#character-speculation

#character-speculation

A key part of that backstory - in fact, the sole motivator for Abby's hatred of Joel - is her dad Jerry, who was a surgeon for the Fireflies when Ellie was put on the operating table to be sacrificed for the sake of studying her immunity to the cordyceps plague. In his effort to rescue Ellie, Joel shot the surgeons in the operating room, leaving Abby fatherless and hell-bent on revenge.

We're fairly used to Nintendo making strange or iconoclastic decisions, whether it's releasing folding two-screen portable gaming devices or announcing a Virtual Boy peripheral for the Switch 2, but even now the Japanese games company is capable of surprises. It has just uploaded to its various worldwide YouTube channels a stunning four-minute animated short called Close to You, about a baby learning to take their first steps, and there's no explanation for why.