The Last of Us Part 2 - PS5

[Steelmaker]

My issue with TLOU2, its HOW Joel dies and the fact that ND was stupid enough to think gamers would just accept the idea of playing as Abby, who murders a beloved character such as Joel 20 minutes prior! Imo, that was a huge disprespect to the fans, to ask them to do that. I can almost hear the boardroom conversation at ND where Druckmann says, "Hey, you know what would REALLY" piss off the fans???" Im sorry, but that was a terrible decision! To ask gamers to accept Abby as a protagonist that we must control/be protective of, after introducing her as the sadistic, murdering c_nt who killed Joel was a huge miscalculation! It was a terrible decision that IMO was a result of Neil Druckmann's own hubris. Asking the audience to accept playing as a protagonist everybody hates because she had just sadistically murdered a character everybody loved, is a ridiculous notion and a creative indulgence that he should've have recognized as a terrible idea! I mean, what kind of contempt for your audience must you have to ask them to do something like that???