FF:Enhanced_Reality
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The characters you played as. Did you prefer playing as Ellie? Or Abby? Or did you enjoy both?
See, I just finished The Last of Us Part 2. I am very... conflicted about how I feel about this game. I genuinely feel as though this game was pretty solid... until you start to play as Abby.
I have to fully confess, I was very lucky and had very little spoiled for me but I just never cared for Abby. No matter what the game did I didn't care about Abby, I didn't care about her friends, I didn't care how any of them died. Even though she killed Joel, which I think was a poor decision really, I just had no feelings towards this character. Even though Joel did kill her dad, very cliche etc. But I feel like the game play was incredibly fun during the first open world section on Day 1 with Ellie and Dina but then it died off a bit and the game design and level design was very inconsistent. But I like the character dynamic, I'm loving it. After the character switch and playing through the first day, I just couldn't bring myself to be motivated to finish the game. Point in fact, I completed the story up to the switch in two days. With very limited time. After that I spent over a week playing as Abby in short bursts because I just lost all emotional connection to the game. Even though I felt Abby quite often had stronger game play sections, I just feel the decision to switch character was poor. I think it killed the momentum, I couldn't really care very much after that for any of the characters and I just had a complete lack of empathy but Joel's death at the end is something I thought would have been immortalised through some way shape or form and thanks to Abby it's meaningless, hollow and empty. I also didn't see the point in Abby kicking the shit out of Ellie for Ellie to go back and have another go, I mean really? How did Abby go from being a one woman army, kicking the shit out of everyone to being kidnapped by a couple of bitches? Meanwhile Ellie was far more vulnerable and nowhere near as strong but she suddenly becomes a one woman army to take out a whole factions base, for the majority she does it by herself.
I would have preferred to play the whole game through as Ellie personally. I didn't want to play as Abby. I didn't really want Joel to die. I think they kind of crashed and burned after the character swap and I couldn't bring myself to like anything about her. Not because of the actress, not because of any kind of pre-supposition, because of what she looks like or who she's voiced by. It's just like we got half a Naughty Dog game and half a mid life crisis...
See, I just finished The Last of Us Part 2. I am very... conflicted about how I feel about this game. I genuinely feel as though this game was pretty solid... until you start to play as Abby.
I have to fully confess, I was very lucky and had very little spoiled for me but I just never cared for Abby. No matter what the game did I didn't care about Abby, I didn't care about her friends, I didn't care how any of them died. Even though she killed Joel, which I think was a poor decision really, I just had no feelings towards this character. Even though Joel did kill her dad, very cliche etc. But I feel like the game play was incredibly fun during the first open world section on Day 1 with Ellie and Dina but then it died off a bit and the game design and level design was very inconsistent. But I like the character dynamic, I'm loving it. After the character switch and playing through the first day, I just couldn't bring myself to be motivated to finish the game. Point in fact, I completed the story up to the switch in two days. With very limited time. After that I spent over a week playing as Abby in short bursts because I just lost all emotional connection to the game. Even though I felt Abby quite often had stronger game play sections, I just feel the decision to switch character was poor. I think it killed the momentum, I couldn't really care very much after that for any of the characters and I just had a complete lack of empathy but Joel's death at the end is something I thought would have been immortalised through some way shape or form and thanks to Abby it's meaningless, hollow and empty. I also didn't see the point in Abby kicking the shit out of Ellie for Ellie to go back and have another go, I mean really? How did Abby go from being a one woman army, kicking the shit out of everyone to being kidnapped by a couple of bitches? Meanwhile Ellie was far more vulnerable and nowhere near as strong but she suddenly becomes a one woman army to take out a whole factions base, for the majority she does it by herself.
I would have preferred to play the whole game through as Ellie personally. I didn't want to play as Abby. I didn't really want Joel to die. I think they kind of crashed and burned after the character swap and I couldn't bring myself to like anything about her. Not because of the actress, not because of any kind of pre-supposition, because of what she looks like or who she's voiced by. It's just like we got half a Naughty Dog game and half a mid life crisis...