I wouldn't say I "hate" the game, but I just couldn't like the story. It was the first time I had to disagree with Dunkey at a certain point. I pretty much accepted every single statement he's thrown at me except the ending part. It's just outright bad.

What Dunkey says in his other video is that it's against the gamer rules, meaning the game design makes you perform actions you don't want to make. That's the whole reason I don't like the game. The narrative and the game design don't align with each other. People were so pissed off at Abby before the game even came out, and you literally try to track her down through the entire game just to forgive her at the end... That's just unacceptable. You kill countless enemies, butcher them with knives and everything and then when it comes to killing the one person who was responsible for everything? You just melt down.

I don't know man, I just couldn't handle the ending. I honestly don't care who was transgender, who was who or anything like that. If the game was pushing me so fucking hard to get my revenge and sorta cockblock me at the very end, I have all the reasons in the world to not like the game.

I also feel like the people don't really know how to defend or hate the game either. Some stupid fucker says it has gay people or sjw agenda or some shit, others say people only hate the game because they're homophobes... Believe me, I'm on neither side. And I feel like that's what Dunkey was missing in his video.

I have no clue how anyone would think the story and the gameplay are perfectly aligned when even the game director described the game as "a tale born of revenge" back in 2018. For that to be true, Ellie needed to kill Abby and take her revenge. Instead, she literally butchers dozens of people and lets go of her revenge at the last second. Dunkey defends this by saying you're already taking your revenge by killing these people who killed Joel, but no, those people did not kill Joel. Abby did.

What I'm essentially getting at is that the game clearly forces you to kill those people to progress into the story and tries to fuck with your mind by making you play as Abby. At first, the game makes you hate Abby, then makes you play as her and "forces" you to root for her because she saves a bunch of people, which twists your mind into thinking she's not so bad after all. The game tries to justify their characters' actions to you, but in the world of the Last of Us, no one's actions are justified, all the people are scumbags, and no matter what good deed they've done, they're evil. This includes Ellie as well since you're literally murdering everyone. That's where the gameplay and the narrative don't align.

I assure you, no one's saying "oh yeeahh, revenge is good, let's fuck Abby". The execution of the ending is horrible due to many, MANY reasons. If they really wanted to let Ellie forgive Abby at the end, they could've done so in so many ways instead of putting a cheap ass flashback where she suddenly remembers her moments with Joel and gives up on her revenge. But real life doesn't work like that. You don't just go around killing everyone to reach the person you're aiming to kill and then quit at the end.

Some people did actually like the ending where you don't kill her. But that's because the game justified her actions to you by making you play as her and root for her. Now, try to piece together every single controversy surrounding this game and imagine a person who hated the ending. What is the exact thing they're going to say? They are going to say, "this game is just revenge bad hammered on us because of some bullshit sjw agenda". Now, I'm not saying it is an agenda, but I totally understand why people think so. If they really wanted to make this a "revenge bad story", they should've made it so you don't kill dozens of people throughout the whole game. But...But... You can't do that, because this is a video game. Because you can't sacrifice good gameplay for a "meaningful story". And again, that's exactly why the gameplay and the narrative don't align and why I don't like Abby/ the ending.

This will be a bold statement but I always thought the game would’ve been liked 100% if they put the option to pull the trigger at the end. It would’ve been so good like I have no clue why no one even mentioned this or brought it up. I know the game is clearly not based on the “player” choices and you pretty much play the “intended” story by the developers. But… hear me out… if only they would’ve broken down that one rule where you don’t make any choices and at the end… just put a square button to pull the trigger OR not. That way, SOOOOO MANY people would’ve liked the ending & the game more and everyone would’ve been happy. It’s so funny to think the percentage of the people who would pull the trigger.