Mid game spoilers.
Assuming I'm now at the midway point because I'm playing as Abby and she has her own med and weapon upgrade trees as well as her own collectibles. All her friends are alive, about to go to the places they die on Ellie's section. I'm just about to set off to the aquarium after her flashback. Still on her "Day 1" and assuming her 3 days until she gets to that theater will be similar length to Ellie's chapters.
Before I go too far with her story, I can't help but feel like if they were *really* going to do a perspective twist halfway through the game, it should have been the other way around. Have us play as Abby for the first half of the game, get to know and connect with her. Not really knowing why her friends are all getting murdered, tortured, hunted down by the "trespasser" or whatever until we break into that theater and realise it's Ellie, Tommy and co... *Then* she has the zebra flashback and we realise who her dad was and it's revealed what she and the WLF guys did in our switch to Ellie on the hunt for revenge.
I dunno, maybe I'm thinking too much about it without playing through her entire arc.
Ellie's slow descent into madness is unlike anything I've seen in a videogame before. Really highlighted by her reactions between the torture of Nora and the murder of pregnant Mel. She's going to be emotionally destroyed by the end of this.
Still really enjoying the challenge on Survival. Can't believe how long it actually seems to be.
