| Goomba said: It wasnt a death but a killing and just not a kill, but a savage one, and not by a man or a zombie, but by a woman, and not just a woman but one who looked like a man, and it wasnt at the end of the so players can a have a good experience until that point but right at the beginning of the game, all to ruin their experiences. |
One of the themes of the game was always that people are actually more dangerous than the infected creatures. And yes, it was a woman. A woman who had trained and prepared for years to exact her revenge on the killer of his father. She lived in a base that had a professional grade gym and training facilities and they raised cattle and other livestock, so protein was not an issue. She was a bit of a gym bro, that's all. She wanted to be the most efficient member of her group as she could, plus she had personal reasons to be as strong as possible. Still looks like a woman to me.
I can agree about Joel being taken a little too soon, I would have liked to play as him for at least a little bit first. But I guess they wanted the whole thing to be seen from the perspective of other people than him, the whole thing was about perspective. And they wanted to set the emotional tone early on so that we could get to the whole road to revenge story.
