One of my favourite things in this game is the transition from cinematic to gameplay. It’s amazing. I think no game managed to accomplish that this good.
Something I find really fascinating about Abby’s story in this game is the fact that when she tries so desperately to think that she is somehow better than Joel, she eventually becomes just like him. She takes in a broken child after losing everything she ever cared about and in the process, losing her humanity, and it’s Lev that helps bring back some semblance of humanity in her soul. No different than Joel becoming a father to Ellie. So, Abby becomes like a combination of both Joel and Ellie. Hence why she’s such an important character.
I’m playing right now and man. The hate the character got IMO is unwarranted. She has a lot of depth, and I find her journey more engaging than Ellie so far.
@@Harvester88 The hate this GAME got was unwarranted. If TLoU 2 was the first installment of a franchise people would’ve been very hyped about it and you wouldn’t have seen all the review bombing and fanboys pissed about Joel dying and having to play as a wOmAn the whole time. I loved Joel but he’s a flawed human who made many mistakes and one HUGE mistake that he unfortunately paid for. My only gripe is that his death should’ve been a bit more well written as he is notorious for not trusting strangers. Anyway, this post apocalyptic world does not call for happy walks into the sunset. Revenge breeds revenge. Murder breeds murder. The end of this story put an end to the cycle of revenge.
I know people are split when I comes to the story, but everyone can agree that this is possibly the most beautiful game graphically, specifically this scene
The Forrest is one of the toughest sections of the whole game. I never have any supplies at that point. Yeah, harvest easy mode is an option still I guess but I wanted to do grounded as intended. These aggressive videos show how creative you can be in combat, with a well stocked backpack.
@ari so here’s some tips, use the bricks on the ground to run and auto enemies, you will kill them with one strike after doing so, hopefully you upgraded the thing where she gets an adrenaline rush and kills incoming enemies easier with melee after 1 melee kill, okay now secure all ammo in the backroom you can find some and break all glasses so you can move freely and create space, hopefully you’ve got a pipe bomb also cause you’re gonna need it for the shamblers at the end also if you are low on ammo, try getting headshots on every enemy let them come a bit close to you and shoot them in the head, it’s kind of scary but you just have to shoot last second before they deal damage to you, hopefully this helped 🙏🏼
@@awakeningrecordscuracao5369 i was working on it last night and decided to see how this guy beat the level. I gotta remember he's probably playing with the weapons fully upgraded and be knows exactly where to turn. Still makes great videos but its rough for me not knowing anything on my first playthrough.
This section on grounded BROKE ME. A combination of a lack of ammo/materials + the large amount of enemies left me pretty effed. Not to mention I was almost dead with no way to heal. I've never raged so hard at this game
This is where i stopped my grounded effort. I died battle after battle in this house with all these infected. I am more into stealth and i am just not good enough in those action times. (Aaaaand i dont have enough ammo for this part..)
@@franckmeinhardt1866 Worst parts for me (When I played survivor was the hardest difficulty available) Waiting for the Ambulance and The Ellie section in a tiny room with a shambler and theres red flares, I had like 2 pistol bullets and no health and had to deal with them and it was such a tiny area
When you think about it Lev saved Abbys life the moment he shaved his head, because if that didnt happened then Yara wouldnt be in trouble and the Seraphites would have finished their ritual killing Abby.
This game is aging well in me, when I first played it I really liked it and then I saw a lot of the criticism it got and I thought my liking for it would decay over time, but no, every time I come across these stealth/agressive gameplays I get fond memories and think damn, even now I can't help but think Abby is actually badass.
I misjudged her, she's awesome. Her part of the game is just as fun as Ellie. Just fought that huge thing in the hospital basement, only killed me twice 😬
She's basically Joel in terms of gameplay, which really helps in understanding the story as well. Abbys journey in LOU2 is basically a retread of Joel's in the first game. She starts her story off in much the same way Joel did in the original. It was heavily implied that Joel had committed horrendous acts of violence prior to settling in Boston but rediscovers his humanity through his taking care of Ellie. Likewise Abby has lost her humanity through her revenge obsession, and exacting that revenge doesn't fill the void. Like Joel she rediscovers her humanity through the bond she develops with Lev as she protects him from his own people. In santa Barbara lev is even wearing converse to not so subteky hammer home the point that Lev is the Ellie to Abbies Joel.
Ellie with the explosive arrows is awesome tho. It's like u have a grenade launcher. Watching abby beat enemies to death with her bare hands is always awesome as well tho.
Tip if you're doing a grounded playthrough: On most areas do not try to kill all the enemies, just kill the necessary to escape to the next zone, I really found this useful when I reached this zone, and also when fighting the rat king on grounded.
Seriously, saving bullets is ESSENTIAL in grounded. It’s better and tbh a lot of fun to use bricks and bottles and hand to hand with weapons rather than ammo. You have to save that ammo for the big boss fights or the sections with waves of enemies.
@@wtfisthis96 the infected will probably run away if their brain still haven't rotten completely since that teacher likes to give us a lot of physical activity and she's strict
@@csreviews3810 I can see where you’re coming from but her size emphasized the fact that she decided to adapt to the circumstances that she was in, with the infected and other people trying to survive, she knew being PHYSICALLY strong was a priority. Plus she knew one day that she would meet Joel, so she prepared herself, she didn’t know what he would be capable of!!!
@@csreviews3810 she’s a trained soldier that is forced to fight things that are not only twice her size, but faster and stronger too. Her size rlly isn’t silly at all, especially not in an apocalypse like this.
