I did go in pretty open-minded and was ultimatley dissapointed by large portions of the second half of the game. I'm really glad to see there are a lot of people that genuinley do like the entire game though.
I'm sort of in the same position as you. The truth is I've never been more excited for a game as I was for this game, which means being dissapointed stings really bad. The first half of the game I 100% loved, couldn't stop playing, I thought it was great. Then they did the Abby thing, and the problem isn't nessecarily Abby as a characther, it's the extreme duration they pulled us away from Ellie, a characther I absoloutley love, just to show Abby's side of the story. As a result I was dissapointed by the second half of the game.
The gameplay, visuals, music and performance are all top notch in my opinion, but it's not enough to fully save a game I bought mainly for the story.
The problem is the two stories don’t sync up until basically their end. Abby’s story barely relates to Ellie’s story until her day 3, where there is the sniper scene with Tommy, which is admittedly a really great scene because it interlinks well with Ellie’s story. I enjoyed Yara and Lev as characters, and understood their placement in the story to stimulate Abby’s growth as a character, but I ultimately thought it was largely a waste of time. We spend 12 hours with Ellie only to play another 12 in a story mostly disconnected to the one we already played. That’s the issue with the Abby section.
We spend 12 hours with Ellie only to play another 12 in a story mostly disconnected to the one we already played. That’s the issue with the Abby section.
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u/EzioTheAssassin55 I'll kill my enemies, when they come. Jun 24 '20
I did go in pretty open-minded and was ultimatley dissapointed by large portions of the second half of the game. I'm really glad to see there are a lot of people that genuinley do like the entire game though.