History Heartwarming / TheLastOfUsPartII

* Meta: Just the mere fact that we FINALLY have a huge AAA game with an LGBTQ protagonist is cause enough for celebration. But even better is the fact that this game strongly averts BuryYourGays with all of the LGBTQ characters surviving until the end contrary to a lot of popular media, and it includes a prominent trans character played by an actual trans actor. Even if some people took issue with how some of those characters were handled, it's difficult to argue that nevertheless it's a huge step forward in representation for gaming as a whole. Even better is the fact that it came out during Pride Month.

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** Yara, who hmust have had the same experience, also gets to play fetch with Alice.

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** Third, Ellie does not react as if this is her first time back to the Farm since the fight with Abby (the fact that she has absolutely no weapons on her implies that), which implies she's doing this more to finally put her memories of Joel to rest than anything else.

** Third, Ellie does not react as if this is her first time back to the Farm since the fight with Abby (the fact that she has absolutely no weapons on her implies that), which implies she's doing this more to finally put her memories of Joel to rest then anything else.

* The ending, at first glance, falls straight into TearJerker territory. However, some details that one may see throughout the final sequence hint that it's a lot less bleak than it seems.

* Despite Ellie becoming more stoic and violent there are still moments when she is her snarky likeable self from the first game again, no matter what happens she’ll always be the same Ellie that we knew from the first game.

* Despite Ellie becoming more stoic and violent there are still moments when she is her snarky likeable self from the first game again, no matter what happens she’s always be the same Ellie that we knew from the first game.

!!The Game

** The interactions with Ellie and Jesse are just as heartwarming. While Ellie is uncomfortable with how close Dina and Jesse are towards each other, she still treats him with respect and Jesse is pretty friendly to both of them. On top of being a nice guy, a week after he and Dina broke up Jesse teases Ellie about getting together with her with no grudge against her whatsoever. He even approves of the pairing and is very supportive of Dina and Ellie's relationship in general. And while his death is sad, Ellie's shocked reaction showed that she did care about him.
* Towards the end of "Seattle, Day 1", we're treated to a flashback of when Joel celebrated Ellie's 16th birthday by taking her to the well-kept remains of a museum themed with dinosaurs and space travel; two of Ellie's favorite things. Her and Joel's interactions throughout this part, culminating in Joel giving her a cassette with the voice over from the Apollo 11 launch, which Ellie listens and imagines along to while they sit in an Apollo era crew capsule, has already been lauded by many as being "several times more heartwarming" than the giraffe scene of the first game. Of course, the flashback equally counts for a TearJerker as well considering Joel being tragically dead in the present time.

-->'''Ellie''': I don't think I can ever forgive you for that. ...But I'd like to try.

* Towards the end of "Seattle, Day 1", we're treated to a flashback of when Joel celebrated Ellie's 16th birthday by taking her to the well-kept remains of a museum themed with dinosaurs and space travel; two of Ellie's favorite things. Her and Joel's interactions throughout this part, culminating in Joel giving her a cassette with the voice over from a rocket launch from the 60s, which Ellie listens and imagines along to while they sit in a space shuttle prop, has already been lauded by many as being "several times more heartwarming" than the giraffe scene of the first game. Of course, the flashback equally counts for a TearJerker as well considering Joel being tragically dead in the present time.

* Joel and Ellie's final conversation sits between this and TearJerker. To begin, Joel is unconditionally supportive of Ellie's feelings for Dina.

** Third, Ellie does not react as if this is her first time back to the Farm since the fight with Abby(the fact that she has absolutely no weapons on her implies that), which implies she's doing this more to finally put her memories of Joel to rest then anything else.

* The ending is actually more heartwarming than it appears at first glance. People assume that Dina has left Ellie for good because her visiting the empty farm happens right after the final fight with Abby, but if you pay attention to a number of details you'll notice that's not necessarily the case-first off Ellie is dressed completely differently at the end then she was in Santa Barbara (I.E. wearing boots instead of her converse sneakers) and you can see she's put on weight which would only make sense if she was staying in someplace like Jackson with plenty of food, second Dina's portrait is noticeably missing from the art room despite everything else there being left intact, third Ellie does not react as if this is her first time back to the Farm since the fight with Abby(the fact that she has absolutely no weapons on her implies that), which implies she's doing this more to finally put her memories of Joel to rest then anything else, fourth the fact that there's no note from Dina combined with all of the other previous details implies that she already had left a note earlier telling Ellie where she was and encouraging her to come back home, and finally Ellie is seen wearing Dina's bracelet in the end and she wasn't wearing it previously in Santa Barbara, and if you look in her backpack it's not there, which means Dina must have it which means Ellie did in fact reconcile with Dina after all and didn't lose everything like many players believed.

* Towards the end of "Seattle, Day 1", we're treated to a flashback of when Joel celebrated Ellie's 16th birthday by taking her to the well-kept remains of a museum themed with dinosaurs and space travel; two of Ellie's favourite things. Her and Joel's interactions throughout this part, culminating in Joel giving her a cassette with the voice over from a rocket launch from the 60s, which Ellie listens and imagines along to while they sit in a space shuttle prop, has already been lauded by many as being "several times more heartwarming" than the giraffe scene of the first game. Of course, the flashback equally counts for a TearJerker as well considering Joel being tragically dead in the present time.

* The ending is actually more heartwarming than it appears at first glance. People assume that Dina has left Ellie for good because her visiting the empty farm happens right after the final fight with Abby, but if you pay attention to a number of details you'll notice that's not necessarily the case-first off Ellie is dressed completely differently at the end then she was in Santa Barbera (I.E. wearing boots instead of her converse sneakers) and you can see she's put on weight which would only make sense if she was staying in someplace like Jackson with plenty of food, second Dina's portrait is noticeably missing from the art room despite everything else there being left intact, third Ellie does not react as if this is her first time back to the Farm since the fight with Abby(the fact that she has absolutely no weapons on her implies that), which implies she's doing this more to finally put her memories of Joel to rest then anything else, fourth the fact that there's no note from Dina combined with all of the other previous details implies that she already had left a note earlier telling Ellie where she was and encouraging her to come back home, and finally Ellie is seen wearing Dina's bracelet in the end and she wasn't wearing it previously in Santa Barbera, and if you look in her backpack it's not there, which means Dina must have it which means Ellie did in fact reconcile with Dina after all and didn't lose everything like many players believed.
* While Joel's death is utterly heartbreaking it also means that he reunites with both Tess and his daughter Sarah in the afterlife.