Game Making: Start By Healing the Player

Finally arrived at the destination, East Colorado University.

Joel and Ellie continue their search for clues about Firefly.

But when they came to the university laboratory, they found out that Firefly had already left the building empty, leaving only one infected corpse.

However, Joel and the others still got some key clues here, that is, Firefly moved to St. Mary's Hospital in Salt Lake City to the west.

But just as Joel was about to leave, they bumped into a hunter who came here to search for supplies.

During the battle, Joel fell from the roof and was pierced by a steel bar in his abdomen.

The serious injury made Joel extremely weak and covered in blood, but Ellie was reliable enough to deal with the remaining enemies alone.

This part of the journey can be said to be difficult.

Especially in the game that simulates Joel's serious injury, the player feels Joel's weakness.

Finally, when the two were about to leave on horseback, Joel finally fell to the ground and lost consciousness due to excessive blood loss.

Along with a period of black screen, when the screen appeared again, the time had come to winter.

The first thing that appeared on the screen was a cute bunny.

But before Tutu could run two steps, an arrow shot through Tutu.

It turned out to be Ellie who was hunting.

From the information she said to herself, Joel should be still alive.

This made Li Yue breathe a sigh of relief.

Ellie then spotted a deer, but while chasing the deer Ellie also encountered two passersby.

In the later conversation, Ellie knew the name and purpose of the other party. The middle-aged man named David wanted to exchange things for the deer in Ellie's hands.

Ellie asked without thinking if they had antibiotics.

David said that he agreed to the deal and asked the young man next to him to go back to get the medicine, and a group of infected people came unexpectedly along the way.

After a fierce battle, David and Ellie were warming up in the house, and Ellie seemed to relax some vigilance against David at this time.

But in the next conversation, David looked at Ellie and talked about something.

Some time ago he sent a team to go out to find food, but was killed by a lunatic who also took a little girl with him.

At this moment, Ellie realized that the visitor was not good, but the other party unexpectedly let Ellie leave.

Ellie returned to the hideout, Joel was still lying on the ground in a coma, Ellie got antibiotics to save him.

But soon the enemy came.

Because of Ellie's actions, David and the others understood one thing.

That is Joel must be injured, otherwise Ellie would not want to look for medicine.

And letting Ellie go is to follow the traces of Ellie's departure and find where Joel is.

Realizing this, Ellie immediately decided to lure the hunters away.

Although many enemies were dealt with, Ellie was still outnumbered and captured.

Waking up from the cell, Ellie found that the hunter outside was actually cutting a living person.

Apparently the food for these hunters is humans.

At this time, their leader David appeared, and the other party exposed his true colors.

This guy is simply a big pervert, a copper alchemist!

Facing David's dirty purpose, Ellie was naturally unmoved, and even broke one of David's fingers.

This makes David angry and decides to turn Ellie directly into their food.

………………

And just when Ellie was in crisis, Joel finally woke up.

Looking at Joel who woke up, Li Yue was very pleasantly surprised.

The awakened Joel endured the pain of the wound and struggled to stand up, and the first thing he did was call Ellie's name, the kind of concern was beyond words.

Having been with him for so long, and going through countless life-and-death crises, Joel understands exactly what Ellie means to him.

With his injuries that were not yet healed, Joel defeated David's men with difficulty, and successfully captured two people alive.

The cruel interrogation method that followed did not make the player feel uncomfortable, but instead had a sense of relief.

But what followed was more worry, worrying about what happened to Ellie at this moment.

But Ellie over there is not waiting for Joel to save her like most games or movies.

Instead, Ellie escaped with her witty performance and used the blizzard to find a way out in the town.

This plot is a two-line narrative, and the player's perspective constantly switches between Joel and Ellie.

Inside the restaurant, there will be the only BOSS battle in the game.

The objects are not terrible zombies, but the same humans.

Here Ellie needs to hide her whereabouts and follow David in circles to assassinate him three times from behind.

It can be said that it is quite difficult, especially Ellie can't make a sound, but there are broken glass ballasts in some places on the ground.

Li Yue, who didn't master it the first time, died here once.

After three successful assassinations, he successfully defeated David to trigger the plot.

Facing Ellie, who was knocked to the ground by David's sneak attack from behind, she just picked up the kitchen knife next to her and slashed at David's head.

A total of eleven knives fully told everyone what the fate of copper smelting was.

At this time, Joel finally arrived. He hugged Ellie and comforted her softly. Ellie was also weeping in Joel's arms.

From the Boston quarantine to the now impending arrival at St. Mary's Hospital in Salt Lake City, from summer to fall to winter.

They have gone through countless difficulties and life-and-death crises along the way.

At this moment, both Joel and Ellie understand how important each other is to them.

