Playing Ellie’s Sequence In The Last Of Us Changed What I Thought Was Possible In Video Games

***The Last of Us is an extremely brutal and violent video game, depicting a dystopian world that pits most humans against each other. The videos included are taken from the game itself and particularly brutal.*** We, the consumers, who take in enough media to become experts on anything with a tail of credits trailing the end, have asked ourselves the all too important question: How would we survive the zombie apocalypse? Never mind the fact that we are still just guessing the behaviors of said zombies until they embrace our reality, we certainly have enough tv shows, games, movies, etc for people to form a coherent strategy for survival. If a zombie apocalypse breaks out in 2017 and you don’t survive to old or middle age, you just not making good use of your resources. Just as important to the question of survival is what kind of person would you become to survive. I often joke that I don’t think I’d become Negan in the new world, but I wouldn’t be feather touch of Father Gabriel either. Or perhaps I would be a pretty decent guy, but I wouldn’t have to worry about code-switching anymore because my office was one of the first places overran. Who can tell? However, the kind of person you would become to survive is central to The Last Of Us. Surviving is pretty hard. Keeping your soul pure is damn near impossible. If you haven’t played The Last Of Us, instead of me asking why you’ve been wasting your existence for the last few years, I’ll just say there are plenty of spoilers …