Originally Posted by
Revolutionary_Jack
For me, Lev was such a cliche plot-device/character that I couldn't care for him. Rather than create an actual character, they gave it transgender issues to doll up a prop, have it walk alongside Abby, and direct sympathy waves at her. It was so obviously manipulative.
It's also unbelievable. We are expected to believe that over the course of three days, Abby a war criminal who has committed ethnic cleansing and murdered and tortured many seraphites, would suddenly risk it all and walk out of her loyalties all of a sudden. It was too short a period to artificially jig up a first-game Joel-Ellie bond between her and Lev. The first game remember had a time span of basically a year or several months. They try and contract that in three days.
The story was very poorly structured and premised. There are hints of interesting stuff in the game, but on the whole it just falls flat.