It’s one of the most complicated moral decisions presented in a game, a decision that, mind you, the game did not actually let you make. I also remember that Joel did something that could easily be considered monstrous, murdered an entire hospital of people looking for a cure for the virus so he could save Ellie. That isn’t what happens, but that footage is either from scenes before his death, flashbacks that happen after, or it was plainly doctored to throw people off (I did not love that tactic, in hindsight). What else would have possibly happened to make her that angry besides some group killing Joel? Yes, the trailers tried to show Joel was alive, but back then I explained it away as him possibly being in her head. If you’re as online as me, that was always going to be impossible to avoid for an entire month once the major leaks were disseminated.īut past that, even from the first trailer, it seemed very clear that something had broken Ellie and she was going on a murderous rampage of vengeance. Yes, this moment was indeed spoiled for me during the leaks by some rando on Twitter. You feel Ellie’s pain practically as much as she does, and that need for vengeance carries you through the story.Īnd yet I did not find Joel’s death to be a surprise, as I always figured this was coming. I loved Joel as much as anyone, which is why this moment works so well. They capture him, torture him, and then ultimately, when Ellie finally arrives, Abby beats Joel to death with a golf club right in front of her. But then, once Joel introduces himself, things turn quickly.Ībby and her group have been looking for Joel. Joel and Tommy, not as distrustful of strangers as perhaps they were four years ago, rescue a woman, Abby, who you play as briefly. But that changes one day when a patrol goes awry. Ellie and Joel have found a new home in Jackson, a small town that has weathered the apocalypse, and managed to fend off infected and a few unsavory human types as well.
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