Everything GREAT About The Last of Us Part 2!

[Music] the moth motif is ever present throughout this game it's our book and shots on our loading screen and tattooed upon ellie the moth is some beautiful representation of ellie a moth to a flame the saying goes and ellie is drawn towards abby an ex-firefly with destructive results that's my favorite extraction from the symbol but there are so many others that fit so perfectly for ellie's character such as the transformation she undergoes they can see through the darkness and more often than not they aren't considered beautiful they were actually gonna make a cure they would kill her i saved her i didn't expect joel to tell anyone what he did but if you're gonna tell anyone your brother is a safe bet what do you do the seriousness in joel's eyes here he understands the full weight of what he's done but none of the details really matter because saving his daughter to him justifies it all and this look god damn the acting here is off the [ __ ] charts let me just gush now because throughout this whole game not one performer misses their mark they all brought their a game not just the performers but also the motion capture team say whatever you will about this game this is a technical marvel how they made this game look this good on seven-year-old hardware is [ __ ] beyond me i forget i'm even playing a game sometimes jesus christ joe that's him that's a lot this opening is somewhat priming us to believe what joel did was reprehensible but i think it's okay because everyone has had seven years to decide where they fall on joel's choice funnily enough the argument among fans is focused on if joel should have taken her not if joel should have murdered everyone everyone kind of forgets about that part they're supposed to take her to the fireflies and walk away you go halfway across the country with someone she needed her immunity he means something because of her they were actually gonna make a cure they would kill her i saved her and if for some stupid ass reason you missed out on the first game joel gives you a quick recap of the major plot points but go play the first game it's a whole abby's physique better than this game we should head back joel's surprised that tommy so quickly wants to head back seems like he was hoping to talk through what he did more but tommy doesn't give it to him say what you will about this script but neil does a bang-up job on directing the actors [Music] jesus [ __ ] christ gustavo centalia returns for the score of the sequel and [ __ ] does he hit it out of the park again the man is a genius the score feeds so beautifully into whatever emotion is being pulled from a scene and believe it or not the man doesn't even read or write music well he writes music but not onto sheets he gets someone else for that it's just completely unadulterated artistry coming from the soul with this man even beyond the insane mocap work the whole [ __ ] game is gorgeous literally every frame a painting this is the reason i'd like to believe this game was delayed and not for other reasons i don't know much about the technical side of things but i do know creating sprawling environments like this is not easy and to think our hardware is just getting better this might be just what gas stations look like but it suspiciously looks like the station from the walking dead when carl recreates the gas can walk about what we were talking about earlier i'll take it to the grave if i have to everyone deserves a brother like tommy very tastefully done opening credits even pausing them so tommy and joel can share their dialogue blinking you'll miss it but ellie before her falling out with joel draws and sketches deer in her journal deer are often associated with beauty innocence and gentleness all traits younger ali possesses what's up joel just checking in give this scene to lesser actors and it wouldn't come off nearly as perfect as it does here the chemistry troy and ashley share is uncanny literally every scene between the two is captivating finally a game that uses the touchpad and a way outside of a giant button if i ever [Music] people rag on the themes of this game for being very elementary i don't see how that's an intelligent dig at the game as some of the best stories keep their themes simple and through simplicity something more powerful can be translated to the audience the first game was about love at its core about a man learning to open himself back up after a traumatic event this game is about a woman losing herself everyone and closing herself off after a traumatic event and that's just [Music] we never get to hear these two ever say the words i love you we don't need to to me right here is when he says it out loud for the first time there's an argument to be made for his statement about always finding someone to fight for in the first game but this one's explicit as hell no no no i don't know the first thing about it that i teach you how to play keeping your promise did you remember the joke if those pun books taught me anything about you ellie you're gonna love it it's time consuming that's so dumb also this is adorable broken up one week and you make a move on my girl i don't care get dressed you're the worst that's kind of [ __ ] up you did that you can always count on jesse to bring some levity debs have figured out mirrors for a while now but they always impress me so as i'm sure you all know naughty dog games are notorious for the insane attention to detail such