It is. God, look what they did to Ellie. She was a scrappy, intelligent, resourceful, foul-mouthed yet compassionate girl that was easily relatable to the audience. In the sequel, she takes on the worst traits of Joel and has them amped to 11, so she's basically a psychotic murderer and you sometimes find it hard to sympathize with her, in spite of what she just went through. And she barely gets anything constituting character growth, other than "She's now Joel in every way" and nothing else. As for Naughty Dog and Druckmann using the blanketed "you're just kitten/bi/transphobic" defense to deflect valid criticism to the story, its premise and the handling of the characters, just remind them: THEY are the ones who took a positive representative of LGBT (Ellie), killed her father figure, forcibly wrote her into becoming Sasuke 2.0 and left her with absolutely nothing in the end, while the main villain of the sequel and her group commit horrific acts that would constitute as inhuman war crimes. And yet the narrative is trying to push you to *care* and side with this kitten as the lesser of two evils(IOWs, side with the straight woman over the lesbian). Not to mention that Lev, the only transsexual in the game, is written in such a way that has genuinely pissed off the LGBT gamers in the community from what I've read.
So yeah, they better look in the mirror before they go around making that accusation. Never mind the fact that Ellie has been outed as a lesbian since the first game came out 7 years ago, and even had a relationship with another girl in DLC yet no one had a problem with it then or now.
That's all I'm gonna say about it.
agreed it's like Neil forgot how the first game went and he wrote the game cause Joel and Tommy are not that dumb and things at the beginning are to convenient how Abby met Joel, plus druckman retcon the doctor Joel killed in the first game cause if I remember that doctor was black.
You know I am so glad I never got the game, I saw the entire walkthrough on YouTube and wow such trash. Complete disrespect! Words cant be further described when it comes to this piece of garbage!
There only be The Last of Us and only The Last of Us.... this story ends with Joel and Ellie going to Jackson. It ends with Joel swearing to Ellie about the fireflies.
agreed that's where it should have ended cause the sequel is a abomination and the flashbacks to Joel and elie make it worse
That's the problem with stuff today. Despite the game/show/manga/anime, just downright being ridiculed online by REAL fans of said media they continue to advertise that said media us "Number 1 and the most popular game of its age." Media has really became the biggest liars ever with giving the small minority the biggest voices while silencing the majority.
MOST of the fans HATES Last of Us 2 and yet they silence them and delete them saying "you can't judge a game if you didn't play it" while giving the same game high scores when THEY didn't play it.
Same with Naruto, they say NH has all this development and ignore that Kishimoto didn't really care and silence all the people who speak out against it.
Worse still when people are accused of being something because you are not supporting it. Whether it be something as simple as a salty pairing fan or something more of a harsh political label. It is disgusting and living in a horrible lie by a group of businesses that LIE about the truth non-stop and profit off of people's pain.
These greedy people are disgusting.
This last of us situation sounds like it's the last again how the trailers lied to everyone