SvennoJ said:
| firebush03 said: My perspecive on this game's story: It doesn't seem like the writer(s) had a clear idea on how to continue it in a meaningful manner. Even if I do believe Joel being killed off was a solid way to move things forward (with all the innocent ppl he killed in the first game, it was inevitable somebody was gonna be after him), the lead up to his death fails to explain why Joel's death was a natural consequence of his actions from the first game, and, as a result, comes off as a little bit cheap. Combine this with a very same-y (refined) combat system, and you get a game which struggles to justify its existence. Lacking past the motivation, I wasn't gripped at all by the story, especially when most of the emotional impact consisted of (i) discovering somebody is pregnant, or (ii) Ellie having a bleeding heart upon murdering the team of ppl who killed Joel (yet she has no remourse for the scores of soldiers she killed along the way). I will confess that I have only gotten up through the start of the Abby portion of the game, but I don't have any intention to finish it. Seems like most of the story has already concluded, plus I already sunk 25hr into Ellie's section (i play on Survivor Mode, which means being very slow in sneaking up behind every enemy...hence the bloated playtime). |
You skipped half the story... That all comes out during the second half.
But indeed, it's still a video game with a stupid kill count for action sake. |
maybe i should clarify...I understand Abby's intentions in killing Joel (i actly looked up "Abby TLoU1?" when Joel was killed at the start of the game to see if I was just forgetting who this person was, just to learn abt how her dad was killed at the hands of Joel). What I'm saying is that it I don't believe it was very well executed. Idk how to write stories, so im not gonna act like i do, but i felt it was a little odd that some random person who hadn't even appeared in the first game was the one who got their vengence on Joel. It's been a year since i last played...but was there really nobody they could've used as seeking vengence? I appreciate the decision to stray away from Part One, but it feels just a bit too detatched at times.
Being that you've finished the game, I'm curious: Is there much else worth seeing in Abby's portion of the game? All it comes off as to me is an attempt to make the player feel sympathy for these characters who killed Joel, and drill the beaten-to-death theme of moral amibiguity. (Is Ellie or Abby more justified? Are neither justified? Etc.)
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