The Unexpected Ways The Last of Us 2 Told Its Story

Aug 5 2020 by IGN PS4

 

Hours into The Last of Us 2, deep inside a flooded bookstore, a page lies torn from a children’s novel. If you direct Ellie to pick up the scrap, you’ll see it holds two stories. The first is an illustration of a solemn horse and rabbit, mottled by damp. “When a child REALLY loves you,” says the horse, “then you become real.”

 “Does it hurt?” asks the rabbit. Ellie reads the exchange next to a broken bookshelf that yawns up at the sky like a shattered rib...
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