By: Savannah Swanson

There are a lot of negative opinions on The Last of Us show vs The Last of Us gameplay and I’m here to tell you about the differences on the show that was important for the gameplay.

To start off The Last of Us is a game based off a outbreak of Zombies that started because of a fungus attacking the human brain, practically making them animal like and unhuman. The main characters in the beginning Joel Miller a gruff, strong-willed man who has survived the outbreak for 20 years. Ellie Williams the “immune” girl that Joel has to bring to the military group called the “fireflies.”

In the gameplay Ellie is more a tomboy, but in the show they don’t portray that, they show the more feminine sides like the way she dresses and how she acts. In the game Ellie is a brunette with green eyes and has a low ponytail. In the show she is still a brunette but with brown eyes and a high ponytail. The actor who plays Ellie is a great actor but very upset with her appearance, the actor who plays her Bella Ramsey looks nothing like the real Ellie.

In the second game it gives us a 4-year jump with Ellie almost being 20, the game shows the difference in her appearance but with the show she looks the exact same but with a different hairstyle.

A very important part of the second gameplay, Ellie is on a hunt for the girl (Abby) who killed Joel, she travels across the country with her girlfriend Dina. In the gameplay it shows the resentment and survivors guilt the Ellie holds as surviving and not being killed by Abby’s crew. But in the show in barely shows the amount of guilt and anger she holds, she almost looks happy and fakes her angry. This part of the game is very important to show in the series, but they unfortunately do not show that.

Abby Anderson who as killed Joel in the second game and is shown in the show, is a tall and very muscular girl who has train for 5 years to kill Joel as he was the one who killed Abby’s father.  In the show, she is a short and non-buff girl, she also calls Joel handsome which makes no sense as he was the one who killed her father.

In the show they portray Abby as the ultimate villain after killing one of the main characters, but in the game they show the grief and the horrors Abby went through. They show her side of the story which you play and which you begin to understand how Ellie and Abby both lost their father figures in there life.

The HBO show has yet to release Abby’s side of the which would be a season 3 to the show.