Abby stands as Ellie's full and utter equal in this game, and that means she gets her own full campaign in the story.Īs I've said multiple times before, it's really a thing that only disappoints you the first playthrough because you are eager as hell to get back to the moment in the theater, so Abby initially feels like a deteur, but once you have your expectations for a second playthrough, it's no bother at all. She's not just a minor character that you get the PoV of for a couple minutes, she's not a optional playthrough you can avoid, not a seperate from the main campaign, not in any way the side character to Ellie's story. In this, the game uses the language of it's mechanics to convey that Abby is more less a full person than Ellie by forcing the player to interact with her the same way they did with Joel and Ellie. And that purpose is the humanization of the other. I'm not gonna argue that the reset doesn't feel like a kick in the nuts at the time, because it does, but it's all for a thematic purpose.
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