GamingSins: Everything Wrong With The Last of Us Pt. II

[@NikoloPictures]

Just when the world needed him the most, he finally stopped playing Devil May Cry 5 and graced us with a brand new sins video.

[@theitfactorjameswheezer2852]

Lmfao

[@Christian-gr3gu]

It's hard to stop playing such a good game for....this game

[@georgethomas4567]

Just as Devil May Cry 5 released.. he disappeared... Many games released since then in much need of sinning... Now he's returned and I believe he can sin them all.

[@tahaghassan6004]

He is full of motivation

[@chiapets2594]

@@Christian-gr3gu games arse

[@jacobchildress7921]

When a guy like Kratos has a better redemption story than Abby does despite having more blood on his hands, you know you screwed up!

[@deyontemyers4109]

That's mainly because the original god of war Areas was always a prick as much as the other gods (except hades he had legitimate reason to be mad) and they just screwed with Kratos first and he was just fighting back and later just wanted a normal simple life Abby killed the main character in the first game because her father died to Joel and then helps a bunch of tribal kids and starts shooting her own people for said tribal kids she just met while we saw and witness all the Bullcrap jeol goes through just to be a father again and Abby ruin it

[@symbioticspiderman4]

So Abby just gets to be fatherless because joel was becoming a father again? What a shit reason to dislike a character. Abby shouldn't lose her father because joel is gaining a "daughter" or any analogous Joel shouldnt get to be a dad again if it requires that some else's is taken away. So he had to suffer consequences for his action.

[@nick_4972]

@@symbioticspiderman4 Joel had to save Ellie because the Fireflies had no idea wtf they were doing

[@monteraid]

@@symbioticspiderman4 Joel didn't save Ellie to become a father again you empty twat, he save her because its the right thing to do, also what the consequence of Abby killing Joel since you are such a sweetheart who look for accountability?

[@brandonlyon730]

@@symbioticspiderman4 Abby’s father was going to dissect a unconscious young girl without bothering to give her consent or say in the matter, regardless of his excuses and if he feels bad doing that doesn’t change the fact he and the rest of the fireflies didn’t even consult Ellie on the issue or even care about it which makes them absolute shitty people. And there wasn’t even a guarantee it would’ve worked so Ellie could’ve died for nothing and should’ve been told this, and it's already a dumb idea to immediately kill her, you’d think they keep her alive as much as possible and spend a year or so to study and research her unique ability and possible find a way to replicate it without killing her and if not, having a better idea of the thing would be better then just immediately kill your one specimen. So yeah he and the other fire files can go to hell.

[@EkkoOfSilence]

The whole “joel was softened” thing doesnt even make sense Daryl Dixon didnt start trusting everyone randomly just because he took care of Judith, he stayed cautious, and would do whatever he could to stay alive Joel is like Daryl but dial that to 11, so he would stay as cautious as possible, but more so because of what he did

[@Blackemperess]

That on top of the fireflies and the military still potentially hunting for him and Ellie, which would make him even more cautious.

[@thomasraines1396]

Hell Joel was like this before Sarah died, when they pass a family he tells Tommy to keep driving and when Tommy claims they have a kid Joel responds “So do we.”. Yes he says “Someone else will come along” but it shows what Joel prioritizes above all else.

[@leonpaelinck]

There is also not a single moment before is death that shows Joel going soft.

[@jmb9040]

Apparently joel got softened in jackson... but not in the flashbacks... and apparently jackson had the exact opposite effect on ellie who turns into ted fucking bundy

[@Nono-st1ug]

Daryl did end up giving a gun to that one stranger that was with two women and the guy ended up stealing Daryl’s crossbow and bike And later on killed Denise

[@JP-jp6cg]

I remember playing as Abby in the Ellie boss fight and letting Ellie kill Abby like ten times hoping it was some sort of secret happy ending. Man was I wrong.

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[@crimsonhawk4912]

Remember how they constantly kept shoving gayshit in our face?

[@tr1stonn]

it got slammed by ellie 10 times either way, hardest tlou boss fight i been in

[@Sushie55]

xD! A *LOT* of people did that believe it or not!

[@joshgauve9044]

@Honey_Eva 🤓

[@Alex_FRD]

After a 6 month hiatus, you return with this gem. Strap in, this will be a good episode.

[@matteikamp7474]

I think the biggest problems with the writing come down to a few things: (1) Joel was killed off too early in the game. Nothing wrong with killing him off, but the timing doesn't work. With Joel dead right at the beginning, we can't explore the relationship between Joel and Ellie except through a bunch of flashbacks, which drag the story down and make it feel too slow and aimless. Hunting Joel down (or playing as Joel while being hunted) could have been used as a source of tension / rising action for a large chunk of the story. (2) Speaking of "slow and aimless", those words also describe like the first 2/3 of Abby's plotline. Giving Abby a more tightly written narrative, with more direct relevance to the rest of the plot, might have made more players empathize with her instead of actively trying to sabotage her during the Abby/Ellie fight. (3) As you point out in the video, Ellie's immunity should have mattered more. It essentially became a peripheral element of the story, when it's supposed to be the entire reason why Ellie is such an important character to begin with. This strikes me as a huge "Chekhov's Gun" problem. The few characters who are aware of Ellie's immunity just *talk* about it, but it never really has a tangible payoff, or any impact on the rising action at all.

[@bitwawesome7]

Romance girl

[@durodesduvo8424]

Points 2 and 3 are fine but your first point _is trash._ Killing Joel at the beginning is totally fine because it justifies Ellie leaving the safety and paradise of Jackson to go kill a bunch of folks _so that we can have a game._ Furthermore, if they killed _anyone_ else it wouldn’t have an impact. Anyone who says “killing Joel at the beginning is bad writing” is a cope. Just be honest and say his death was so upsetting that it ruined the game for you. I would respect that. You want Joel to die exactly like high honor Arthur Morgan- at the end of the game, looking at the sunset- but instead the writers took an actual risk🤷‍♂️

[@IamtheSpy2005]

@@durodesduvo8424 That take makes no sense. Joel’s death felt like complete bullshit at the beginning of the game. We aren’t saying he has to commit due at the end like Lee Everett, just maybe give Joel and Ellie’s father/daughter relationship more active screen time to present more well-written pacing and THEN maybe kill him so that Ellie can begin actually having a justification to start the game and not make every flashback feel like filler content that doesn’t do much for anyone. By the way, a lot of people say argue the argument and not the person, but why the hell is it cope to call out gameplay that cuts to “Star Wars Sequels” level flashbacks that a bunch of people didn’t like to see for more than a quick 3 second showing of a father/daughter type relationship? Trick answer: it’s not. Cope with it.

[@durodesduvo8424]

@@IamtheSpy2005 are you nuts? for me the Ellie flashbacks were great because we got more Joel screentime through memories. Especially since we thought he was gone forever, it was nice to see him again. It was good for tonal variety because was a nice break from the revenge campaign which has a consistent depressing tone throughout. The Ellie flashbacks did something that I thought was clever, which was reveal information that makes you question the characters thought process when you thought you understood them already. When Joel is killed we think that Ellie has no idea what he did at the firefly hospital, and we expect Ellie to learn about it during her quest. So when we learn that she knew _why_ Joel was killed and other context from the flashbacks, it changes the reason for revenge. Before we thought this was revenge for killing Joel- but the truth is that Ellie is doing this out of the guilt she feels for ending their relationship over differences and not treasuring the time they had left. Anyway you don’t have to like it, but Joel dying is the only catalyst that makes sense for this game. Who else could they kill? Dina? Tommy? Nobody would give a fuck. The other option would be Jackson getting attacked I guess… better than your idea to have an even more drawn out start to the game with Joel and Ellie hanging out, no rising action, or tension at all. The funniest part about you fools complaining about Joel dying is that *this is exactly how the first game started,* the only difference is that we’re more invested in the character. Joel’s daughter dies in an unfair, bullshit way and now we get to experience what felt in the second game.

