In this post apocalyptic world you can’t trust anyone, but he wants to trust this 14-year-old girl, he protects her and through the course of a long battle with the enemies she relaxes around him. This is the first reason David is brilliant, he carries two guns the first he gladly handed over to Ellie to give her the sense of power, but he isn’t stupid.
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Ellie and David are left alone in a shack, after taking his rifle Ellie agrees to sit with him, before long the horde of infected are at the windows and David draws a gun to save Ellie. His demeanor is that of a friends dad, someone you can trust and his appearance doesn’t instantly make you on edge. After going all Hunger Games and placing three arrows in the deer it runs off and you go to find your dinner, only to bump into one of the greatest written characters of this generation, David.ĭavid is the leader of a group of survivors that bumps into Ellie while out hunting. When the game pulls out of its black screen nose dive we are shown Ellie, hunting alone in the woods, the player is left to fear the worst, she spots a deer and charges head first for the blood.
Unfortunately things don’t go to plan and a well placed tackle from a raider sends Joel plummeting over a railing and down 3 floors only to land safely and comfortably, apart from a pole going his spleen. At the university the pair discover The Fireflies, the rebels of this story, have moved on to a Hospital in another city, deciding they are going to push on across the country, in what is the most depressing road trip ever, they start their journey. After three-quarters of the game the unlikely duo have been through a lot ambushes, traps and falling buildings did nothing but bring the duo closer together. The reason for this? well Ellie got bitten by an infected creep, rather than doing the cliché thing of dying or turning into one of them she chose to be immune. 20 years after the outbreak he, through a long chain of events, is tasked with getting Ellie, a 14-year-old girl, across half the country to a university where an underground group of rebels believe they can cure the disease. Joel is a man, who thanks to the start of a plague that destroys the brain, has lost his daughter and direction in life. This broke flow and though interesting once or twice, especially with planks being used as bridges, it just grew to be a tiresome affair that added nothing to the experience.įor those reading this that haven’t played the game, and don’t care about the massive spoilers in this piece, the story follows a plot seen in literature and film for a long time, but not usually featuring all these fungal zombies. The problem came with the pseudo ‘puzzles’, about 15 times in the game you were required to do a puzzle that was no more than find a crate and drag it to wall or truck. It was this kind of visceral experience that I wanted from the game, I wanted to be sucked in and lose myself for a few hours. Combat was engaging and well-built, many times I was pinned down with no ammo and no hope only to go on a rampage with a lead pipe and survive. To start let’s talk about the gameplay throughout most of the game I really enjoyed the experience, the world and its mechanics worked really well.
When asked what I thought of The Last of Us I initially say I really enjoyed it, but then need to qualify that statement by saying it wasn’t a perfect game or perfect story. When a game gets those kind of scores it sets expectations quite high and the want for your own expectations to be met is a natural thing. Obviously that’s immature and stupid reasoning and each decision should be made by the individual, my main reason for expecting disappointment arose from the ‘Too good to be true’ mentality. Like every one of my generation in our teens we went through the whole ‘Counter-Culture’ thing, we wanted to rebel in our own little ways so we turned our backs on anything liked by the masses. Going into The Last of Us I expected to be disappointed, the game was so hyped pre-launch and then all these 9/10 reviews rolled out, simply put I thought there was bandwagon jumping afoot.
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