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Thank you guys for watching this playthrough! It’s been quite the experience. I would like to clarify something I said at the end about Abby feeling guilt. I believe she has guilt for a multitude of things. & while it isn’t explicitly stated that Joel is one of those things, I choose to believe that on Abby’s arc of redemption she feels some guilt about the events that took place in Jackson. The torture, death by golf club, etc. Not necessarily that she killed Joel, but the manner at which she did it. I would’ve loved for them to touch a little more on that theme with her but Either way I’m glad I played this game and I hope you guys enjoyed! I have a lot of great games planned for this year and I hope you’ll choose to stick around. Don’t forget to like and subscribe if you haven’t already! The goal is 75k by the end year. 🙏🏼💕
A difficult watch for sure, but it's so good to have been on this journey with you. It is easily the most complex, thought-provoking game I have ever come across. I was also fully invested in the first one and shocked at the events of this. But one thing the Last of Us never does is give us an easy ride. The end of the first game alone was enough to melt the internet and this pushes conflicting emotions so much further. I understand why people were so upset about the way it went. They force you to make Ellie the bad guy, killing dogs, pregnant women, and ceaselessly thirsting for revenge. And Abby gets to be the one who plays with the dog and become a saviour to Lev and Yara. But I think it does a remarkable job of showing us how any story can have 2 equally valid sides. Yes, we love Ellie because Game 1 is a masterpiece and she is one of the best characters of all time. But if the shoe were on the other foot and it had been her dad that was killed by Joel, then we would have swung the other way. And no matter how I look at it, I just can't agree with her going after Abby when she has Dina and the baby to think about and potentially lose forever. The writing is incredible and genuinely makes you have to sit and think about how you feel. Great play through Sky, we can see that it affected you strongly and was a hard ride at times but your empathy and kindness shone through and we wish you well with your own emotional journey 🙂
I loved this game and really enjoyed watching your play through; going though the same emotions as the game progressed. From despising Abby, to cheering for her. Being torn between the two characters is what really made me love Part II even more than Part I, which I didn’t think was possible… Maybe I’m the only one, because a lot of people don’t seem to like this one compared to the first one, but the “struggle” is what I ended up appreciating most, and how chasing vengeance pushes the ones we love away and leaves us alone in the end. Overall, I just thought it was more realistic as there’s always two sides to a story, and perception sways our opinion more than we think.
This…was…awesome… Watching you go through the Rattlesnake’s camp was seriously some “John Wick” stuff as you accurately put it. Your aim is freaking good. Anxiety levels went up when you were hanging by a thread a few times with your life going down and needing to wrap up, but that made it more fun to watch. I like watching people play this game through to see what kind of emotional roller coaster it sends them on because it does for most people. The creators said they didn’t care how anyone feels about the game they created, they just didn’t want them to feel indifferent. I’d say they accomplished that.
The BIG problem with Abby's character is simple, the developers FAILED to make us EMPATHIZE with her. They shouldn't have killed Joel so early in the story, and they should have made us play as her from the beginning of the story and slowly telling us who she is and who her father was until the moment we met Joel and Tommy for the Big REVEAL, and then when Abby kills Joel, it would have been a big surprise and maybe we could relate to her more, and maybe there wouldn't be so much hate against her.
One game that worked it really well was MAFIA II, when we played as Vito Scaletta, we came to love that character. And then when we got to the point where we had to kill off Tommy Angelo, the beloved character from MAFIA I, it was a HUGE surprise BUT we didn't come to hate Vito because we knew him and his family and his history before we did . he killed Tommy.
Ok GoodBye. Sorry for my bad English.
Thank you for this wonderful playthrough and being so open an honest throughout. This is one of those games that keeps you engaged, but by the end, you need a vacation to recover. The feelings are often hitting both extremes, and if there is a lull, it isn't for long and have to keep your guard up. I am glad to see you finished it, that is a feat in itself. It would be cool to see a 3, but I not sure there would be an easy way to tie it in, and there would have be an all new villain or something. I would love to see a happy Ellie and Dina, and Add and Lev, but that would only take a few minutes, lol. Take care everyone and be safe out there.
1:51:23 If a group of people have an opinion about a thing, they have no more right to openly express that opinion than people who disagree with them. It’s pretty unfair to say that one person’s opinion is tolerance while another persons’s opinion is judgmental. They are either neither or both.