[@elfireii328]

​​@@durodesduvo8424 sure Joels daughter died, but the motives and level of cruelty are completely different. You cannot call them "exactly the same". Even Joel killing Jeffrey and Marline was less cruel than how Abby killed Joel. This isnt even to mention how well the players already know Joel so its a completely seperate situation other than "early character death" its an incomparable story start. Also the order of events with how Joel was killed off should have been layed out differently. Market the game completely from Abby's perspective. Dont even show Ellie and Joel anywhere and sell it as a "seperate story". If you HAVE to play as Abby. Begin the game from Abby's perspective then slowly reveal details to have the player realize who these people are. Then kill off Joel. Boom sympathy built on Abby with no negative stigma to begin with, and less players starting the game off pissed, and complicated emotions over the events of TLOU1.

[@RoyalsVixen0619]

Welp, there you have it, folks. A game y'all have waited a long time to get a true and proper "Sin" Video on. One of the best reaction videos I have personally seen. Now rewind it, watch it all over again and take notes on how to write games, books, movies, etc. for yourselves. Get this man some views!

[@BarioIDL]

this is going through great length to not tell a good story, a copypasta has better rising action

[@DarkS707YT]

@@BarioIDL Facts

[@Joe_Okey]

One, every Gaming Sins Video has been, more or less, tongue in cheek. Two, everybody (including GCN) forgets that UNTIL Jackson, Joel lived in military controlled quarantine zones where nobody could relax in any way; and now, he has been living in an actual city again for several years where people inside the walls CAN relax and be somewhat comfortable again.

[@BarioIDL]

@@Joe_Okey four, with zombies and shamblers that they had to kill in the flashbacks; five, joel went soft is like veteran be able to sleep well when someone blows the whistle after just five years; six, you,more or less, tongue in cheek.

[@RenaldyCalixte]

42:10 Critics who defend this game assume the cure was going to work make ZERO sense. The foundation of this war between Abby and Ellie is beyond stupid.

[@moret25]

3:15 Dartigan said it best: I don't feel bad when I kill people in video games, can the developers not try to make me feel like a monster when I do the one thing their game forces me to do in order to complete it?

[@valentds]

or at least, not this cheap way

[@austin9568AuraMasterDX]

Goofy voice: I'll fuckin do it again

[@rojaedavis8367]

THIS! This game couldn't go one minute without trying to beat me in the head about how terrible a person I am for killing people who, may I remind you, were trying to kill me first and expect me to feel bad about it. At least some games like Deus Ex or Dishonored had the decency to give me options where I didn't have to bathe in blood so that when the game called me a monster they had a point because I had a CHOICE which this game clearly didn't care to give me.

[@GhostCell47]

Spec Ops: The Line.

[@sebastianriz4703]

Said it before I will say it again. Metal Gear Solid has done this concept perfectly. From the 2nd game, all the way to the 5th, you DONT have to kill a single person or creature if you choose so. Not even the bosses, who are deserving of death. The only difference is, Kojima and Konami didnt shove your bloodlust in your face. The closest that happens is Venom Snake gets bloody as fuck and you cant wash off. Thats it.

[@BishopM1]

Another thing about the game I hated was that killing Joel didn’t even affect Abby at all for the rest of the game. We don’t know if she felt bad or good about it for the rest of the game. It didn’t even matter except for plot for her and Ellie to fight.

[@ItamarO93]

Abby is a narcissistic sociopath who is incapable of even understanding the idea of someone else caring for the victim of her actions and wanting revenge like she did. That is how far removed she is of basic human rational.

[@autumnbrown4350]

no you could definitely tell that abby believed killing joel would’ve given her the closure she thought she needed but she didn’t feel better after joels death she almost felt worse

[@leonpaelinck]

@@autumnbrown4350 true she didn't feel better. But we don't ever once see her show any sign of regret

[@urbiznesnunuv6938]

You obviously didn’t pay attention to the fact that nightmares about her dad still plagued her and she wasn’t getting sleep even after Joel’s death. Stop streaming the game on twitch and play it yourself and pay f***ing attention

[@urbiznesnunuv6938]

@@leonpaelinck why would you? He damned humanity

[@SnakeRoadComicsOfficial3677]

What's sad is at the hands of a decent writer, Abby could've been made into a great character.

[@bmanpictures]

There is potential for sure.

[@Jackieb741]

Absolutely agreed

[@carloszestyboy2901]

The problem with Druckmann is his growing inability to compartmentalize his writing and his personal politics. Really great writers can subtly sprinkle in some of their beliefs to compliment the story intelligently, leaving the audience to reach their own conclusions with context clues. Druckmann doesn’t really have subtlety. He just throws something in your face and then gets angry when you don’t understand the point of it. He does this when it doesn’t even fit the scene sometimes. Alot of the scenes in this game just felt really jumbled and like they had no flow to them. Just a bunch of patchy fragments thrown into no particular order and running with it.

[@RenaldyCalixte]

@@carloszestyboy2901 I agree. The whole Lev as a trans person storyline feels so disconnected from Ellie and Abby's conflict. Ellie ironically as a lesbian never learns that Lev is Trans or that Lev also suffered bigotry for it. Because to Ellie Lev is someone that almost killed her girlfriend and is helping the murderer of her surrogate father. Ellie understanding Abby has nothing to do with the understanding Lev and Abby share and that understanding Abby has with Lev has nothing to do with Lev being Trans. It just such a forced story. If Lev is skilled in combat than Lev's gender or dead name means nothing. Because Abby doesn't care about any of that and neither does Joel care that Ellie is gay. Druckman obviously doesn't care about what makes sense story wise for a game about fighting flesh eating monsters.

[@SnakeRoadComicsOfficial3677]

@@carloszestyboy2901 In short: He's a moron.

[@travisb.honest2438]

You got to remember that, introspection is for those with a guilty conscious and Abby was written to not have one. Abby doesn't have an introspection moment when Ellie kills her friends because Abby doesn't see Ellie's quest for revenge and her quest for revenge as the same. Abby convinsed herself that Joel was just a murderous psycho path that killed her father and sees Ellie the same way for killing her friends, not as a daughter trying to avenge a father figure but a psychopath just out to kill. When Abby killed Joel, he was just another psychopaths like the ones she was known for killing, and absolved herself of guilt of killing him. If they truely wanted a "revenge is bad" message, then Abby shouldn't act like her revenge was justified and Ellie's is not.

[@robertkovarna8294]

Translation: Abby is like "Why did you have to go on revenge?! Only I am allowed to have it! ME! Why would you want to kill me when I horrifically traumatized you" She doesn't realize that Ellie coming for her all ties back.. to her. Because only ABBY's revenge is justified in this game according to the writers.

[@GloomyNooby]

And notices how in the game Abby never learns that the real reason Ellie came after her was bc she killed Ellie’s father figure, same as Ellie never learns that the real reason Abby killed Joel was bc he killed her father? It’s bc if either of them learns the truth, it would shatter the weak foundation this whole game is built on and the story will make even less sense than they already do if they keep trying to kill each other. But ND NEEDS them to keep trying to kill each other so Ellie and Abby just conveniently never learns the truth even though there’s like 100 times where they could’ve lmfao

[@travisb.honest2438]

@@GloomyNooby This is only partially true. Both could get a basic idea of why the other is out for revenge. Ellie learns that Abby ties back to the Fireflys, and Abby knew Ellie tied back to Joel because she was there for his death. Really, even if Abby was to learn the whole truth, it wouldn't change much about her point of view. Abby would still see Joel as just the psycho path that killed her dad. Ellie is the only one to take the information as earth shaking.

[@GloomyNooby]

@@travisb.honest2438 I disagree, imo both learning the truth will at least change their motivation somewhat because then Abby will realize that Joel was doing something that Jerry probably would’ve done if Abby was the one immune, and Ellie would’ve realize that Abby did something that Ellie herself is doing right now seeking revenge as a heartbroken daughter

[@crimsonhawk4912]

Metal gear solid, red dawn (87), v for vendetta. They all have the same thing in common, empathy for the villen. Thats what makes story telling grate.

[@c4su4lg4mer5]

Its amazing how everyone but the actual creators can write the story for this game.

[@PedroSCP]

Naughty dog got comfortable and sloppy over the years I mean not just them a lot of big developers have been getting sloppy

[@crimsonhawk4912]

Its almost like they got a whole bunch of gay people, sat them down, and said " how can we make this gay"

[@KrazyVideoChick]

@@crimsonhawk4912 LOL.. How on earth... how in the solar system did you come up with this conclusion??