I hate the fact that everyone is hating Abby (who isn't even a villain) just for killing a smuggler. She killed Joel in revenge for her father's death. There are so many people in TLOU2 world who wanted Joel dead, nobody even knows how many people he and Tommy have killed. I assume the 3rd part is gonna be about Joel and Tommy's adventure through the apocalypse and people will finally see Joel's dark side.
Honestly if that was the second game it would have been much better. Now people are going to say that the only reason it happened was to further justify Joel’s death.
Joel has always been an “unlikeable” character, but everyone likes him because of how good of a bond him and ellie made, basically he’s a GOOD unlikeable character
@@chachoplay13 the "GOOD unlikable character" I think is one of the best explanations of who Joel is that I've ever heard. Also I think I'm pretty much wrong about TLOU3 it's more likely that it is about Ellie and Abby than what I thought it was going to be about.
Part 3 starting with their new life at the Firefly base in Santa Barbara years later and finding another capable doctor/equipment to make a cure would be awesome, giving Ellie a chance for redemption.
@@nellisnelslon8210 even IF ( and that is really, really a big « IF ») it was possible , is there ANYTHING that is worth to be saved the human specie in that messed post-apocalyptic world ?? Because it doesn’t seems so.
You are so goddamn right! I found a tlou2 subreddit and holy moly was i shocked as i saw how many people just complain about this game or it's story but i don't get it. I loved it. The story and how it was told, the change of perspectives as you play as both sides and the growing emotional conflict of who is now really the bad one of them and who is going to win in the end. I think this game is a masterpiece and everyone who says something different just didn't even gave it a chance.
Yes, absolutely, I agree! It was one of the most profound pieces of art/ entertainment media I have experienced in years. So moving. I love it and celebrate Naughty Dog.
@@hanswurst3110 i think it was because the main character of the first game was killed off so early. me personally, i knew it was gonna eventually happen
@@kai-wr6yk no, it's because the plot story was directed by a woman who followed the feminist propaganda, trying to put women as equal as men, which is not the case at all especially when it come to combat/phisically. Killing of the most loved character was the cherry on the cake. They tried it in video game, movie (ghostbuster & such) and it's all the time the same result : men can't identify themself, and women doesn't like it since it's not what they are looking for at all deeply. unfortunatly 99% doesn't know shit about relation between men/women and psychology, and there will always be a small % of brain washed people who will think there is no problem at all. Such a mess for one of the best game of all time.
@@Prussiane so that’s why ppl called the game fake woke, i never looked at it as a equality thing either. i feel like ur gonna get to play as lev in the third one though abby n lev kinda resembles to joel n ellie but who knows
Best cinematic-to-gameplay ever! Plus, for all the haters out there... Abby's gameplay is just great, and the shift to focus on her is nothing short of brilliant. To play as the villain, only to have them become the hero and have you, in turn, become the villain is just genius. Furthermore, it shows what can really only be done in a video game, or more faithfully be done with video games, which is, teaching empathy and understanding, making the player go through the plot with the characters... It's what it's all about for me when it comes to the art IN video games. I just hope the team involved keeps making these kinds of games, that stretch the lines between what is already here, and what is possible. GOAT
I just finished my second play-through of the game yesterday. I wanted to see if it sat as well with me as it did the first time. I initially thought it a tad too long, but really enjoyed the presentation of the story set over three days (six including perspectives), the jumps in time (great editing choices) to slowly unravel this pulp story of regret and forgiveness. So, after my second play-through - I do believe its better than the first game in every way - but I do find it a tad too long still (but that epilogue is very important, so what can ya do). Abby is probably tied with Joel as my favorite character(s) in the series. The absolute Terminator 2 levels of ripped she gets lusting after revenge is so badass, I hate so much how many people dislike her just because she has unrealistic muscles for someone not roided up (or because she enacted revenge upon a man that killed her father and doomed humanity [possibly]). Its fiction, I'll take the dramatic physique so long as it imbibes the themes well (and it does). Also, the voice acting is phenomenal, from everyone. I'm doing Italian hand gestures rn. I believe that the means in which they tell the story are very intentional and that many of the games themes bleed through in almost every scene, and world-building decision - but also how as one character descends into darkness, one ascends into the light. A great part to me (aside from every single scene with Joel in it) is that Abby is really unaware of the chaos Ellie is tearing up in Seattle as she moves on with her life. Multiple times speaking of her regret in killing Joel and how she has to atone for it, because her father wouldn't want that OR her life with WLF for her. She was supposed to be a Firefly - a keeper of the light and she let it slip. "If I ever were to lose you, I'd surely lose myself." plays with both characters throughout the story, as well as Joel in the background. Parts of her old life are starting to come back into shape for her - the fireflies, Owen, being a good person and not a war machine...only to return from saving a child to find that the last straws have been added to a stack she unknowingly started herself. Great game (absolutely brutal killing), absolute great story and very well realized characters that have enough humanity in them to be stupid, brash and emotional. Everyone is doing the right thing, in their own mind. You think you are too for hating Abby for what she did to Joel. The directors definitely wanted you to feel this. You're supposed to - but you're also supposed to question this feeling and reflect as the game closes to its end. Everyone you kill (almost) has a name and people that loved them, yet we tear through them for our own ends (and because its a third-person shooter). THen the ending bomb, the absolute nuke they detonate with Ellie, when she remembers the night before Joel dies. The night she chose she would forgive him of his past crimes against her. Heavy. Saddening. Brutal. A lot to think about. The game is rather exhausting - in a good and much needed way. We all could use forgiveness. We all could afford to dish it out a bit more as well (so long as redemption is in the future cards).
