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I remember the silent looks, the tears, and the hopeless decisions they faced.It was, and remains, a masterpiece of storytelling
Naughty Dog make its characters so believable How did it make you want to push on despite the oppressive world And how did it make you care
take.Less is moreNaughty Dog establish the tone in the first fifteen minutes
Naughty Dog shows similar restraint throughout, with long stretches of silence or off-screen action, leaving it up to your imagination to
But The Last of Us keeps you hooked by offering hope
you with finding a cure for an apocalyptic disease
always shown relying on each other
for them, hunting in the woods and fending off would-be raiders until Joel recovers
In other words, they can only survive as a pair, and when Ellie tries to run off at one point, it nearly ruins everything.Nobody's
perfectIndividually, Joel and Ellie are complicated, and flawed, which makes them more believable
Joel is particularly complex
goes hunting also shows just how tight a grip Naughty Dog has on the pace of the story
As soon as Joel is hurt we cut to a shot of a rabbit getting pierced by an arrow in the snowy woods
ultimately abandons the whole mission in order to save Ellie, condemning mankind because of his own needs
The final scene between Joel and Ellie is just such a great bit of writing, relying so much on body language and packing so much meaning
The motion capture tech was cutting-edge at the time, and even now, the characters feel like real people, with believable gestures and
watch a movie made up of its cutscenes
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