It's like beating a dead horse, but here it goes:
- kills off the main character, like it's nothing, and like we have no emotional investment in him
- replaces the main character with the person who murders previous main character as if that's acceptable
- Joel must die for his sins, but Abby gets forgiven and let go, even though you spend the whole game hunting her down with the purpose of killing her
- it's superfluous that they kill him off, and it's equally superfluous that Abby gets a pass
- replaces main character with a woman, and woman that comes across as lacking in any femininity. Not that any femininity would have helped, but the fact, it's making her character appeal to a certain segment of political views out there.
- "lacking in any femininity " - an aspect that seems to be celebrated by many reviewers/bloggers, etc. as if finding a woman attractive is misogynic. The whole man wooing a woman, is seen as making the woman second place to the man.
- the ideology of Neil Druckmann (I added the second n Neil, so relax) which he has talked about in interviews
- Neil's condescending attitude to the fans who don't appreciate his story decisions or his ideology
- it's almost as if, how dare we care for Joel! Why? Is is too much of a man, or too white, or what? This follows the narrative that is going on in society these days, that gender and race have to be fixed, to undo the past, so instead of creating new characters, and new stories, they get rid of our current hero's. Case in point, killing off Peter Parker in the comic books.
- one of the strongest story elements in the first game, is the paternal feelings you have for Ellie, is that she replaced your daughter, and you have to help her, and it would have been nice if that continued. In this warped world, I would not be surprised that people have a problem with this also.
- the vast majority of stories are told from a serial point of view, in that the characters you have grown to like, is continued, and this game breaks that mold. Why? For all the wrong reasons.
- Woman are strong, and men are either evil, and useless (and usually both), like all the male characters in this game. It's like your basic script these days for a Netflix show. It's an agenda to correct what is perceived as a wrong, like income equality between men and woman. Have to have more stories of woman dominating over men.