More in the price of the content and a few technical niggles. There are issues to be found here, though not in the game’s story. It helps us better interpret Ellie’s concepts of friendship and loyalty. It doesn’t cheapen the quality of the multi-award winning masterpiece. Left Behind doesn’t take anything away from The Last of Us experience. But there are also moments in this content that will help the player understand the connection between Joel and Ellie all the more. The events of Left Behind help spur on the courage she shows in The Last of Us. They’re also more of a bonding experience for two young girls trying to find a level of normalcy in such abnormal circumstances. Trespassing, drinking, even vandalism, but rather than the acts being senseless, they’re considered and are cast in something of an innocent light when you consider the bleak backdrop they’re set against. Riley and Ellie share in the kind of activities that two rebellious teenage girls might. They want us to understand more about the girl before the woman and they manage it time after time with one incredible sequence after another. They’re in it to add another dimension to the Ellie character. It gives her an added sense of strength and takes on a whole other level of significance that would not have been clear when the DLC was first announced.īut Naughty Dog aren’t just content to add to player perspective. Harkening back to a time with her best friend gives Ellie the strength she needs to persevere and push through incredibly challenging moments in the main campaign. The story isn’t what you might expect either, but as both narratives progress, you’ll understand the significance of this particular parallel. This content is wonderfully delivered, even down to the difficulty which naturally starts to spike towards the end of the content. The switching of perspectives enables the two hour content to have the perfect amount of pacing so that there are no lulls in action or character development.
While the thinking has long been that Left Behind is a prequel to The Last of Us, the content will actually put you in the shoes of Ellie pre-TLOU and during the main game. They want this new brand to matter and mean something. Naughty Dog have taken their time crafting this and are not after a cheap buck in order to push more launch window sales. The fact that the first piece of story-based DLC is only now releasing for The Last of Us is extremely telling. You haven’t played a second of gameplay and that already helps set a tone for everything that is to come. During that time very few games have managed the narrative maturity Naughty Dog’s most recent release delivered in spades.Įven the title screen is messaged-filled – a smashed window, a decaying window sill with a knife balanced upon it, sunlight and lushious green pouring through worn, weathered old curtains. We’re closing in on a year between the release of The Last of Us and now.
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