That's exactly what this game is
Everything is forced
The game is one big attempt to get you to like a new character AT THE DETRIMENT OF EVERYTHING ELSE
Who thought introducing a new character by making them kill off not only one of the main characters but the symbol of the game in the first two hours, then have you play as her for half the game was a good idea?
Not only that, you don't even kill her in the end
Ellie let's her go after she bites two of her fingers off and has a random flashback of Joel
Ellie kills hundreds of people for no reason
The story sucks there is no way around it
The game is upsetting in the sense that Neil had alternate story lines w/ Joel and Ellie and chose this one
The playable flashbacks w/ Joel were the best parts of the game in terms of the story having an emotional impact
I would have preferred another Joel and Ellie adventure w/ Joel dying in Part 3 or dying more reasonably and much later on (midway or at the end) in Part 2
They made Joel dumb as fukk in Part 2 and has a new personality in Part 2 that doesn't make sense
Dumbass Neil
That’s that disrespectful stuff that developers do, don’t kill off the people we like...fork the series or something if you want to get creative. Same shyt 343 did with Halo 5 with Agent Locke...it’s like...
“Who the fukk is this nikka and why am I not playing as Chief?”
Same shyt is Mass Effect when they killed off Shepherd...if you ain’t the walking dead stop acting like you can discard key characters without flack. Mario is like 35 and that nikka ain’t been killed off once and his games are as fresh as they ever have been.