark Knight, but waaaaaay more challenging.
I understand people have some struggles with changes from the game to the series, but it's an entirely different media. The decisions they are making are not the easy ones, the series is equally brave and it's high point is almost certainly the Bill and Frank episode.
I think this is expert television and I'm so glad this was handed to the guy who made Chernobyl, a television series which also deviated from it's source material for dramatic effect - though there's considerably less outrage!
The Last of Us is a brilliant story that's being told at the highest level in two mediums. We are lucky to have it.
It's hard to read comments sections about almost anything on the Internet now, especially established IP where there is no reasoning with myopic nostalgia. Unfortunately, with this series, there's also a prejudice about a realistic representation of a queer character who doesn't fit the heteronormative ideal. I don't want to focus on that too much, but I know people like Ellie in real life. A 19 year old queer Bella Ramsay is doing a 19 year old queer person more realistically than a mid-to-late-thirties straight Ashley Johnson. Ashley Johnson is brilliant and could nail this role if she was 19, but Bella is bringing the performance that belongs in a word where you can't fix twenty bullet wounds with a health pack.
There was some poster earlier in this thread who complained about the game pushing an agenda and then went weird when people asked him to explain what agenda that was. Maybe you're thinking of him?
There was some poster earlier in this thread who complained about the game pushing an agenda and then went weird when people asked him to explain what agenda that was. Maybe you're thinking of him?
There was some poster earlier in this thread who complained about the game pushing an agenda and then went weird when people asked him to explain what agenda that was. Maybe you're thinking of him?
To add to that, he had read earlier leaks that suggested the whole game was trans propaganda and that was what he was referring to with his little agendas post.
Then the real leak came out, and it didn't make it any better for him. Though I fully expect he played it anyway
