Solioxrz362 posted... I heavily agree with this video made by Girlfriend Reviews. It almost describes my thoughts better than I could, except I was a lot more willing to forgive Abby because I knew Joel was not the good guy of the first game in any way except how he cared for Ellie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh5gzGs-63Y
This is a very good video that makes a lot of good points about how the developers put a lot of thought into writing TLOU2. And it's very true, they did.
The problem is that, while it may be technically well written in a lot of ways (and even that's debatable on a lot of other issues, like the incredibly bad pacing with the flash backs and a lot of the 'haha gotcha' forced kick the dog moments, sometimes pretty literally- but most stories have stumbling blocks like this, so I don't consider this that grave of an issue), it falls flat on its face in execution in a lot of peoples eyes, including mine.
I did not sympathize at ALL with Abby. She is an absolutely awful excuse for a human being that I genuinely wanted dead even more after her part of the story than I did before. The whole story misses the mark when it misses an extremely key part of the puzzle like that. There's no catharsis from the story, and there's nothing left but bitter feelings toward the whole thing.
It sacrificed themes and characters people liked about the original to try to do something that was, while thought out, misguided maybe not quite from inception, but from the moment they decided to write it like they did.
Now I'm not saying its impossible to like or sympathize with Abby. But if you don't, there is very, very little left that is a redeeming quality of the story, and often times it damages what people enjoyed about the first. And THAT is the problem I have with the game.