In her time with Joel, Ellie brings out his remaining humanity. Yet he takes on the mission of transporting this 14-year-old girl halfway across the country on the chance that her immunity might provide a cure for the plague. He has little humanity left, and he might as well be a zombie. JoelвЂ™s 12-year-old daughter Sarah is killed. As Tommy and Joel flee the outbreak of the zombie plague in their hometown, they run into a soldier who follows orders and fires at them. Each duel is like a brutal life-or-death struggle. The graphic violence is horrific, but more often than not Joel commits violent acts in the name of protecting Ellie, and later on it is Ellie protecting Joel. I played the first game and was deeply touched by the story of the teenage girl Ellie and gruff smuggler Joel - two survivors of the zombie apocalypse who spend their days just trying to stay alive. Since the game is such a raw experience, I think it helps to talk about it after you play it, and we hope this story helps you understand it better. We put together this video, which she edited.

One solace was that I played this one together with my middle daughter, Danielle Takahashi, who was too young for such a serious game when the first one debuted in 2013. It was eerie playing a game about a post-pandemic zombie apocalypse during a pandemic, with emergency vehicle sirens going off in the background in real life. And the tale matches the actionвЂ™s intensity. The action is intense, grueling, and raw. ItвЂ™s rare to find a work of art that is such a big commercial success, and I thought it was worth examining what made the story so moving. The original moved over 17 million copies, generating more than $1 billion at retail. The Last of Us Part II has sold more than 4 million copies.

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