10 Most Depressing Things About The Last Of Us Part 2

The heart and soul of The Last of Us has always been the relationship between Ellie and Joel. It cut through the darkness of the first game and offered hope that family could be found, and lives rebuilt.

Since the first game’s release, fans speculated about how Ellie and Joel’s story would carry on – living together in Jackson, finding the happiness they deserved etc.

The Last of Us Part II fills us in on the last four years through a series of playable flashbacks that see the duo go on a trip to a museum, looks for guitar strings, and get stuck in an infected-ridden hotel. But these moments are few and far between.

Two years prior to the events in Part II, Ellie finds out the terrible secret that her and Joel’s story is hinged on: she would’ve been killed to create a cure for the infection, but Joel stopped it, murdering the only person who could perform the surgery.

We then find out that this reveal costs them their relationship. They don’t speak for the next two years.

This revelation happens halfway through the game and is heartbreaking to say the least. In this terrible world of death and chaos, the father-daughter relationship between Ellie and Joel was what fans relied on. To hear it had broken down was more than a little depressing.