And then there's these assholes...

At least it's not snowing, right?

Picking up right where we left off last time, Bill and Joel pushed the car as Ellie drove, until getting enough momentum that the car would start on its own. Surprisingly, other than having to kill a few more infected, it actually worked without a hitch. Even Bill survived, but chose to stay back in town.

On the road again~

There's a cute bit where Ellie goes through all the stuff she sneakilly stole from Bill, after repeatedly telling him that she wasn't going to seal anything, including a tape of old 40's music and one of his gay porn mags (which i spotted earlier in his hide out). After a while of driving they find the highway blocked off, and Joel grudgingly drives into the city. 

This is where things really goes off the rails, again. It isn't long before they are a ambushed by a bunch of Hunters, asshole humans who survive by killing and looting everyone that come into the city. And they've been busy...

They're like OCD raiders...

So after killing the hell out of all the ones that ambushed us, we made our way through their local base, looting all their stuff. Once out, Ellie apparently ate enough of those level up pills to unlock her whistling ability.  

Not the skill I would put points to, but you be you Ellie. 

Also, I find a copy of the comic that Ellie has been reading. Surprisingly, on the back it says it's published by Dark Horse comics, not some generic name. I guess it's a perk of having Darkhorse publish the Last Of Us art book.

The Canadian dollar wasn't doing to bad before the world ended.

Next up is another big Hunter bases, located in a bookstore. I started taking them out with stealth, but that soon went pear shaped and I just started shooting. The Hunters are not as dangerous as the infected, but they are worse than the military dudes. For one, they mix up fighting styles to whatever is best for the situation at the time, while the military dudes seemed to be either full punch or full fight mode. They also have more weapons, like bats, shotguns, and their own Molotov cocktails...

Well this really burns my britches!

After taking them all out, I went about looting the place, while Ellie decided to lighten the mood...

Warning, puns!

Having turned the place up side down for loot, we made our way out the back door. Apparently the Hunters don't think much of the military dudes either...

They have a long way to go to reach Raider decorating skills...

After a silly bit where Ellie comments how stupidly skinny a model in a poster is considering all the food before the outbreak, we get a good view of our destination, a bridge, that leads out of the city. It's convenient that all the landmarks that we are heading to so far have been big gold coloured things.

Follow the yellow MacGuffin

But to get there we need to cross through a hotel, and to even get into that is more swimming!

Wow, even fish manage to live in here.

Once in the hotel Joel laments the loss of coffee and they soon come across more Hunters scoping the place out. So it's time for more sneaky killing of dudes! It's made slightly easier since a lot of the hunters are busy watching walls instead of open areas...

"Keep watching that wall, I don't want to catch you looking out that window again!"

After taking care of that lot, and looting everything not nailed down, Joel and Ellie reach as high as they can go due to a collapsed stairwell. Fortunately there's a ladder in an elevator where they can get higher through the elevator shaft. I'm sure nothing can go wrong with this plan...

Sure, that looks safe...

Of course things go wrong! After getting Ellie up to the next floor, the elevator gives out and 

plunges Joel to the flooded basement. This part of the game was creepy as hell! Between the total darkness, the diving through murky water, and disorienting maze of rubble, this had me on edge way more than all those fight with Hunters.

That's not a good sign

Then things got even worse as Joel went into a spore filled area, which means the infected are close by too. To top it off, I had to use a generator to power a door on an electric lock, and the noise of that attracted all the infected, including another Bloater. This time though I knew how to take it out and had a lot of Molotov cocktails to do it!

Yeah, think you have a sight fungus problem.

After that was one last easy room of Hunters, which I managed to take all out by stealth. To get out of the area i needed to climb a ladder, which another hunter to pop out and start strangling Joel and downing him in a near by puddle. Joel was pretty much screwed at this point, and would have bought it if it weren't for Ellie showing up and blowing the Hunter's head off!

Yes, you killed the shit out of him.

Not that Joel thanks her, he has his crotchety old guy reputation to think about. So tomorrow it's out of this hotel from hell and on to whatever horrors this game throws at us next...