as this table being scuffed from this being her knife holster i'll mention some as we go but this video is already long enough let me see if i got this right you kissed dina it was a strange night man sounds exciting everything leading up to joel's death is a big disarm the dance the cute high school relationship banter the snowball fight everything is so perfect most of us know better so instead of being disarmed we are filled with dread just waiting for the hammer to fall see abby isn't the only one that pets dogs to make her likable i'm kidding abby's is so [ __ ] egregious last night i was drinking too much nice seth shift blame that's always a great way to start an apology what you got there bigot sandwiches bigot sandwiches you know what i love about you how you let me finish my sentences every new character introduced besides the one we aren't supposed to like sorry ones we're supposed to come to understand are done exceptionally well i don't hate them find them annoying or wish joel was there instead i'm kidding i miss daddy joel but still the new characters are done well not exactly a combat tutorial but it kind of is but it doesn't want to commit to it completely snowball bites are fun ellie's horse is named shimmer kinda like how once ellie goes to seattle there's only a shimmer of the destructive side till the horse is killed and once shimmer is killed is when ellie starts calling everyone [ __ ] am i reaching dina's horse is named japan the only analogs i could come up with is japan is a beautiful country that's peaceful and graceful correct me in the comments if i'm completely off with that interpretation and don't say her ex-boyfriend is asian and it was a gift from jesse all right you all know the drill jesse's only in his early 20s the hell did he do to be a seeming patrolly whatever it is good on him yeah gustavo's it can't last coming in for the first time this patrol is where ellie and dina really explore their feelings about each other but also the introduction of abby into their lives we're told from the start that their relationship can't last further compounded by the cut to introduce abby [Music] abby's nightmares are a consistent reminder of where she is emotionally and sure dreams as a representation are a little ham-fisted it comes with a cathartic payoff for her character later and i do mean her specifically with arms like these i'm surprised she didn't accidentally murder joel and swing one owen's trail is visible from him scouting earlier what is going on with you mel's pregnant throughout the game there's parallel after parallel of abby in relation to ellie and joel's respective journeys neil pulled out all of his tricks to really try and make us care about abby i've grown to like that tattoo of yours interesting shut up okay the flirting is cute and those who hate are just sad they ain't got it [ __ ] you could stay at this view as long as you like this is the last moment as ellie do you get to just appreciate the world before everything starts going wrong flashbacks don't count notice dina always did the sign-ins when out with eugene now that ellie's coming with her she's the boss man there's so much great stuff to unpack inside this journal that we'd be here forever if i went through it like living a long life you no way come on you're way too reckless says the one that stands on glass to start a firefight through it please die of old age and not because you get infected deal don't think ellie has ever heard a better deal in her life so glad that our non-player characters are competent this quick trial patience and murder of this clicker is a great moment this is why the game truly got delayed naughty dog could have just done what tilu did and had ellie's shoulder roll her upgrades but these animations are so well done i can't complain oh my god it's weed this is a huge missed opportunity for jackson they could have used weed as a trading commodity got to be a safer trade than bullets if you know what i mean and [ __ ] love weed [Music] i watched a compilation of kissing and video games just for you guys to judge whether or not this is the best kissing animations in a game i've ever seen and i was right again the mocap work here is absolutely insane hey i'm tommy that's joe what's your name once they're inside and get a second to breathe abby is shook as [ __ ] and can't take her eyes off joel even after tommy grabs her attention just replaying and rewatching this scene for this video gets my heart rate up every time this is my brother joe [ __ ] you can hear a pin drop when joel says his name these [ __ ] just won the lottery because they have don't know if owen was scared of abby or just caught off guard by the shotgun blast either way it lends me to really liking him more why don't you say whatever speech you got rehearsed get this over with facing death like a badass also joel handles this tourniquet like a g these [ __ ] are some of the worst pain you can feel then the pain of the other half of the limb not receiving blood taking over and then getting the [ __ ] beat out of you by she-hulk joel doesn't even pass out from all of that pain compounding upon him [ __ ] was no one to mess with and she needed this cheap shot to kill him please get up [Applause] joel's death was something we all expected him to die in a sequel but not like this it's not what we wanted but that's okay if developers always catered to what the fans wanted we wouldn't have great games or risks taken this was a massive