First, Tommy leaves, heading to Seattle to take on this “Washington Liberation Front” group, the ones who killed Joel. But don’t you get it? He did die saving Ellie, just four years after he probably should have.Īgain, after this point, I was expecting a pretty stock tale of revenge. People complain that Joel’s death was “weak” and “pointless,” and he should have gone out like a hero saving Ellie. The only way to avoid it was to shut the game off. It happened to you, and ultimately, through you, with the controller in your hand. It’s one of the most complicated moral decisions presented in a game, a decision that, mind you, the game did not actually let you make. I also remember that Joel did something that could easily be considered monstrous, murdered an entire hospital of people looking for a cure for the virus so he could save Ellie. That isn’t what happens, but that footage is either from scenes before his death, flashbacks that happen after, or it was plainly doctored to throw people off (I did not love that tactic, in hindsight). What else would have possibly happened to make her that angry besides some group killing Joel? Yes, the trailers tried to show Joel was alive, but back then I explained it away as him possibly being in her head. If you’re as online as me, that was always going to be impossible to avoid for an entire month once the major leaks were disseminated.īut past that, even from the first trailer, it seemed very clear that something had broken Ellie and she was going on a murderous rampage of vengeance. Yes, this moment was indeed spoiled for me during the leaks by some rando on Twitter. You feel Ellie’s pain practically as much as she does, and that need for vengeance carries you through the story.Īnd yet I did not find Joel’s death to be a surprise, as I always figured this was coming. I loved Joel as much as anyone, which is why this moment works so well. They capture him, torture him, and then ultimately, when Ellie finally arrives, Abby beats Joel to death with a golf club right in front of her. But then, once Joel introduces himself, things turn quickly.Ībby and her group have been looking for Joel.
Joel and Tommy, not as distrustful of strangers as perhaps they were four years ago, rescue a woman, Abby, who you play as briefly. But that changes one day when a patrol goes awry.
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Loving how it handles its old characters, growing and evolving them, loving how it introduces new ones, and loving how the dual perspective narrative makes for a revenge tale that is infinitely more interesting than the “check the minibosses and big boss off the list” series of levels that it could have been if it had stuck with Ellie the entire way.Įllie and Joel have found a new home in Jackson, a small town that has weathered the apocalypse, and managed to fend off infected and a few unsavory human types as well. I’m not going to keep diving into why exactly people are review bombing the game or the mob mentality behind it, all I can do here is explain why I played this game, even having it spoiled in many ways beforehand, and came out the other side loving it.
Yes, I have spent the last few days arguing with the entire internet about The Last of Us Part 2, so much so that I am already as exhausted as I was after two years of Last Jedi fighting.īut I’m pushing past that now.
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The game will also be in 1080p with an exclusive commentary from the cast and creative director to play with the cinematics.No, I did not get an early review copy of this game, which frees me up to talk about things like the entire second half of the game which was not allowed before embargo, and I think it’s an absolutely essential core part of the story to discuss. Defeat enemies with the use of rifles, shotguns, bows or salvaged limited-use melee weapons such as baseball bats and pipes.
Join Joel and Ellie’s adventure as they cross what remains of the US and survive attacks from the infected, hostile human survivors, cannibals and other obstacles. Experience once more Ellie and Joel’s breath-taking adventures in a post-apocalyptic world that pushes survivors in the very end of their limits. Winner of over 200 Game of the Year Awards and considered to be one of the best games of its time, Naughty Dog’s masterpiece comes back to the limelight as The Last of Us Remastered! It is an action adventure survival horror game published by Sony Computer Entertainment that bundles the original release of The Last of Us, the critically acclaimed The Last of Us: Left Behind story DLC, Abandoned Territories and Reclaimed Territories map packs for multiplayer.
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