I was talking about the game, sorry. 😅
I’ve only seen a bit of season 1 the show.

Yeah, that’s a bummer.

I haven’t seen much of the show, but this does remind me of a moment in… episode 2, I think? Where they make a joke about the fungus not having airborne spores. And I was like, “have them or don’t, but don’t make fun of me, what the hell?” I liked the airborne spores, haha.

Well, I think vengeance is probably a difficult thing for people to sympathize with in general. Seemingly everyone, even us, give up on it long before Ellie does. Personally, I did believe that she wanted to keep going even if I didn’t.

The difficult thing with Abby is that she’s built up like a monster, so when you switch perspectives, it almost feels like a cheap trick at first. Her being butch and woke or whatever didn’t help, but it is a tough transition, to be sure. The thing I liked about it, though, when they finally face off: I didn’t know who I wanted to win. I liked Ellie a lot more, but I also thought she was a worse person. To me, the game made the case for why Abby should live, and I kind of agreed.

the second game was very much not linear levels like the game was for the first one?

It does ping pong between different flashback perspectives and whatnot. I… probably wouldn’t call it linear.

This might be more up for debate, but I did really like Ellie’s character development in Part 2; it echoed some things I thought about Joel in Part 1.

This article is saying that Part 1 sold 6 million in one year, and Part 2 sold 10 million in 2 years. Bit odd that it’s using such bizarre numbers, but I don’t see how this isn’t a success.

If you’re talking all time, Part 1 came out 5 years sooner and it’s the first in a sequence—it’s always going to have those advantages.

No, no, the second game wasn’t received well because right wingers didn’t like the lesbians or the butch lady, and so it was heavily review bombed.

You can argue some people had legitimate criticisms, as they will, this is always how the confusion circus goes, but you cannot separate this game’s release from the anti-sjw hate campaign that was built around it.

The Last of Us Part II has some fan-tastic story beats that I will defend to death.