This is the most overrated videogame of all time. The Story is that while on patrol, Joel helps a girl named Abby out, but is then captured and killed by her, with Ellie coming just in time to be held down, and forced to watch his brutal death, and after Joel's funeral Ellie plans to get revenge on Abby and her friends for killing Joel, now this is the kind of story I expected from a sequel to the resolutions to the first game, so I went in ready to see how well they could handle it, and after watching/playing the story, I don't see how they could have gotten away with telling it any worse, first off, the whole narrative of repercussions and revenge, Joel's death is a result of him killing someone and the other side getting revenge, now Joel is portrayed as a guy who made a bad choice, but if it is or not doesn't matter, because if it was the right thing to do then there should be no consequences, meaning we hate the other people and never forgive them, especially because of their low repercussions I will be talking about later, and if he deserved it for doing the wrong choice then that also fails because Abby didn't come all the way out here to kill the guy who stopped The Fireflies Project, the only reason she is this determined is because her father was killed, but the only reason Joel killed him was because when Joel was about to take Ellie away, he held a gun at the others for them to surrender, and let them live, but the dad stupidly came at Joel with a sharp weapon, making Joel have to kill him, so you can't say Joel's bad choice has come back for him when that is not the reason for his death, and if simply saving Ellie was the bad thing he did, he would have served no repercussions for it, so there is no moral for Joel at all, especially when the only person who thought negatively towards him for it forgives him to the point where she was going to the end of the country trying to kill the people behind his death of it, so if the moral wasn't talking about Joel, then maybe it was against Abby right? wrong, because although Abby kills a man who only did for self-defense, and also saved her life right beforehand, ruins that moral already when you only managed to do it because the guy you claim is bad saved you, since the moral becomes "Don't get revenge or the bad guys won't help you out" and even if that didn't happen, it wouldn't work, because after her friends are killed, she gets revenge again, and although doesn't kill 3 of them, still kills 1 "who was only there for support" and didn't suffer repercussions after that, so the moral becomes "get revenge, but only on 1 of them, so the others will be happy to save you" oh wait, even that would be too much praise for her, since the last time she did that, she was hunter for across the country, even after biting off Ellie's finger, she is let go with no repercussions since she should be grateful Ellie was dumb and risked her safety to kill Abby, and not go through with it, when she was okay with it before, and in case you are thinking "that was because Dina made her re think it" then we will get to that later, so the only person left that moral could be for is Ellie, but that fails to, because not only does it not work when Abby does it, and gets away with it, meaning that the moral is "others can get revenge but not you" and even if that wasn't the case, it's still broken because 1- she only lost Jesse because Dina came along for a dumb reason "we will get to later" and it only happened because of her making dumb choices her character would not do "I'll explain them in her character study" and yes she loses Dina for revenge, but she doesn't go through with it, gets over it, and lets them go, and is still alone, and don't say "they will get back together when she finds out in part 3" because, a game shouldn't rely on a future game to happen so that a moral will make sense, and the current game feels like it could end here, and when a game that would have them back together afterwards would have cut to that happening, and even if that moral was "don't do revenge, or it's too late to get your loved ones back" then Ellie should have at least killed Abby for what she did "since I established that she was in the wrong a few paragraphs ago" so the moral becomes "don't do what's right, or your loved ones will hate you, even if you waste your time at give up at the end anyway, and become the person they want to be with" so in every possible character the moral fails, also I want to point out that even without all I have said, it would still be bad, because if you want to teach people not to do bad things, the best way is that the same thing happens to them, "that's why instant karma videos are so satisfying, no one watches them and says that they feel sympathy for the person who suffered karma at the end" so according to that, a person who kills someone deserves death in return, "it's an eye for an eye for a reason" and getting revenge on someone who deserves it isn't a bad thing that won't take the pain away, it will take the pain away "it won't bring them back" but pain will go, why? because getting revenge on people that deserve it is justice, and Abby shouldn't be forgiven, just because the person she killed just so happened to do something else bad, after all, "if a person murders someone not because that person is a serial killer, but because they took the last parking space" then they should be sorted with too, and even if you say "but Ellie also did it for a un-necessary reason" that actually doesn't matter here, because the fact that Abby did it first, and didn't get killed at the end alone means that the game is for no reason, okay with letting Abby get away with it, but not Ellie, which means the game would be saying once again that "others can get away with things as long as it's not you" and even then, the only way Abby would be given the punishment she deserves is by Ellie doing it, meaning that whether Ellie succeeds or