For the algorithm. And for sharing your story ❤
I ain't gonna overshare and kill the vibe here but going through similar stuff is why I've been absent from the community a lot lately but I still try to drop it and catch stuff when I can. Thank you for the escape you provide for those of us that need it.
Congrats for the content. It was nice to "relive" this amazing journey through your eyes. For me TLoU2 is a full 10/10. Never felt anything like that playing a game. That was new for me. About your playthrough, beside the fact that you're pretty skilled as a player, your comments were particularly interesting to share. It would be interesting if you could release a video making an analysis of the game (or from both games). There are so much to be said… And I believe you'll evolve your perception after you sleep on this experience for a couple days or so. Maybe even give a 9/10 after that. Hehehe, j/k. The rating is yours to give, of course. 🙂
Anyway… Congratulations again. Piece for you and good luck on leaving this ptsd hell behind for good.
Regards!
I think the trick to really loving this game is to let down your gaurd. You're meant to hate Abby at the start, but if you carry that hate with you and refuse to see her side.. Yeah I can see how people wouldn't enjoy it. I love Ellie and Joel, but I came to absolutely adore Abby.. And Owen that little bit more, his "I'm tired" line in the boat is what inspired me to move out of the city and buy a place in the rural tropics. A game that I'll never forget the experience from.
This was a fantastic playthrough, thanks for sharing it. This ending made me think of Kratos and Freya, where he wasn't wrong for killing Baldur, but he took away her choice and she absolutely needed to know he understood that point, even if he doesn't regret it and would do it all over again. I definitely don't think Joel would have wanted Ellie to lose herself to avenge him. More than anything, I think he just wanted Ellie to be able to find some joy in that miserable world.
23:24 this moment still never fails to make me laugh idk why 😂
Jesus Christ talk about timing recently I've been stuck in a rut with school and during school I saw ur vid but wanted to watch on computer when I got home after school finished today I had a physical exam and I felt more down than usual long story short doctor said that due to my behavior I may have or in the future gain depression and that whole time I had epiphanies and just thought more about it and got more upset and when I come home I start watching your video and you talk about this in the beginning wow…..thank you
As for the game I can't say I feel anything for Abby bc I'd be lying I wanted Ellie to kill her soo bad and my mind still hasn't changed but thank you for being one of those ppl who aren't like "If You dON't LikE AbBy ur CloSe MindeD" I went thru the same experience as everyone else I'm entitled to my own opinion and ur one of the ppl whos actually been 1 of the most open minded congrats on finishing the game
It is better that Ellie didn't kill Abby in the end. She still has some humanity left. If she had killed her, there would be nothing left of the Ellie we love.
Thank you for sharing a bit of your own struggles at the start. I know what you mean by this game triggering things. I don’t know if I have PTSD – I never sought help even if maybe I should have – and this game hit me like a truck because of Ellie’s trauma.
I have never had any story in any medium hit quite the way this one did – not a movie, book, show, game, anything.
On my 20th time crying to this ending on YouTube, something really struck me. My uncle passed away suddenly 10 years ago. We were very close in age (9 year gap) because my grandparents slipped up and had a final baby many years after my mom was born. Because of that, we were extremely close. It was much more like an older brother/younger brother dynamic. What I realized in the end (and what I connected to in Ellie's story) is the obsessive mindset it created within me. Now, I had nobody to blame for his death (it was a medical episode), but just like Ellie, I couldn't let it go — just in a different way. While my day-to-day life wasn't affected much, I was left feeling very anxious that SOMETHING would happen to me: a heart attack, a stroke, a blood clot, COVID, a random shooting, SOMETHING. Death had a feeling of inevitability that consumed me — and much like Ellie, my obsession ran over me. I believed something was just around the corner in a way that impacting how I operated in life. I'd end up in the ER with doctors reassuring me everything was okay. I’d have panic attacks around friends. I'd go into common areas of my apartment building so someone could call for help in case I collapsed. On top of that, I avoided riskier things I used to love doing or even feared freak accidents like car crashes every time I drove (and I LOVE driving).
All that is to say is that just as in Joel's song, Ellie lost herself after losing someone. I DEEPLY understood the idea of losing myself over losing someone because of my experience with my uncle. The end is about letting go of that obsession. In her specific case, it came through forgiveness. In my case, it was letting go of the fear that my uncle's fate would be my fate. That my fear of dying young was costing me valuable time embracing life during the best years for me to do so. This game gave me that realization. Since then, I've had no false heart attacks, panic attacks, or anything else — anxiety I had for nearly a decade has just been… gone. I've been at peace. I found the light. I credit this game for inspiring that revelation.
