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It's also the ENTIRE plot of the game. The ending isn't "oh man maybe a vaccine can't be made after all."

The entire journey of the game, the entire reason that Joel and Ellie become as close as they do and develop the kind of love and connection that they do is precisely because of the vaccine. It's the entire crux of the game

The game.is about how far Joel will go to keep Ellie in his life. Not only does he murder a bunch of fireflies who were trying to find a cure (which, although she doesn't explicitly state she would have gone thru with, you can infer by multiple conversations and.how she reacts to things that Ellie WOULD have sacrificed herself for that), he then lies to Ellie about it, sacrificing his own relationship with her to keep her in his life. She was what was keeping him alive, that is why he did what he did. She was all he had left.

But Joel is no hero, and to the children of those murdered by him at the hospital, he is vile. He is some dude who murdered their entire medical wing as a group, and their leader. Anyone would be pissed, and it isn't a stretch that someone has sworn revenge

You may not like that that is the direction the story goes, but that doesn't mean it doesn't make sense

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