I have seen you line of thought on twitter and it looks good on paper...

The issue is that this is not how humans work.

The only chance that Ellie would get out of her berserker mode(after killing Abby's crew) would be after she killed Abby because then there would be a vacuum of meaning for her. The short reflection time that results in not killing Abby is utter BS. And if you don't believe me, we had some real life events where people also did not stop and reflect on what they are doing while harming others... . And if this is not enough, there are enough war stories that show you that this is BS.

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ND can try to put some pseudo philosophical meaning in a game, but when the behavior of characters is unnatural, people will reject it. Review Brigarding aside, The mechanics are basic(yeah we have a jump button in 2020), graphics are fine but the story is utter shit.