gamble and whether or not it paid off is up to each player to decide for themselves also the reason joel allowed himself to be caught in this situation is because of his time in jackson he's grown soft and started being too trusting this is confirmed by troy baker in an interview he said he felt he failed as an actor because he wanted to show at some point during the scene that joel regretted lowering his guard but didn't get it into his performance it makes sense stop complaining tommy survive dude's got a titanium cranium or something [Music] also doesn't he look like rick grimes a little bit with the fur collar and all in the four-year jump we don't get to see how ellie grew up in jackson but i enjoy seeing the love ellie shares with tommy and maria it's obvious that joel's family has become hers and it's nice [Music] this is the first time all gone is played in tiloo 2. this was the same track used for many important moments in the first game such as sarah's death david's death and joel running with ellie at the end it's sort of the de facto theme for loss and it's perfectly placed here having us travel through joel's house is such a welcome addition most players are still reeling from joel's murder and it's a beautiful visual eulogy for him in a sense we get to learn so much about him through his home and my favorite little detail is seeing the idiot's guide to space on his nightstand we'll find out later that ellie loves space and he's just trying to get a little closer to her got it we thought the world was overgrown in the last game now it's been bumped up to 11. it was so cool thinking we were in the middle of a forest than to stumble upon a traffic light and have the realization of where we actually are i take back what i said in my fallen order video these rope physics are so impressive the little pseudo-open world might have been half-baked but it was cool nonetheless to ride around here and explore and also that immersive map was pretty cool as well i wonder what it was like to serve on a jury but it was fun is anyone going to tell dina how wrong she is i've always dreamed of fixing up a farm sounds lonely only if you're doing it alone okay it's adorable that this little offhand conversation becomes a brief reality for these two all right i got it i'm glad naughty dog made her companions not just watch us run around and do everything you ask this guy a question but you don't make him say then you ask this guy and if the facts match you're telling the truth tommy did this seems to be a tactic that runs in the family this is the second time that they use what i like to call tilu travel where they show your destination off in a distant wide shot i always enjoy it as it makes the world feel a lot bigger through this and ellie's journal you can surmise that dina is pregnant and it's cool that naughty dog gives us all this prelude before telling us it's all of them everyone's got to have a to-do list just some peoples are more on the arya stark side of things dina saves us what three times in this chase scene [ __ ] love you dina maria and tommy and joel are the only ones who know i knew oh that'll get you really i think i'm pregnant now ellie's got a pregnant companion just like abby and it's reasons like this people don't like abby's side of the story dina is a month pregnant and doesn't go out for the rest of the game whereas mel does eight-month pregnant parkour joel you love watching a movie in this place we miss you joel don't forget that ellie was gonna invite him to watch a movie the day he died ellie plays this song for the first time after finding out dina is pregnant and right before our first joel flashback this is a perfect placement to me as ellie and dena's relationship is being strained and has joel stuck in her head i started several oh i suck say what you will about flashbacks lost built an entire tv show on them but everyone was delighted to find out that we get to have more joel and ellie together in the game what is wrong with you you should see your face right now god the chemistry between these two is unreal we got a lot of detention you know you really need to stop letting people out some advice ellie obviously ignores but see everyone the vengeful nature has always been insider see there's a sequel it wasn't as good like this game ellie isn't just listening to some rocket launch she's listening to the apollo 11 launch the one that put men on the moon are you [ __ ] kidding me [Laughter] some say that this flashback is cheap and unearned and maybe but i'm sure those same people love the [ __ ] out of the sequence with all the heartache these two have shared between each other it's great to see at least a little bit that they got to have moments like these and here's a reminder of what these flashbacks are actually going to be about how'd you fix it it was a loose connection for those paying attention dina knows how to do this because eugene taught her the animations here in the gameplay are so brutal and satisfying chopping people up never felt so good what the hell are you doing here i think i'd let you do this on your own so this was bad naughty dog blatantly lied to us which isn't anything new for studios to do when marketing a game if you remember leading up to the first game naughty dog was adamant that we wouldn't play as ellie it's because they completely swapped the characters that makes it so egregious but before i remove it when this switch route didn't come from a malicious standpoint