However, many of these moments don't quite seem to come from her organically, instead being projected on her by Dina, who by the end moves from joining the hunt for Abby to attempting to call Ellie off. There are moments in The Last of Us 2's narrative where Ellie seems to show some level of reluctance or regret for what she's doing to the Wolves, many of which are innocent in the killing of Joel. RELATED: The Last of Us 2: Will the Multiplayer Have a Battle Royale Mode? However, that isn't to say that characters like Dina don't have their own impact on Ellie, often providing the more "humane" side to contradict Joel's realism. It may not have been as distracting, if The Last of Us 2's narrative didn't rely on explaining her expertise through flashbacks of Joel or mentioning him in the same breath that she figures out a way forward. This has a result, good or ill, of making a lot of Ellie's victories in The Last of Us 2 more of a retroactive victory for Joel, showing the ways that he taught her to survive and how it paid off.Īdding new characters to the party doesn't even manage to fix this problem, as neither Dina nor Jesse are able to overtake Ellie's survival skills that she had picked up from Joel.
However, after his sudden death in the prologue, Joel doesn't remain as just a memory or a motivation for Ellie, instead becoming her guiding light from beyond the grave. Having Joel influence The Last of Us 2 as a looming figure is no surprise, considering the impact the character had as the protagonist of the first game. Her reliance on Joel, as well as the story delivered in the flashbacks of their separation and reconciliation, is also consistent theme throughout The Last of Us 2 that influences Ellie's character. Before the troubling scene when Ellie tortures Nora for information, she spends much of the game simply following a trail of clues, many of which left by Tommy, all while using skills she picked up from Joel. The first real decision that Ellie makes during her hunt for Abby comes when she finally catches Nora, a member of the group that hunted down and killed Joel in the opening. The same can be said for Ellie in many ways. But with Ellie essentially on the hunt, and Ellie being one step behind Tommy for the majority of the game, Abby just sort of stumbles around on events as they happen.
She's got other fish to fry, and it isn't unheard of for a villain to have such a large focus. The start of the game puts Ellie on this path of vengeance, while Abby is blissfully unaware for a good portion of her part. However, this new character perhaps define Ellie more so than anything else. It's difficult to say that there was much room for a continuation of The Last of Us' story without Abby and her own search for revenge, fueled on by the ending of the original.
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