You made me think I was crazy because I remembered mostly the commercials featuring the seraphites hanging scenes, the dance with Dina and Ellie kissing, and some stuff with Ellie fighting Wolves. So I verified, and you are misremembering. Just fast forwarded through every ad for the game before release, Joel is only even in, MAAAYBE half of them, if that. And barely in them at all in most of the ones he is. The one that features him the most is almost all footage from the first game. I’m also pretty sure that the devs were open about that fact that Ellie would be the focus of the game from the time it was announced.
I myself never had issues with the trailers and how they presented things. Though I am one of the people who would have wanted to play Ellie the whole first game as well. I actually rewatch the trailers for Part 2 pretty often and own the Covers and Rarities LP. I do know a lot of the internet is pissed off at it.
You made me think I was crazy because I remembered mostly the commercials featuring the seraphites hanging scenes, the dance with Dina and Ellie kissing, and some stuff with Ellie fighting Wolves. So I verified, and you are misremembering. Just fast forwarded through every ad for the game before release, Joel is only even in, MAAAYBE half of them, if that. And barely in them at all in most of the ones he is. The one that features him the most is almost all footage from the first game. I’m also pretty sure that the devs were open about that fact that Ellie would be the focus of the game from the time it was announced.
Link: https://youtu.be/fZaNdTmmcpk
If anything the bait and switch was making people think she was getting revenge for something that happened to Dina.
Sure, but like… are we mad they didn’t spoil major plot points and obfuscate the biggest death of the series?
I myself never had issues with the trailers and how they presented things. Though I am one of the people who would have wanted to play Ellie the whole first game as well. I actually rewatch the trailers for Part 2 pretty often and own the Covers and Rarities LP. I do know a lot of the internet is pissed off at it.