naughty dog wanted to protect the fact that joel died early in the game and for that reason we have a net win of zero and hey sure we were expecting joel from the trailers and tommy from the dialogue but surprise [ __ ] it's jesse i didn't see that coming that's your plan love that his plan is just to run into like 15 guys and jack their truck people hate on jesse but i love him and look we get to see what naughty dog does best you okay keeping things light jesse do you think before they got to the door jesse was like hey i'm going to stand at the side while you knocked so we could surprise her i just think it's funny given that they almost died like 14 times today got stragglers some more setup and payoff for later with tommy being an excellent sniper like a migration when the barometric pressure reaches a certain temperatures [ __ ] i don't [ __ ] know well there's that music store down there i bet they got guitar stuff i mean that area is long overdue for a sweep anyway tommy you [ __ ] you know exactly what you're doing savage starlight comic books that you're into yeah did you like them oh you know what not really my cup of tea but it's so cute that joel is reading a comic like savage starlight just so he can bond with ellie about it yeah i mean he definitely deserved it but that was a nice twist yeah not all twists are nice joel you impressed nope you're just too skinny you need to eat more god did they hit the nail in the head with the dad dialogue for joel so many times from a father figure in my life have i heard that [Music] i mean every bloater has to go through the clicker stage to get here so i imagine his ears are just as a tuned as a quicker the acting is too good in this game look at ellie's eyes before she's ripped through the wall fake out death street with daddy joel go in sicko mode in that bloater [Music] really joel you're just gonna take that on faith because just two moments ago you got sneak attacked by a bloater and almost lost ellie uh confidence no jesse and i are just friends i've got a pretty keen eye for these sort of things not so keen with this one growing up in texas joel i'm not surprised you're clueless about ellie in this regard only they were immune right i know my broken record but jesus there needs to be a category for best actor in a video game and i'm not only talking the voice acting this might be a stretch but hear me out the shot on these two bodies feels like a microcosm of the themes of these games the skeletal body being sarah's death and the clicker being joel when we meet him at the start of the first game sure his heart is beating but he might as well be dead until ellie comes along and cures him joel has to come face to face with what his decision has wrought by curing the world he'd be dooming himself back to who he was this clicker two games worth of storytelling relayed in just one shot i probably explained poorly what my brain feels when i see this shot but i hope you understand or maybe i'm just reading too much into it i don't [ __ ] know she might have helped jesse with his toes but i bet she didn't kiss them like here ellie don't be too jealous but you're gonna go now yeah we have a lead hmm you have a lead and you have to see it through sound like anyone we know hey there's the crane bridge [Music] the whistles of the scars are so unnerving i love it you still hear his screams i hear them every night wow nora are we getting a sympathetic antagonist a little [ __ ] got what he deserved oh oh [ __ ] shoot her ellie no don't kiss the whipper breathing spores ellie's not just a murder machine she's smart playing to her strengths not so subtle red like foreshadowing what ellie's about to do some might disagree but i like that we are forced to press square to make ellie torture nora it makes us feel the guilt right along with ellie versus passively watching her doing it she's hiding out in the in this aquarium okay another reason people take to ellie's side of the story so much more than abby's when she tortures someone it's only for information and she doesn't enjoy it versus someone else we know making a vaccine would have killed you so i stopped them i'll go back [Laughter] but we're done this is what we expected and hoped this entire game would be about but we get to have it and a whole nother story so why be upset [ __ ] ellie how are you still fighting with all those wounds i guess joel raised her and we all know he could take a [ __ ] hit damn they didn't need to go all the way out of the way to make this so comprehensive you can play whole ass songs on this [ __ ] does that does jessie's hair count as a mullet i'm going with yes she had a rough night barely could get her to keep water down you should have woken me up [ __ ] even with all that you've gone through you want to be there to help this is why we love ellie is she pregnant yeah but we gotta take her back she needs real care and she's not gonna get that yeah i know jesse and owen are wise men [Music] oh that delivery's so sweet last time i promise this game is drop dead gorgeous to look at naughty dog heard that it's a wet city and they're like all right i'm gonna run with that [ __ ] for the rest of my life and threw in raging rapids rogue wave ellie you'd be horrible oh no ellie kills dogs she's a horrible person nah she was just defending herself what time does abby risk her life for you she chose this i'm not [ __ ] going there then don't go back damn if owen wasn't such a nice guy he would have