>>718143432
Lisa?

>>718152185
this guy gets it. not all storytelling is like star wars, good guy vs bad guy. joel starts off as an objectively good guy, working and taking care of his daughter. his daughter is taken from him by a very unfair chain of events. this starts a chain of events that turns joel into a cold and ruthless survivor, someone who will do whatever it takes to protect what he has left. by the time he meets ellie, that hard shell starts to crack but his decision at the end is exactly in line with who he’s become.

it’s not about being purely good or evil, it’s about his humanity, and how his love for ellie outweighs the "greater good" from his perspective, and as active participants in the story we relate with him and understand why he did it. we’re not watching from the outside like some detached moral judge, we’ve been with him the whole journey, felt the same losses, and made the same calls in our heads. that’s why the "joel is evil" take is so shallow, it ignores the entire emotional context of the game.