It is basically a zombie game with a little girl as the main protagonist

[Reverse-Xautos]

It is basically a zombie game with a little girl as the main protagonist

[Jedimindtrickonyou]

Originally posted by Devsman:

Originally posted by jedimindtrickonyou:

Exactly, this post is stupid, you play as a Joel for 85% of the game. The little girl in the beginning is Sarah, Joel’s daughter. It takes place 10 years before the bulk of the game, Ellie would have been like 4. You only play as Ellie while Joel is injured and in left behind. Ellie is the main protagonist (1 of 2) in the second game but she is a young woman by that time.

It takes 20 years before.

Sorry, you’re right. Forgot Joel was in his 30s at the beginning and in his 50s for most of the game.

[H u n k]

low effort bait

[PRAET0R1AN™]

Originally posted by Reverse-Xautos:

It would have been way better if we could have played as the little girl through the entire game!

Technically you can, but you need a mod to do it.

Originally posted by Reverse-Xautos:

It is basically a zombie game with a little girl as the main protagonist

"akshually" they're not zombies, they are infected with Cordyceps which is a fungus that attaches to a host and controls higher brain function to serve its purpose of maximum effect of transmission to more potential hosts to allow it to survive.

Sure they behave like zombies, but really the person is still there riding shotgun while the fungus drives the body.

Joel is the protagonist btw, Ellie is just the "cargo" to deliver to the fireflies who want to take her brain and synthesise a vaccine or a means to reverse the effects of the Cordyceps abd create a cure.

Theres a lot more to the story than "girl and guy vs zombies", its a story of love and losing those your character loves and it somehow working out in the end no matter how hopeless it seems.

[Jedimindtrickonyou]

Originally posted by PRAET0R1AN™:

Originally posted by Reverse-Xautos:

It would have been way better if we could have played as the little girl through the entire game!

Technically you can, but you need a mod to do it.

Originally posted by Reverse-Xautos:

It is basically a zombie game with a little girl as the main protagonist

"akshually" they're not zombies, they are infected with Cordyceps which is a fungus that attaches to a host and controls higher brain function to serve its purpose of maximum effect of transmission to more potential hosts to allow it to survive.

Sure they behave like zombies, but really the person is still there riding shotgun while the fungus drives the body.

Joel is the protagonist btw, Ellie is just the "cargo" to deliver to the fireflies who want to take her brain and synthesise a vaccine or a means to reverse the effects of the Cordyceps abd create a cure.

Theres a lot more to the story than "girl and guy vs zombies", its a story of love and losing those your character loves and it somehow working out in the end no matter how hopeless it seems.

Exactly, that’s why some of the infected (runners) look like dirty humans and others (clickers) have been infected longer and don’t even have faces anymore. All the way up to bloaters (like the one you fight in the school gym) and shamblers that you will see in the second game. The stalkers are the creepiest ones of all, the office building Ellie goes into in the second game when she has to jump out the window and into the river, it’s full of them and they are so disturbing.