It is a work of art about the beauty within life and even within grief, the strength to empathize even with someone who took everything from you, and what makes our lives precious. I felt every emotion a human can feel playing this game, and I get the sense you did as well. Thanks for sharing your journey.
So revenge can lead to a lot of good then, right? Ellie giving into revenge the second time led to her destroying an evil group of people, saving who knows how many in the future from their tyranny, freeing a bunch of slaves, and saving Abby and Lev from a terrible death. If you weren't told she was acting out of revenge, then she's actually sacrificing a whole lot to go on this journey to save Abby. If her story ever gets passed down in legend, it's definitely going to be told in a positive light. She's a hero! Revenge is sometimes good!
This has been an amazing journey. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and all moments of fun, I wish all love, happiness and heal to your life
Ellie doesnt know what abby has been through she hasnt played what we have seen of abby therefore people say its weird she suddenly has a change of heart here but she knows that abby is willing to fight for lev, abby is willing to stop a fight of vengence for lev.
She understands that lev means something to abby lev is a parallel of ellie. When it comes to drowning abby, she needs something to justify killing someone who doesnt want to fight no more who has seen the error of her ways this hinted in her dialogue with ellie before she was able to cover it with being focused on finding abby but now she has abby there is nothing beyond that. That's what forces the flashback, which asks hard questions would ellie be able to forgive herself for doing the same thing she hated joel for years later? What does that do to her memories of him? Will she still have the good times, or will they be tainted by this journey…
When I first fought Ellie as Abby I didn't want either of them to die. And when I fought Abby as Ellie I felt the same. By the end of everything Ellie had done more monstrous things than Abby in pursuit for revenge. So I could no longer judge Abby as harshly as I did in the beginning. They were just two young girls who lost their way and became two young women who didn't have resources available to deal with grief so murder was the first choice in that world.
Hey Skyy, please please would you kindly play The Legend of Dragoon next? Please? I think you'll love it!
congratulations miss for giving us this incredible journey, the only YouTube channel that made me feel the same feeling when I played it… I confess that I cried with that ending… this game breaks you…🥲 and you have a gift miss. . it is serious…!
If you ever find the time, Noah Caldwell Gervais made a TLOU retrospective that I think gives a lot of insight and helped me digest the games better, especially the 2nd game. Highly recommend if you enjoyed any part of these games. It’s about 2 hours long and absolutely one of my favorite videos on YouTube
Ellie trying to play the guitar at the end with two fingers is such a beautiful metaphor for trying to heal from the scars and trauma of PTSD. She's trying her best to get back into her normal rhythm, to enjoy the things she used to love, but it will never be the same. Her song is different now. Her experiences changed her. As someone with PTSD, it took me a long time to accept that I'll never be the same person as I was before my trauma. That's why I connected so much with that scene.
We love you sky❤️
I was frustrated with the decision that was taken away from us to be able to kill Abby at the end if we wanted to. It should be players' choice. Was looking forward to ending her life. Such a let down
I want to comment a little bit on what you said at the end about people letting other people go through their emotions and opinions at their own rate.
To be honest, I’ve been a militant defender of the game since it’s release and on occasion i myself been a little bit extreme with my own opinions when people disliked this game and it’s story.
You are absolutely right, people are entitled to their opinions and emotions and dunking on people for them is at the very least very hypocritical and narrow minded.
Thinking further on it i do however think that this militant attitude for some can be traced back to atleast understandable reasons.
When the game released it got a lot of negative attention as I’m sure you know. Lots of criticism was warranted and coming from places of actual appreciation for the franchise and genuine disappointment in Part 2, which obviously is fine.
However even louder were the voices of truly ignorant idiots and altright trolls that claimed the game as another victim for their culture war. The things people said about Abby, Lev and even Ellie and Dina were outright vile and disgusting and upset a lot of people, myself included.
This lead to a high sensitivity i think, so that many people fell into the trap of assuming things about a person once they started criticising the game.
The other thing about people militantly defending any work of art whatever it may be, and that is applicable everytime people love something, is that you can kind of feel sad when other people don’t love something as much as you do. If you know what i mean?
