Agustin Moreno

Spoilery The graphics were amazing; on point, as a game in 2020 should have. The development of Ellie was something to behold, too. Her growth skills-wise (swimming, playing the guitar) sets an admirable waypoint to the age between part 1 and 2. The gameplay is roughly the same, but I have no problem with what isn't broken. I wanted to love this game. I did. I wanted it all to make sense, but it doesn't. It preaches that "one must end the cycle of violence", that somehow it makes sense that the ending would be the way it was, but let's face it: Protag#2 didn't deserve her fate. You can't give respite to the person who started Ellie's journey while letting Ellie sit on her ashes. At the end of it all, Ellie did what she had to do, and just as the story ought to conclude, just as she would have given honor to how Joel was lambasted by the characters, the plot (and by extension, the producers/ story planners), Ellie pulls the punch. Unsatisfying. Disappointing, and horrendous. I'm not sure to whom this story was meant to cater to. Everyone is just miserable at the end, except for Protag#2 who casually sails away with her adoptive friend/ child-- the person who doesn't deserve it the most. Even the accolades of gameplay and graphics doesn't dazzle me. Why play this game?