not, 1 person is getting away with bad acts, so it doesn't work for that moral, especially when no one would have killed Ellie if she killed Abby and Lev, so either way, they are spreading a toxic moral, and I don't care if the way they directed and edited it was masterful, the way you handle something is a tool, it's not the actually thing itself, so it doesn't matter how get the directing is if the moral it is being used for is atrociously toxic, also it is very confusing showing the scenes where Ellie spares Abby not long before the scene where Ellie talks about forgiving Joel, it's like the ending of the story was to say "Joel, I am going to forgive you, and show it by sparing the life of the woman who will murder you" and don't say how "it shows why she should forgive Abby" because I already mentioned why she shouldn't, and even disregarding that, you shouldn't add to a meaning by ruining another, and one other thing to point out is that Abby only killed Joel because he Joel killed her father, but Joel only killed her father because the father stupidly ran at a man with a gun while he only had a sharp object, and clearly wasn't going to win, so in other words, if Abby's father didn't make that dumb move, THIS WHOLE GAME DOESN'T HAPPEN. this whole game only exists because they turned a dumb thing in the first game, that doesn't effect how the rest of that game played, to being something that makes the whole second game what it is, and that is terrible writing when you make a whole game only exist because of a dumb choice that shouldn't have happened, especially since the father should know that their could possibly be more immune people out there, but he knew he was the only one who could solve the problem, and he couldn't win the fight, meaning that 99.9999% of people in his position wouldn't have made that choice at all. The Characters are mostly awful, and that's only the returning ones, Joel is mostly the same as the last game, with his skills, and father figure to Ellie, the scenes with him doing stuff to make Ellie happy are the best scenes in the game, the only thing I hated about Joel was that he went from being careful about who to reveal his identity too, to revealing to anyone he meets, and don't say "he lived at a community for so long it made him more open" because he knows that people are likely to be after him because of what he did at the end of the first game, which if anything should make him more cautious than ever before, and Joel's character from the first game would have been smart enough to know and do that, and the same with Tommy, these two are the best characters in the game, and they both have the problem of being to open with people "since Tommy should also be smart enough to not risk Joel's life, or his since he is related" and that says a lot when I have a big problem with the best characters in the game, Ellie is even more ruined in this game, because she hates Joel for saving her, which is horrid because "even though she was willing to be sacrificed" that fact he had no way of guaranteeing that you were okay with it when you know how he felt after losing a daughter before means that of course he is going to save the closest thing he has to one, and Ellie was also dumbed down when the plot required it, here's the biggest dumb things she did, 1- she dropped the map without checking before leaving to make sure she didn't leave any equipment behind, 2- it wouldn't have even been a problem if she didn't draw her location on the map for others to see, 3- they wouldn't even matter as much if she sealed off the entirety of her base, so they wouldn't even be able to get in, and her on guard approach means she could have handled herself if Abby and Lev came out from anywhere after Ellie left the safehouse, 4- she could have shot Abby from around the corner without her firing, like Ellie did to many people in the game, but decided to get out of cover where the woman who killed Joel, and knows you killed her friends now has the ability to kill you both, and leaves a pregnant woman unprotected if she does, 5- she fools for the whole distract with a sound that she used throughout the entire game, and even the sound itself she should recognize by now, knowing it's an item not a person, 6- fighting Abby, if you want her dead, do it anyway, if you don't, than let her go, and you would still play the guitar, and 7- sparing her after losing everything anyway when she did bad things deserving of repercussions, those are the 7 dumbest things Ellie did that effects the story, and what Ellie in the first game never would have done, Jesse is bland, I know nothing about him, and it's not my memories fault because I tried to pick up his traits, and if they aren't memorable, that's the game's fault for writing him that way, since they clearly wanted Ellie and Dina together, to the point that he didn't even need to be on the journey, since Ellie didn't know she was pregnant, so neither did he need to know, Dina was bland throughout the game, except for when she is dumb, hateable, or both, she was dumb for standing on top of glass during a shootout, and of course going along on a dangerous journey when she is PREGNANT, "even the retards who love this game can't defend that" and becomes hateable when Tommy comes to help out Ellie with what he thinks she wants "and the thing itself is justice by the way" and Dina tells a man who is like a member of her lovers family to never come back again, and without even apologizing, she hears Ellies is going back to bring justice, and stop her trauma, but instead of Dina even trying to make it up to Ellie and Tommy, she braids her and leaves her because of it, and does even when she doesn't go through it anyway, and not caring bringing justice to the woman who killed the man who gave her a baby, and she is portrayed as good in this story for some retarded reason, Diana was alright, until she left Tommy for the same reason as Dina, and I