The Last of Us Season 2 Episode 4: TV Show vs Game Comparison

The pursuing nonfiction contains spoilers for The Last of Us play 2, occurrence 4.

The Last of Us play 2 hits its midway constituent with its strongest occurrence truthful far. It adapts 1 of the astir memorable sections of the crippled – Seattle Day One – and truthful that means we get Ellie and Dina checking retired Downtown earlier moving onto the Channel 13 TV workplace and escaping the WLF done the subway tunnels.

There are 5 cardinal sequences from the archetypal crippled that are 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.

Downtown

Ellie and Dina get successful Downtown Seattle soon aft this occurrence begins. This conception of the crippled was unfastened by design, and truthful allowed you to look astir respective antithetic buildings. We get conscionable 2 of them successful the show; Weston’s Pharmacy and Valiant Music Shop. The pharmacy gets lone a mates of minutes of screentime but it does diagnostic an adaptation of The Last of Us’ cardinal gameplay mechanic: opening drawers and looking for junk.

Valiant Music Shop, meanwhile, gets much love. The show’s acceptable has windows adorned with music-themed vinyl decorations, conscionable arsenic it does successful the game. On the crushed level is the aforesaid reddish drumkit, and Dina plays astir with them conscionable arsenic she does successful the game. It’s upstairs wherever the main lawsuit happens, though, erstwhile Ellie discovers a guitar successful an overgrown room. Bella Ramsey’s show of A-ha’s Take On Me is precise akin to that seen successful the game, with a talk-y vocal benignant and dilatory melody.

The Forward Base

Episode 4 introduces america to the person of the WLF, Isaac Dixon. This series is adapted from overmuch aboriginal successful the game’s series of events, erstwhile you play arsenic Abby alternatively than Ellie, though owed to the game’s overlapping dual timeline operation it seems apt that this series takes spot astatine the “correct” clip successful the show.

During Abby’s fractional of the game, we spot her sojourn the WLF’s guardant operating base. There she meets Isaac, who is concisely seen conducting a torturous interrogation connected a subordinate of the Seraphites. In the show, we spot a mentation of this country play retired successful its entirety. Similar to the game, the WLF’s captured Seraphite has been stripped wholly naked, but the amusement sees them tortured successful a room alternatively than a bathroom. Isaac’s brutal methods of torture were lone implied successful the game, but successful the amusement we spot him actively injuring his captive successful an effort to larn much astir the Seraphites’ plans.

Channel 13

Ellie and Dina’s travel to the Channel 13 TV workplace was people going to beryllium the cardinal lawsuit of this episode. In the crippled this is the series erstwhile the duo are archetypal confronted with the execution cult-like methods of the Seraphites, arsenic good arsenic marking their archetypal determination towards uncovering wherever Abby is. The amusement recreates the cardinal elements of the TV workplace successful grisy detail; WLF soldiers are strung up supra the workplace floor, and the Seraphites’ awesome is drawn connected the partition successful humor conscionable arsenic it is successful the game. Ellie’s probe of the country is interrupted by members of the WLF who, arsenic successful the game, are horrified to spot what has go of their comrades.

The flight from the TV workplace is shown to beryllium a small much frantic than it is successful the game, and the stormy upwind adds adjacent further play to the scene, but successful wide the acceptable plan and pathway Ellie and Dina instrumentality feels authentic to the game, adjacent if it’s not a one-to-one recreation.

The Tunnels

One of The Last of Us Part 2’s astir exhilarating sequences is Ellie and Dina’s travel done the Seattle subway tunnels. Bathed successful reddish airy and infested by clickers, it’s a genuinely terrifying level. Unsurprisingly, HBO went to lengths to seizure the striking visuals here, with the abandoned subway cars eerily lit by the WLF’s reddish flares and searching flashlights.

There are cardinal differences betwixt the crippled and the show's mentation of events, though. This is precise overmuch a endurance fearfulness series successful the game, with conscionable a tiny but incredibly deadly postulation of infected to avoid. The show, meanwhile, makes this much enactment packed – alternatively than person the infected lurk astir the subway cars, they get arsenic a charging, clawing horde. This makes the series overmuch much action-oriented, with Ellie and Dina scrambling to get distant alternatively than sneaking done the tunnels.

There are changes made to the sequence’s climax, too. In the game, Ellie gets trapped successful the turnstile and Dina saves her by shooting an attacking clicker successful the head. In the show, some Ellie and Dina get trapped successful the turnstile, and Ellie allows herself to beryllium bitten by the attacking clicker to support Dina. It’s this wound that results successful Ellie revealing her immunity to Dina. In the game, that uncover comes a fewer minutes prior, erstwhile Ellie’s state disguise is shattered by an attacking runner. Because spores are not a interest successful the amusement (at slightest for now), the characters bash not deterioration masks and frankincense this crook of events couldn’t beryllium used.

I’m Pregnant

The past country of this week’s occurrence recreates the culminating portion of the game’s Seattle Day 1: Dina reveals to Ellie that she’s pregnant. In some versions, Dina shares the quality astatine the Pinnacle Theater, which the duo has made their location base. In the game, it’s a subdued and anguished moment, with Dina looking notably stressed by the idea. The show’s instrumentality is rather different, arsenic the uncover beauteous overmuch instantly turns into an impassioned buss betwixt Ellie and Dina.

For much from The Last of Us, cheque retired our spoiler-free play 2 reappraisal and our spoiler-filled reappraisal of the 4th episode. You tin besides drawback up with our examination of the erstwhile episode.

Matt Purslow is IGN's Senior Features Editor.