But please, If they're going to do a revenge story then please at least committed to it. Not changed their mind before they're about to kill the final boss, not after they just killed countless people to get to this point and just gave up right before the goal.
You either commited to it or just don't do that at all.
The point is that Ellie had already lost everything connected to herself. Throughout the game, all her memories of Joel ended up being ruined or shitty. After she loses her fingers she remembers one last memory of Joel that isn’t bad finally and says “fuck it”. And honestly, she fucked up Abby more than enough revenge wise. She killed her entire connection to her past; she killed all her friends/found family. Ellie was delirious and basically feral by the end of the game because of her quest to the point she threatened the life of a child just to get it. She killed so many, and killing Abby still would mean nothing. Her whole quest was for nothing and went against what Joel would’ve even wanted to begin with. Ellie transformed herself into a husk that barely resembled her old self and killing Abby wouldn’t change that.
I mean obviously you can still dislike it, but personally as someone who enjoyed playing Abby, I’m glad she didn’t. Totally understand your point though, but honestly I found it to be a good story. Not some profound masterpiece, but good.
My point isn't that I want Abby to died, Actually I think she is a better character than Ellie in the second game.
But the problem is that she has gone this far, took so many lives, just for her to give up at the very end. It make the whole journeys even worse than being pointless. Not only that those that she killed died for nothing, her friend also died for nothing.
It would at least be better if she realized mid way, But her gave up at the very end is the worst thing.
She did I think realize that mid way though, after killing Mel and Owen, where she agrees to go back to Jackson. She seeks out Abby as some way to qualm her PTSD, rather than revenge at that point imo. At least based on her journal entries and my interpretation.
She gets there and at that point she lost so much of who she was that there wasn’t a reason to keep going.
I think there’s loads of reasons Ellie could have spared Abby. Such as the direct parallel to Ellie telling Abby she “made Lev apart of this” matching what Abby told Ellie about Dina, or her finally having a pure memory of Joel, and so on. But they left it open ended purposefully. Something Im iffy about honestly. But my interpretation is that it was always pointless. Even if she killed Abby, it still was pointless. It was one person who paid the price finally, a load of innocents caught in the crossfire, and just one less life in the population count to show for it.
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u/VishnuBhanum Apr 21 '24
I'm fine with that happen.
But please, If they're going to do a revenge story then please at least committed to it. Not changed their mind before they're about to kill the final boss, not after they just killed countless people to get to this point and just gave up right before the goal.
You either commited to it or just don't do that at all.