hate her now too, Abby's crew are bland stereotypes, except for herself, Owen, and Mel, Owen is a sleaseball, who sleeps with other women, even when he is in a relationship with 1 of them, and is having a baby with them, Mel was bland, except for when she is obedient to Abby despite her behavior, forgives her for stuff that shouldn't be forgiven for, and only berates her later for a different reason, Yara and Lev are next, Yara is a bland girl overall, who didn't take kindly to Lev's behavior to look out for Lev, and yet regrets that, because teaching Lev to be like the rest was to help Lev stay alive, of course she would do that, if she didn't and prompted Lev to be different, Lev might have done something that could have lead to Lev's death, so NO, trying to keep Lev alive was what she should have done, and Lev is Yara's transgender sibling, who was born a girl, and identifies as a boy, Lev is very unlikeable, by doing stuff like, run home for mom, causing Yara to follow, and get killed by Lev's own actions, and the fact that Lev didn't check out why Abby was on her mission to avenge her friends before shooting pregnant Dina is disgusting, not even the fact that Lev makes Abby spare her changes anything, and if you want to know my thoughts on Lev being Transgender, then (THIS WEBSITE WON'T LET ME TYPE MY THOUGHTS, SO IF YOU WANT TO KNOW, WATCH PIERS MORGAN UNCENSORED, AND LISTEN TO HOW PIERS VIEWS THEM), and finally ABBY, she is the worst, she goes to kill a man who murdered her father "in self-defense" which she must have known about, because the other people in the room were spared, when she discovers that Owen is in love with another girl, she hates not only him for his feelings, but also her for being her feelings, only forgives them after being told to without even an apology for her disgusting behavior, not even Mel getting angry at Abby later for something else is enough to make up for it, when Owen says he wants to find another place with Firefly soldiers he can live in peace in, Abby hypocritically tell him to grow up, despite the fact what he is doing has nothing to do with immature behavior, and when he calls her out for her immature behavior towards Joel "and towards being horrid to Owen and Mel for no reason, but Owen doesn't mention that" she assaults him as a bratty woman does, but then makes out with him , despite the fact not only is she now being horrid to Mel again by doing it, but also this isn't how a human behaves "YOU EITHER LOVE SOMEONE, AND WOULD NEVER ASSAULT THEM, OR NOT LOVE THEM AND HAVE NO PROBLEM ASSAULTING THEM, YOU CAN'T BE BOTH, if you assault someone, then you don't love them" case closed, also she later turns down Owen disrespectfully, despite the fact what she did was awful to him, more than he did to her, and proves her heart changes at the blow of the wind, she is also dumb, because after killing Joel, she leaves Tommy and Ellie alive, so they can tell the community near by "that Joel obviously live in" about the situation, which would lead to people coming to kill her and her friends, which is exactly what happened, making her responsible for their deaths, meaning that not only is she a bully to Owen and Mel, but also killed them, she also was happy to shoot an innocent pregnant woman, just because a different person did it to her friend "even though she was nothing but unforgivable to Mel" and only stopping because a moral compass for you made you shouldn't be a requirement, and of course EVERY SINGLE THING I MENTIONED THAT ABBY DID BEFORE HAND, and the fact that you play as Abby against Ellie is a personal insult, especially when letting Ellie kill Abby which is what anyone with a heart would have wanted gives you a game over. The Graphics are outstanding, even more than the first game, this is stuff that even the most expensive blockbusters wish they could look like. The Gameplay has you move, sneak, attack, and distract your way to the next level, past humans, infected humans, and even guard dogs that can smell when you are near, but you can make them ignore you by making a distraction somewhere else, now as last time, the gameplay is amazing, and the same gameplay qualities of the last game all return with extras, as I mentioned, the whole bad guys having names called emotionally is a great idea, if it was done in a game where we didn't have a good reason to hate these people, one dumb thing they did was something they also did in Uncharted: The Lost Legacy where only one level in the game was open world, and the rest was linear, for some reason, and the whole kill or spare enemies concept was amazing,,, until you find you that sparing them makes them kill you anyway making murder the moral of the game after all, meaning this Studio can't even get their morals straight. The Music is amazing, the notes of all tracks pop with story through only sound, and the majority of tracks surpass the original. The Last of Us Part 2 is the worst kind of liberal propaganda, the kind that makes male characters dumb, jerks, or both, pushes many Liberal groups in the story for appealing to a small demographic, despite the fact that they can enjoy a film without their kinds in them, and also alienating the majority of people who aren't those architypes according to their own actions, picks on people from ideologies that they don't agree with, despite the fact they support being respectful to all walks of life, which would include types that they disagree with, considering that they support women's right, but Muslims culture limits women's rights, and you don't see them criticizing Muslims, so are hypocrites to do so to any other group, no matter what, and tells morals that are dangerous and can easily trick the brain dead people into thinking that they are anything but that, and I sentence it to death by being hated by anyone that deserves to be known as a human being, and death to anyone involved with the game who criticized the critics for being right.