[@DaysieRose]

This game has that in common with Game of Thrones season 8

[@tanelviil9149]

@@PedroSCP No the issue is NEIL CUCKMAN is a far LEFTIST WOKE liberal that's the problem . Those people can't help themselves , they think that normal people are interested in their NEO MARXIST, lets hate the west, lets hate white people, lets hate men nonsense.

[@DanielMendoza-ny1hs]

The biggest example I have to disprove the Joel got soft theory is the literal start of the first game. Joel was basically living in paradise and decides not to help out a family with kids on his way out. Why would he help abby?

[@bitwawesome7]

Romance girl

[@waltersolomon9049]

He was thinking of his daughter's safety at that time. Furthermore, he didn't know exactly what was happening since the pandemic was just starting.

[@smalf00]

hes been living in Jackson for a while now and they have a policy of bringing people in to see if theyre on the level, but i agree joel wouldve kept his wits about him, either not surrounding himself with strangers or not giving names (but tbf tommy did that). they shouldve had him or tommy get injured during the escape, something small enough to not gun it back to jackson but big enough to make it so they couldnt fight back as well and needed medical supplies to get back to jackson (something like a sprained ankle or a bad cut, not something he'd die over or need immediate medical help, but big enough to need to rest)

[@rohanlitto5765]

Why was his story in 2 minutes so much better than tlou2’s story 💀 especially the “and I’d do it again”, line

[@crazyinsane500]

Because unlike TLOU2, it wasn't a bad story using an existing license to get pushed. It was a story designed to *continue* the original.

[@colejohnson2332]

It was terrible fym 💀

[@Sharkoon030]

@@colejohnson2332why?

[@memestho1018]

hush

[@557deadpool]

@@memestho1018 no you

[@prod.a.b.i.l1930]

Let's all take our time to appreciate the amount of time this man takes to make these videos. He could just be a weekly sins videos but he takes time to really look at these games and analyze them to sin them properly. Bravo GCN, Bravo

[@kensredemption]

GCN > Dartigan

[@captaintony1227]

@@kensredemption i like them both equally. I found dartigan first but this guy is on point so i respect him for making his content his own.

[@lorenslyfe]

@@captaintony1227 i used to like them equally but I just found Dartigan’s sins more lame over time. At least with GCN’s sins if they’re lame, they become pretty funny with his delivery so GCN >>>> Dartigan. Also I like how for the older Walking Dead games he took every path to sin everything equally

[@RareGamer-jm7gu]

@@kensredemption I like those guys equally

[@Very-old-man]

Very easy to nit pick games for your hate nerd fan base. Don’t get why you think it’s hard to play a game and complain about it.

[@georgethomas4567]

Thank you! Finally! Someone else who says what I've been saying for years. Everyone is always hung up on "They killed Joel." The fact that anyone would believe he'd survive this game is just confusing to me. I'm more concerned with how they killed Joel. It wasn't emotional, it wasn't built up properly, none of it! It's character assassination at its worst. Joel a one man army, a man who murdered hundreds of people in the first game some of which posed no threat to him, just walked in a room full of strangers without a care in the world. It's just ridiculous. I can't even say it was shocking because there's only reason for them to have in Jackson looking for a man. They thought they were being clever and smart but in reality it was just such basic story telling it had me rolling my eyes.

[@LeeEverett1]

Whenever the first trailer dropped for this game and we saw Joel talking to Ellie, literally everyone was predicting that Joel was already dead and that Ellie was seeing him in hallucinations. Also everyone thought Abby was Ellie's mother lol.

[@kensredemption]

@@LeeEverett1 tf? Ellie’s mom died giving birth to her lol

[@urbiznesnunuv6938]

You don’t know what character assassination is and weren’t paying attention. Joel saving Abby at the start isn’t really out of character, they’re on patrol and looking for travelers and taking out infected, it’s just called common fucking courtesy which jackson has been able to allow. Second, Joel never gave out his name, that was all tommy who is naturally the more trusting of the brothers, and thirdly Joel was Surrounded with no cover, he was dead the second he walked into that room.

[@mateoreyes6921]

Joel should have died like Lee in The Walking Dead of Telltale

[@urbiznesnunuv6938]

@@mateoreyes6921 please fucking stop

[@OneTyler2Many]

I feel like the writers for this game were teenage girls that spend too much time on Twitter. I swear there was no respect for the first game at all. At least let me play Ellie the whole game. Why would you throw away that perfect formula you nailed in the first game? Just baffles me how bad it is.

[@GemGames3]

Yeah it was written like a teenage melodrama in parts, and Joel and Ellie destroyed.

[@xwulfd]

it was written by pronoun people

[@kadenbaio9758]

I never understood the, ”Joel/Nathan Drake kills tons of people” critique. Everyone they kill tried to kill them first.

[@friendlyfire7509]

It's just rhetoric

[@cremebootay]

bruv… I know I’m late but did you not play tlou pt 1? it’s made very clear that Joel is not innocent and has killed/hurt many people to survive, and not necessarily through defense. It’s why he knew the hunters were going to ambush him and Ellie after Bill’s town.

[@skyblue340]

OH MY GOD IM SO HAPPY! IVE BEEN WAITING FOREVER FOR THIS! Lowkey someone should also record their entire gameplay and then chop it all up and edit it to how the game should’ve been laid out

[@chris_player2995]

i wish we had Tommy as a companion , he is basically Ellie's uncle at this point

[@redwing4948]

I screamed in my car when I saw the notification I was so happy I’ve been waiting years to hear what he’s got for the last of us 2

[@RenaldyCalixte]

01:12:00 What's worse is Abby doesn't even acknowledge how she manipulates and lies to her friends for her own benefit. In fact doesn't show any form of remorse over that.

[@gaia7240]

Exactly, she is a psycho

[@c.m.leavemealone]

In my opinion the best GCN video EVER please never stop (im still waiting for sins of RDRII and Detroid become human)

[@liamwhittaker8691]

Hoo boy, I've been waiting for this one... Let the roasting begin

[@emerillearbis4280]

This. Your take on joel's death and how you would describe his character and personality is absolutely perfect. Couldn't have worded it better. I 100% agree

[@Joe_Okey]

Look at where he has been living for several years compared with where he lived BEFORE that. Everybody (including GCN) forgets that UNTIL Jackson, Joel lived in military controlled quarantine zones where nobody could relax in any way (thanks to said military being in charge of EVERY aspect of your life, including whether you got full rations or not and when and where you were assigned to work; and now, he has been living in an actual city again for several years where people inside the walls CAN relax and who grow and raise their own food. Also, the story EXPLICITLY mentions that people come through that city on a fairly regular basis. So, YES, everybody INCLUDING Joel could start feeling a little more relaxed again and have a basis for helping strangers also.

[@ankaros7194]

@@Joe_Okey "you can't teach an old dog new tricks". Even if he lived with people for a couple of years and became relaxed does that erase all of the experience he acquired before? Hell no. That was a dangerous situation and Abby was a random person. To go out of their way and waste time to save her in that situation without a safe way to escape is BEYOND STUPIDITY. Someone as experienced and coldblooded as him doing that without any pressure from the side like Ellie begging him or something like that? No. It would've been more believable if he spent DECADES in that town. But several years? No, not that much, that's for sure.

[@PixHQ]

@@ankaros7194 actually it was Tommy who revealed their identity 🤝

[@RenaldyCalixte]

@@PixHQ But Joel revealed information to Abby about Jackson for no reason.

[@RenaldyCalixte]

@@Joe_Okey This is a joke. I had a roommate who was a Marine in Afghanistan and Iraq. He NEVER let his guard down. My current roommate was in the Navy and he always looks behind him when walking his dog or walking to his truck. Both of these men left the military YEARS ago and still act this way. Your excuse for Joel's actions in Last of Us 2 makes absolutely no sense. Joel was writing terribly plain and simple.

[@rubenabajyan4126]

He hasn't uploaded it but i already know this is gonna be Masterpiece of a video

[@mortal1501]

This channel cracks me up. Enjoy the content

[@dakotamcfarland9774]

It always brightens my day

[@piggy-iy5re]

My man came back and starting torturing this game. Oh boy was it worth waiting for this video to come out.

