It may be able to recreate the character dynamics, the excellent pacing, and the sensation of hope tinged with melancholy that makes the original game feel so distinct. HBO’s adaptation of The Last of Us has a ways to go before it reaches that crucial final moment. Even if you don’t choose to kill the Fireflies, you know that Joel would, and since you've come to strongly identify with him that dissonance forces you to grapple with the emotional complexity of Joel’s final decision more directly than any non-interactive medium could. By the time you reach the hospital you have become Joel, and then the game reminds you that Joel is a violent murderer. Over the course of the game you share in Joel’s successes and failures, you grow closer to Ellie has he does, and you come to understand why he does what he does. This is the fundamental narrative tension that defines the entire game. It creates a narrative experience that is shaped by the player’s choices at the moment and then tells you it doesn’t matter in the long term. That aspect of player agency is crucial to the impact of The Last of Us’s ending. The game gives you every opportunity to kill the Fireflies because that's what Joel would do. You can use the game's stealth mechanics to avoid fighting the soldiers and doctors in your way, but it'll probably be harder to pull off. It encourages you to do it-the hospital is set up like every other combat area in the game there are supplies you need to make traps, shivs, and explosives the game even gives you a brand-new weapon to try out in these final moments with enough ammo to gun down most enemies that come at you. The game expects you to kill the Fireflies that get in your way as you hurry to save Ellie. But the other part of it was the sequence that came before when I controlled Joel as he made his way through the hospital to Ellie. Part of my response was the result of that final lie, that decision that Joel made independent of me.
But by the time the credits rolled, I sat there on my couch not entirely sure what I was feeling, only that I was definitely feeling it. Going in, I wasn’t sure if that would ruin the experience or not. I already knew how the story was going to end when I started playing The Last of Us. It’s the perfect gut punch to punctuate a game that walks a fine line between optimism inspired by human connection and pessimism about the flaws of humanity as a species.
She wasn’t her own person to either of them. To Joel, she was the daughter he’d lost 20 years ago. Neither Joel nor the Fireflies were willing to give Ellie any agency, only viewing her as what she had come to represent them.
And when faced with the opportunity to explain his actions to Ellie, Joel lied and said there was no hope of a cure in order to justify his actions to her. The Fireflies were about to perform a lethal surgery on a 14-year-old girl without bothering to ask for her consent first. Joel murdered some of the only people who could save humanity from the Cordyceps fungus. RELATED: 'The Last of Us': Sarah's Presence Means More in the Show Than in the Game There are no “good guys” as Joel makes his way out of the Fireflies’ hospital. Unable to let go of the girl he traveled across the country with, Joel murders his way through the hospital, grabs Ellie, and leaves a trail of bodies in his wake. Only there's a cost - Ellie won't survive the extraction procedure. After trekking across what remains of the United States, Joel ( Troy Baker in the game, Pedro Pascal in the show) has successfully brought Ellie ( Ashley Johnson in the game, Bella Ramsey in the show) to the Fireflies, who reveal to him that they can extract the mutant strain of the Cordyceps fungus from her brain to create a vaccine. Even if you haven’t played the game, if you’ve spent enough time in any video game-centric communities you probably know how it ends. The Last of Us has one of the most memorable endings in video game history.
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