yeah she’s just like a companion

Great deduction there, Holmes…
I haven’t been checking up on it much  since it was announced and for some reason in the February Playstation Magazine, instead of making it explicit they merely put it as a caption to one of the images. At least I don’t recall them mentioning it in the main article anyway.
I don’t mind that you only get to play as Joel, makes the trailer seem a tad deceiving though.