Well written! I really agree with you on the whole thing. I just finished it a couple weeks ago for the first time. I was so exhausted mentally and bummed out at the end, but after some distance, I really got to appreciate every aspect of the game. Abby saying "You're my people!" to Lev really got to me, as well as the song coming back from time to time. I also teared up upon visiting Joel's home. I'm kind of glad he got to "retire" in a way in Jackson for some years, after two decades of really dark stuff. In all his complexities, he still was a broken-hearted father from the beginning of the first game to the last. I truly started to understand how much the game was gonna fuck with us when I played fetch with Bear, one of the WLF's dog. I was like: "Oooh no, I'm gonna feel like a huge POS very soon" Also, I just figured out that JJ's name is in hommage to Jesse and Joel's name, which is adorable.
because they butchered the story. they took characters who were staples of the game, and changed the way they acted and killed them off like they were nothing so that they could push some forced written aspect of a trans person 20+ years into the apocalypse.
@@kevinharper9467 you must obviously think in a post apocalyptic world girls are still playing with make up and dolls. Women can get pretty ripped too my little incel
@@kevinharper9467 Do you really think that, or is what others have told you you should think about the game? Either way, you have a very biased opinion
the second they even look like they’re about to start lunging ( they usually raise their arm to strike, that’s your chance to L1) you dodge. they can chain multiple attacks so if they look like they’re about to swing into another attack, just dodge, better safe than sorry. one they’ve assumed a more neutral position, you beat the shit out of em. and repeat
@@shmylvestershmalone6536 thanks for replying! I'm doing my first grounded run ATM and I'm pretty scared even thinking about doing those guys on grounded mode..it really feels like L1 just decided to only work %50 of the time when I'm in that section, I'm sure it's my tools not my lack of skill! Ha. Well I'll give what you're saying a go....I'm up to hostile territory trying to get through the buildings just before the forest and totally getting my ass kicked while trying to use zero bullets thinking of those two freaking bloaters and zombies I'm going to have to also kill. Fuck me, Abby's section is brutal!
melee, then dodge, melee, then dodge, melee, dodge, melee, melee stalkers are harder to fight, because they are not stunned by your first attack like humans and runners so you gotta pay more attention when to dodge
@@mauriciojose9004 I managed to get past but it definitely took the longest, it was a good few hours. It's the hardest bit for me and I've watched so many other people get through this section and it looks so easy! Hate it, it gives me anxiety just thinking about it.
Thank you for the outsanding gameplay, although if i may make a suggestion, i'd advise more fist-fighting, it's the best thing about Abby and it's her Forte.
Abby sucks at fist-fighting. In the first game, Joel punched hard enough to stagger enemies with his punches. Thus, you'd get a free kill on any enemy unless *another* enemy started attacking Joel mid fight. But Abby has weak-ass punches that don't stagger enemies. Every time she punches a Stalker, they immediately strike back with another punch. So you're constantly dodging enemy punches, which prolongs the fist-fight, which gives other enemies more time/opportunity to attack you.
about Abby and it's her Forte advise more fist-fighting, it's the best thing although if i may make a suggestion, i d Thank you for the outsanding gameplay
i have two very important tips for grounded: 1. PRONING IN TALL GRASS enemies won’t be able to see you unless they directly touch you while you are crawling in the grass. also, if you are in combat and want to escape, you can literally just run away and dive into the grass. they lose sight of you pretty easily. 2. STRIKING UNAWARE ENEMIES holy shit, i CANNOT tell you how many times i used this to get out of sticky situations. striking is pretty much a guaranteed kill, and if an enemy spots you while in stealth, you can always strike them and take away another problem. this works pretty well with the first tip. strike an enemy, dive into the grass, rinse and repeat until everyone is dead. if you ARE going to adopt this strategy, use the melees with the lesser durability first. the key importance of grounded is to be patient. even if you make a mistake, the checkpoint system is pretty generous as compared to the last game, so you can afford to mess up.
The best way to spare your ammo in this part or any other on grounded is to get the strike ability. It is a pill unlockable skill the makes it so that when you strike someone, you get another free strike. Basically if you shoot the legs and then strike, you get a free one hit melee. So it’s great for conserving ammo.
I swear to God I noticed this too! I recently played thru the game for my second time since it initially launched back in 2020 and on my PS5, and I swear THIS particular section looks better than all the others throughout the entire game
On replays, the only part of the game I (reluctantly) dislike is the part where you initially switch from Ellie to Abby and it’s a semi-awkward hour or so of cutscenes, exposition, and forced walking sections interspersed with occasional action. It has nothing to do with the story, just gameplay pacing. But MAN! The moment this part of the game kicks into gear, it has me fully back in its grasp until the end credits
Did anyone else noticed this when Abby chokes a human there's no crack sound nor but when she chokes any infected she pulls the arm and there's crack sound as well.
I dont care what people say but last of us 2 was one hell of a game. Its story was excellent. Hated the part where our man Joel died. But still the game was pretty engaging.
Joel killed the doctor quick, she-hulk tortured him and was even shocked when her friends were killed by Ellie. Good people don’t need credit for doing good things, only people like Abby feel the need to make a big deal about it.
