Five years after the original edition, The last of us part 2 received Free updateAdding a mode that shows a non -linear narrative of the game in chronological order. Given the history of the game’s controversy, it was not surprising The advertisement met with a mixed party.
Over the years The last of us part 2 He was at the end of a wide range of complaints-how there are more human enemies than infected, with the direction of its non-chronological history and ending, which some perceived as unsatisfactory to mention only a few. After a mixed party, the developer Naughty Dog has released a remaster, which adds novel game modes, such as “No Return” (Roguelike survival mode) and additional content, such as lost levels and behind -the -scenes material to develop history.
The last of us part 2 He was in controversy before it was released, and early leaks indicate Joel’s brutal death. When the game eventually launched, looseness from the fans of the original intensified, not only by the fate of Joel, but because the players felt Marketing NaTGHTY DOG in the gamewho stopped the role of Abby and misled Joel.
Narration Part 2 A place aimed at examining moral ambiguity, like the end of the original game, in which Joel saves Ellie from consideration by doctors, hoping that her resistance can lead to cure for Cordyceps virus. That a potential medicine has never been guaranteed, and Joel shoots (and kills) a leading surgeon who revealed Part 2He was the father of Abby. Its actions are therefore driven by revenge, ending a series of violence, which continuation forces players to confront. But the discovery of this gray area of morality was not received as well by players as some of the stories in Part 1.
However, this is the story of Naughty Dog and Neil Druckmann, aimed at telling. This is consistent, using the double perspectives of Abby and Ellie to force players to struggle with terrible activities in the name of revenge. Chronological mode seems to be dealing with reverse criticism, trying to make history more tasty and digestible to finally polished negative reception The game received. The same can be said about the HBO series.
Although its creators undertook some freedoms in adapting the first game on television, the viewers did not mind; The first season of HBO The last of us He was a success of many measures. In season 2, in which the series begins to adapt history Part 2The history of revenge takes the rear seat in favor of emphasizing parenthood as a topic. Although the source material has elements of parenting, I think revenge is the heart of history. It seems that the second season of the series has placed the aspect of the revenge of history on the rear burner.
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These choices seem to me, like the decisions of the inventive team that try to rewrite history. But The last of us part 2The story is fine as it is. This is a hard story with the very nature of the game as Abby after Joel’s murder – narrative framework, which according to design is to evoke forceful emotions. Learning to Abby with her is to make you see life from her perspective and understand that she also wants to protect innocent people in her life.
The story of Abby reflects one of the truisms of the last of us: he has no good or bad guy. The ending should consist in learning how revenge simply causes revenge and how we as a society we can never go forward until someone raises the burden and goes beyond hatred, before you lost everything, just like Ellie lost everything-her parental figure, her lover, her child, her pink-pink, her ability to play, and of course, her ability to play The guitar and the merger with the man he taught, attended.
Moral ambiguity Part 2 Druckmann seems to be timeless, but chasing a wider approval, Druckmann polishes the edges. Five years later, no correction or reframe will put the toothpaste back into the tube. Part 2 It was not for everyone, or maybe it should not be.
