In the final flashback, we get to see Joel and Ellie’s final moment together, the night before Joel’s death. Abby bit two of her fingers off in their fight, her guitar playing is over. She attempts to play ‘Take On Me,’ a song we’ve known to be integral to Joel and her memories of him, but she can’t. The house is packed up and the only things that remain are Ellie’s art, records and guitar. When Ellie arrives back at her homestead Dina and J.J are gone. What was going to happen if Ellie killed Abby? Does Lev seek revenge in five years time? I couldn’t bear the idea.Īnd then Ellie, with her hands wrapped around Abby’s throat stops as she breaks down into tears in the water. I didn’t want to participate in killing Abby, a character I thought I was going to hate, but now cared for. It was around 4 AM in the morning and I couldn’t handle this. As Ellie slices and beats Abby I nearly stopped the game. I began the game understanding why Abby did what she did, but aboard Ellie’s mission for revenge I now didn’t want a single part of it. I no longer wanted to play as Ellie, and I no longer had her side in this mission. For a moment it does seem like Ellie will simply let Abby go but that nagging feeling for revenge is unscratched and she can’t let Abby walk away. Both Abby and Lev are strung up to poles obviously as a form of punishment, but Ellie frees them and the three head towards boats. When Ellie finds Abby she’s starved and obviously beaten. But then I was introduced to Lev and his sister Yara. I began thinking about how much of a stupid idea this was and that the team at Naughty Dog weren’t in any way going to make me feel bad for Abby by having me play as her for a few hours. I loathed this at first I now believe I was supposed too. As Abby catches up to Ellie the game then rewinds - let’s see this from Abby’s point of view. You murder not only hundreds but brutally torture others, slay at least one dog and then end the lives of Abby’s love interest, and his pregnant partner. Each random grunt that’s in the WLF also screams out in pain as others call their name in despair. Through three days in Seattle, you slaughter many WLF (Washington Liberation Front, aka ‘Wolves’) and most of Abby’s friends along the way. In many ways, we see Abby at the end of her hate-filled years of planning and searching, but enter as Ellie begins hers. Abby justifiable wants revenge for her father and she gets it in the first couple hours of the game. The game doesn’t seek to answer if revenge is worthwhile, or just.
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