I liked the comics a lot!
Thanks, I really need to finally read them. I think I was just worried that it would be a quick cash in on the game's popularity and wouldn't actually be that good.
Unless you know, you're someone that isn't into letting an entire town of people die over one person, especially when said person wants to save her mom and everyone else so you're also going against her wishes.
Bae choice is like a much less graphic version of the end of The Last of Us. You understand perfectly the events that make Joel do what he does and might do the same in his shoes, but it doesn't make him any less of a selfish person for doing it.
The bae ending is just such a mess. It feels like a rushed "bad end", and offered no real look at how either were processing the choice. It's so threadbare that it didn't leave the kind of unsettling impression that
Joel's choice in The Last of Us did.
I just hate that a game that repeatedly emphasized choices and outcomes didn't at least make two fleshed endings. I just have a hard time looking at the bay ending as anything other than letting a
queer kid who has clearly struggled with suicidal ideation kill herself. On top of that she has just found out the girl she loved was murdered. The game wants to make it seem like a noble sacrifice, but it just winds up feeling weirdly mean spirited, especially after how many other times you can let/see her die. The fact that the bay ending is the only one that lets
Max and Chloe kiss also bugs me.
For me the ending of the game really brought the whole game down. The whole storm despite being the major looming threat of the whole game just winds up getting forgotten about for too much of the game for it to feel like it justifies the moral dilemma. The fact that I think it was Warren who convinces Max that
she has to let Chloe die also felt weird. I am obviously biased, but I just remember being kind of shocked that the final moral choice essentially comes from Warren whose only authority in this situation is that he has good grades and has consumed a bunch of sci fi. It should have come from the
other Max you talk to while she is in her fugue state. I still wouldn't have liked it but it would have at least felt more earned if that makes any sense.
I'm really sorry for the rant. It's been years and this ending still provokes a reaction from me. It probably is a testament to how much these characters impacted me.
The LiS2 slander has gone too far. Leave my sweet baby boys alone.
Preach, LiS 2 was a hell of a game. It took some big swings and it is a shame that it feels like it is viewed as the most disposable entry in the series.
