The Last of Us is een game die nog steeds speel als ik tijd heb, want ik heb er nogsteeds geen genoeg van. Natuurlijk ga ik je niet alles verklappen op deze negen dingen na, want anders heeft mijn review ook geen zin.

2. Joel: What Two Decades of No Internet Can Do.



After a prologue shows how Joel acquired such a nihilistic worldview, we see how that way of thinking keeps him alive. Every strangle, every Molotov cocktail tossed has an urgent feel and is always extremely violent. Some of this is in the animation; the way the shots are composed close-up, with sound effects that pierce. Still, like how Ashley has a way of imbuing Ellie with warmth, Troy Baker, who voiced and mo-capped Joel, never lets us forgot how unhinged this man has become. He makes his Booker DeWitt alter ego in Infinite seem tame, and that's a guy that shoved a sky-hook into a guard's face.

There's a moment early on that really sold me on this man after the fall. On a mission with Tess (an early partner) we see how on conflicted he is about moving forward with the task at hand. Tess keeps pushing. She's the alpha. Joel is profoundly unsure of himself. In our era of mucho bragging rights ("checkout my new selfie on Instagram, yo!") Joel comes off explosive yet ever-humble. To quote Ellie's favorite sci-fi comic book, he endures and survives.