[@SmotheryAxe1414]

The fact that everyone is constantly coming up with objectivity better versions of the Last Of Us 2 story is a testament to how much Naughty Dog took an L

[@CLBarr]

FACTS💯

[@AverageBananas12]

*GCN spent almost 2 minutes explaining the first sin.* Yeah this gonna be good

[@OG-ColorfulAbyss.]

Another point with the doctor, not even the same skin color. and there was never any mention or implication of any kids besides Ellie being anywhere in the area let alone IN the hospital. Her whole existence was just fabricated and shoehorned in to explain it away and they failed horribly. I would have believed it more if it was just the daughter of a random survivor or Firefly we kill throughout any of the other areas or something.

[@thomasraines1396]

The guy in the second game also looks more put together and just in general looks like he walked off the set of a shampoo commercial, the guy in the first game looks honestly like crap (fitting look for being in a world like this) and could pass out at any moment.

[@urbiznesnunuv6938]

It’s lighting you fumb duck

[@OG-ColorfulAbyss.]

Yeah.. cuz slightly different lighting is going to make them completely different colors, huh retard?

[@urbiznesnunuv6938]

@@OG-ColorfulAbyss. does that red haired mother fucker look black to you? Get your eyes examined

[@OG-ColorfulAbyss.]

Did I say "black" mother fucker? Get ya whole brain examined cuz you're clearly delusional and seeing things.

[@RenaldyCalixte]

18:30 It's so lazy that the game fails to explore Ellie's friendship with Dina. All we see is them do is go from friends to lovers after smoking weed. And that's only because from my interpretation at least Dina wants to pull Ellie out of her emo shell and she finds Ellie attractive. That's a weak setup for the two to become life partners and parents to Jesse's child after going on a dangerous mission that is only personal to Ellie and Tommy. It would have made more sense if we saw Ellie become more and more depressed as time passed because Joel refused to apologize for lying. This would worry Dina but also move her emotionally to connect with Ellie on a deeper level leading to romance. Instead all we get is the flashback later in the game of them making out. That starts a fight between the bigot that Tommy's wife Maria forces to apologize to Ellie and Joel protecting Ellie from Mr. Bigot's abuse. Also why Mr. Bigot is upset the surrogate daughter of one of the most powerful residents of Jackson is kissing another girl in public when both protect Jackson from danger is so mind numbingly stupid it makes Joel stupidly giving personal information to Abby's group seem highly intelligent like Iron Man building a nano tech suit. This fight leads to Ellie partially forgiving Joel after Joel gives a partial apology due to both of them getting kicked outside the dance hall. Which has zero connection to Dina other than Joel encouraging Ellie to start a romantic relationship with her. This makes Neil Druckman's anger towards Joel (as represented through Manny) more confusing. In Joel's short time in Last of Us 2, Joel saves Abby, supports Ellie, is pro LGBT by fighting Mr..Bigot, monitors the patrols to protect Ellie, an expert tracker and navigator which gives Ellie the best birthday gift ever and is an accomplished musician. Yet Druckman...I mean Manny says pendejo after he spits on Joel. And what great things does Manny do in this game...treat women as sex objects...and worry about his sick father...and make stupid jokes. Wow that resume totally compares to Joel's resume. (Sarcasm). It makes me so invested in Manny's friendship with Abby. (Sarcasm). Basically Last of Us 2 is lazy at building relationships between characters whereas that was the best part of Last of Us 1. It made fighting to survive in a group more meaningful because you worried for the other characters.

[@bitwawesome7]

Romance girl

[@the5thcourier833]

And yet after watching this GCN still manages to make a better story in his own head, and he doesn’t even get paid to do it. God I love GCN

[@selectedjustin10]

I was excited you finally made a video, but I’m only 10 minutes in and I’m getting triggered with flashbacks on how betrayed I felt when this game came out. Smh

[@Squishy876]

Your version of the sequel was so much more satisfying

[@bigblackhawk3919]

L

[@monotones]

13:22 there is an alternative universe out there somewhere, where this is how the last of us 2 is written, and that is enough to put a smile on my face.

[@Tytokofu]

Dear lord this over an hour long. Thank you so much

[@101proguitarist]

13:06 And you know what's hilarious! Niel Druckman posted on Twitter expressing how much he loved Star Wars the Last Jedi, saying it was his favorite movie. Coincidence, I think NOT

[@GhostCell47]

What?!

[@RenaldyCalixte]

The Last Jedi is a better written story than Last of Us Part II. It's not a great story but at least there's a little bit of logic in Last Jedi. Last of Us Part II is divorced from logic.

[@RudoMike21]

Never trust a person who likes the Last Jedi

[@Icefireninja8]

His ending was so much better than this and now it lives rent free in my head

[@therenegadegamer7422]

Straight up the best game sins channel you have tons of personality and feel like you've come into your own thing rather than just copying cinema sins and making videos you want to instead of pandering to views

[@LeeEverett1]

This and Dartigan are my favorites

[@nadirmarshall4059]

@@LeeEverett1 Dartigan’s tone make him sound like a robot which makes it unbearable for me to hear what he says unfortunately.

[@tylerblox99496]

​@@nadirmarshall4059 That's sad

[@catherineanderson5355]

i always felt odd about this story. Abby really is doing her own thing most of the storyline, with lev, and in fact, if it wasnt for Ellie's revenge plot, would have died due to the rattlers. So all Ellie actually achieved (bar killing all Abby's friends) was releasing Abby from being captured and letting her be free. So NOT going after Abby in Santa Barbara would have been a better choice. (never mind i didn't actually want to be ellie fighting abby by the end, i really didn't want to have to "kill" her, but had no chouce if i wanted to finish the game. End it after the theatre fight. much better.

[@RenaldyCalixte]

What's even worse is that Ellie sacrificed her own family just to free Abby and not kill her. Now she's a piece of garbage because even though Joel lied to Ellie he never abandoned her. Yet Ellie abandoned Dina and JJ. Ellie is a horrible mom.

[@bitwawesome7]

Romance girl .

[@Jillworrell22]

She made her peace

[@whyevenplaymekid5067]

Great to see you working on KZbin again

[@catdogfan732]

The KZbinr “Macarb storytelling” has also done an amazing review over 3 hours talking about the plot and characters of this game in amazing detail, I recommend it!!

[@RenaldyCalixte]

I watched it. Macarb Storytelling did a great reviews. My only issue is that he misunderstood some aspects about Ellie's character.

[@user-Marrk]

The fireflies rushing Ellie into surgery to murder her without consent 100% justifies Joel's decision. This makes Abbys revenge plot really dumb. Any sane person would feel conflicted if their parent was complicit in the attempted murder of a child. The fact Abby lacks this sort of empathy makes her an awful character. Last of us 1 was amazing due to Joel and Ellie, removing either be of them ruins it.

[@SuperMurray2009]

No. See.... I disagree. Joel in fact did know that Ellie would have wanted to give herself up for the cure if he meant taking her life. You know this primarily because when Marlene confronts him about him about it, you see Joel unable to hide his expression that Ellie would in fact have wanted to die at that hospital. But yet Joel killed Marlene anyway. Because for him it wasn't about saving the world. He couldn't give too shits. He wanted Ellie. He never tried to justify himself by saying you're taking away her ability to choose because he didn't give a shit about that. Also if we're going to say Abby is an awful character because she lacks empathy. Then what exactly does that make Ellie? Ellie decided to kill Abby's friend because Joel decided to murder her dad and other fireflies members. So how the hell can you hold Abby to a standard you don't hold Ellie to? If thats the case is Ellie an awful character as well?

[@user-Marrk]

​@@SuperMurray2009 First of all you are completely wrong. Joel does not know what Ellie wants, no more than the fireflies know what Ellie wants. He might suspect she would give her life but that's not enough to sit back and just let her be killed without her consent. Especially after she promised to go anywhere with Joel after seeing the fireflies, indicating she had not planned on dying. So that's your first point refuted. Secondly the game makes it clear that there is zero guarantee that they can even make a cure, all attempts had failed so far, so to say Joel is damming the work is also wrong. Third, once Abbys dad decided to rush a child into surgery to kill her on the small chance of a vaccine, then you reap what you sow, the fireflies are not the good guys here, they are as grey as Joel. They kept a kid sedated, didn't wake her to explain the situation, they didn't ask her to if she wanted to give her life, they didn't let her say goodbye, they rushed her into surgery. That's barbaric. Finally, as to your point about Ellie and her empathy, I've just watched a compilation of her killing Abbys friends, she kills most of them after they try to attack her instead of giving her info, leaving her no choice. That's far more than what those awful people gave Joel! Did you even play the game or did you just fap to Abby all the time? Abby is an awful character that Naughty Dog tried to manipulate people into liking. It only worked on simpletons... Like you. Abby stans are the weirdest.

