Every playstation fan must play last of us part 1 and 2

First 15 or so hours are a lot of fun. Then they force you to play as a remarkably unlikable stupid character, Abby and it completely derails the entire experience to the point where I couldn’t stomach the rest of the game. And it’s not like you have to play as her for a chapter or two, but it’s an entire 10-15 hours of the most unlikable character in a video game, ever. You actually celebrate when you die as her. I kept throwing pipe bombs at her feet to purposefully kill her. Terrible game. Having to play as the villain completely kills the game. If anything get this game used for cheap and only play through the Ellie section.

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SPOILERS. I’m mostly posting this to offset the dense reviews. Some people really hate this game because of the character Abby and they let it cloud the worth of the game. Which is really dumb, like REALLY dumb, below low IQ level dumb.So Abby kills Joel because Joel killed her father but in turn she has killed Ellie’s “father” (Joel) making her just as bad as Joel and sending Ellie on a mission not at all unlike the mission Abby set out on at the start of the game to kill Joel. It’s like poetry, it rhymes.By playing as Abby throughout the game you are expected learn her perspective and understand her, maybe you have a visceral reaction about this initially but as the plot progresses you’re suppose to learn that she is human just like Joel and just like Ellie. You’re also suppose to learn that actions have consequences, the world is not black and white, it’s grey and it’s a matter of perspective. To Abby, Joel is a villain and to Ellie and the players of PT1 who can’t process the events of PT2 like adults, he is a hero and Abby is the villain but the world is not that simple.Joel’s real daughter died in the first game and broke him. He found a new daughter in Ellie. He killed Abby’s father at the end of PT1 to save his “daughter” (Ellie) because Joel needed Ellie, she fixed him basically. In doing so Joel damned humanity, took Ellie’s agency away, as she was willing to die for the Fireflies cause, he then lied to her about it to hide his shame and to top it off he also killed Abby’s father as stated. So his actions in PT1 hurt people, two people specifically and Abby’s revenge in PT2 hurt Ellie and Ellie is going to get revenge on Abby now. Violence begets violence. Through the game Ellie makes many bad decisions of her own in her anger and sadness and one of those choices costs the life of a seemingly innocent person, so she’s not quite a hero herself. So the game is about many things trauma, loss, perspective and the human condition and how people process and handle it. Or if you’re a knuckle dragger it’s about a harlot murdering a pinnacle of humanity and then we the poor player being punished by taking on the role of the shameless murderer until the vengeful daughter returns to execute swift justice upon her.The fact that you are made to play as both Ellie and Abby in game as they barrel to their inevitable collision is a touch of mastery. Through the course of Abby’s play through she proves to have a moral compass and compassion despite her actions against Joel. Assuming you have empathy and understand what both characters are going through, you’re not quite sure who to root for or how to feel. Which is brilliant.Take it how you want I guess, I clearly have opinions. It’s a great game, it plays great and the story, especially when taken with PT1 as a whole is thought provoking and leaves you thinking well after the credits roll about what is right and what is wrong. Maybe Abby, Ellie and Joel are all the same. Maybe we’re all Joel, reacting to the world around us without any consideration for the long term consequences of our actions.