survived ellie's wrath he was legit about to leave after abby but felt the need to explain himself to mel ellie didn't know mel was pregnant and i doubt she'd murder a pregnant woman just for some petty revenge come on let's go let's go has got to be a miller family trademark no but she gets to live is that okay it has to be ellie literally gave up on her revenge quest for those she loves and people are still hating tommy's holding us back it's because he's old actually no and it's because he threw down earlier we let you both live and you wasted it anger anger anger dad dad this is the most pivotal moment in the whole game you either stopped playing here or gave the game a chance this was a structural choice that sent ripples throughout every other decision naughty dog made this shift to abby is the reason this youtube channel exists so for as much as i hate it i couldn't be happier for it notice abby enters the mauve a whale literally entering the belly of the whales literally entering the belly of the whale section of her hero's journey then to be confronted with the colossal squid the two creatures regularly do battle with each other abby's dad saves zebras and so does abby they're actually great people don't you know more interesting is abby is having her experience with the zebra at the same time that ellie is having hers with the giraffe i'm aware of the situation and you're okay with killing her no are you asking me are you telling me this is how it's gonna be i like getting more insight into marlene's choice to buy into the surgery and cameo doesn't hurt i'm gonna go tell joel why he traveled across the country with her he has a right to know damn does this make joel's action feel even more reprehensible i know that was the point but [ __ ] they're laying it on thick if it was me i'd want you to do the surgery both ellie and abby wanted the surgery to commence i feel like in a different world these two would have been friends we're here for him that's it it's too risky to live them alive too [ __ ] bad i'm sure you noticed it by now but i freaking love owen a really really good location to establish a settlement hey the dude literally caught a bullet that was a lot of blood right she shouldn't be out that's the smartest thing you've said since day one started seven sit tight be right back too much to do to wait around like this you must really be cutting into your jerking off time didn't know the critical role cast was in with the wolves speak of the devil yeah sounds about right are these all ours and more are coming in by the hour i really wish we opened some of these body bags and we're greeted with models we've seen wasting as ellie which we know they aren't because of the timelines but am i headed canon they are so [ __ ] you don't [ __ ] with isaac isaac will [ __ ] you i mean [ __ ] you up these are [ __ ] horrifying if you really killed daniel [ __ ] danny yeah [ __ ] danny some random ass character that we don't give two shits about that is meant to propel abby's plot think about it if danny didn't fight owen abby doesn't go after owen and doesn't meet the cult people which means owen probably stays alive and dina and ellie go live on the farm peacefully and we have a happily ever after [ __ ] danny aquariums do westin here keep following the sun right using the environment in this way to guide the player is such a novel idea all this work everyone puts into the aquarium speaks so much of his character i love it just just through this i feel like i know owen more than abby owen adds to max's drawings with this mural of salt lake city bringing in the ideas of unification of the younger and the older but also with a peaceful beautiful landscape of most likely the last time he held on to so much hope but it's incomplete somewhat indicative of owen's worldview he's got hope for this peaceful world with prey living together in unity but there are predators out there looking to ruin it all hence the line in the uncompleted portion of the mural she's into this christmas thing and uh it's our one year so everyone deserves a man like owen jesus christ can live work that bow what is all this gotta take her apart for me to fix her back up you gotta see down to the roots of the problem to truly face it and overcome it just like our two leads it's a lead i gotta see through snatch that [ __ ] wig on these scars tell us so much history of what owen's been through did they sample my apartment for this did you hear what they called me do you want me to ask you about it no okay showing an ounce of respect for once i thought your anti-electricity and all that sinful stuff there are exceptions demonizing something while still reaping the benefits from it what does that remind you of what's going on between you and your friend owen oh my god lev now we finally get to walk across what we thought was just an awesome backdrop this is as vertical as we've ever had in the last of us encounter and it's a lot of fun this area of the game is a great nugget of world building all over you can find notes discussing what life was like in the opening days of the outbreak it's harrowing stuff and would be an awesome setting to tackle in a game such as this this dude is disgustingly terrifying this is something you'd expect to find after 25 years of growth this gives me flashbacks to enjoy with sicko on that loader maybe we stopped looking for the light maybe abby admits that she was interested in being a good person all she wanted was vengeance