Picking up where I left off last time, Ellie is still a bit out of it and rather preoccupied, but she soon snaps out of it when she see my header image.
They do move in herds.
Apparently a bunch of giraffes escaped from the local zoo and are just wondering around the city wild. This boosts her spirits and she's now more determined to get to the hospital, even while Joel is having second thoughts. He kinda just wants to head back to his brother's town and live a simple life with Ellie, but she sees that as making all they been through to get there mean nothing.
Maybe we can get by pretending to be infected...
After using up almost all of my ammo and explosives, and way too many lives, I manged to clear them out and continue on. Finding one more comic along the way for my efforts.
Last one I found, though there are more out there.
From a hole in the tunnel, We get a nice view of just how close we are to the hospital. The trouble is that there is a lot of water between here and there.
It's only a model...
So for once last time it's a puzzle section. It had a lot more steps than previous ones, but since they were all linear it was actually easier. After it Ellie even suggests giving her swimming lessons when it's all over.
The last voyage of the U.S.S. Pallet
Next is a little bit more water than even Joel can swim in, with a street turned into a roaring rapid. Luckily, there are evenly space vehicles along the way for Joel and Ellie to hop across.
Should have put skill points into portage.
Their luck doesn't hole out, as the last bus they cross begins to shift and roll in the water. Ellie manages to jump clear, but Joel fall through a window and is quickly pinned to the far end by the force of the water. Ellie shows up juts in the nick of time, standing on the bus and kicking in one of the doors so Joel can get free.
There's your problem, you flooded it.
The rescue is cut short when the bus rolls over, plunging both of them into the water. Joel manages to swim free, spotting Ellie's limp body floating down current. He swims after her and pulls her to shore, but she's not breathing. While trying to revive her, a couple Firefly guards show up and lend a hand.
By knocking Joel out cold.
Seriously, fuck these guys!
Joel wakes up later in the hospital and Marlene, the Firefly leader that started them on this quest, is there too! Turns out that Ellie is fine, but Joel can't see her currently since she's being prepped for surgery.
Wait. What surgery?!
It turns out that Ellie isn't actually immune to the the spores, a benign mutation of the spores infected her. So she doesn't have any value for a cure, just the spores that set up shop all up in her brain, and to get them out requires a lethal operation.
Joel is having none of that...
Time to kill everyone.
Through excessive use of stealth kills, I manage to get through the first two areas of the hospital undetected. The last leg is a long hall way that's heavily guarded with dudes with machine guns. This is actually to my advantage, since its a straight shot to get all of them. Using the scope on El Diablo, I inch my way around the wall, just enough for a guard to get into the cross-hairs, and down them in one shot. Repeat this a half dozen times and the way is clear.
You all might want to run.
Finally getting to Ellie just before the operation can start, Joel picks her up and then it's one final dash to an elevator as every remaining firefly opens fire. Somehow all of them missing! When the elevator reaches the ground floor, only Marlene stands in Joel's way. She begs him to see reason, that the spores in Ellie can be used to make a vaccine that could save all of humanity.
Hmm, let me thing about- no.
Joel shoots her and drives off with ellie. After a while, Ellie waks up, rather confused as to what happened since falling into the water.
Joel tells her that the Fireflies actually had many other people that were immune to the spores, but there was just no way to get any kind of cure out of them. Going on to apologise that it was all a waste of time and the Fireflies didn't need her after all.
Not exactly how it happened there Joel...
The head back to the town that Joel's bother is in, Joel being uncharacteristically in good spirits, even talking about his daughter. After stopping to enjoy the view, Ellie point blank asks him if what he said about the fireflies was true.
Still a nice view.
He swears that every word of it was true, and Ellie just says "Okay."
Roll credits!
So that's it for the main game of The Last of Us Remastered, but tomorrow (and maybe the next day) I'll be going through the additional prequel story of Left Behind (let's hop there's no Kirk Cameron).
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