The Last Of Us Part II Screenshot: Erik Kain Unless you get off on that sort of thing, of course. It masquerades at depth and meaning but fails to deliver either.īetter to leave us hanging than take us down this wallowing, nihilistic path of despair and misery porn. What follows is a too-pretentious-by-half story of nonsensical revenge and relentless violence. That same lie kicks off the events in The Last Of Us Part II, but it quickly runs roughshod over everything we loved about the first game, trampling even our high opinions of the protagonists in the process. Because he couldn’t stand to lose his daughter. He kept that secret for the same reason he rescued Ellie from the Fireflies.
Joel’s was a lie told out of love, but it was still a lie. A happy ending in many ways, but an unsettling one, too. Brittle and precarious and powerful all at once.
It was an ending that deserved to be just that-the end of Joel and Ellie’s story, unresolved and bittersweet. It didn’t hurt that it also had one of the best endings in video games, period. But the first game’s lackluster gameplay was more than made up for by a compelling story filled with complex characters in a gritty, intriguing post-apocalyptic world.
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