@@TA-qo2nv joel didnt just kill her dad, he destroyed any chance at creating a cure, thus dooming humanity. a core characteristic of the fireflies was their hope, which was stripped from them when joel went on a killing spree to save ellie. besides, i haven't seen a single person praising abby for helping lev and yara.
@@salem7276 she only did that to “lighten the load”, meaning she didn’t even care about them at first. Everything Abby does is for her own selfish benefit, and I wish Ellie only had the balls to finish the job.
@@salem7276 it’s true though. Abby going back for them stemmed from guilt after Owen called her out on her bullshit. It was a selfless act motivated by a selfish purpose.
One of my favourite things in this game is the transition from cinematic to gameplay. It’s amazing. I think no game managed to accomplish that this good.
God of War was one unbroken camera movement.
@@TheItalianOG oh yeah god of war was amazing too
@@TheItalianOG Too bad the sound only follow Kratos
red dead redemption 2
@@goonsgaming3984 In Rdr 2 they literally change aspect ratio you see it clearly when there is a transition😅
Something I find really fascinating about Abby’s story in this game is the fact that when she tries so desperately to think that she is somehow better than Joel, she eventually becomes just like him. She takes in a broken child after losing everything she ever cared about and in the process, losing her humanity, and it’s Lev that helps bring back some semblance of humanity in her soul. No different than Joel becoming a father to Ellie. So, Abby becomes like a combination of both Joel and Ellie. Hence why she’s such an important character.
Facts
I’m playing right now and man. The hate the character got IMO is unwarranted. She has a lot of depth, and I find her journey more engaging than Ellie so far.
@@Harvester88 The hate this GAME got was unwarranted. If TLoU 2 was the first installment of a franchise people would’ve been very hyped about it and you wouldn’t have seen all the review bombing and fanboys pissed about Joel dying and having to play as a wOmAn the whole time. I loved Joel but he’s a flawed human who made many mistakes and one HUGE mistake that he unfortunately paid for. My only gripe is that his death should’ve been a bit more well written as he is notorious for not trusting strangers. Anyway, this post apocalyptic world does not call for happy walks into the sunset. Revenge breeds revenge. Murder breeds murder. The end of this story put an end to the cycle of revenge.
Random nerd 🤓:no we shouldn't play as abby i hate the game
@@pjr1279 "i hate abby because she got muscles"😫
Abby is genuinely the most badass female character I’ve ever seen
She’s SO COOL
@@whoismorn2ikr and I know it’s still people that hate her but come on they cannot deny her combat is AMAZING
@ihatebananas5737 they'll still deny it. You're right though.
Couldn’t agree more, I’d chose her as my bodyguard in this world
Ripley >
I know people are split when I comes to the story, but everyone can agree that this is possibly the most beautiful game graphically, specifically this scene
SEKIRO
@@yani2499 Sekiro is not known for its graphics, the hell did u get that from.
@@yani2499 that game could run on a ps3
the story was a masterpiece. come at me abby haters
no the story is far from a masterpiece. tlou 1 was a masterpiece
The Forrest is one of the toughest sections of the whole game. I never have any supplies at that point.
Yeah, harvest easy mode is an option still I guess but I wanted to do grounded as intended.
These aggressive videos show how creative you can be in combat, with a well stocked backpack.
Big facts about having no ammo/ health
took me 3 hours to get through that fucking restaurant... my god that was hard
@ari so here’s some tips, use the bricks on the ground to run and auto enemies, you will kill them with one strike after doing so, hopefully you upgraded the thing where she gets an adrenaline rush and kills incoming enemies easier with melee after 1 melee kill, okay now secure all ammo in the backroom you can find some and break all glasses so you can move freely and create space, hopefully you’ve got a pipe bomb also cause you’re gonna need it for the shamblers at the end also if you are low on ammo, try getting headshots on every enemy let them come a bit close to you and shoot them in the head, it’s kind of scary but you just have to shoot last second before they deal damage to you, hopefully this helped 🙏🏼
@ari melee weapons also help a lot, there’s a metal pipe on the top floor if i’m not mistaken
@@awakeningrecordscuracao5369 i was working on it last night and decided to see how this guy beat the level. I gotta remember he's probably playing with the weapons fully upgraded and be knows exactly where to turn. Still makes great videos but its rough for me not knowing anything on my first playthrough.
7:45 This was so unintentionally funny lol, it's supposed to be an intense confrontation yet she's like "DID YOU STEAL MY BAG BRUH"
thats what makes game so realistic, the dialouge is so human
it makes me laugh every time
12:40 **click click** I almost shit my pants! This game always has tense, cinematic moments in store
"Yeah; Click click motherfucker." (First game voiceline :P)
Played this game in all levels and ended, but when that happened? My heart did skip a beat watching this. 👀😨😨😨😅😅😅
This section on grounded BROKE ME. A combination of a lack of ammo/materials + the large amount of enemies left me pretty effed. Not to mention I was almost dead with no way to heal. I've never raged so hard at this game
This is where i stopped my grounded effort.
I died battle after battle in this house with all these infected.
I am more into stealth and i am just not good enough in those action times. (Aaaaand i dont have enough ammo for this part..)
@@franckmeinhardt1866 Worst parts for me (When I played survivor was the hardest difficulty available) Waiting for the Ambulance and The Ellie section in a tiny room with a shambler and theres red flares, I had like 2 pistol bullets and no health and had to deal with them and it was such a tiny area
When you think about it Lev saved Abbys life the moment he shaved his head, because if that didnt happened then Yara wouldnt be in trouble and the Seraphites would have finished their ritual killing Abby.
