![]() ![]() ![]() Yara is killed but Lev and Abby are able to escape as the Seraphite town burns. Unfortunately, the younger sibling, Lev, decides to head back to the Seraphite island a the same time Abby's WLF group is launching an attack. She tries to help Owen who is labeled an outcast from the WLF, and the two even plan to use a boat to sail to Santa Barbara and look for Fireflies.Ībby even helps two siblings, Yara and Lev, that escape from the Seraphite cult and tries to ensure that they stay safe. Through her playable actions, Naughty Dog shows that there are similarities between Abby and Ellie and she is equally as conflicted about her decisions. It's clear that Owen and Abby still care for each other when players first meet them, but she, like Ellie, can think of nothing else.Ībby's journey is a little different but it attempts to humanize the character beyond a basic villain. Through flashbacks interspersed throughout her section, players learn that Abby tried to live a happy life with her boyfriend Owen, but her obsession with Joel created a rift between the two. So while players don't ever fully see it, Abby was on her own quest for revenge after losing her father at the hands of Joel. But, as seen in the first game, Joel intervenes and kills Abby's dad. Through flashbacks, players learn that Abby's dad was the surgeon who was going to operate on Ellie and potentially develop a cure for the viral outbreak. Then, in an unexpected twist, The Last of Us Part 2 puts players in control of Abby and shows the same three days from her perspective. Tommy and Jesse discover Ellie and now that she is finally aware of her destruction, Ellie decides to return to Dina and give up her revenge quest. It's an eye-opening revelation for Ellie and she is overcome with shock. Rather than let them escape or even explain, Ellie kills both of them but not before Owen reveals that Mel is pregnant with his dying breath. Nowhere does that become more apparent than when Ellie reaches the Seattle aquarium where Abby is supposed to be hiding out but instead finds Abby's ex-boyfriend Owen and his girlfriend, Mel. But Ellie has become so obsessed with finding and killing Abby that she loses sight of almost everything else. Jesse ends up joining Ellie for part of the mission but eventually breaks off to find Tommy who is seemingly nearby. ![]() Many of the flashback scenes paint a distant relationship between Ellie and Joel, suggesting that Ellie's revenge is fueled by her anger at being unable to reconcile with him.Įllie eventually has to continue the mission alone because Dina reveals that she is pregnant with Jesse's baby. Ellie is overcome with emotion at Joel's decision and it causes a huge rift between the two. Through a series of flashbacks, players learn that Ellie put the events of the first game together and realized that Joel saved her instead of letting her be the source of a cure. As things progress, Ellie becomes increasingly more illogical and her obsession with finding Abby grows. One of the medical professionals, Nora, has a particularly nasty run-in with Ellie where she exposes her to the Infected's spores and then brutally beats her. They know that Tommy is also looking for Abby so some of the journey also involves trying to find and help him.Īlong the way, Ellie does end up killing many members of the WLF, including some of Abby's friends who were present at Joel's death. Over the course of 3 days, Ellie comes into contact with many of Abby's friends while working with her girlfriend Dina and Dina's ex-boyfriend, Jesse. Following the death of Joel, she is determined to track down Abby and kill her. The story in The Last of Us Part 2 sees Ellie on a revenge quest. In trying to show a never ending cycle of violence, The Last of Us Part 2 does some things that players will never expect and some that they may not like. But while developer Naughty Dog could have easily played it safe with this sequel, the studio instead tried to deliver something even more challenging than its predecessor.Īdmittedly, a lot of the game is going to be very polarizing to fans because of the choices that the developer has made. As the follow-up to one of the most popular games from the PS3 era, The Last of Us Part 2 has a lot of weight on its shoulders.
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