Something went wrong. Try again later
    Follow

    The Last of Us

    Game » consists of 11 releases. Released Jun 14, 2013

    Joel and Ellie must survive in a post-apocalyptic world where a deadly parasitic fungus infects people's brains in this PS3 exclusive third-person action-adventure game from Naughty Dog.

    Character Parallels with Bioshock Infinite *spoilers*

    Avatar image for mcwingstar
    mcwingstar

    87

    Forum Posts

    12

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 6

    #1  Edited By mcwingstar

    Sorry if this has topic has been covered before, but I'd like to get some other opinions on the weird overlap in character themes between this game and Bioshock Infinite. Sorry for all the quotation marks.

    Both these games have a central character (funnily enough, voiced by the same person), who is a father that has lost their daughter only to "find" them again. The "daughter" in said situation, increasingly, becomes of sole importance to the main character throughout the story. The "daughter", on the other hand, while valuing the father figure, increasingly wants to change the wider world and is willing to do so at any personal cost.

    Each ends with either the father or the daughter in a position where they dictate the course of the world and thereby make a decision based upon the aforementioned values.

    I am not a skilled enough essayist (or thinker) to delve in to this in some larger context (though one could argue there is a sort of cross-commentary about progressive vs. conservative viewpoints of the world), but I thought there is at least a pretty neat thematic overlap between the two.

    [Also: Walking dead season 1! Different but similar father-daughter bonding! Fits less neatly in to my comments, but is this a new ALL STORY?]

    This edit will also create new pages on Giant Bomb for:

    Beware, you are proposing to add brand new pages to the wiki along with your edits. Make sure this is what you intended. This will likely increase the time it takes for your changes to go live.

    Comment and Save

    Until you earn 1000 points all your submissions need to be vetted by other Giant Bomb users. This process takes no more than a few hours and we'll send you an email once approved.