Areym said:
Because the TLoU is not your story, it's the story of Joel and ellie. You're moving the story along, you're not making the decision yourself. You're forced to do it cause it's what Joel would have done, probably 10 out 10 times. If ND is telling the story of Joel, it wouldn't make sense for you to inject yourself at the last few minutes and retconn the story by making a decision that would betray Joel's new found paternal love for ellie. I could understand if the game had giving you multiple decisions to be made throughout the game AND then force you into one at the end but that isn't the case. Honestly, there was no indication that this last decision would be based on our input. |
I can guarantee that if Joel had stopped to give it some thought, weighed the pros and cons, and decided 'you know what, I think I'll let them kill her', people would have hated it. 'Bah, after all they've been through? There's no way Joel would have let her die. This is terrible writing.'
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