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The Last Of Us Show Used A Real Giraffe To Recreate Its Iconic Game Scene
The Last of Us show’s finale recreates some of the source material’s best moments, but one that stuck out to many was the scene where Joel and Ellie meet a giraffe in what remains of Salt Lake City.
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The Last Of Us Show Tries To Change What The Game Told Us About Joel
[The following will contain spoilers for The Last of Us show and both video games] It’s been ten years since The Last of Us launched in 2013, and it still feels like we can’t agree on what the series is actually about. Not literally, mind you. The series is pretty straightforward in that regard: a…
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The Last Of Us Show Mercifully Leaves Out A Famous, Devastating Game Death
The Last of Us show had a pretty gruesome episode this week. The Winter section has long been regarded as the original game’s darkest section, reckoning with its most villainous figures and horrifying realities of the post-apocalypse. Because of that, it’s perhaps merciful on the showrunner’s part that the show omits the most heartbreaking death…
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The Last Of Us Episode 7 Recap: Just Like Heaven
The release of The Last of Us in 2013 already marked a remarkable shift in narrative tone for big-budget, so-called “AAA” games. However, for some of us, 2014’s DLC chapter, The Last of Us: Left Behind, proved to be even more remarkable. It took mechanics that, in the game proper, had been used in nail-biting…