In the end, when Joel and Ellie finally find the Fireflies, it turns out that the group isn’t all they were cracked out to be. She’s spunky and funny and tough, and she awakens a new sense of purpose in the burned out, grizzled survivor. It’s not an easy road, but they manage it together and in many ways Ellie becomes the daughter Joel lost, dragging him out of his long malaise and giving him something to believe in and to fight for. Or so we’re led to believe.Īlong the way, throughout the course of the game, Ellie and Joel become like family. Joel, who lost his own daughter tragically at the outset of the apocalypse, is tasked with bringing Ellie to the Firefly scientists where they hope to use her to find a cure. Unlike every single other human, bites and spores don’t turn her into a monster. In the original, Ellie is a teenage girl who is the only person immune to the strange virus that’s caused this spore-based zombie apocalypse.
At least then it wouldn’t have so badly damaged the characters we came to know and care so much about in the original. In every other sense, it may as well be a completely new franchise. Chronologically, it comes after the first game and it takes place in the same post-apocalyptic America. Unfortunately, The Last Of Us Part II only follows in the original’s footsteps in the most generic ways.
The Last Of Us Part II Screenshot: Erik Kain Unless you get off on that sort of thing, of course. It masquerades at depth and meaning but fails to deliver either.īetter to leave us hanging than take us down this wallowing, nihilistic path of despair and misery porn. What follows is a too-pretentious-by-half story of nonsensical revenge and relentless violence. That same lie kicks off the events in The Last Of Us Part II, but it quickly runs roughshod over everything we loved about the first game, trampling even our high opinions of the protagonists in the process. Because he couldn’t stand to lose his daughter. He kept that secret for the same reason he rescued Ellie from the Fireflies. Joel’s was a lie told out of love, but it was still a lie. A happy ending in many ways, but an unsettling one, too. Brittle and precarious and powerful all at once. It was an ending that deserved to be just that-the end of Joel and Ellie’s story, unresolved and bittersweet. It didn’t hurt that it also had one of the best endings in video games, period. If you're still making your way through it, however, these guides for all safe combinations and all the Superhero Trading Cards will keep you from missing any of them.But the first game’s lackluster gameplay was more than made up for by a compelling story filled with complex characters in a gritty, intriguing post-apocalyptic world. If you're already finished with your playthrough, see how we received the game's ending in our story discussion. Jesse even has the same exact line, but we obviously don't see him in the trailer. The camera then cuts to Joel saying, "You think I’d let you do this on your own?" Of course, those who reached that point in the game will know that was actually Jesse, whom Ellie was surprised to see follow her on her revenge quest. She then turns around, surprised, and asks them what they're doing here. That is to say, through the magic of editing, Naughty Dog changed one scene in particular so as not to spoil one of the early story surprises.Īs pointed out by Kotaku, the game's trailer from September last year included a scene where someone we don't see grabs Ellie from behind and pulls her away.
The Last of Us Part 2 marketing is responsible for a flurry of trailers we got to see in the weeks and months leading up to the game's launch, but with so many surprises in the game, the developer inevitably ran out of things to show that wouldn't be considered a spoiler. The Last of Us Part 2 developer Naughty Dog really didn't want certain story beats to be spoiled
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