There are several moments in the game where Ellie lifts a guitar to play, practice, and even perform for others. Using the touchpad of the PlayStation 4 DualShock controller (or via several other methods, indicative of the The Last of Us Part II’s incredibly detailed range of gameplay and accessibility options) she scouts and strums the chords she knows… it’s just that now they don’t ring out the same. They’re muted and incomplete. Ellie has lost the better part of two fingers on her left hand to Abby in the final fight. What’s remained has apparently healed over on the trip back, but it doesn’t afford her full mastery of the instrument as she’s learned it thus far. It’s a quiet but brutal moment in a loud and brutal narrative, communicating the final stroke with piercing sincerity: revenge and rage irreparably damage those who deliver its payload. (x)