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I'm not sure what new context they think could possibly make it all okay. From everything I've seen or heard people say, the previous game ended with Joel committing justifiable homicide in defense of a little girl named Ellie who was about to be fruitlessly murdered in the name of the greater good by a group of terroristic rebels. In particular one surgeon who was preparing to murder Ellie via vivisection forced Joel to kill him when he wouldn't let Joel just take Ellie. This game reveals that that murderous surgeon had a daughter named Abby. Who appears to be a mostly grown teenager or young adult in the cutscene of her learning of his death, but it's a little hard to judge so she might be a younger teenager I suppose. Fast forward several years later, and Abby appears to be living the good life for a post apocalyptic world. A full modern gym and plenty of food which has let her get ridiculously buff. Electricity. Plenty of books to read. Friends and comrades who praise her skill. Sexual partners. Yet rather than come to terms with her father's death over the course of the years, and accept that maybe he was in the wrong for attempting to murder a little girl, Abby still wants revenge. Enough so that at some point she and her friends get a chance to track down Joel, and they take it. Resulting in them brutally murdering Joel in front of his adopted daughter Ellie, as well as murdering a few other people, including the father of the baby that Ellie's girlfriend Dina is carrying. When Ellie and Dina then understandably hunt down Abby and her friends for revenge/justice, the game ends in a fight where the player is controlling Abby and when they win the fight, the result is that Abby and one of her friends beat Ellie and Dina within an inch of their lives, before effectively leaving them for dead because to finish them off directly would some how make them worse people or some such.
I can't imagine what context makes that better. The blunt facts of the matter are that Abby is a villain. Created by Joel's actions, but still a villain begotten by a villain. You'd need a lot more than "Joel killed her father" to even try and make her sympathetic, and what we've seen so far mostly precludes that. Even if Ellie and Dina somehow magically survive with no lasting injuries, Abby will remain a villain who should be hunted down and killed. There no context that'll change that or make Abby's murders sympathetic.
