The Last of Us Season 2 Episode 1: TV Show vs Game Comparison

The pursuing nonfiction contains spoilers for The Last of Us play 2, occurrence 1, “Future Days.”

The Last of Us is backmost for a 2nd season, and – people – this clip we’re seeing an adaptation of the 2nd crippled successful the series. However, showrunners Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann person taken a antithetic attack this clip around. Where the archetypal play was mostly a one-to-one recreation of the game, with a immense chunk of the runtime dedicated to replicating the archetypal cutscenes successful unrecorded action, this 2nd play appears to beryllium making much changes to the game’s story. Events are restructured, reordered, and recontextualised with the summation of caller characters and communicative ideas.

That’s not to accidental that the scenes we cognize and emotion person been scrapped, though - acold from it. It’s conscionable that they mightiness not ever beryllium precisely however you retrieve them. And truthful we’ve taken the cardinal moments from occurrence 1 that recreate the crippled and compared them against the root material, analysing what’s changed and what’s stayed the same. You tin spot some versions successful the video above, oregon work connected beneath for our written explanations.

Tommy’s Sniper School

Due to the amusement having been re-arranged to archer the communicative successful a much linear fashion, the series successful which Tommy teaches Ellie however to sprout crossed agelong distances is present 1 of the earliest scenes of The Last of Us play 2. In the game, this was told successful flashback arsenic portion of the Finding Strings chapter, which occurs during time 2 of Ellie’s clip successful Seattle – galore hours into the campaign.

That’s not the lone change. As you tin spot from the heavy broad of snow, the clip of twelvemonth is wholly different. While Ellie and Tommy trek done the sun-kissed Wyoming mountains successful the game, they’re lying prone successful a freezing wintertime scenery successful the show. There is simply a connection, though; successful the game, Tommy mentions that hordes of infected determination done this portion successful the winter. Since it’s presently wintertime successful the show, possibly specified a horde volition crook up successful the adjacent fewer episodes?

Despite the changes to timeline and climate, the fundamentals stay the same. Show Ellie uses the aforesaid Springfield Armory M1A firearm arsenic crippled Ellie does, portion Tommy provides proposal astir however to snipe astatine shambling infected. He suggests she compensate her purpose for distance, which is what you indispensable bash during this series successful the game, arsenic bullets driblet implicit precise agelong distances owed to gravity.

Ellie and Dina’s Patrol

The midpoint of the play 2 premiere sees Ellie and Dina caput retired connected a patrol. This is 1 of the earliest sequences from the game, and is replicated rather closely. In some the crippled and show, Ellie takes Shimmer from the stables, gears up to caput out, and is scolded by Jesse for being late. The astir important alteration present is that, wherever successful the crippled Jesse lists disconnected each the things that indispensable beryllium achieved connected a patrol, successful the amusement Dina sarcastically explains their goals earlier Jesse tin instruct them. This helps conception the show’s mentation of Dina, who is much brash than her crippled counterpart.

The struggle betwixt Jesse and Dina helps acceptable up the horseback speech betwixt the 2 women. This aforesaid chat, astir Dina’s breakup with Jesse, besides happens successful the game, but Dina’s cognition to her erstwhile fellow is softer, discussing however Jesse’s parents volition ever consciousness similar her family. In the show, the pair’s narration is somewhat brushed disconnected arsenic much of an on/off thing.

Both the amusement and game’s patrol is interrupted by the find of the gory corpse of an carnal – successful the crippled it’s a moose, portion successful the amusement it’s a bear. This encourages Ellie and Dina to hunt retired the infected who killed it. The cardinal quality present is that successful the amusement Ellie and Dina are conscionable 2 of a larger patrol that doesn’t privation to get into immoderate unwarranted danger. In the game, Ellie and Dina are patrolling connected their own.

Infected Attack

Ellie and Dina’s hunt for infected brings them to the aforesaid spot successful some the crippled and the show: the Greenpeace Market. In some versions they ascent implicit the store’s motortruck to participate via the upstairs model and proceed to hunt inside. From present the events diverge – successful the show, the brace instrumentality down a clicker and past Ellie falls done the level alone. In the game, some Ellie and Dina autumn done the collapsing floor, and Dina saves them some from a clicker by shooting it respective times.

In the show, it’s not a clicker successful the main store country but a stalker, a new, much intelligent infected benignant that doesn't look until overmuch aboriginal successful the game. Ellie indispensable look this foe alone, and the resulting combat sees the stalker wound her stomach, thing that doesn’t hap successful the game. Dina arrives excessively precocious to help, but by that constituent Ellie has already changeable her attacker. This somewhat echoes an earlier country from the game, successful which Dina arrives to assistance a runner that’s attacking Ellie extracurricular of the supermarket – successful that lawsuit Dina shoots the infected to prevention her partner.

Barn Dance

One of the astir celebrated scenes from The Last of Us Part 2 is recreated successful astir cleanable item for the show, but erstwhile again it comes astatine a precise antithetic clip acknowledgment to the reordering of the story. The barn dance, during which Dina and Ellie buss for the archetypal time, was primitively shown arsenic a flashback and occurred conscionable earlier the game’s last act, but successful the amusement it's the past large country of the play 2 premiere.

Despite the displacement to amusement this country successful chronological order, everything other astir it remains mostly the same, adjacent down to the music, creation choreography, and camera direction. The dialog betwixt Ellie, Jesse, and Dina is astir word-for-word the aforesaid arsenic the game’s archetypal script, including Dina’s “I deliberation they should beryllium terrified of you.”

The pair’s creation is erstwhile again interrupted by Seth, but Joel’s absorption to his bigotry is overmuch much violent. In the game, Joel lone shoves Seth to bespeak his anger, but the show’s mentation of events sees Seth thrown to the floor.

The Overlook

The episode’s last country is simply a recreation of The Overlook conception of the game’s archetypal chapter. We spot Abby and Owen ascent up to an outcrop that overlooks the municipality of Jackson. In the game, Abby and Owen are talking, expressing alleviation of uncovering their extremity and astonishment astatine however ample it is – “it’s a fucking city!” The amusement alternatively opts to support the characters successful full silence, gathering an ominous hostility arsenic they survey the municipality wherever their people lives.

For much from The Last of Us, cheque retired our spoiler-free play 2 reappraisal and our spoiler-filled reappraisal of the play premiere. We’ve besides asked the show’s creators whether Joel was close to prevention Ellie, and spoken to them astir the terrifying stalkers who look successful this episode.

Matt Purslow is IGN's Senior Features Editor.