and this is one of the moments that actually made abby genuinely feel human not as i'm scared of heights and dog petting [ __ ] we've been fed here's the payoff i mentioned earlier actually i'm going with them but not if you come i haven't always done the right you're a piece of [ __ ] abby right on mel bringing that high school [ __ ] back from the start of the game and also is that mel speaking or the fan base speaking what trespassers i'm moving up finally a shake-up of the gameplay loop in a refreshing fun way okay damn right he's good look out jesse i mean i guess you can't i'm sorry i can't shut up about it the wet brown wood contrasting the shiny green forest is gorgeous shouldn't we head back for our boat no i hear fighting back there i hear fighting everywhere it's such a shitty reason why they can't go back but it's a reason i guess i want to know more about isaac the fact that his presence alone makes abby's [ __ ] her pants lends to something about him that's awesome god damn abby [ __ ] this guy up naming the location where they scar themselves in a way it's kind of making a mockery of their tradition abby and left getting metaphorical payback from all the scars i've done to them composition is everything lev was there the whole time stop stop i like how the scene is shot differently as abby is framed as our protagonist here it'd be cool if ellie could still infect people with her bites i'm sure they played around with that idea and it's probably for the best that they didn't go for it but it's still cool don't ever let me see you again turning a new leaf i guess just like joel's house ellie's house is given the same attention to detail like ellie taking some of joel's wood carvings and paintings jj definitely stands for jesse and joel you know what i'm gonna teach you how to play guitar when your hands are bigger like father like daughter if rdr2 is gonna have horse nuts we're gonna have sheep nuts [Music] god her ptsd has joel screaming for her to help him i couldn't even come close to imagining what it's like to deal with that amount of guilt wow that's quite good tommy's alive too i'll let your boogaloo i don't [ __ ] care it's not that she doesn't care tommy it's that she cares so much [Music] this has got to be what ellie and dina name as their song he had no right and you do i don't need your [ __ ] help joel right my heart hurts oh ellie wearing joel's coat from their last conversation i have to finish it hey stop hey hey she doesn't get to be more important than that this whole scene breaks my heart then to cap it off with their theme coming in coming true love's wearing converse just like ellie i get it i love that this man's first reaction to a child is to put his entire being into a right hook to his temple that's what sports equipment feels like [ __ ] you say [ __ ] you can get to her before that infection takes over love this reaction i like that ellie willingly enters the slaver camp going all the way to the cells and then the pillars ellie is still a slave to her vengeance whereas abby started looking for the light again and pursued at the fireflies fun little fake that abby ellie decides not to just attack abby right away probably due to abby not attacking her and just going straight for lev abby carrying love at the end of the game just like joel with ellie it's not until ellie has a flash of not seeing joel's face again that she is fueled with hatred again and as she's choking out abby she sees him for the first time again ugh do you know why you got to put y'all's album on the top of the guitar from joel that's just a one-two punch of emotion to throw at ellie as a reminder of what she lost through this the song joel's playing is called helplessly hoping fitting if somehow the lord gave me a second chance at that moment i would do it all over again god is the final scene so great my favorite moment is when joel tells her he wouldn't change a thing about his choice and to me ellie's reaction is her realization of how much her life does matter to joel [Music] book ends what can i say that hasn't already been said about the last of us part two this game was a divisive monster to say the least plagued with review embargoes that didn't help its case and leaks that ruined many people's experience with it i was fortunate enough to avoid all the leaks and got to experience the game blind but even with experiencing the events of the story in the way intended it absolutely did not resonate with me when i finished it my first time i was angry upset confused and disappointed so much so that i wanted to create a video talking about my experience with the game i had never had any intention of doing youtube at all until i played this game back then i wanted to rip into this game about how joel's character was assassinated and how horrible the pacing is and everything you've heard a thousand times by other reviewers after some time of letting the game sit with me and watching it get ripped to shreds online i decided to create this channel like cinema wins slogan because liking things is more fun and it is being negative is easy nothing sells better than bad news hating on things seems to be everyone's default nowadays and i decided not to be a part of that and try to look deeper and have a more understanding perspective on video game narratives and not to get rinky dinky on you life i'll start talking about the game here in a second but for all the game's faults there are things to be enjoyed here and it holds