The Concluding of Us Role II is the largest and most ambitious game that Naughty Dog has ever created. The story has stirred upward the Last Of United states fanbase since before it was even released. Merely why practice some people honey the game's story? Why do others feel betrayed by it?

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****This post contains spoilers for the The Last of U.s. Part 2****

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"Why don't you lot say whatever spoken language yous've got apposite, and go it over with."

The Last of Us 2 begins right after the events of the first game. Joel explains what happened in Salt Lake City to his brother Tommy, giving players a nice lilliputian epitomize of the finish of the commencement game. There is also a touching scene where Joel gives Ellie a guitar and sings her a vocal that volition become the crux of the game.

"If I always were to lose yous... I'd surely lose myself…"

4 years later, Ellie and Joel accept settled into normal life in Wyoming. Here we meet Ellie'due south friends Jesse and Dina, the latter of whom becomes Ellie's lover for the remainder of the game.

Switching Perspectives

And then the game switches perspective, and we are introduced to Abby and Owen. They are climbing the mountaintop outside of the town, looking for "him."

After encountering a horde of infected, Abby is saved by Joel and Tommy out on patrol. She tells them they can head back to the guild with the rest of her team for rubber. Once they are there, Abby'southward squad attacks Tommy and Joel, and it'due south revealed that Joel is who they were looking for.

When Joel doesn't return from patrol, Ellie rushes off to find him. She stumbles on the order, where she finds Abby and her squad torturing Joel. After wrestling her to the footing, Ellie watches as Abby kills Joel by striking him in the head with a golf gild. The team so knocks Tommy and Ellie out, letting them alive.

"My friends' problems are my issues."

Some time later, Tommy disappears in pursuit of Joel's killers. Ellie and Dina pursue him to Seattle, where they encounter Abby's larger grouping the Washing Liberation Front end, or Wolves as they're called in the game. From hither, the main events of the game are interspersed with flashbacks between Ellie and Joel.

After surviving an initial encounter and stabbing one of Abby'southward group, Dina and Ellie take shelter in an abased theatre, where Ellie learns that Dina is meaning.

When they learn that Nora - a fellow member of Abby'south group - is located at the infirmary, Ellie heads out and encounters Jesse - Dina'south ex-boyfriend. He followed them out there to aid in any way he can.

The group must also survive the other faction in Seattle: the Seraphites - a cult that rejects the technology of the one-time world and are engaged in a power struggle with the WLF afterward their peace treaty cruel apart.

At the hospital, Ellie tracks downwards Nora and tortures her for information before killing her. This is when she learns that Abby has gone AWOL and is hiding out at the Seattle Aquarium.

One time at that place, she finds Mel and Owen. Afterwards confronting them to find Abby, Owen tries to attack her. Ellie responds by shooting Owen and stabbing Mel in the cervix. It isn't until she is dead that Ellie realizes she is meaning. Tommy and Jesse find her having a panic attack and take her out of the aquarium.

The side by side day, Jesse and Ellie wake up to Tommy yelling in the antechamber of the theater. Equally they enter, Jesse is shot and killed by Abby, who has Tommy held on the ground.

She demands Ellie come out and face what'southward coming to her.

"We let you both live and you wasted information technology!"

The clock turns dorsum three days, and the player now experiences the concatenation of events from Abby's perspective. As Ellie'south story does, Abby's perspective is interspersed with flashbacks. In these flashbacks, nosotros larn that Abby'southward begetter is the surgeon Joel killed to save Ellie.

With the Fireflies finer dismantled, Abby and Owen find their way to the WLF and become top-ranking soldiers in the grouping. Later being together for years, Abby and Owen intermission it off.

On the commencement twenty-four hour period in Seattle, Owen goes missing. Instead of post-obit orders, Abby decides to track down Owen to find out what happened. She escapes with the help of her friend Manny, who is afterwards killed by Tommy.

Along the way, she is captured by the Seraphites and is preparing to be sacrificed. She is saved by two "heretics." They are Yara and Lev, 2 younger Scars who have abandoned the religion. After escaping the Scars, Abby leaves them on their own.

After tracking downwardly Owen, she learns that he is abandoning the cause because he is tired of the cyclical violence. He has heard that there is a group of Fireflies meeting in Santa Barbara, and he wants to take Mel and Abby down there on a gunkhole he is fixing.

"You're a piece of shit, Abby."

After finding Owen, Abby - in a rare act of kindness - decides to go back and save the young heretics. After amputating Yara'southward arm, the team decides to take them to Santa Barbara.

However, when Lev runs off to save their mother from the Seraphites' isle, Abby and Yara are forced to pursue him. Meanwhile, the WLF has planned a total-scaled invasion of the island on the same night.

After finding Lev, they decide to get off the island by heading through Haven - the

main hamlet of the Seraphites - and stealing a boat.

The group is ambushed past WLF, where they encounter Isaac - Abby'southward former leader. Yara sacrifices herself and kills Isaac, allowing Lev and Abby to escape. After fighting their fashion to the village, the ii ride through the burning town and secure a boat.

When they get back, Abby discovers the corpses of Mel and Owen.

"Oh Ellie, I think they should exist terrified of you."

In the nowadays, Abby shoots Tommy in the head and proceeds to duke it out with Ellie. Abby somewhen overpowers Ellie. Dina rushes in to save her, merely Abby overpowers her also.

Abby is near to slit Dina's throat when Lev stops her. Her younger companion convinces her to spare them, and Abby warns Ellie that she improve not come across them again. Time jumps forward, and Ellie and Dina are living on a peaceful farm, raising Dina and Jesse'due south child. Ellie is nevertheless racked with guilt over not getting revenge for Joel, and that guilt is exacerbated by Tommy. He survived the shot to the caput, and has dedicated his time to tracking downwardly Abby. He believes she is in Santa Barbara, and he wants Ellie to go afterwards her.

At offset, Ellie declines, but the thoughts of Joel eventually bulldoze her to get after Abby. Dina tries to stop her, but Ellie is unshakeable in her desire for revenge.

Once she reaches California, Ellie discovers that Lev and Abby have been captured past a group of slavers chosen the Rattlers. After infiltrating their base and freeing the slaves, Ellie discovers Abby and Lev existence crucified on the beach. Ellie cuts them down, and all iii are about to escape in boats and get their separate ways.

Ellie won't let Abby exit, though, and the ii fight in the shallow h2o of the beach. After pushing Abby down into the water, she bites off two of Ellie'south fingers. Ellie decides to spare Abby and let her leave.

When she returns dwelling, Dina and the babe are gone. She tries to play Joel's guitar as condolement, only her missing fingers take ruined that too.

In a last flashback, Joel tells Ellie if he could do it all over again he would still salve her from the Fireflies. She says she doesn't call up she can always forgive him, simply she would similar to endeavour. This is one of the last things she told him before he died.

"What is the downside of eating a clock? It'south time-consuming."

The Last of Us Part II is a sprawling emotional game that makes players question the cycles of violence nosotros repeatedly find ourselves in, and it makes us wonder if anyone is beyond redemption.

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