Shaving his head is not the real reason…..
@@vinsss3196 Well it is other than plot armor.
@@gersonencarnacion3744 « Lily »
@@vinsss3196 Lev*
Yeah. Many tragedies causing new tragedies and great storys to make us cry.
Imagine if Yara missed at 3:06 and it went straight into abbys leg
Or worse..
alternative ending
If Yara was me, that's the ending of the scene 'cause I suck under pressure and adrenaline
@@richenrd thank you for remind me I wrote this😂😂😂😂
@@amitr24242 explain :)
Well played, this whole section of the game is great.
This game is aging well in me, when I first played it I really liked it and then I saw a lot of the criticism it got and I thought my liking for it would decay over time, but no, every time I come across these stealth/agressive gameplays I get fond memories and think damn, even now I can't help but think Abby is actually badass.
I like how you keep composure and pull the trigger at the last moment. Takes Nerve.
One of the most difficult phase of the game.
Best game ever!
I simply love this game. The story, gameplay, music all topnotch.
Abby turned out to be my favorite character!!!!
Mrs trunchbull from Matilda would have been a great seraphite.
I've said the same thing and she remind me so much of her
Damn, no wonder she's so familiar... *BRUH*
@@RentFreeInsideYourDamnHead Yes..Exactly
I can't tell the difference between cinematic and game play, awesome
I misjudged her, she's awesome. Her part of the game is just as fun as Ellie. Just fought that huge thing in the hospital basement, only killed me twice 😬
ratking is a pain in the ass but i don't think it's that hard if the player has the right tactics for defeating it
@@reettalaitinennn truth. Fighting Ellie was *way* harder.
We all did. Five minutes playing as Abby changed my mind, I turned to my sister and I was like: "Hey, she's actually goddman badass"
As badass she nah be, my heart still has hate towards her for killing Joel. IDC if she had her motives
@@nomarvillegas2694 Joel had it coming tho
Abby has the best game play imo
She's basically Joel in terms of gameplay, which really helps in understanding the story as well. Abbys journey in LOU2 is basically a retread of Joel's in the first game. She starts her story off in much the same way Joel did in the original. It was heavily implied that Joel had committed horrendous acts of violence prior to settling in Boston but rediscovers his humanity through his taking care of Ellie. Likewise Abby has lost her humanity through her revenge obsession, and exacting that revenge doesn't fill the void. Like Joel she rediscovers her humanity through the bond she develops with Lev as she protects him from his own people. In santa Barbara lev is even wearing converse to not so subteky hammer home the point that Lev is the Ellie to Abbies Joel.
@@supremeworld87 yes. Well said. Abby and Levs relationship mirrors Joel and Ellies relationship. You hit the nail on the head.
@@richenrd finally! Some One who gets it! Lol
Thank yall
Ellie with the explosive arrows is awesome tho. It's like u have a grenade launcher.
Watching abby beat enemies to death with her bare hands is always awesome as well tho.
This part of the game is where I fell for her
the part where she tries to set yara’s arm was the moment i fell in love 😭
@@midheavenhan yesss😊
🤢🤢🤢
Fell for whom?
@@Thevol40k get tf out of here and let people enjoy things
Tip if you're doing a grounded playthrough: On most areas do not try to kill all the enemies, just kill the necessary to escape to the next zone, I really found this useful when I reached this zone, and also when fighting the rat king on grounded.
Seriously, saving bullets is ESSENTIAL in grounded. It’s better and tbh a lot of fun to use bricks and bottles and hand to hand with weapons rather than ammo. You have to save that ammo for the big boss fights or the sections with waves of enemies.
Favorite game of all time!!! I pray for a part 3
dope gameplay, really needed a strat for my permadeath run
2:19 the woman looks like an exact replica of one of the science teachers in my highschool
Well, now you can imagine how she will be in an apocalypse lmao
@@wtfisthis96 the infected will probably run away if their brain still haven't rotten completely since that teacher likes to give us a lot of physical activity and she's strict
Hahaha
ok.
Well in TLOU universe she became a Scar
Playing Abby was so fun cause I could fist fight all the runners lmao, She’s a beast
about time lol
Just finished on survivor+, but I never could get the hang of shooting with no crosshair!
You can’t lie…… Abby is a FREAKING BEAST. Do you see those arms? 🫠👀
Roids:)
@@csreviews3810 roids or not, she literally shot the ones with those infected 👊🏽👊🏽 two piece combo!
@@onelittlebratz6258 I enjoyed both games, but the Size of her is silly. It's too much. It reminds me of Nadine from Uncharted 4. Overpowered.
@@csreviews3810 I can see where you’re coming from but her size emphasized the fact that she decided to adapt to the circumstances that she was in, with the infected and other people trying to survive, she knew being PHYSICALLY strong was a priority. Plus she knew one day that she would meet Joel, so she prepared herself, she didn’t know what he would be capable of!!!
@@csreviews3810 she’s a trained soldier that is forced to fight things that are not only twice her size, but faster and stronger too. Her size rlly isn’t silly at all, especially not in an apocalypse like this.
I hate the fact that everyone is hating Abby (who isn't even a villain) just for killing a smuggler.
She killed Joel in revenge for her father's death.
There are so many people in TLOU2 world who wanted Joel dead, nobody even knows how many people he and Tommy have killed.
