You can find numerous youtube videos that are 40 minutes long describing the numerous examples of why The Last of Us 2's story is garbage.
But I'll give you the jist, the story is a giant contrived mess dependent on extraordinary circumstances and characters carrying the idiot ball.
Spoilers below.
The game begins with Abby journeying from Seattle looking for someone she knows only by name and just happens to run into him in the middle of a snow storm while infected are attacking where they just happen to get herded towards her base where Joel and his brother just happen to forget they weren't complete morons allowing them to just happen to get caught without incident. This happens in order for Elle to witness Joel getting killed. Abby then just happens to spare Elle, despite Elle threatening her life and it generally being monumentally safer to just kill the person who threatened her life and the brother of the man she just brutally murdered and who had already pointed out he had allies nearby. Her decision results in the death of her entire team.
Most people were not upset that Joel died, but rather that the circumstances of his death and plot around the game is laughable garbage with characters constantly holding the idiot ball in order to move the game forward.
I personally wouldnt see coincidences as bad writing. The general rule is that if a coincide gets characters into trouble, its fine, if coincidences get them out of trouble, its usually dumb.
TheShadowViper posted...
You can find numerous youtube videos that are 40 minutes long describing the numerous examples of why The Last of Us 2's story is garbage.
But I'll give you the jist, the story is a giant contrived mess dependent on extraordinary circumstances and characters carrying the idiot ball.
Spoilers below.
The game begins with Abby journeying from Seattle looking for someone she knows only by name and just happens to run into him in the middle of a snow storm while infected are attacking where they just happen to get herded towards her base where Joel and his brother just happen to forget they weren't complete morons allowing them to just happen to get caught without incident. This happens in order for Elle to witness Joel getting killed. Abby then just happens to spare Elle, despite Elle threatening her life and it generally being monumentally safer to just kill the person who threatened her life and the brother of the man she just brutally murdered and who had already pointed out he had allies nearby. Her decision results in the death of her entire team.
This is accurate if you ignore who Abby actually is as a person/character. Suboptimal decisions are also not bad writing, especially ones that fit with the character. Personally I think all that is fine.
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