Fans spot Last of Us 2 ending detail that could completely change our understanding of the story.

The detail has come to attention after Twitter highlighted a perspicacious YouTube comment online, suggesting that The Last of Us 2 ending isn't as unhappy as it seems at first glance!

That's right: while it may look as though Ellie returns from Santa Barbara to an empty farmstead where Dina has left her, this scene in fact appears to take place after our anti-heroine has returned to Jackson first, and mended relations with her partner, evidenced by the bracelet seen on her right wrist. .

This small detail completely re-contextualises our understanding of the scene itself.

It makes the ending much more hopeful, and arguably even more resolute than we first realised, and letting Ellie go from any potential repercussions of her foolhardy revenge quest to California. 

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