There is no fun and joy in The Last of Us: Part II. Not if you came into it with the previous characters in your heart. Every beloved character is dragged through the dirt constantly with no moments of reprieve. The graphics are very good but when you put your political views in a game just to have a "good job" pat on the back by the news media in the world and feel "as a superior moral human being" I think the quality of your work would decline significantly.
If the story from the beginning was like the second story that is perfectly fine but when you try to push your political agenda and change everything thats when you lose all credibility. We have to know and accept that there will always be different opinions in the world, once we are at peace with that fact then finally we will start to have conversations instead of forcing concepts. Focus on the quality of a good game and keep it to its original form all the way because that is what made it great since the beginning.