I’ll try to convince you, or rather give you food for thought, that the game was made with love, but they went a little too far with salt...
I’ll say right away that the game does not deserve the rating that it has, but I gave it 10 out of 10 on metacritics, here I'll put...
Don't judge strictly because... is this my first post/review?)) on a home site...
And so let’s start with the fact that the developers put their souls into this game, they endlessly gave interviews, invited our bloggers to the exhibition, who in turn shared their impressions , and at that time we were just counting down the calendar days until the game’s release in order to quickly play this MustPlay, but why did the developers take such a risky plot turn, why did they say louder than anyone else that the game had improved NPS intelligence, but in fact these are the same stupid zombies/bandits from the first part of the game. Why we were deceived in the trailer, why the hand of feminism and the LGBT community touched the development of the game. Well, I can endlessly ask questions, but let’s look at the most basic (in my opinion).
Why was it necessary to add so much LGBT and feminism?
I want to say that when I watched the game for the first time, I didn’t notice anything that could have been touched by the hand of feminism and LGBT, I don’t want to speak for everyone, but I really didn’t see that very agenda, someone can argue and say that it is present here, but please take other games that were made a year or two ago and you will notice that TloU2 is the least propaganda that has ever been made, you have the right to challenge me because I do not pretend to be the most inattentive person (ready reply to any comment)
Why was it necessary to say that you humanized the bandits, gave good intelligence to zombies and dogs?
Well, you can argue here, because I didn’t come across moments where the bandit/dog/walker did some kind of nonsense, but everyone perceives it in their own way. BUT I really noticed that they tried very hard on Ellie, I don’t know why, but attacking her from behind while playing as Abby was very problematic, because she moved super fast, and you can only attack from behind and this made it difficult to attack her (personally for me) we can discuss that the developers did a very good job on the sound of shots/objects and other details. But this doesn't make sense, because... anyone who watched/played can safely say that the game looks at the level of 2020, I didn’t want to say this for everyone, but it’s still difficult to argue here.
Why make such an ending?
But here we can discuss, someone really didn’t like the ending of the game and here I won’t even argue because it’s obvious that the ending of the game was spoiled, but! The game could have been continued, for example, to make an addition, where did Dina, Tommy go, or where did Ellie go, all this could have been continued thanks to the ending that we received, but from recent news, it turned out that the developers of the game (let's call it that) will not continue Ellie's story or Abby, it doesn’t matter who, but additions could have been made thanks to that ending, and I assure you, if so many people had already bought the game, then they would have bought continuations of the story, of any character, I assure you (I know that the developers will probably continue the game or they will make a continuation, there is no need to start a discussion!)
But! That's not all, the game could have been made better if only! (my point of view) we were given a choice at the end of the game, kill Abby or leave her alive and here we could safely end the story, but unfortunately we have what we were given. Where we can only wait for further news from the Naughty Dog team
Good luck.