She escorts the young Lev, formerly Lily, around the city, acting in a partnership that's not unlike Joel and Ellie's adventure in the first game. She tends to Yara's broken arm and even risks her own life to get her life-saving medical supplies and treatment. It not only sees Abby being saved by two members of the very same Seraphites who had just abducted her, it sees her taking her first steps toward caring for them, like an older sister or perhaps even a mother. The moment that plays out above is incredibly important. Gamers should understand that they're thrust into the same sort of self-fulfilling cycle of vengeful violence as they lead Ellie on a quest to kill Abby. Four years had passed since that fateful day, four years of Abby seeing red at the thought of avenging her father. So while all gamers see when Abby blasts Joel's knee with a shotgun and then brutally kills him with repeated strikes from a golf club is an unhinged murderer who just offed one of their favorite characters, all Abby sees in that moment is a fulfillment of her long-awaited vengeance. Jerry Anderson, one of the many men Joel killed that fateful day. The man who was prepping to do the species-saving surgery that would have claimed Ellie's life was Dr. While all of humanity may have lost its only hope of a cure thanks to Joel's actions that day, and while the team of former Fireflies lost fellow friends and soldiers, Abby lost her father. (Here's your final spoiler warning.)Ībby has a personal ax to grind (or golf club to wield) in this instance. But while the returning characters and their fates were obvious draws for returning players, it's the new characters - one in particular - who is at the heart of the division. So instead of trying to simply outdo TLoU by going bigger, louder, and more explosive, Naughty Dog, led by Neil Druckmann and Halley Gross, doubled down on the difficult truths that have always been a core of this franchise's story and characters. Even in a best case scenario, the sequel to 2013's award-winning The Last of Us was going to have a tough time measuring up to its acclaimed original title. Now that The Last of Us: Part II is out in the world for everyone to enjoy (as much as one can enjoy the singularly brutal, heartbreaking experience), it's plain to see that it's as divisive as many expected it to be.
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