In case you already did not know, The Final of Us is the newest online game to be tailored right into a TV present. The one shocking factor? It is truly fairly devoted to the unique materials! However regardless that most of it’s precisely the identical—we’re speaking body by body precise—there are nonetheless variations because the story has moved to a brand new medium and turn out to be its personal factor. Some adjustments would possibly shock hardcore followers of the sport. And others won’t appear to be a giant factor in any respect. Whether or not you’re a The Final of Us professional or a complete beginner, you are most likely inquisitive about studying extra.
Listed below are all the main variations between The Final of Us online game and TV present.
Episode 1:
The Timeline:
Video Sport: The sport begins off on September 26, 2013 when the breakout hits Austin, Texas—the place Joel lives—in a single day on September 27. After spotlighting Joel’s backstory, the remainder of the sport takes place 20 years later in 2033. That signifies that something that occurred in historical past till September 26, 2013, is canon within the sequence.
TV Present: The present’s intro begins off with a tv dialog concerning the prospects of the longer term fungal outbreak, which airs in 1968.
Each the online game and the TV present state that Joel’s birthday is on September 26. However the TV present shifts the outbreak again 10 years over to 2003 after which later jumps to 2023.
Joel’s Time within the Quarantine Zone:
Video Sport: This time is just a little short-lived, and you do not actually get to see a whole lot of his relationship with Tess or what they do. The largest change has to do with Robert, whom Joel and Tess go after within the sport after they discover out that he offered weapons meant for them to among the Fireflies. After questioning him, Tess executes him.
TV Present: You see extra of Joel’s life within the Quarantine Zone till the current day. Whereas he and Tess attempt to go after Robert for promoting away the automotive battery they had been going to make use of to depart the Quarantine Zone, he’s already useless, which ends up in their encounter with Marlene.
Spores:
Video Sport: Within the sport, an airborne model of the virus known as “spores” are a giant problem for each Joel and the gamers of their quest for survival. Within the video games, Ellie’s skill to breathe in spores permits Joel to additional settle for her immunity towards the virus.
TV Present: Spores do not exist within the present, which implies Ellie’s immunity is not confirmed till she’s bit and is not affected. Nonetheless on this model, parasites do exist and are a essential reason for the virus’s unfold.
Joel’s Purpose for Leaving:
Video Sport: Marlene continues to be partially the explanation why Joel and Tess resolve to depart the Quarantine Zone, however it’s principally to get their weapons again, which she says they’re going to be capable to get from the Fireflies in the event that they safely transport Ellie to the capitol constructing.
TV Present: Joel’s motive principally has to do along with his brother Tommy, whom he hasn’t heard from shortly. Within the video games, Tommy joins the Fireflies, which causes a giant rift of their relationship and so they do not converse. Within the present, we do not know precisely why Joel and Tommy separated, however we do know that Joel is in search of him.
Episode 2:
Tess’s Sacrifice:
Video Sport: Tess reveals to Joel that their luck has run out and he or she has been contaminated, additional proving that Ellie is immune as her chunk has already been cured. Once they go to the capitol constructing, they uncover the Fireflies have been killed by the navy and have your entire place surrounded. Since she’s contaminated, Tess tells Joel and Ellie to run away. She means that he go discover Tommy, who will assist join them with the remainder of the Fireflies.
Tess tells Joel and Ellie that she’ll distract the navy as a lot as doable to offer them further time. She manages to kill two troopers earlier than she is shot down, and Joel sees her useless physique earlier than turning away.
TV Present: The group reaches the capitol constructing and discovers the Fireflies are useless and had been killed by somebody who received contaminated. Tess tries to give you a backup plan to move Ellie, however Joel desires to surrender and return residence. That is when Tess reveals she’s been bit and might’t go any additional. After one of many Fireflies wakes up and tries to assault them, Joel shoots them down, which causes the remainder of the group wake.
Tess tells Joel to take Ellie over to Invoice and Frank’s place to maintain her protected and assist “set every thing proper.” With a purpose to purchase Joel and Ellie time, Tess decides to remain again and attempt to distract them by utilizing the gasoline and grenades within the constructing to blow it up. Because the remaining contaminated begin to overtake the constructing, Tess tries to make use of her lighter to begin a fireplace. After a couple of failed makes an attempt, she manages to mild a spark earlier than dropping the lighter and inflicting the constructing to blow up as Joel and Ellie safely watch it occur from the surface.
Episode 3:
Invoice and Frank’s backstory:
Video Sport: Invoice continues to be alive once we meet him, nevertheless his accomplice Frank was contaminated and hanged himself earlier than it took over. We meet Invoice when Joel and Ellie arrive in Lincoln.
We be taught extra of their backstory as he talks with each characters and calls Frank his “accomplice.” We later uncover that Frank turned upset with Invoice’s methods and tried to depart, taking a few of Invoice’s issues. However on his method again to his hideout, he ended up getting bitten and he killed himself earlier than the sickness took over.
Invoice and Joel uncover Frank’s physique whereas in search of provides in a close-by residence. Joel discovers his suicide observe, which the participant has the choice to offer to Invoice or not. In the event that they do, Invoice reads it and turns into upset with it saying, “In order that’s how you are feeling. Nicely, fuck you too, Frank. Fuckin’ fool.”
It is later revealed in a smuggler’s observe that Frank contacted somebody to attempt to smuggle him into the Boston Quarantine Zone, as that is the place he was attempting to go. In fact, he by no means made it.
TV Present: Invoice and Frank’s story is reportedly totally different, in line with The Hollywood Reporter, and shall be featured in episode 3.
Frank shall be performed by Murray Bartlett, whereas Nick Offerman is solid as Invoice. The largest shock comes from the truth that Frank isn’t useless, as hinted in episode 1 with the code that Joel makes use of (and the way Tess tells Joel to go to Invoice and Frank’s).
“As superior as that episode is, there are going to be followers who’re upset by it,” co-writer and co-creator Neil Druckmann advised The New Yorker. “To me, the story we inform is genuine to the world. It’s genuine to the themes that we’re speaking about.”
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