The new remastered version of The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered has been officially released by Naughty Dog. It's a PlayStation 5 version, and thanks to it, many players have begun to relive the harsh, dramatic events of the game and discover a secret no one could have expected.

Through the TLOU2 Remastered game content, there was an explanatory video from the developers, also known as a "Developer Commentary," which revisited one of the game's most prominent moments. "Please note that this scene contains spoilers" at the end of the game, where events explode into a confrontation. The decisive moment between the two heroines, Abby and Ellie, and how the latter refrained from killing her archenemy despite all the hardships she faced.

The fact that Ellie didn't kill Abby's character

The explanatory video shows the game director’s speech.”Neil Druckmann"The unexpected thing was when he talked about the dramatic scene, during which he said Abby was supposed to die by drowning at Ellie's hands, and added that this would have made The Last of Us Part 2 a completely different game. Ellie's murder of Abby would have turned her into a monster, as he said.

But it seems that Joel Eli doesn't want to kill Abby "as if she knew what he wanted from her." After all, Joel had killed so many people that his death was inevitable at any moment. He knew this, as Neil indirectly admitted in the comment.

There were only two seconds separating Abby from being underwater, turning into a lifeless corpse, and the mercy of Ellie, who transformed back into a human during those few seconds. There was still that 3% of human or "childlike" quality that could have prevented her from killing Abby. Joel played a key role in implanting this small percentage of humanity that remained in Eli.

Theories on why Eli didn't kill Abby in The Last of Us Part 2

When the original was released in 2019, there were many theories as to why Ellie didn't want to kill Abby, as it was said that she had already lost a lot and had many people killed, including her friends and family, and that she might have been changed by the violence and was aware that... Killing Abby won't bring Jules or anyone else she lost back.

Other theories were that Ellie gradually, unconsciously, began to sympathize with Abby, seeing how she, too, lost her father and friends because of Jules. She began to realize that Abby, too, was a victim of circumstance, and realized that revenge wouldn't solve anything, only lead to more… violence and constant suffering.

Ellie was said to want to break the cycle of violence, find another way to process her grief, and ultimately decided to let Abby live. It was a difficult decision, but it was the right one for Ellie, as she had already lost Jules and felt immense guilt over it, and killing Abe wouldn't bring him back.