I assume the 3rd part is gonna be about Joel and Tommy's adventure through the apocalypse and people will finally see Joel's dark side.
Honestly if that was the second game it would have been much better. Now people are going to say that the only reason it happened was to further justify Joel’s death.
Joel has always been an “unlikeable” character, but everyone likes him because of how good of a bond him and ellie made, basically he’s a GOOD unlikeable character
@@chachoplay13 that still doesn't justify the hate Abby gets
im not trying to justify the hate, im just saying why people are angry abby killed joel
@@chachoplay13 the "GOOD unlikable character" I think is one of the best explanations of who Joel is that I've ever heard. Also I think I'm pretty much wrong about TLOU3 it's more likely that it is about Ellie and Abby than what I thought it was going to be about.
I would love a dlc about abby and lev. I need more of them
Part 3 starting with their new life at the Firefly base in Santa Barbara years later and finding another capable doctor/equipment to make a cure would be awesome, giving Ellie a chance for redemption.
@@nellisnelslon8210 even IF ( and that is really, really a big « IF ») it was possible , is there ANYTHING that is worth to be saved the human specie in that messed post-apocalyptic world ?? Because it doesn’t seems so.
I started off detesting Abby, and then growing to love her as much as Ellie - what a journey!
You are so goddamn right! I found a tlou2 subreddit and holy moly was i shocked as i saw how many people just complain about this game or it's story but i don't get it. I loved it. The story and how it was told, the change of perspectives as you play as both sides and the growing emotional conflict of who is now really the bad one of them and who is going to win in the end. I think this game is a masterpiece and everyone who says something different just didn't even gave it a chance.
Yes, absolutely, I agree! It was one of the most profound pieces of art/ entertainment media I have experienced in years. So moving. I love it and celebrate Naughty Dog.
@@hanswurst3110 i think it was because the main character of the first game was killed off so early. me personally, i knew it was gonna eventually happen
@@kai-wr6yk no, it's because the plot story was directed by a woman who followed the feminist propaganda, trying to put women as equal as men, which is not the case at all especially when it come to combat/phisically. Killing of the most loved character was the cherry on the cake. They tried it in video game, movie (ghostbuster & such) and it's all the time the same result : men can't identify themself, and women doesn't like it since it's not what they are looking for at all deeply. unfortunatly 99% doesn't know shit about relation between men/women and psychology, and there will always be a small % of brain washed people who will think there is no problem at all. Such a mess for one of the best game of all time.
@@Prussiane so that’s why ppl called the game fake woke, i never looked at it as a equality thing either. i feel like ur gonna get to play as lev in the third one though abby n lev kinda resembles to joel n ellie but who knows
Best cinematic-to-gameplay ever! Plus, for all the haters out there... Abby's gameplay is just great, and the shift to focus on her is nothing short of brilliant. To play as the villain, only to have them become the hero and have you, in turn, become the villain is just genius. Furthermore, it shows what can really only be done in a video game, or more faithfully be done with video games, which is, teaching empathy and understanding, making the player go through the plot with the characters... It's what it's all about for me when it comes to the art IN video games. I just hope the team involved keeps making these kinds of games, that stretch the lines between what is already here, and what is possible. GOAT
I just finished my second play-through of the game yesterday. I wanted to see if it sat as well with me as it did the first time.
I initially thought it a tad too long, but really enjoyed the presentation of the story set over three days (six including perspectives), the jumps in time (great editing choices) to slowly unravel this pulp story of regret and forgiveness.
So, after my second play-through - I do believe its better than the first game in every way - but I do find it a tad too long still (but that epilogue is very important, so what can ya do). Abby is probably tied with Joel as my favorite character(s) in the series. The absolute Terminator 2 levels of ripped she gets lusting after revenge is so badass, I hate so much how many people dislike her just because she has unrealistic muscles for someone not roided up (or because she enacted revenge upon a man that killed her father and doomed humanity [possibly]). Its fiction, I'll take the dramatic physique so long as it imbibes the themes well (and it does). Also, the voice acting is phenomenal, from everyone. I'm doing Italian hand gestures rn.
I believe that the means in which they tell the story are very intentional and that many of the games themes bleed through in almost every scene, and world-building decision - but also how as one character descends into darkness, one ascends into the light. A great part to me (aside from every single scene with Joel in it) is that Abby is really unaware of the chaos Ellie is tearing up in Seattle as she moves on with her life. Multiple times speaking of her regret in killing Joel and how she has to atone for it, because her father wouldn't want that OR her life with WLF for her. She was supposed to be a Firefly - a keeper of the light and she let it slip. "If I ever were to lose you, I'd surely lose myself." plays with both characters throughout the story, as well as Joel in the background. Parts of her old life are starting to come back into shape for her - the fireflies, Owen, being a good person and not a war machine...only to return from saving a child to find that the last straws have been added to a stack she unknowingly started herself.
Great game (absolutely brutal killing), absolute great story and very well realized characters that have enough humanity in them to be stupid, brash and emotional. Everyone is doing the right thing, in their own mind. You think you are too for hating Abby for what she did to Joel. The directors definitely wanted you to feel this. You're supposed to - but you're also supposed to question this feeling and reflect as the game closes to its end. Everyone you kill (almost) has a name and people that loved them, yet we tear through them for our own ends (and because its a third-person shooter). THen the ending bomb, the absolute nuke they detonate with Ellie, when she remembers the night before Joel dies. The night she chose she would forgive him of his past crimes against her. Heavy. Saddening. Brutal.
