Ranking Ellie’s Jokes from The Last of Us

In a world as bleak and violent as the one featured in Naughty Dog’s 2013 masterpiece, The Last of Us, any moments of joy that players get to experience are a great change of pace. It’s good to know that even when most of the world’s population has been infected and society has almost entirely collapsed, that a lame joke can still make even the most weary survivors crack a smile. Undoubtably, one of the best things about experiencing this game is seeing how the relationship between protagonists Joel and Ellie develops over the course of four distinct seasons. We learn more about them as they learn more about each other. And a really unique way this can be seen is in the series of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f39mBwbjKIE" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">jokes that Ellie tells during the Summer season of the game</a>. Which lighten the mood after several intense encounters with hunters and infected during the Pittsburgh section. These are great little distractions from the severity of the situations that these characters are in and it’s often as much of a break for the player as it is for Joel and Ellie. We get to see them having fun with each other for some of the first times and in a silly way, lays the groundwork for a big part of their very jovial and loving relationship that develops over the course of the game and the journey they go on together. <a href="https://medium.com/@mitchellmapssoares/ranking-ellies-jokes-from-the-last-of-us-d2ed2fd24ae7">Learn More</a>