[@SuperMurray2009]

@@user-Marrk 1. You can't just say I'm completely wrong without providing and proof or context? How exactly am I wrong? You don't provide any. You just say no I'm right you're wrong. Joel does in fact know what Ellie wants because litrerally Joel tells Ellie that she doesn't have to go though with the fireflies and they can ditch it all together. But Ellie declines and says wants to see the journey through. On top of that... if you watch the scene with Marlene and she accusing Joel of knowing what Ellie wants, you can actually see Joel's facial expression turn into guilt. That facial expression in itself was more than evidence to conclude that their was somewhat conflict in Joel's decision making. 2. But nothing is guaranteed. How far down the rabbit hole do you even wanna go with this? It's not guaranteed that they even make it to the fireflies, it's not guaranteed that fireflies even know what the do with cure. It was always a risk. The game heavily implies that Joel doesn't give a shit anyway about what would have happened to said cure If it meant that Ellie would be killed in the process. If you wanna use the excuse that their is no guarantees than why even bother taking her to the fireflies after Jackson anyway then? You would be trying to refute the whole plot of the third act of the game. 3. You're right. It is Barbaric to rush a child into surgery. And the fireflies are grey just like Joel. However the point of the matter is ...The game heavily implies that Joel is again somewhat aware the Ellie would have probably gave herself as a sacrificial pawn for the cure. So this is that area where Joel is still also in the wrong because he killed Marlene when she literally offered to forgive him and let it all go in the end but he shot her anyway. 4. Wait what? How in the hell is all your friends getting killed somehow alot more tamer than one organization killing one man? Do you even hear the foolishness coming from your mouth? They'll killed one guy and spared rest of the people in your crew. When they literally didn't have to. First off your ignoring the fact that Ellie kill Nora in cold blood. And it's somehow it's supposed to be less empathetic even though Ellie holds her friends at gun point with murderous intent? Like you are doing some heavily level mental gymnastics to support your case. So yeah you're points are extremely flawed and you too busy reiterating Skill up Talking points to support your case in the time of need to bash the game when you lack even proper context. Like you literally just admitted to watching a compilation of Ellie killing Abby's friends. So if anything that points to you not actually playing the game.

[@jrich6660]

@@user-Marrk He did know. That's why he lied about what happened. HOW could you not get this after beating the game? Marlene told Joel this is what she wants and Joel never denied it.

[@user-Marrk]

@@SuperMurray2009 I told you in the first few lines how you were wrong, because no one knows what Ellie wants cos no one woke her up! You're a raving Abby Stan, probably on the spectrum so I ain't wasting my time responding to your delusions 😂😂

[@kudetgaming4914]

i'm so glad you're back, keep up the good work and thank you for all the work you've done

[@ben3133]

Agree mostly but one thing - Isaac did have a meteorologist in the mountains doing 'a job for isaac' (Manny's scientist lover) so it is actually perfectly reasonable that they predicted the storm

[@ajaxjohnson7999]

This is officially my favorite take down of this disaster of a game next to The Critical Drinker's video on it!

[@RenaldyCalixte]

Angry Joe's review was great as well.

[@Technicolor_geek]

Nakey jakey also had a good video too

[@gojochillmode839]

The fact that Naughty Dog decided to take a giant shit on Ellie and Joel's relationship while also shoving Abby down our throats was the main reason I hated the game so much.

[@helstein]

Yeah the entire reason I liked the first one was Ellie and Joel's relationship, like that's what made it so enjoyable.

[@thanman6584]

​@@helstein I also liked the world, and it's also the first peice of the whole zombie media thing to actually attribute the zombie virus to an actual real world virus. I liked how dark and gritty the world, and the characters. But one of the things I liked the most, was that they actually SHOWED the zombie outbreak happening in real time. I think this is the most important aspect to show the viewer in a zombie piece of media, and most zombie genres don't even show this, which is infuriating. It's a breath of fresh air to see it in tlou1. And they showed it so realistically. It was downright scary with how realistic it was. The time jump of twenty years is great. It skips straight to the most interesting part, which is the actual post apocalypse. It doesn't focus on a few months after, or any of that shit, like most in media. Because tbh, after the initial outbreak, nothing really happens after that. Its just the protag staying in groups and shit. The military or at least a provincial government is just non existent for some reason, which is just downright unrealistic. The world in other zombie genres also doesn't give enough time for other civilizations or factions to arise from the dust, because they mostly taking place after the initial outbreak. Walking dead was really bad at this, and the majority of others. The thing thats good about tlou, is that when it skips it just shows a montages of newsreels as the years go by, which mentions the severity of the outbreak after, mentioning riots, death count, rising factions, cure attempts etc, which is already more realistic than most zombie apocalypse material in the media. Most zombie shows and shit need to learn that that just because a significant outbreak happened, it doesn't automatically equal a post apocalypse world. It usually takes time for humanity to be brought to the brink obviously, especially when it comes to pandemic. Tlou understood this, and that's why I like it. The masterful storyline and characters just make it fucking better.

[@xwulfd]

bcoz ND is now full of lesbians and pronouns

[@landismithCOJ]

The best thing I've seen today. This is gonna be good. I know Abby is gonna catch holy hell in this one.

[@kaoridovani8284]

Maybe! There is a good possibility that he'll side with Abby and cheer how she handled Joel, he even said he disagreed with how Joel lied to Ellie

[@theitfactorjameswheezer2852]

@@kaoridovani8284 🤦🏽‍♂️😂💀

[@TitaniumTurbine]

@@kaoridovani8284 Nope, he repeated verbatim what uncultured/basic reviewers and people who didn’t even play the game said. 🤦🏼‍♀️ Most people are just mad that they didn’t get a storybook ending and I think that scenario jars a lot of people’s psyche. It’s almost like if Bambi died at the end - that would leave a lot people feeling unsettled. Anyways, rant over - bye.

[@BoleDaPole]

Sorry you have to dredge through the comments with us simpletons who simply are too uncultured to understand the deep philosophical undertones of this video game. Hopefully our foul stench doesn't rub off on you.

[@landismithCOJ]

@@BoleDaPole no simpletons detected. We're all here for the same objective: enjoying a sins video.

[@PaisiosOfGOAOA]

Literally my favorite KZbinr makes a video after so long and it's over an hour long. I could never thank you enough. For entertaining me for so many years. Thank you for always delivering even though you don't make as many videos as you used to. At least I know whenever they come out they will always be in good quality. So please take as long as you want with the next couple. I cannot wait to see them. You have a great day good sir.

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[@ninjasniperproductions4476]

Nothing wrong with personal preference, the real problem with this game is purposefully getting a reaction out of all of everyone. That is not how writing should be, writing is basically like playing god, how you write it literally tells the world who you really are, even if your plan for your story was to get a reaction from the viewers & consumers.

[@after-hours]

How does Ellie not know what an ice cream truck is but knows what bigotry is 🤣🤣

[@TheKingOfRooks]

They still get the CW in Jackson

[@ComicWriter-ml3qt]

Because she was born many years after the world fell apart and every post apocalyptic story shows that humanity’s worst is brought out of them. Respectfully, I feel like you’re reaching with this comment

[@monteraid]

it come with lesbian

[@urbiznesnunuv6938]

You’re more likely to learn about the word bigot in school history class than you are to learn about ice cream trucks mate

[@Tecolote41]

@@urbiznesnunuv6938 But this game is literally in the fuckin' apocalypse... @ComicWriter2020 Doesn't really seem like reaching when it happens to be true. She was born about 6 years or so after the apocalypse. You wouldn't be able to fully grasp what life was like before (entirely) so you'd be confused on a lot of things.

[@BlueEdge047]

Heard the whole alternate story by GCN. And I would have appreciated it’s 2020 game of the year a bit more, if that story played out.

