I'm not sure of how to feel reading it on paper, i'll wait for the actual full game at least because it's possible how they execute it in game is what sells it. But eh, i'm iffy on if I like the direction they went here.
I do still feel like if they wanted to do a second The Last of Us it should have been with a different cast of characters though. I feel like Joel and Ellie's story really wrapped up perfectly in the first game and left enough to your imagination to fill in whatever headcanon you want about what happened afterwards. This does sort of dampen the ending of that now.
Killing off Joel is fucking lame tho. I was sort of hoping that Naughty Dog would realize that it would be so obvious that they were gonna do it so they would pull a "HA tricked you" and actually keep him alive, but eh.
I will say it is respectable that, even if it's unsure how their audience will respond to it, they went in a BOLD direction here by choosing to do this. I don't think many would have expected this. Gotta give it to them, they stuck to their guts with this. Let's just see if it pays off though.