a special place to me as i wouldn't be reading the script right now if not for it hopefully some of you still with me after that the last of us part 2 is not the game we wanted and it's not the game we expected either this was the game naughty dog wanted to make the people there aren't idiots they could have focused the whole story on what we experienced in the flashbacks with revenge being tied to abby killing dina like we thought we were gonna have but honestly i'm glad they didn't they took a huge risk to tell a story nobody saw coming an even bigger risk by creating abby so let's talk about her i've rewritten this section of the video over and over again trying to talk about the positive of abby's half of the storyline and it's been rough here i'm just going to talk about my feelings about her because as much as i want this channel to be about positivity i think being constructive can fall along that line without becoming hateful abby was a risk that naughty dog wanted to try out they wanted to see if they could make us empathize with her and forgive her after seeing her side of the story the issue with the way they approached it is they tried to fast track that progress with things like abby playing fetch her being afraid of heights saving a zebra compound this with a very weird structural decision to split the game into two halves there was no way it was going to work out first the problem with those cheap tactics is because that's all they are cheap too surface level and not deep enough within the character to really make us care i feel like replacing those things with actions she does with other characters would have been a much stronger option like i mentioned earlier the moment with owen where he is talking about not looking for the light i loved that [ __ ] and her response made me actually feel something and ponder her character a thousand times more than her being scared of heights give me more moments like that but the main issue with trying to have us empathize with abby is how naughty dog structured the story if you reorganize the events of the story to have the park section open the game run the jackson segment then bounce back and forth between ellie and abby for the seattle sections it would have been a much better experience for the player this way our introduction to abby isn't just her murdering our joel i don't know there has been so much already said about the abbey stuff i don't really feel that i'm adding much to the conversation i want to talk about ellie we love ellie we're biased to her of course we are nothing she could do could stop us from that even when she is making the wrong decisions at the end of the game we still love her and that's another thing holding abby's story back that's not even her fault it's that we've had a whole game with ellie and joel our personal biases could not be overcome in just half of a game and no matter how many dogs ellie kills or how many times abby plays fetch just no way back to those wrong choices ellie made throughout we have to look at those from her point of view as much as we can the reason her hard-on for revenge is so strong isn't just because of joel's death but what it's done to her she's a wreck she can't even live a happy life anymore because of the guilt that is plaguing her she's trying her best but there's a huge wall between her and dina and that's not fair to dina i'll say it up and down for the rest of my life we can't live our lives for other people we've got to live for ourselves first that might sound selfish but it's in the same vein as you can't love others until you love yourself so i don't blame ellie for her choices throughout the game this conclusion has kind of been all over the place and not narrowing down specific ideas i know i hit the main two things about abby and ellie that seem to be the most divisive in my book there's so much to discuss about this game that i'm planning on making a second video with a different format to continue my thoughts on the game so make sure you subscribe to catch it when it releases i've said a lot about the characters and themes of the game in the main portion of the video and i think i want to talk more broadly now the last of us part 2 wasn't a game made to be a cash cow people pleaser it was a game made by a team that had a vision and the fact that they didn't back down from that is commendable after watching interviews with the naughty dog team it wasn't easy for them to make some of the choices they did chief among them killing joel neil said it himself and i agree with him nobody loves these characters more than me joel and ellie are his babies this game was not easy to create for the entire naughty dog crew i think my main takeaway from this game is being negative is easy hate is our default and judgment is all we ever see anymore but instead of that we need to look beyond what we see dig deeper for understanding and hopefully through those pursuits we become greater people life is complicated and people are messy we are all going to make mistakes and no one is perfect ellie and abby let each other live it made a lot of us angry when ellie didn't kill abby in the end and i think the fact that we got so upset about this was the reason naughty dog made this game art is supposed to make you feel something and challenge us and through these feelings i believe we can learn something about ourselves and each other you

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Published: Fri Dec 11 2020