The second subcategory is kills that are required but can be carried out by the NPC companions. Mel’s death would count towards this subcategory’s total, while Owen’s death wouldn’t. The button press before Mel’s death directly causes Mel’s death. A button is pressed before both deaths, but the button press before Owen’s death opens a door to trigger a cutscene. To provide a clarifying example, let’s look at Owen and Mel’s deaths. The first is kills in which you press a button and that button press leads to death. I will count all kills that are required to progress the story on Ellie and Abby’s side of the game and organize them into two subcategories for each character.Speaking of what I’m looking for, let’s get into some rules for this run: My documentation of this pacifist run will be me atoning for not being clear about what my goals were and what I was and wasn’t looking for. If I’m going to reclaim my work, I’m going to make it better. And I think there are things that I could have brought up that I didn’t because I was too concerned with epically owning the anti-SJWs who lack media literacy skills. It’s certainly not that well thought out. The main reason, however, is that I honestly don’t think my work was that good.

I’m also no longer affiliated with 366 Sports and knowing the people they employ and the way they operate, I have no desire to be. It doesn’t happen a crazy amount, but this isn’t the first time I’ve seen it linked by people who aren’t me. Another is the fact that my article seems to be the only documented pacifist run that’s shared around. That discussion in that Reddit thread sparked in part because of my piece is one. My motivations for this piece comes from a few different places. I’ve been down that road, and I don’t care about debating every opinion I disagree with anymore. I’m not interested in trying to combat someone’s opinion on this game. This piece isn’t about ludonarrative dissonance or responding to any argument. The top comment on that post is from user SoMuchForLongevity, who linked my pacifist run while making an argument about why they believe there is ludonarrative dissonance in TLOU2. In short, the term describes a disconnect between the story being told through a game’s narrative and the story being told through gameplay. It was a post about how they weren’t a fan of the arguments that claim TLOU2 suffers from ludonarrative dissonance, a term I covered in my Ghost of Tsushima review. Two days ago, I was browsing the r/thelastofus subreddit, and I saw this post by user Altruistic_Band_2511. The argument was that the game forced you to kill hundreds of enemies, and then the game tried to make you feel bad about these killings by having you play as a character affiliated with the same faction as a lot of those enemies. The motivation behind the article had to do with an argument that seemed to have two parts. I wrote what was a documented pacifist run I did while playing The Last of Us Part II. However, in July 2020, I broadened my horizons. Most of the writing I’ve done is about sports because that was and in a way still is one of my first passions. I have been writing articles like this since I was 14. Revisiting: How Many Enemies Are You Forced To Kill In TLOU2?

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