A lot to think about. The game is rather exhausting - in a good and much needed way. We all could use forgiveness. We all could afford to dish it out a bit more as well (so long as redemption is in the future cards).
Well written! I really agree with you on the whole thing. I just finished it a couple weeks ago for the first time. I was so exhausted mentally and bummed out at the end, but after some distance, I really got to appreciate every aspect of the game.
Abby saying "You're my people!" to Lev really got to me, as well as the song coming back from time to time. I also teared up upon visiting Joel's home. I'm kind of glad he got to "retire" in a way in Jackson for some years, after two decades of really dark stuff. In all his complexities, he still was a broken-hearted father from the beginning of the first game to the last.
I truly started to understand how much the game was gonna fuck with us when I played fetch with Bear, one of the WLF's dog. I was like: "Oooh no, I'm gonna feel like a huge POS very soon"
Also, I just figured out that JJ's name is in hommage to Jesse and Joel's name, which is adorable.
Abby is a beast!
✅✅💪🏾💯
She's about drive, she's about power
@@RentFreeInsideYourDamnHead She goes hungry, she devours. She puts in the work, she puts in the hours.
I have no idea why people hated this game. If you have actually finished the game you realise It was actually amazing, story included
Cause pansy’s now n days hate on everything
because they butchered the story. they took characters who were staples of the game, and changed the way they acted and killed them off like they were nothing so that they could push some forced written aspect of a trans person 20+ years into the apocalypse.
@@kevinharper9467 boohoo keep crying the story was great
@@kevinharper9467 you must obviously think in a post apocalyptic world girls are still playing with make up and dolls. Women can get pretty ripped too my little incel
@@kevinharper9467 Do you really think that, or is what others have told you you should think about the game?
Either way, you have a very biased opinion
The level of polish and detail in this game is like no other!!😍❤️
that spinning backhammer at 5:01 was so clean!
You can literally watch this game without playing it. It’s that good.
God damn part 2 is so much more violent than part 1. Fucking brutal. Getting the remastered version on Friday, so stoked to play
The stalkers drive me insane! It's the part of the game I find the hardest, dodging is so hard! Does anyone have any pointers?
the second they even look like they’re about to start lunging ( they usually raise their arm to strike, that’s your chance to L1) you dodge. they can chain multiple attacks so if they look like they’re about to swing into another attack, just dodge, better safe than sorry. one they’ve assumed a more neutral position, you beat the shit out of em. and repeat
@@shmylvestershmalone6536 thanks for replying! I'm doing my first grounded run ATM and I'm pretty scared even thinking about doing those guys on grounded mode..it really feels like L1 just decided to only work %50 of the time when I'm in that section, I'm sure it's my tools not my lack of skill! Ha. Well I'll give what you're saying a go....I'm up to hostile territory trying to get through the buildings just before the forest and totally getting my ass kicked while trying to use zero bullets thinking of those two freaking bloaters and zombies I'm going to have to also kill. Fuck me, Abby's section is brutal!
melee, then dodge, melee, then dodge, melee, dodge, melee, melee
stalkers are harder to fight, because they are not stunned by your first attack like humans and runners
so you gotta pay more attention when to dodge
@@mauriciojose9004 I managed to get past but it definitely took the longest, it was a good few hours. It's the hardest bit for me and I've watched so many other people get through this section and it looks so easy! Hate it, it gives me anxiety just thinking about it.
@@shmylvestershmalone6536 ³²w²w
Outstanding 👍👏
Outstanding PlayStation Abby
👍🏻👏🏻
Insane. I can’t tell you how many times I died in that place. It took me about 90 mins 😂🤦🤦
And you do it without even getting hit 😂😂👍👍👍👏👏👏
8:36 sooooooo satisfying!!!
Don't touch people or their stuff 😂😂😂
Fucking BRUTAL. I love this game.
This game is just amazing
Abbey is a bad ass 🤯🤯
i will never skip this scene its just too good
Only game where sometimes I will WIN a fight and still hit that “restart encounter” button just to do it all again but BETTER
Didn't know my school cafeteria lunch lady would brawl with Abby
7:35 how to forget miss tronchatoro
I named her Helga
7:53 love how abby gets brutal in tight situations. just like when she bit ellies fingers off
Abbey had the best part of the game hands down. Yara was great, Lev with that bow was surgical.
I've completed this Game several times, now I started God of War again.. but I can't stop watching these videos 😂
Guilty
Thank you for the outsanding gameplay, although if i may make a suggestion, i'd advise more fist-fighting, it's the best thing about Abby and it's her Forte.
thx , i will try to do it better in grounded +
Abby sucks at fist-fighting. In the first game, Joel punched hard enough to stagger enemies with his punches. Thus, you'd get a free kill on any enemy unless *another* enemy started attacking Joel mid fight. But Abby has weak-ass punches that don't stagger enemies. Every time she punches a Stalker, they immediately strike back with another punch. So you're constantly dodging enemy punches, which prolongs the fist-fight, which gives other enemies more time/opportunity to attack you.
about Abby and it's her Forte advise more fist-fighting, it's the best thing although if i may make a suggestion, i d Thank you for the outsanding gameplay
@@GamerANH @GamerANH
@@theladypuppetcyberpunk2022 check grounded + playlist
When we get over the killing of Joel she's actually a fucking wicked character
Abby's a bad bitch 🔥
24.8 subs.
So nice.
Well done bro.
