It is time for the final battle between Ellie and Abby – I was a mess and it made me cry!
Welcome to the ending of The Last of Us Part 2. Ellie is determined to find Abby and fights her way through a nest of Vipers. Only, it doesn’t quite go as she planned and these Vipers have a lot more going on than she realised.
Chapters:
00:00 – Start
00:00:31 – Finding the Fireflies
00:08:35 – Following Abby
00:16:33 – Finding the Vipers Nest
00:43:00 – The Beach
00:48:46 – The Final Battle
01:03:53 – Final Thoughts
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These are my thoughts on the Ending of The Last of Us Part 2
“We let you live, and you wasted it” summarises the ending for me.
I took the story of TLoU (the series) to be that life is cruel and the price of living is steep.
Unlike many of the comments I read, I liked that both Ellie and Abby lived.
I never expected to like Abby but I slowly appreciated her finding of herself and ultimately that she chooses to be better.
I never expected to dislike Ellie. Where Abby tried to do good (in the end), Ellie went full kamikaze and in my eyes, became the bad person I believed Abby to be at the start.
*Also, I realised as I saw a final cut scene – Ellie and Joel have been estranged for years by the point that the game starts (although they were going to make up). I often see comparisons between Ellie’s “dad” and Abby’s. But understanding as I do now, Abby’s reaction to her dad whom she loves deeply and spends time with regularly, getting killed makes a lot more sense than Ellie’s reaction about the man she distanced herself from because he took her “reason” to be alive.*
Tommy has clearly become a shell of a man, and goads Ellie into going after Abby again. That she does, abandoning Dina and their son JJ tells me that she’ll never actually move on from this – even though she already has EVERYTHING!
That final fight between Ellie and Abby nearly made me cry. Ellie heard their comments about women, went through that compound and heard about what happens there from the other prisoners. Maybe I made some jumps on what I believe could have happened to Abby, but I believe the implications are clear.
Then when Ellie finds Abby she’s tiny (compared to before), she’s beaten and her braid is gone. She’s lost everything (my perception) of who she was and any sense of self she had.
And yet, the first thing Abby did when freed was to get Lev down too – even though she’s in a terrible state.
Abby has truly changed.
For Ellie then to pick a fight, with the intent to kill her (knowing that Lev would die then too) was the moment I lost most of my faith in Ellie.
Then to try and drown Abby was absolutely my last 🍴for Ellie.
Ellie letting Abby leave was her last remaining shred of humanity.
While I’m glad that both women are still alive, I have no sympathy for Ellie and I’m glad Dina got out – she deserves someone who will put their family first.
For Abby, I hope she and Lev get to finally stop fighting.
For Ellie, I hope she learns to appreciate what she has.
Ultimately, I would have preferred for the story to end at the Ranch house with Dina. But it wouldn’t be The Last of Us without suffering.
This series for me goes in the same pile as Red Dead Redemption. It could have given the player happiness or closure, but instead chose to make a point.
The point: You can’t win.
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Five years after their dangerous journey across the post-pandemic United States, Ellie and Joel have settled down in Jackson, Wyoming. Living amongst a thriving community of survivors has allowed them peace and stability, despite the constant threat of the infected and other, more desperate survivors.
When a violent event disrupts that peace, Ellie embarks on a relentless journey to carry out justice and find closure. As she hunts those responsible one by one, she is confronted with the devastating physical and emotional repercussions of her actions.
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Good morning calamity! Great timing as I’m eating protein pancakes and coffee! Have a great day!
Can't wait to hear your overall thoughts!
Nice playthrough!
I get you, but you're so rough on Ellie at the end. Especially considering the parallel with Abby. She did go after Abby believing it may free her from her traumatic nightmares. But she did end up sparing Abby, the murderer of her father. On the other hand, Abby, in the same shoes, did not make that choice. She did avenge her father, not just by killing the author, but with merciless and despicable torture and moved on. Some might say the experience was """slightly""" more traumatizing for Ellie btw… Sometime it's worth trying to put things in perspective.
Well you didn't rage quit like I did when I played 🤘 I just don't think it made any sense whatsoever she lost everything , I did really appreciate & enjoyed your playthrough Cassie you did a Stella job & look forward to the next adventure you have for us sending good vibes and laughter to miss sunshine smile take care 💜🙏🌻🌺🦋
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Great gameplay i really enjoyed watching you play this is an important lesson but we're humans we follow our emotions but if Ellie didn't fight Abby she'd still be able to play the guitar
Let me see if I can shed some light on Ellie's thought process in Santa Barbara + overall ending:
After Abby spares her + Dina and gives Ellie the chance to experience a peaceful family life with a partner and child, Ellie finally starts to experience the fulfilling life that Joel wanted her to experience when he saved her from the hospital, not for her to waste it on grief and regret. And when Tommy shows up at the farmhouse, Ellie at that point isn't full of anger like she was in Seattle. At least a year has passed, so she's not reeling from Joel's recent death and has had time to process her true feelings about him and Abby. And Ellie realized in that time that she was not mad at Abby specifically, bc she's accepted that she was angrier at herself this whole time for not mending her relationship with Joel soon enough, bc he was the person she loved the most. But she's still depressed and suicidal, and she doesn't know any other way to cure her PTSD except to look for Abby and possibly kill her if that's what it takes. Bc proper therapy doesn't exist in the apocalypse to help her deal with her grief, and Dina's method of talking about Jessie to his parents and JJ isn't how Ellie feels comfortable talking about Joel yet.
Abby was in full control during their prior 2 encounters and was the one who decided to spare Ellie, not vice versa. But SB is when Ellie finally has agency over Abby's fate for the 1st time, and when she finally has Abby essentially 'defeated' and drowning, Ellie has the option to finally kill her. And she realizes doing all this isn't curing her PTSD as she hoped, instead, she's thinking of all the time she wasted getting there and the family she left behind. Thus Ellie's flashback of Joel pops up of when he 1st showed support for her relationship with Dina, a part of her identity that she was scared that Joel would judge her for (bc this whole time he thought she was straight). It was a final reminder that abandoning Dina and JJ is the last thing Joel would've wanted for her life. So Ellie spares Abby to give herself closure, as the first act of self-forgiveness, and moves on to seek real help for her PTSD in Jackson. Bc the best way she could honor Joel's love for her would be to not push away the other people in her life who loved her. It's hinted that Ellie reunited with Dina in Jackson before that farmhouse scene at the very end, bc Ellie is wearing Dina's evil eye bracelet which she didn't previously have with her when she left for SB.