Atremento

This game is an atrocity, no other way to describe it. Years of waiting for a sequel to have a rushed, lazy, shameful storyline such as this is unbelievable. The fact that Neil believes people being “-phobic” is the reason they hate the game is nothing short of pathetic. (MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD) Nearly everyone agrees with the idea that Joel was meant to die in this sequel, in fact you could say that nearly everyone expected it. But the way you kill off such an IMPORTANT character whom everyone loves, MATTERS. The order in which the game took place was a mess! If we had started off with Abby, got to know her story as in the flashbacks and how she ended up being who she is now, more people would sympathize and the emotional impact would have been greater when Joel died. But Neil had an amazing idea to kill Joel really quick to surprise everyone and force you to play a character you despise for HOURS. Almost as if he wanted to spite the players in fact. The concept of this “revenge cycle”, and how it’s bad and how revenge never amounts to anything is my next point of why this game is embarrassing. The game is constantly trying to shame you while playing Ellie for taking revenge and killing abbys crew, such as when they force you to kill the dog and a woman who later turned out pregnant. All the while trying to make you feel like a horrible person, while Abby is just having a great time and living with little to no consequence. Actually almost willingly killed a pregnant lady, solidifying the fact that she’s a trash human being. And at the end of this story, after Ellie has killed all these people, she doesn’t kill Abby? Not even an option to choose to spare her or not? And then she’s left alone with nothing? What kind of idiot writing is this? This is GOT season 8 level of writing. Neil Druckmann should be ashamed of himself, the audacity he has to create a game that he DESIGNED to anger and spite players, and then bash those same players on Twitter because they had a reasonable reaction to being given garbage is ridiculous. This will go down as one of the WORST sequels ever created, and Neil druckmann as one of the worst directors for this mess. The one star I give this game would be for the gameplay, and some parts of the game would even deserve for this to be a two, but the story keeps it at a solid ONE.