no, tlou2 is ambiguous in many ways but the ellie people are the bad guys.
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they would sacrifice that one girl for a cure for the entire humanity and she was even ok with it in hindsight, joel was the one to just go up and just kill everyone to get her back because he felt bad at the very last second, dooming humanity in the process. then just fucking off to live his comfy life on this small village. like nice one, dick.
I was more talking about how you kill hundreds, if not thousands, of random dudes and then the game tries to make you feel bad for wanting to kill another one.
no, tlou2 is ambiguous in many ways but the ellie people are the bad guys.
spoiler
they would sacrifice that one girl for a cure for the entire humanity and she was even ok with it in hindsight, joel was the one to just go up and just kill everyone to get her back because he felt bad at the very last second, dooming humanity in the process. then just fucking off to live his comfy life on this small village. like nice one, dick.
I was more talking about how you kill hundreds, if not thousands, of random dudes and then the game tries to make you feel bad for wanting to kill another one.
oh yeah, that’s always a great way to break my immersion but its almost unavoidable 😔
we are the baddies though so it tracks somewhat this time. the game even addresses this contradiction here and there.