[@theimortal1974]

the sky bridge was an extremely anxiety inducing section of the game for me. i don't know what was worse. not seeing the distant ground or seeing the distant ground.

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[@RenaldyCalixte]

That was the only part of this game that was great everything else was ok or horrible.

[@RenaldyCalixte]

3:00 GCN you spoke the EXACT words I was thinking when this game was released in 2020. Thank you.

[@ElementVoidX]

I feel like you could have sinned one time more when Tommy ambushes Abby, 1) for not just shooting her straight away, and 2) the fact that Yara just teleported to save Abby remember it was only Abby and Manny who chased Tommy, then Yara suddenly shows up out of nowhere.

[@urbiznesnunuv6938]

By the time tommy would have spun around if he did have his gun she would have shot him, dipshit.

[@ElementVoidX]

@@urbiznesnunuv6938 ok dipshit except you seem to have forgotten the fact that it was tommy who surprised Abby, and instead of shooting her he just tries to slap her with the gun and the game is filled with similar scenarios, something you should know when you try to defend something you fucking asshat.

[@urbiznesnunuv6938]

@@ElementVoidX yeah lemme just shoot someone with a rifle when I’m blinded by hatred and want them to suffer the same way they hurt my brother. Ever notice Ellie shoots Abby to stun her in death scenes before killing her while she’s begging? We’ve literally seen tommy torture people in the city already. Shut the fuck up and learn to connect the dots, I can’t do it for you.

[@ElementVoidX]

@@urbiznesnunuv6938 no you can't cause you can't even connect them, have you forgotten he shot at them when you were chasing him? or are you just a retarded troll who have not even played the game? also wtf does Ellie have to do with what Tommy is doing? you are just spewing shit out of your ass, try to look up the Dunning-Kruger effect, that is what you are suffering from, Tommy never said he wanted her to suffer he tortured the 2 people to get through the gate which again don't even make sense, not that it matters in this shit game, the only fans of this piece of trash are people like you who are fooling yourself into believing this is a good game, fuck out of here.

[@RenaldyCalixte]

39:00 Abby is a hypocrite. Abby is a hypocrite. Joel saved your life and you still killed him to complete your vengeance. 😂 You're the real monster Abby.

[@RareGamer-jm7gu]

Abby ass kissers be like "No, you are wrong! Joel is the monster for saving his daughter"

[@Jillworrell22]

Abby and Ellie both did screwed up things but yes, Abby is a monster

[@RenaldyCalixte]

@@Jillworrell22 Sorry I misunderstood your post. But I'm just stating down below why Abby frustrates me. Abby did screwed up things for less justifiable reasons than Ellie doing screwed up things. Ellie did not kill Jerry Anderson yet Abby's actions ruined Ellie's life. What's even worse is that Abby killed Joel in front of Ellie and ignored her crying and begging her to stop. Ellie warned most of Abby's friends to surrender and was forced to attack when they refused to surrender. Abby kills Jesse for no reason when Jesse didn't kill any of Abby's close friends nor was he interested in revenge. She doesn't even interrogate Jesse or order him to surrender. Ellie wanted to seek revenge alone. Abby manipulated her friends to go on a dangerous mission to get revenge. Abby never mentions nor says Joel saved my life. She never even contemplates Joel's final act. While Ellie is saddened that Jerry was dead and that his dream of curing the world from the cordyceps fungus is gone forever. Every time Ellie tries to wrestle with her own actions. Abby ignores her own actions but then has the audacity to lecture other people about their lack of morality. It's ridiculous.

[@FrancistheBrave]

He's back ladies and gentlemen he's back ❤️😭😭😭😭 We've missed you GCN 😭

[@proof0den]

Wow! It's just eyes opening. When I played the game, I felt like going through the motions, especially the parts with Abby and wanting her to die on purpose. But after seeing this, I understand how many details I just ignored, that bugged me inside. Thank you, man. Now I get why I hated the story so much.

[@gangg1762]

Lol you basically admitted to hopping on a bandwagon of hate

[@Synopsis0]

@@gangg1762 nah he admitted to seeing facts which he already knew were true and he felt tlou2 supporters are like rats and facts are like light to them anytime facts are spitten they scurry away and hide back into their rat hole

[@mskiara18]

Been a while since I watched your videos, I definitely see a change in how you sin games. I agree with many points you made, and that saddens me that the bond between Joel and Ellie was ruined so that Neil can push his CW-style story. Bruce Straley was right: The concept of revenge in a apocalyptic setting with infected around is illogical, yet Druckmann pushed the idea in the sequel versus sharing more of how Ellie's relationship with Joel, how she feels being immune and finding a cure. You'd think he would have continued the idea of the military or the Fireflies search for Ellie and Joel, not Abby.

[@beavers1978]

Wait a minute, wasn't it implied at the end of TLOU that Ellie knew Joel was lying?

[@ghostwhencodghosts9114]

Then the last frame of tlou1 would be “🤨” not “🥺”

[@leonpaelinck]

Yes. That's why she went to the hospital in the flashback.

[@RenaldyCalixte]

@@leonpaelinck But she wasn't 100% sure and regardless she still enjoyed hanging out with Joel during the museum flashback. Also it's ironic Ellie gets to be mad at Joel but shouldn't Dina and JJ be mad at Ellie for leaving them?

[@Jillworrell22]

This KZbinr didn't even play the game I bet

[@RudoMike21]

My biggest complaint about this game, there’s no wooden pallet to save them.

[@friendlyfire7509]

A moment of silence for our Arbor kin ally please...

[@Jillworrell22]

Poor Ellie lol they should have had Lev use the pallets

[@notacompleteidiot...1285]

24:27 More sins: -Dina standing on the glass, shooting down at targets. -Falling through the glass, and not being catastrophically injured. Did she break bones? No. Fracture her skull? No. Spinal injury (which I have seen from much lesser falls)? HELL-to-the-NO. Those are higher-than-normal, vaulted ceilings. And she was standing above, adding to the height of her fall. I'd estimate that's a good 12+ feet, plus the thickness of the skylight emplacement (or whatever that is) which is another foot-and-a-half (at least), plus her height (5+ feet). That's around an 18 foot drop onto tiled, potentially concrete, floor.

[@cmurphy0707]

The biggest sin of all was how this game won Game of the Year over GHOST OF TSUSHIMA.

[@ComicWriter-ml3qt]

To be fair, it did get more of an emotional reaction

[@thatguy1080]

To this day, I am convinced that the awards were paid off by Sony. There is no other reason why The Last Of Us Part II should ever have gotten "best music" over *DOOM ETERNAL* despite the soundtrack being droning drums and slow pluckings of the guitar strings.

[@sebastianriz4703]

Yeah. That showing of a video game awards show plummeted my respect for those kinds of shows. That was 100% a agenda or pay off from Sony to get TLoU2 all those awards. Absolute BS and now I wont support that kind of shit ever again. Made me lose a fat amount of respect from Naughty Dog too.

[@ItamarO93]

The Game Awards are the same type of shitty political shills you can find in all of media. It is an event sponsered by the same shitty companies that release the games! Player vote is only about 10% of the final scores, and it is about 50% "Political Agenda" and 40% "Who paid the most to get an award".

[@likeandsharedeeznutsbruh2845]

@@thatguy1080 I don't think they were paid off by sony, it came out during a time of mass protests, riots etc and all of this anti hate stuff so I feel like they felt if they didn't give it the win, twitter would have a field day and they just didn't wanna deal with it lol

[@SwaggyG_2102]

After all this time, it feels glad to see you finally come back with the milk. I've been looking forward to your return.

[@Veloziraptor111]

31:42 THANK YOU. So many Naughty Dog apologists were trying to justify this shit by saying it was to cover up spoilers. "But Infinity War did it! They showed the Hulk and instead it was Banner in Hulkbuster armor!" Yeah, except nobody went to see the Avengers solely because they saw Hulk in that scene. Meanwhile plenty of people, myself included, bought the Last of Us 2 because they were falsely made to believe by this trailer that we would get to see another chapter in Joel and Ellie's story. They knew that was what the fans were after and that it would sell. And then they wondered why the game split the fanbase in two.

[@RenaldyCalixte]

Infinity War was about all the Avengers not just Hulk. Last of Us 2 trailer made it seem the game was about Joel and Ellie fighting the Fireflies. I actually thought Joel was a hallucination in the trailer though but even that was a lie too.