U are great.💙💙💙
thanks bro
@@GamerANH you're welcome man!
Abby was the best, but I was one of the ones coming at the game with an open mind, unlike all the fools that lost out coming with the closed mind.
I don’t even play video games but I’ll watch your videos
How is this on a system that came out in 2013 🤯
Just made me remember how crazy this part of the game was
This whole sequence was brilliant
This game is a very incredible i lovs the last of us part 2. ! 😍😍😍🤩🤩🤩
I love this level because it really shows of how amazing the melee combat is because your not able to use your guns or bombs.
I Love you Abby and I Always will
Imo the forest is the hardest chapter of the game. The section at the end is brutal.
You don’t know real pain if you haven’t played grounded plus with permanent death on
Me with only have passed Hillcrest with ellie on grounded Is so much pain for me :,)
Wow ur way better at dodging than I am!
i have two very important tips for grounded:
1. PRONING IN TALL GRASS
enemies won’t be able to see you unless they directly touch you while you are crawling in the grass. also, if you are in combat and want to escape, you can literally just run away and dive into the grass. they lose sight of you pretty easily.
2. STRIKING UNAWARE ENEMIES
holy shit, i CANNOT tell you how many times i used this to get out of sticky situations. striking is pretty much a guaranteed kill, and if an enemy spots you while in stealth, you can always strike them and take away another problem. this works pretty well with the first tip. strike an enemy, dive into the grass, rinse and repeat until everyone is dead. if you ARE going to adopt this strategy, use the melees with the lesser durability first.
the key importance of grounded is to be patient. even if you make a mistake, the checkpoint system is pretty generous as compared to the last game, so you can afford to mess up.
These are the most obvious tips.
The game literally teaches you that the first time you play it ._.
@@DatGuy12345 thank you for your advice, I will take none of it into consideration 😃 (/s)
Idc what people say this is fucking badass
Fantastic. Naughty Dog are fire!
4:14 yeah thats a protagonists stand alright
It's like if Chris Redfield was a girl. I have no doubt she could punch a boulder into a volcano with those guns holy shit
Abby is secretly a member of the Redfield bloodline, there's no other explanation.
imagine the game was open world and you can come back again the area taking picture and just walkign aroung
The best way to spare your ammo in this part or any other on grounded is to get the strike ability. It is a pill unlockable skill the makes it so that when you strike someone, you get another free strike. Basically if you shoot the legs and then strike, you get a free one hit melee. So it’s great for conserving ammo.
I loved playing as abby
good stuff
I don't know if it was just me or this particular section of the game has better graphic and detail than the other sections
I swear to God I noticed this too! I recently played thru the game for my second time since it initially launched back in 2020 and on my PS5, and I swear THIS particular section looks better than all the others throughout the entire game
On replays, the only part of the game I (reluctantly) dislike is the part where you initially switch from Ellie to Abby and it’s a semi-awkward hour or so of cutscenes, exposition, and forced walking sections interspersed with occasional action. It has nothing to do with the story, just gameplay pacing. But MAN! The moment this part of the game kicks into gear, it has me fully back in its grasp until the end credits
Did anyone else noticed this when Abby chokes a human there's no crack sound nor but when she chokes any infected she pulls the arm and there's crack sound as well.
Red dead redemption ❤️♥️❤️
Last of us ♥️❤️♥️
I need a girl like Abby in my life
Same 😍😍✅💯💪🏾
Abby would be the man in the relationship lol
Anybody else reminded of Joel carrying his daughter before she died, during the sequence with Abby carrying Lev's sister?
Yh it’s a great parallel
Just beat the game. What an amazing ride
This game are good
Best cinematographic scene
Abby :LOVE:
I need Abby's lifting routine
8:30 This is legit movie-level fighting choreography right there. Naughty Dog are the GOATs of the gaming industry.
Super fight 👍
ARE YOU WEARING MY BACKPACK?!
I played this part for about a hour. Couldn't take it anymore after you know what happens
This guy has the reflexes of a cat
This part is so scary to me
Abby such a fucking bad ass she had the best parts of the game imo
I dont care what people say but last of us 2 was one hell of a game. Its story was excellent. Hated the part where our man Joel died. But still the game was pretty engaging.
abby is such a good person, she hasnt smashed someones head in with a golf club in a whole day !
Joel killed the doctor quick, she-hulk tortured him and was even shocked when her friends were killed by Ellie. Good people don’t need credit for doing good things, only people like Abby feel the need to make a big deal about it.
@@TA-qo2nv joel didnt just kill her dad, he destroyed any chance at creating a cure, thus dooming humanity. a core characteristic of the fireflies was their hope, which was stripped from them when joel went on a killing spree to save ellie. besides, i haven't seen a single person praising abby for helping lev and yara.
@@salem7276 she only did that to “lighten the load”, meaning she didn’t even care about them at first. Everything Abby does is for her own selfish benefit, and I wish Ellie only had the balls to finish the job.
@@TA-qo2nv that had nothing to do with my other comment but whatever.
@@salem7276 it’s true though. Abby going back for them stemmed from guilt after Owen called her out on her bullshit. It was a selfless act motivated by a selfish purpose.
love how abby throws hands with inferted
These hands make a better weapon unless they have a gun but if u can disarm them quick enough {which most people cant do so theyre screwed anyway}
That thumbnail says constipation meets toilet bowl
How badass she looks, with that pure hate face and a hammer.
A great scene and a great game👊🏿
Nice game and also have nice move or skills