The Last of Us, Part I Left Behind E2 - So Close & Fun and Games

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Published on October 5, 2022 3:38:14 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5nm8RYZxDg

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The Last of Us Part I (2022)

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The Last of Us, Part I Left Behind PS5
Episode 2 - So Close & Fun and Games

This play through is on hard difficulty.
Gameplay is in Performance Mode captured at 1080p and 60fps

SO CLOSE
Ellie ponders how she to reach the helicopter near the roof. The door to the stairway is locked, needed electricity. She follows the cable behind the pet store into a water logged corridor. Reaching the flooded former loading bay, she traces them to a generator, which is out of fuel. However she finds a nearby can and syphon enabling her to obtain some from one of the nearby lorries. Before she can do so, she disturbs 4 Infected and has to take down. Having found some fuel and refuelled the generator, Ellie opens another electrical door and climbs up to the air conditioning above. Having negotiated her way into the pet store from its rear, she has to deal with 5 more Infected. Then back in the mall, a pair of Clickers and 2 more Infected. The way clear, she goes up stairs and is able to jump to the helicopter. At last, she finds a full medical kit inside, clutching it to her.

FUN AND GAMES
Ellie and Riley enter the lit up mall. First they find a carousel which briefly works. R gives E a new pun book, leading E to begin a round of joke reading. Then they find a photo booth and have their photos taken pulling a range of funny faces. Upstairs they find an arcade full not working machines. E play acts a racing game. They find a lit up machine The Turning which E is disappointed not to be able to play. R brings it to life by having E close her eyes as she tells her the buttons to press and what happens on screen. As E needs to leave wanting to pick up tomorrow, R admits she's shipping out with the Fireflies the next day. E tells her angrily to go. R hears music and they enter a department store. R get out the waterguns which E has longed for that she's had on her all along. They play fight trying to get each other wet. R has E get out her Walkman which contains a mix tape R made for her, and gets atop a lit up counter in the electronics dept and dances. E joins her and they have fun, then it gets serious and E sincerely asks her not to go. R pulls off her Firely tag, E plants a kiss on her lips. Before they can consider it more, a horde of Infected arrive having heard the music.
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Left Behind tells the story of Ellie and Riley, portrayed by Ashley Johnson and Yaani King respectively. For the entirety of the DLC, the player controls Ellie.

Left Behind features 2 distinct non-linear timelines, which in some ways thematically link to each other. One is set during the events of the main story, in the aftermath of the ambush at the Colorado University which left Joel (Troy Baker) severly injured, following being impaled upon a metal pole. She learn how Ellie (Ashley Johnson) cared for Joel alone, finding an adandoned mall unit in which to leave him while she desperatly searches for medical supplies with which to heal him, including stitching his open wound. While doing so she has to cope both with Infected and more hunters out to kill her and Joel. Ellie eventually gets away a moves Joel to the townhouse location which for a while let's them hideout while Joel heals.

The other timeline is set in the past, about 3 weeks before Ellie met Joel. Ellie is awoken by Riley (Yanni King) who encourages her to sneak out of Ellie's Boston military boarding school and explore a nearby shopping mall with her. Riley has learned has electricity once it is switched back on. Ellie is frustrated by her and reluctant as RIley disappeared without a word leaving her alone. They enjoy each other's company in a variery of escapades. Riley tells Ellie she has been recruited by Marlene into the Fireflies and has to leave Boston tomorrow. Ellie supports her decision while not wanting her to go, have argued at first, as it is what Riley has wanted all along. There is a frisson between them aluding to their relationship having the potential to be more than friends, until while sharing a dance atop a lit up glass display case in an electronic stores, Ellie sincerely tears up and begs Riley not to go, planting a brief kiss on her lips. Riley receives this positively, tearing off her Firely tag, however are immediately chased by a horde of Infected. Having almost outrun them, both girls are bitten. Ellie comes to learn she is immune, setting up the events of the main story. Riley's ultmate fate is unknown, however presumably succumbed to the infection, as Ellie later talk of her dying.

For more detailed info please check out:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_of_Us:_Left_Behind
https://thelastofus.fandom.com/wiki/The_Last_of_Us:_Left_Behind

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