The Last of Us Season 2 Episode 5: TV Show vs Game Comparison

The pursuing nonfiction contains spoilers for The Last of Us play 2, occurrence 5.

Ellie’s descent into unit genuinely kicks disconnected successful this week’s occurrence of The Last of Us. The show’s 5th section sees her brutally battle Nora successful the spore-infested basement of the WLF’s infirmary base. It’s 1 of the game’s astir recognisable scenes and remains likewise harrowing successful HBO’s adaptation.

This and 3 different cardinal sequences from the archetypal crippled were adapted for this episode. Here we’ve compared them against the archetypal root material, analysing what’s changed and what’s stayed the same. You tin spot some versions successful the video above, oregon work connected beneath for our written explanations.

Seattle Day 2

In some the crippled and the amusement Dina listens successful connected WLF vigor chatter to enactment retired the group’s determination and patrol patterns. In the game, we spot Dina explicate each this to Ellie – successful portion due to the fact that it helps found the objectives of the upcoming level. In the show, Dina takes notes but determination is nary like-for-like speech astir what the WLF codes mean.

Elsewhere successful the theater, Ellie explores the auditorium and finds a guitar. It’s 1 of the much memorable scenes from the crippled – Ellie takes a spot successful the beforehand enactment and begins to play. In the show, Ellie alternatively sits connected a stool up connected the stage. Both versions play the opening of Pearl Jam’s Future Days, though Ellie successful the crippled sings the archetypal 2 lines – amusement Ellie sings conscionable the first.

In the game, Day 2 sees Ellie caput retired to Hillcrest. That conception of the crippled is beauteous overmuch chopped wholly from the amusement – there’s nary hiding from dogs successful overgrown houses – but we bash get a mentation of the Seraphite mural that is seen soon aft Ellie leaves the theater. In the game, the “Feel Her Love” graffiti is connected the backmost of a truck. In the show, a akin representation is painted connected a wall. The WLF person near dormant Seraphites beneath it arsenic immoderate benignant of ironic gesture.

Stalkers

Later successful the episode, Ellie and Dina person a tense brushwood with a radical of Stalkers. While Ellie does travel crossed Stalkers connected Day 2 successful the game, this country isn’t a nonstop translation of that moment. For one, Dina is present with Ellie – successful the game, Dina stays astatine the cinema. The determination has besides changed; Ellie was attacked successful an bureau gathering successful the game, wherever the show’s Stalker showdown takes spot successful a warehouse.

More significantly, though, the show’s Stalkers behave successful a precise antithetic mode to their crippled counterparts. In the game, Stalkers are cautious, astir skittish predators, and truthful this brushwood is simply a tense crippled of cat-and-mouse arsenic you effort to spot wherever they are hiding. While the amusement has made proposition that Stalkers are much intelligent than the much animalistic Runner variants, successful this country there’s small grounds of that. The Stalkers beauteous overmuch conscionable complaint – or, indeed, tally – astatine Ellie and Dina, and effort to interruption into the cage the duo person barricaded themselves wrong of.

Another alteration comes with the reintroduction of Jesse into this conception of the story. In the game, towards the extremity of the Hillcrest section, Jesse emerges from the shadows to drawback Ellie earlier she walks into a WLF patrol. In the show, Jesse turns up to assistance Ellie and Dina flight from the Stalkers.

The Seraphites

While overmuch of what players volition retrieve of Hillcrest has been removed for the show’s mentation of events, memories of the crippled volition precise overmuch beryllium evoked by the group’s brushwood with the Seraphites. The wood and foliage is precise akin to Part 2’s environment, and the series successful which a hanging antheral is killed by his Seraphite captors is precise adjacent to the events of the game.

The cardinal quality present is successful the radical present. In the game, Ellie explores this country connected her own, whereas successful the amusement she is accompanied by Dina and Jesse. This straight impacts a cardinal infinitesimal erstwhile a Seraphite fires a bow and arrow; successful the game, the arrow strikes Ellie and she is forced to wrench it from her shoulder. In the show, it is Dina who is shot, the arrow hitting her leg. This forces the radical to determination on, carrying Dina to safety.

St. Mary’s Hospital

This episode's big, climactic lawsuit takes spot successful St. Mary’s Hospital. It's the series that astir intimately resembles the video crippled – a adjacent 1:1 recreation of Nora's last minutes. Like the game, Ellie finds Nora successful the WLF-occupied infirmary and holds her astatine gunpoint, demanding to cognize wherever Abby is. Their speech culminates successful Nora saying that Joel got what helium deserves, her wording successful the amusement intimately resembling the publication of the game. She past makes a tally for it, throwing a instrumentality of liquid astatine Ellie to momentarily stun her. That past item is somewhat antithetic to the game, successful which Nora conscionable throws a alloy tray that lone catches Ellie disconnected defender for a second.

The pursuit done the infirmary is akin to that successful the game, though notably shorter and little game-y. Nora shouts for her allies to sprout and they bash truthful from a balcony, replicating the gunfire that sparks astir Ellie arsenic you propulsion her guardant successful the game.

The pursuit yet ends successful the aforesaid spore-filled corridor bathed successful reddish airy that we saw successful the game. Nora, collapsed and breathing successful fatal spores, yet realises who Ellie is. “You’re her,” she says successful some versions of the story. In the show, Ellie past takes a azygous plaything with a metallic tube and the amusement cuts to black. In the game, Nora’s decease is much, overmuch much convulsive - with the camera lingering connected Ellie’s twisted face, she strikes Nora 3 times. While this changeable isn’t utilized for the show, HBO does somewhat replicate it a infinitesimal earlier by holding the camera connected Ellie’s look arsenic she holds Nora astatine gunpoint. It’s not arsenic viscerally almighty arsenic the changeable from the game, but you tin spot wherever the inspiration comes from.

For much from The Last of Us, cheque retired our spoiler-free play 2 reappraisal and our spoiler-filled reappraisal of the 5th episode.

Matt Purslow is IGN's Senior Features Editor.