Out of this comes the beauty that is the story of Left Behind. To them it may be bleak, but itвЂ™s also par for the course. It solidifies the fact that these characters were born years into the infections and death that define their world. TheyвЂ™re kids being kids, finding happiness amidst wreckage.

The two make the mall their playground, exploring the abandoned shops like they own the place. Ellie and Riley may live in a horrible world, and may have said and done some bad things to each other, but theyвЂ™re still just a couple of kids, and their friendship rekindles quickly and organically. Even when we got to play as her, she was driven by the purpose of keeping herself, and Joel, alive. In The Last of Us, the young protagonist was seen largely through JoelвЂ™s eyes. Walking with Riley and exchanging dialogue gives us a new side of Ellie. Stealth, combat, and scavenging are the name of the game here.Д®llie and Riley, however, bring a side that feels much more like an interactive narrative. The game manages to throw in a good mix of opponents in a small package. YouвЂ™ll collect a bow later on, just as human enemies enter the picture.

Ellie plays just the same as in the main game, small and fast with a knife. You hunt through sections of the mall for the medical equipment you need, taking down zombies and clickers along the way. вЂњSurvivorвЂќ Ellie is on her own, working with a pistol, knife, and whatever else you find along the way. The two bounce off of each other and develop, creating a character driven second half to the story.Д®llie and Riley are BFFs. Visited by her friend Riley, a rebellious girl who left six weeks prior, Ellie is roped into a journey to an old, abandoned mall near the school, with a girl she is both happy to see alive and secretly somewhat angry at. On the flip, we switch to Ellie a few weeks before the events of the game, living at a boarding school controlled by the government. As the cold sets in, Ellie hides Joel somewhere safe before going off to find medical supplies in a snow-dusted mall near where Joel suffered his injury, thus setting the stage for one half of the story. Players familiar with the game will know that this part ends with Joel being badly injured, leading to Ellie caring for him throughout Winter. However, the DLC opens right in the middle of the game, during the end of Fall. Left Behind has been promoted as something of a prologue chapter, giving us a very welcome window into EllieвЂ™s recent past in the time leading up to the story of the main game. Does the DLC mix stealth, action and story as well as the game before it? Those are big shoes for a girl of fourteen to fill.

This gives us a closer look at Ellie, and a chapter of her life from before the main game begins. The Last of Us combined perfectly deep combat with a narrative that was organic and human, without needed absurd complexity or crazy twists to tell one of the most emotionally evocative stories ever put into a game. Naughty DogвЂ™s zombie apocalypse game was one of the biggest titles of last year, getting game of the year awards from dozens of websites, including being the favorite of myself and several others here at Hey Poor Player. The Last of Us has quickly become something of a legend. I personally agree with, and endorse, the score he gave. The main game was reviewed by our own Burtacamoose last year, and can be read here. It does not, however, contain spoilers for this DLC. The following review contains spoilers for The Last of Us.

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