They butchered everything horribly.
Killing Joel in itself was already a God awful move, making his death so rapid, early and unbuilt was the worst thing in the whole game. He was there for the entirety of the Remastered game taking her across the country, in Left Behind he was unconscious for nearly the whole time and Ellie was looking for the first aid kit to help him, along with the backstory between her and Riley. Then after all of this, this butch woman/transgender Abby kills him with a golf club early into the new game.
What really tied the noose here was how Ellie's role in this game was supposed to be a bloodthirsty revenge spree leading towards Abby, and during the final fight the lets Abby go off in the boat. There's no choice or anything, she starts drowning Abby then decides to let her up and go. And, she loses 2 fingers in the struggle too, so even more unsatisfying. This game did The Last of Us: Remastered (an amazing prequel) no justice at all.
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