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Some notes on the opening hours of The Last of Us, Part II! I'm up to the sequence where you're preparing to set out for Seattle.
I started up the game and saw Joel and was immediately struck by 'I can't believe this game actually exists and I'm actually playing it'.
Somehow, even though Joel has appeared in trailers, in my head Joel was not in this game at all, so it was particularly surreal to see him.
The ride to the town was extremely pretty.
THE GAME WANTS ME TO PLAY THE GUITAR FOR ELLIE
NO
I THOUGHT I'D JUST BE KILLING PEOPLE
I WASN'T READY FOR THIS KIND OF PRESSURE
That was a lovely scene, and very bad for my heart. I loved Ellie going 'okay, fine, you can tell me your terrible joke' at the end.
I'm a little sorry that gorgeous 'Ellie and Dina dance and kiss' cutscene from the trailer doesn't appear to be in the game itself. (It's still canon, to clarify for anyone wondering, but it takes place before the game begins.)
Ellie and Jesse's friendship seems endearing! I enjoyed him going 'what, you're making a move on my girl a week after we break up?' and then 'lol, just kidding, I don't care.'
I got Abby killed by infected and went 'well, maybe this is for the best, because I'm getting the impression she's not good news for the characters I care about,' but alas you can't just go 'okay, the character I was playing as has died but I'd like to continue the story, please.'
ELLIE'S GOT A JOURNAL, I LOVE IN-GAME JOURNALS
Ellie's also hopelessly smitten and it's really cute.
I keep saying 'I'M NOT HERE, I'M NOT HERE' aloud when I'm trying to hide from infected. I can't control it.
I've suspected for a good while that the trailers were trying to make it look like Dina would be killed to obscure the fact that actually Joel would be killed, but I'm still unhappy that Joel's death is looking more and more likely.
AND THERE IT IS, noooooooo.
The two of them were planning to watch a stupid action movie that evening! Noooooooo.
On his own, I don't actually have that much investment in Joel as a character, but I have a lot of investment in his relationship with Ellie.
OF COURSE, THIS DEVELOPMENT ISN'T CANON, BECAUSE IN REALITY ABBY GOT KILLED BY INFECTED EARLIER BECAUSE I CAN'T SNEAK.
Tommy, I'm glad someone gave Ellie a hug, but that was not nearly as long a hug as she needed.
I could really see Joel in Tommy's face as he pulled away after the hug. The family resemblance had never really struck me before.
Where are people getting all these memorial flowers in the middle of winter?
I keep accidentally pressing the shoot button instead of the sprint one. Whoops.
I started up the game and saw Joel and was immediately struck by 'I can't believe this game actually exists and I'm actually playing it'.
Somehow, even though Joel has appeared in trailers, in my head Joel was not in this game at all, so it was particularly surreal to see him.
The ride to the town was extremely pretty.
THE GAME WANTS ME TO PLAY THE GUITAR FOR ELLIE
NO
I THOUGHT I'D JUST BE KILLING PEOPLE
I WASN'T READY FOR THIS KIND OF PRESSURE
That was a lovely scene, and very bad for my heart. I loved Ellie going 'okay, fine, you can tell me your terrible joke' at the end.
I'm a little sorry that gorgeous 'Ellie and Dina dance and kiss' cutscene from the trailer doesn't appear to be in the game itself. (It's still canon, to clarify for anyone wondering, but it takes place before the game begins.)
Ellie and Jesse's friendship seems endearing! I enjoyed him going 'what, you're making a move on my girl a week after we break up?' and then 'lol, just kidding, I don't care.'
I got Abby killed by infected and went 'well, maybe this is for the best, because I'm getting the impression she's not good news for the characters I care about,' but alas you can't just go 'okay, the character I was playing as has died but I'd like to continue the story, please.'
ELLIE'S GOT A JOURNAL, I LOVE IN-GAME JOURNALS
Ellie's also hopelessly smitten and it's really cute.
I keep saying 'I'M NOT HERE, I'M NOT HERE' aloud when I'm trying to hide from infected. I can't control it.
I've suspected for a good while that the trailers were trying to make it look like Dina would be killed to obscure the fact that actually Joel would be killed, but I'm still unhappy that Joel's death is looking more and more likely.
AND THERE IT IS, noooooooo.
The two of them were planning to watch a stupid action movie that evening! Noooooooo.
On his own, I don't actually have that much investment in Joel as a character, but I have a lot of investment in his relationship with Ellie.
OF COURSE, THIS DEVELOPMENT ISN'T CANON, BECAUSE IN REALITY ABBY GOT KILLED BY INFECTED EARLIER BECAUSE I CAN'T SNEAK.
Tommy, I'm glad someone gave Ellie a hug, but that was not nearly as long a hug as she needed.
I could really see Joel in Tommy's face as he pulled away after the hug. The family resemblance had never really struck me before.
Where are people getting all these memorial flowers in the middle of winter?
I keep accidentally pressing the shoot button instead of the sprint one. Whoops.