[Hack&Lube]

As I've mentioned before, I get why it is structured this way. It's clever in narrative design and perhaps interesting to discuss in terms of themes and drama and storytelling.

It's just also extremely dark and depressing and puts you through the paces of nothing but death and destruction where the player is forced to commit these things from both sides perpetuating the cycle. For me, that was awful to play through. I'd rather play almost anything else than The Last of Us Part II. It doesn't mean I'm only going play Super Mario Sunshine or something rated G but I don't go home to play hateful people doing hateful things to each other, with pregnant women being murdered, all while being reminded that characters I had grown to be attached to had been killed brutally and disturbingly before my eyes.

I get the path they are on and if this was any other game, you could have had Abby as the main hero while the game intro movie had a faceless villain kill her father and the story was basically her Lion King arc. But its not that. This is like playing Tomb Raider 2 but you start out as a character who murders Lara Croft in cold blood by bashing her head in with a golf club.