Like my favourite album of all time is Circles by Mac Miller, it’s perfect to me, but when i showed it to an ex girlfriend of mine she didn’t feel the same appreciation for the album i did. I was terribly upset and she picked up on that, even though i didn’t necessarily vocalise it. But i wasn’t upset she didn’t like it, it was more so that i couldn’t understand how she couldn’t like it. It felt she was missing out on something that i could experience but i really wanted to share experience with her. Idk, it’s hard to explain and at this point I’m rambling, but i hope someone understands where i am coming from lol
Point I’m trying to make is that maybe it helps to understand why some people get so passionate when arguing about this game in particular or even other pieces of media/art to avoid getting to annoyed by these discussions. Because yes they do get annoying and what you said about people needing to accept other peoples opinions is absolutely right!
In the first game Ellie says her greatest fear was ending up alone. And that's exactly what happens in the end.
I felt so depressed and exhausted after I finished this game. It affected me for days afterwards. And that's ultimately just not how I want to feel after playing a video game. I don't have to feel super happy after finishing a game but a game that makes me feel that sad and treats characters I love so badly is not something I enjoy.
I think what I really don't like about this game is that the characters, time after time, make stupid decisions that we don't agree with. We are forced to do things that are horrible and stupid and it's painful. I personally think the game is poorly written. I think this story told in this way was a bold move but it didn't land for me. So many things could have been avoided if Joel just explained his choice to save Ellie. There was no explanation or discussion about how the Fireflies were going to kill Ellie without her consent, without being able to say goodbye to Joel. No discussion about whether a vaccine would even have been successful or what the Fireflies would have done with it if it was. Nothing like that between Joel and Ellie. It was just assumed that the vaccine would have been successful and magically saved everybody. I don't like that.
Many plot points were just so contrived it's crazy. How Abby stupidly runs into a horde alone in a blizzard, and just happens to get saved by the one man she is looking for. How Ellie and Jesse just straight up ran into the room when they heard Tommy was in danger, without trying to figure out how many were there or to be sneaky. They loudly dash into the room and Jesse, whose motto was "be smart about it", gets killed, and rightly so. What did they expect? I could go on. I am jealous of people who really like this story.
Visuals, gameplay, audio and acting are all superb in this game, so it's really a huge shame that they story wasn't better. Could have been a real stellar game.
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I am with you on your opinion, yes this game split side “team abby” vs “team ellie” but no matter which side you are on, you understand reasoning behind their action, you cared for both of them.. for me i am with ellie all the way but i understand abby.. thats the beauty of this game story telling, you cared and understand them..
I viewed clips and videos from different Youtubers who has played this game online. But, you are the firs contant creator who has played Last Of Us 2, that has intrigue me to partake all of your episodes. And the only reason I watch them all is because I wanted to see if you would change your feelings toward Abby, because I had a hunch you would, and I was right!
I enjoyed watching your journey, because this game was an emotional roller coaster for me as well. The only time I was emotionally affected by a game, was the storyline in “Tenchu 2: Birth of the Stealth Assassins,” when “Tatsumaru” lost his memory, then regained it but realize he was too far in to the Darkside to go back to his original life.
I love when game developers actually take the time to create a really good or amazing storyline to back up the game experience. The Last Of Us game series has definitely gone above and beyond as far as a compelling story and gameplay!
Your journey in this game was similar to mine because I was upset that Joel was killed as well, and I also wanted Ellie to get her revenge. But, I grew to understand Abby’s thirst for revenge, as well as Ellie’s and both of them had legitimate reasons. Abby grew on me little by little as I played the game and in the end, I wanted the best for her and lev as well.
Naughty-Dog knocked it out of the park with this one, and I actually think it was better than the first game! I can’t wait for part three!
Also, I wish you all the best in your life because it takes a lot for someone to share a personal story with the world!
I love Uncharted. I think they said 4 was the last one they were going to do unfortunately, but I would drop dead from an uncharted 5 announcement.
Thanks for sharing a bit of your journey, Sky. All the best to you in your healing. I'm still pretty new, and have only commented here and there, but I've been watching your videos pretty solid for a number of weeks now, and enjoyed every moment of it. Thanks so much for all your great content. Watching this and RE4R has been part of helping me relax from all the self-healing I'm currently doing too.
Thinking of stopping by a livestream someday. Again, all the best, and thank you.
We sending you back all our love Skyy❤️❤️❤️
Next RE4 😊