The Last of Us: Left Behind

A really nice companion piece.

Left Behind fractures the survivalist "here and now," offering a "then and there" of queer potentiality. The mall becomes a concrete utopia where mechanics of violence are disidentified into play. By repurposing the arcade and carousel, Ellie and Riley enact a world-making defiance against the apocalypse's grim teleology. Their bond refuses the logic of mere endurance, insisting instead on the density of queer time—proof that even within the ruins, a horizon of hope persists. - Full Review

yeah , it's good , i teared up

It's a rough value proposition as there isn't a whole lot here in terms of hours per dollar but the storytelling is still very good and the production is fairly great.

Gameplay-wise it finally brought something i was craving before, setting off infected and hunters against each other! The rest...well. It's nothing we needed to see with our own eyes storywise, but heck, i'd have taken a "normal day in jackson"-dlc if it meant coming back to these characters. why is everyone arguing whether ellie is gay and who cares?? she's a teenage girl, they're all over the place, doesn't mean shit and it'd be executed way too blunt anyway. after part 2 edit: oh. just. oh.