00:00www.mesmerism.info
00:30He operates in the black market of the quarantine zone, so anybody needing extra ration cards, drugs, getting weapons or
00:37getting ammo for your weapons, they've come to him and his partner, Tess.
00:41Well, I have some interesting news for you.
00:43Where were you, Tess?
00:45Hey, we had a drop to make.
00:47We had a drop to make.
00:48This is how he survives. This is how he gets extra supplies to let him stay alive.
00:53I think that Joel discovers what morality really is and the difference between loss and sacrifice.
01:00So he's had a lot of loss in his life, not just in his personal life, but also the world
01:05that he's grown up with that's changed significantly.
01:08And it's kind of changed for the worst.
01:10In that 20-year gap between when the outbreak happened and when the story picks up, he's had to do
01:16some horrible things to survive.
01:17Come on, it won't like that.
01:18Who has our guns?
01:19Just give me a couple of...
01:25And then Ellie was born after the pandemic and born inside of the safety of the quarantine zone.
01:30She's lived for 14 years in this quarantine zone and hasn't known anything outside of those walls.
01:37And she's had to see people get executed for tested positive for infection or people just put away and never
01:44to be seen again because they were caught stealing or caught trying to fake ration cards.
01:48And there's reasons that the military is making those decisions to operate the way they are, and that's to maintain
01:54some sort of semblance of security.
01:57Ellie has tried to find ways to survive, just trying to get by.
02:01She's still kind of held on to her innocence because this is the only world that she's ever known.
02:07She doesn't have, like, a golden age that she's thinking back to when everything was better.
02:11So for her, this isn't this crushing weight of the world on top of her where she remembers all the
02:17things she's lost.
02:17This is just what it is.
02:20Don't take long.
02:21And you stay close.
02:25Let's go.
02:27When she meets Joel and Tess, it's a whole new world.
02:30It's like, inside the quarantine zone is bad, but outside those walls, it's even worse.
02:36Once she's paired up with Joel and they start going on this journey, they start by not really trusting each
02:42other.
02:42But she knows that she has to rely on this guy in order to survive in this world.
02:47Because he's teamed up with this kid, a lot of his humanity starts coming out.
02:51Things that he thought that were just long gone in his personality begin to emerge.
02:56These posters are everywhere.
03:07Joel regains his humanity step by step as he invests himself more in Ellie.
03:12She becomes more and more of an independent survivor because of what she learns through hanging out with Joel.
03:17Through the course of the journey, these two realize that they really have to rely on one another, both emotionally
03:23and physically, in order to survive in this world.
03:27What was that all about?
03:29Get on.
03:30We're coming to the hotel.
03:33Okay.
03:35Over the course of the whole game, we want you to keep making difficult choices.
03:40We want you to have to, in terms of resource management and stealth and combat, to have to make hard
03:48decisions every moment as you're playing.
03:50And so when the characters make these really hard decisions, you say to yourself, God, I get it.
03:55I get what it's like to make a choice under pressure.
03:58They've had to make very questionable decisions to survive.
04:03There was a key element that I kind of honed in on early on with Joel.
04:08It was a line that was in the audition side that says that Joel has few moral lines left to
04:13cross.
04:13And so that became kind of the anchor point to the character.
04:18Matter of fact, we just keep our histories to ourselves.
04:22We clear?
04:23Sure.
04:25If we can make you feel like you're actually with these characters on that journey, and you're invested in those
04:33stories and those characters, then you're feeling, in theory, the same thing that they're feeling.
04:38Man.
04:39What?
04:40Nothing.
04:41It's just...
04:43I've never seen anything like this, that's all.
04:46You mean the woods?
04:47Yeah.
04:48Never walked through the woods.
04:49It's kind of cool.
05:13It's kind of cool.
05:14It's kind of cool.
05:17You can't really see it there.
05:18You know.
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