[@Jillworrell22]

No Naughty Dog wanted to make it unexpected. If they showed Joel's death or smth, it would ruin the game

[@georgethomas4567]

38:28 Love that left you actually getting a chuckle out of your own script because of how absolutely brutal you were being.

[@ez-bakeoven6797]

I like your head-canon story, but I feel like that'd take even longer than what we got. Personally, I feel like they should have written the story as a rescue mission. Instead of murdering Joel like a dog Abby could have dragged him to Seattle in an attempt gain a sort of "proper" justice at the hands of a court. It would create a consequence for Ellie and the groups effective invasion of a sovereign states territory (As the Seraphites wouldn't be present in this version) and would lead to a climactic final battle between two groups that believe the other unjustifiably attacked the other. It could even include the dual points of view between Ellie and Abby, which I thought was an interesting concept, but would been done as a 1-2 1-2 instead of the 1-1 2-2 we got. However, I do think that the game isn't that bad, especially with how it sets up a potential finale to the series; and I'm curious as to how you'd do that seeing how much thought you put into your head-canon rewrite.

[@daykon6843]

Or how about make it even better get rid of Joel and Ellie from the story entirely focus on Abby being loyal to the WlF have her be saved by Lev and both start to grow attached to each other similar to what goes down in part 2, Abby then wants to broker peace between both WLF and SCARS, it goes bad because both factions can’t forgive each other and basically shows the cycles of violence of revenge while both Lev and Abby are stuck in the middle. Abby and Lev grow very attached and survive the destruction between both factions and Its then revealed Abby’s trauma with her dad dying at the hands of Joel as well as showing a cinematic of her seeing Joel unconscious just so in terms of plot makes it easier for her to identify Joel, the player doesn’t know if she’s gonna kill Joel or not but to then be revealed that she forgives Joel basically because the whole game she basically understands Joel’s position from her own relationship with Lev and because of what she’s witnessed throughout the game, the cycles of violence and revenge and that it caused the unnecessary destruction of 2 factions. Basically the whole journey throughout the game teaches Abby about forgiveness and what revenge can do to people.

[@duranted6120]

It would've made more sense if it was a relative of marlene who went after joel instead of the daughter of some random npc from the first game.

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[@RenaldyCalixte]

Exactly...the foundation of this game is stupid.

[@nerodevil.24]

GCN, you are a Messiah in these trying times I only wish u would go on a rage filled quest to Sin every kingdom hearts game

[@doncheadlegaming7521]

The fact that this game got Game of The Year despite having no real reason to have received it makes me wonder if this industry is nothing more than a brand recognition competition. Ghost of Tsushima or Doom Eternal deserved the award.

[@doncheadlegaming7521]

@Freesmart Ghost of Tsushima also has it. Not as great as Doom Eternal, but it’s story is leagues better then 2 lesbians learn revenge is bad.

[@doncheadlegaming7521]

@Freesmart I have. It’s good

[@SuperMurray2009]

@@doncheadlegaming7521 I disagree. Ghost of Tsushima story wasn't nearly as good as people were making it out to be. Khan was an absolute idiot the entire game. The gameplay I do agree with

[@xacmashe3852]

@@SuperMurray2009 You defend TLOU2 so your take on what a good story is means nothing to civilized society.

[@TheCapitalWanderer]

@@xacmashe3852 yes

[@knight13579rh]

Your version of the ending would be absolutely phenomenal 💯. All around great video man. Keeping it up.

[@nomansland1494]

I’m glad your idea for an alt version of the story wasn’t just “Abby has to die cause she killed Joel”, but kept the the grey area that naughty dog tried to implement into their story, but failed horribly.

[@mattmas6628]

The writing and dialogue in this game is so ridiculously cringe. It’s like an LA hipster’s zombie apocalypse fantasy where people talk and act like it’s 2020 America but theres zombies

[@hellomimibanana]

LA hipster zomapoc, perfectly put.

[@Jillworrell22]

No it's not?

[@meialua7124]

Ellie wasn’t ever scared of swimming she just didn’t know how to swim,she was pretty brave as in shooting. A guy to save whole and the hole let behind and David shit proves that don’t jsut flat out make up stuff

[@positiveoutlook9137]

The gameplay is so good but anytime I cutscene starts you just can’t help but to eye roll

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[@thefrogviller9179]

Saw this in "recommended", and, well, never have I clicked faster onto a video

[@bavarian3450]

I thank you for the effort you did in voicing many people's concerns and opionions in a well-structured, eloquent video. I truly feel the TLOU franchise deserved better, and even to this day, I regret the choices Naughty Dog made. I have been watching your videos for a while now, and this is one of those where personal conflict with dev's choices is expressed clearly, instead of memes about minor issues we have with games.

[@vidhroh1538]

To be honest... Every game company is desperate for money including big names like Rockstar... But at least they deliver enjoyable, good games, Tlou2 was not even enjoyable despite the graphics... And we got fucking less thaj 30 fps on ps4 are you kidding me

[@brennanhearn6342]

Mistake in sin 118, Joel didn’t sacrifice any future of humanity when he saved Ellie

[@Kazuki_0]

What

[@SuperMurray2009]

I mean kinda easy to say that in hindsight right?

[@thorthewolf8801]

@@SuperMurray2009 Yeah, but even without hindsight, there are obvious things that indicate that saving Ellie wasnt a humanity dooming exercise.

[@JohnnyNuelo]

I am SO GLAD you mentioned MGS2 and emphasized the thematic recycling naughty dog did. AOT also played with similar themes in the final season, but they managed to do it so much better.

[@natashjagentry6132]

I very much missed this. Thanks for making my day guys. Hope to see more in the future!

[@the5thcourier833]

Oh god the pain you went through Atari, I pray for you everyday

[@Roach1776]

your last of us part 2 head cannon ending is 1000x better than the dogass that was sold for $60 lol, i swear i felt better about your ending than i did the actual product.

[@Jillworrell22]

The KZbinrs story doesn't add up. You might want to re hear the story he said.

[@Tobi-cc5fc]

9:00 what's an even better testament to this is that even prior to Sarah dying, Joel was even softer but if you watch/playthrough the scene where he, Tommy and Sarah are driving to town away from their home he literally refuses to give someone who was broken down a lift. He was extremely cautious even before the apocalypse

[@bitwawesome1]

Romance girl

[@randomasianontheinternet8364]

THE GOAT FINALLY CAME BACK AND HAS GRACED US WITH THIS BLESSED VIDEO!!

[@reiddutchess9955]

This dude just wrote a game that would have actually maintained the legacy of the Last of Us. God damn Naughty Dog screwed the pooch on this one.

[@justincruz5720]

Has it really been four years since this game came out? Time flies. Long time coming. It’s funny how the alternate scenario GCN came up with for this game’s plot is similar to what I came up with. We’re all writers here. Tommy as our companion was a missed opportunity. Issac is the Hector Alcazar of this game.

[@RenaldyCalixte]

44:00 Exactly. Abby is a borderline psycho. 1. She is partially aware of the circumstances regarding her father's death. Nora and Mel close friends of Abby are aware Ellie was the key to the vaccine. Therefore Joel simply took Ellie from the doctors including her father. Jerry was just in the wrong place at the wrong time and to be honest I have no sympathy for Jerry. Why? He was willing to sacrifice someone else's child for a cure when he couldn't do the same for Abby. Abby is acting as if the Fireflies and her father have zero morality issues when both the 1st and 2nd game state otherwise. Whereas Ellie is holding Joel to a moral standard too high for the apacolypse. So in her twisted Joel is a monster like the Joker that needs to be killed at all costs. 2. She manipulates all of her friends into coming with her whereas Ellie only wanted to leave with Tommy to avenge Joel. Abby is SAVED by Joel but still kills him in the most slow and gruesome way possible. 3. Abby shows a complete lack of self awareness that caused Ellie pain by killing Joel in the most gruesome way possible. This lack of self awareness continues throughout until the end of the game and never changes. Making Ellie's forgiveness of Abby useless. Ironically in Walking Dead Michonne and Maggie show self awareness regarding Negan and the Saviors that fans of those characters refuse to give. In fact those two characters come to an understanding about Negan that Maggie and Michonne fans refuse to give. Yet these same fans are going to respect Ellie to give an understanding about Abby that Abby doesn't show towards Ellie. This story is garbage.

