Stronger Than You

I’m just a girl. I’m not a threat.

• if the first game was about love and people building relationships in a time of crisis and learning to trust, tlou 2 is about hate and ellie’s in particular
• we’re going to PLAY AS ELLIE from what i understand she’s going to be the main protagonist this time 
• ELLIE IS 19
• which makes joel about 53-54? i think 
• neil druckmann, re: the apprehension people were feeling about the idea of sequel to tlou - “trust me, we all felt the exact same way. nobody loves these characters more than we do & we would not do this unless we felt we had the right idea. we played with the idea of a sequel with other characters for ages but it never felt right. the last of us has always been about joel and ellie. all i ask is that the fans put some faith in us, trust us, we will do right by you. ”  
• they started working on this scene TWO FUCKING YEARS AGO
• when neil first got a recording of the song from ashley it was too good! they got a voice coach to help her sing a little more scratchy and rough and authentic and find ellie’s voice 
• brand new facial motion capture hoo-haa technology stuff idk THERES BEEN SOME DEVELOPMENT and its great there’s a whole adorable bit where ashley’s facial expressions are mirrored in ellie’s 3d model and she’s wonderful and full of freckles 
• MOVING ON neil said “ellie is the main character in this one and she plays a little differently than joel” - im assuming more stealth? “some mechanics are evolutions and some are reinventions” they are literally like at knife point not the reveal anything goddamn 
• ashley cries a lot. she apparently cried when neil told her the story outline for left behind and then kept crying when he told her about tlou part 2. they were at a restaurant and people stared at neil judgementally for making her cry 
• NO TENTATIVE RELEASE DATE YET 
• gustavo santaolalla IS BACK!!! thank god 
• there’s a new musical track reveal & some concept art of environments and one of ellie <3
• neil says he cannot see the last of us without joel and ellie. “they are the heart of this game. at its core the story is about human relationships and their relationship is the most important one in it.” 
• IN SHORT NAUGHTY DOG SAVED 2016 AND IMMA DIE WHEN THIS COMES OUT

Actual puppy Joel. (●´∀｀●)

‘What are ya doin’, kiddo? You really gonna go through with this?’ ‘I’m gonna find, and then I’m gonna kill… every last one of them.’