The game is not so much a tale about finding happiness as easing pain, and weighing the cost of that quest. The death of Joel, her guardian and traveling partner from the first game, has set Ellie’s moral compass spinning as she struggles to find purpose. “The Last of Us Part II” chronicles Ellie’s descent from innocence to match the darkness of the post-apocalyptic hellscape around her. Her optimism is dimmed, her humor muted - her pun book, once filled with jokes, has been replaced by a journal. Driven by revenge, the girl we knew from “The Last of Us” has morphed into something more sinister. The murderer, standing amid their bodies, is not the little girl you remember.įive years after the events of the first game, Ellie is cold, brutal and often merciless. Now they’re dead because a woman needed information. A pregnant woman falls, fatally stabbed in her neck. Note: This article contains major spoilers for “The Last of Us Part II” and 2013′s “The Last of Us.”Ī man is shot in the chest and chokes on his own blood. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience.
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