[@getoffthegames89]

Agreed. They botched it. I like to think they had a better story lined up that had the slow build up, but that druckman woke up one day early on in development and came to work and said “I got it y’all! We’re going to use flashbacks and move all the critical points of the story around and tell a different story, not about Ellie and Joel, but one about revenge and how it’s evil and bad and life ruining” It really feels like they chopped and screwed the story that should have been told

[@RenaldyCalixte]

@@getoffthegames89 hey hey you're being disrespectful and you lack understanding, Neil Druckman is a genius writer... The Last of Us 2 isn't about revenge its about grief. That's why its a masterpiece. (I'm joking about how people defend Last of Us 2. This is sarcasm).

[@Jillworrell22]

First of all, Abby is borderline psycho. And second, why are all of you completely missing the point of the story. I'm 13 and I understand it better than most people in this comment section

[@allisonv3915]

Love your version of the plot. And how you made sure us players do understand that something will happen to Joel eventually but ND’s execution was horrible and that’s why people are mad. Still love the game but it could have been so much better.

[@RenaldyCalixte]

08:36 Facts. I'm actually not upset Joel was killed. I'm upset by HOW Joel was killed. He saved Abby and then decided to reveal personal information even though she is a complete stranger. He was unarmed and surrounded by Abby's friends. It's crazy how people use the Joel was comfortable in Jackson excuse EVEN THOUGH JOEL CRITICIZE JESSE ON HOW HE HANDLED PATROLS TO PROTECT JACKSON!!! They made Joel act like a complete idiot to set up his death even though Joel killed suspicious strangers he didn't trust in the first Last of Us. Last of Us 2 is just straight trash. Tommy's character was ruined by Last of Us 2 even though Tommy didn't kill Abby's father.

[@OMGlvl86turtlepilot]

how many people are gonna parrot this, despite the fact that it was Tommy that revealed them. At least complain about things that actually happen. your hate for this game is weird, find something that matters to spend your energy on.

[@theresnothinghere1745]

@@OMGlvl86turtlepilot They're gonna parrot it because you're not even responding to their points, merely making a strawman of what you imagine their reasoning to be. It's not just Tommy naming them, its Joel saving a suspicious stranger when he has no reason too, Joel and Tommy deciding to join a group of armed people they know nothing about, Joel and Tommy taking no precautions when meeting said people and just letting themselves get sorrounded.

[@OMGlvl86turtlepilot]

@@theresnothinghere1745 lil bro. its been 4 years, and kids like you are still seething and arguing daily about the most menial details in this game. get over it. like it or dont. i loved it, 2 of my favorite games of all time. ur loss :(

[@theresnothinghere1745]

@@OMGlvl86turtlepilot I'm just killing time watching a video discussing stuff in my hoby. I find it funny that you can't see this as anything but some weird rage that lasts 3 years. I really don't care about whether you personally like it or not. The only reason I responded was I found it silly how you just dismissed the OP without even engaging with their post at all nor anything in the video time they linked that explained their grievances.

[@OMGlvl86turtlepilot]

@@theresnothinghere1745fair nuff. i was just referring to the THOUSANDS of people that seethe about this game on reddit and send the actors/actresses death threats. my b. just saying, i think it gets a lot of unwarranted hate.

[@AndreVeaseyJr]

The fact that a lot of your major points are things I brought up reveals the fact that this game deserves much more valid criticism than others. People keep talking about what Joel did. Unlike Abby, Joel doesn't attempt to prolong the suffering of others, especially without a purpose. Unlike Abby Joel can feel some remorse. Abby is just stubborn.

[@neiloconnor7776]

I can’t forgive a random guy who called me a mean word but i can forgive the person that killed my father figure wtf

[@ghostwhencodghosts9114]

Imagine forgiving your father’s murderer for no reason

[@neiloconnor7776]

@@ghostwhencodghosts9114 yeah doesn’t make sense I suppose the whole plot is basically revenge bad

[@thorthewolf8801]

And the guy even got her some beef sandwiches! I imagine that would be quite something in the post apocalypse!

[@kinnedylawrence7002]

Yeah when i first played the game and heard Ellie call that guy a “bigot” I already knew how this game was gonna go.

[@diegeticfridge9167]

The Radom guy was actively trying to kill her, and Abby was surrendering and didn’t want to fight???? Wtf

[@mynameisharry8739]

They should make a game or a movie set in a zombie apocalypse that critiques some of the issues brought up here. Like how gasoline is only viable for a couple years under certain conditions. And also some others like how people with important skills, never seem to take apprentices or teach them to others, thus screwing their communinty if they die or how characters never think about the multiple ways contamination could occur outside of mere scratches and bites, like using the same weapon you killed a zombie with, only later use it to amputate someone's limp or hunt animals

[@crazyinsane500]

There is a game like that: The Last of Us 1. Hell, they even get to the issue that even *tires* have a shelf life if left on cars in the middle of the road for a couple decades. It didn't pick it's aesthetic just for funsies, the writers of the first game put some thought and research into it. It's not even a "Oh, they thought of that" thing you notice if you go looking for it. First hour of the game you see FEDRA guys in Hazmat suits rounding people up at gunpoint on the *assumption* that they have spores clinging to their clothes, because such an innocuous thing isn't treated lightly in the first game.

[@dantrizz]

The version @13:21 that you propose as to the story that should've happened is infintely superior and i would even sign a petition to have it remade in that direction

[@donlott7072]

People kill me with what Joel did. Ellie was not ask if she wanted to give her life. They just throw her on the table . Then treated Joel like garbage after he got her there . There should have been a discussion between Ellie and Joel and the fireflies . Then they could have made a choose. Joel killed because they were after him. So did Ellie. The bound that Joel and Ellie developed was priceless. No one would allow someone to just kill off this child no matter what was at stake.

[@calebrichards9538]

Exactly but idk ppl didn’t play the game 🙄 now ik how GCN felt bout tlou1 ravers (even tho in my mind its a top 10 game) ppl find any excuse to hype tlou2 everyone knows tht game was assssssss

[@RenaldyCalixte]

@@calebrichards9538 Star Wars the Last of Jedi is amazing compared the trash game known as Last of Us 2.

[@Sev3617]

This is such a precise break down of the numerous issues this game has. I really enjoyed this video, there’s a few minor things I disagreed with but for the most part everything you said here was 100% valid criticism and an excellent deconstruction of how convoluted this thing really is. Part 2 is a game I was initially very positive on, but as time has gone on I’ve seen so many of the cracks this game has riddled all through out it. Even now it’s not really a game I hate, I think I romanticized the vision and idea behind the game rather than how the final product actually turned out. It’s a narrative I believe could’ve worked had it just had a few revisions and rewrites and restructures and things tweaked, like accounting for character consistency which you pointed out multiple times that part 2 failed to do. Seriously this is such an excellent breakdown of this game. Thank you for this GCN.

[@Suflysflash]

I swear on everything i love. You have expressed all my feelings of this game i have been saying ever since i beat it back in 2020. My friend loved the game and i could never articulate my thoughts as well as you just did here. I cannot wait to show him this video next time i see him. truly incredible video.

[@Crippledsasquash]

That's brilliant that explains everything. The first game felt like a gritty action thriller. The second felt like a shitty teenage drama written by someone that failed English language at secondary school.

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[@mateoreyes6921]

Yeah The Last Of Us 2 really feels like a Netflix show

[@RenaldyCalixte]

@@mateoreyes6921 Like...13 Reasons Why? Is that a good comparison?

[@mateoreyes6921]

@@RenaldyCalixte Yeah

[@Jillworrell22]

It adds the drama for tension. Cause then Jesse never got to know from dine herself that he was a father. It makes crap sad.

[@namanagarwal5416]

That 2 minute story you narrated was so damn good!! Why did Naughty Dog have to butcher this game? This had so much potential.

[@crazyinsane500]

The long short is one petty failure of a writer covered for the company's Weinstein and was granted total power over the company in exchange.

[@BigDexMedia]

I think if Ellie and Tommy teamed up, it would be a true avenging team because one’s a surrogate daughter and the other is his biological brother