By the time we got here, the plot of the game had come to an end.

The emotions of Joel and Ellie have undergone the scenes of spring, summer, autumn and winter, and they have also changed significantly.

From the indifference at the beginning, to the trust later to now.

The other party is an indispensable existence in their own life.

The dialogue between the two people during the journey is also more warm and richer.

Joel tells Ellie that when it's all over, he'll teach Ellie to talk about guitar.

Through the sun and corridors full of floating sun.

The scene in front of them made everyone who played here stunned.

There is a giraffe eating in front, and it's not just this one, there are its groups in the distance.

Ellie stayed where she was. Born in the last days, she had never seen such a graceful animal.

Under the guidance of Joel, Ellie stepped forward gently and stroked the giraffe's neck.

Countless giraffes are leisurely chewing green leaves, swinging their tails and moving forward calmly, fully showing the delicacy and beauty of life.

The end times are only relative to human beings.

But for animals, the world seems to be a better place.

Here, Joel looks at Ellie and tells her that they don't have to go to Firefly at this time.

They could go back, go back to Tommy's town where they could fit.

But Ellie refused, after all they had paid so much.

Finally, the two of them successfully arrived at Firefly's base.

Facing Joel, the Firefly Queen Ma Lin, who had returned to the base, seemed a little incredible.

Because she never imagined that Joel and Ellie could travel thousands of miles from the Boston quarantine area to find Firefly's base.

However, in the next dialogue, the cruel truth is displayed in front of the player.

According to Ma Lin, the Cordyceps fungus mutated in Ellie's body.

That's why Ellie is immune to the virus, but this mutation has come to Ellie's brain.

To understand the principle of immunity, researchers must remove the Cordyceps fungus that spread to Ellie's brain before they can conduct reverse research to develop a vaccine.

And such research would obviously kill Ellie.

Joel asked Marlene to find other people to study, but Marlene told Joel that it was impossible because only Ellie had been found in twenty years.

So Marlene imprisoned Joel.

At this moment, Joel made a choice.

Joel has never been a noble person.

When the end of the world happened, he made Tommy ignore people on the street who asked for help.

Because in the car there is his world, his daughter Sarah.

After the end of the world, in order to survive, he worked as a hunter and a smuggler.

And now, he finally has a new world.

Twenty years ago his world was destroyed; twenty years from now he will never allow his world to be destroyed again.

Find an opportunity to fight back, and then ask Ellie's whereabouts, and face all the armed forces in the entire Firefly base alone.

Joel at this moment is like a lone wolf full of wildness.

The entire "Last Survivor" game, in most of the previous cases, requires stealth to reach the goal.

But at this moment, I don't know if it was Li Yue's illusion. He felt that the rhythm of the whole game had changed.

No route planning, no stealth assassination.

At this moment, both the player and Joel have only one thought.

That is to find Ellie quickly.

Because every second of the night, Ellie is in danger of dying.

Going to save the world, he just wants to save Ellie, the little girl who gets along day and night.

Finally, at the last moment, Joel broke through all Firefly's defenses and came to the operating room to save Ellie.

In the parking lot, Joel kills Marlene and leaves Firefly with Ellie in a coma.

Facing Ellie who woke up in the car, Joel panicked.

He told her that there were actually many immune people besides her in Firefly.

But it couldn't help at all, and now Huoying has given up.

Next, they plan to return to Tommy's town to live a new life.

Finally, on the way to the town, Ellie told Joel her thoughts.

'In Boston, when I was bitten...I wasn't alone, my best friend was there and she was bitten. ’

'We didn't know what to do, so...she said [Let's just wait and see, maybe we can become lunatics together, very poetic]'

'I'm still waiting for my turn, her name is Riley, she's the first victim I've ever seen. ’

'Then Tess, then'

My former best friend, Tess, Sam, and others I met on the road all died of infection.

Ellie wants to change that, even at the expense of herself, if she can.

She looked at Joel: 'Swear to me, everything you said about Firefly was true. ’

Facing Ellie without any hesitation, Joel looked directly at Ellie, nodded and said seriously: 'I swear. ’

At this point, the game is over.

The game screen fell into darkness, and the list of the game's production staff had appeared.

But Li Yue is still immersed in the plot of the game.

Because there are too many things to think about in the whole game, and too many things are worth pondering.

Every character in the game, every hidden detail is full of deep meaning, this is not a flawless story but it is so heavy.

This is a single-threaded game through and through, and it's not what players think, and everything goes in the right direction in the end.

Li Yue felt that there was still a lot of content in the game, but he didn't discover it.

But there was only one thing he could be sure of now.

That is "The Last Survivor", it is definitely a masterpiece!