The Last Of Us Players Share How They Dealt With The Surgeons While Saving Ellie
Anyone who's experienced the ending of The Last of Us will know how emotionally charged the entire situation is. You take control of a man who is doing things you may not personally agree with, yet are forced to watch these events play out and participate in them yourself. Because of this emotion, there's a wide range of reactions to one particular scene, and if you don't want the game (or TV series) spoiling, you'd best click away now.
Right at the end of The Last of Us, after ruthlessly dispatching dozens of Fireflies, Joel bursts into the operating room in which Ellie is about to be killed and shoots the head surgeon who tries to stop him. Even if you don't want to, you're forced to shoot this poor man to progress in the story. However, you aren't forced to shoot the two other surgeons cowering in the room, and fans seem to be split down the middle on how they initially dealt with them in their first playthrough.
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Curious as to how people dealt with these surgeons, a ResetEra user called Dust ran a poll to see how many people spared them like Joel did in HBO's The Last of Us, and how many murdered them. At the time of writing, the poll is almost exactly even, though the option to kill them both has a minor lead. Dust themselves recalls shooting the lead surgeon in the head and dropping the other two quickly after with almost no hesitation, and asked others to describe their thought process at the time.
A lot of responses describe how they felt that Joel would be too far gone on his murderous rampage, and channelled that rage themselves to take down everyone in the room. Jawmuncher's thought process is a little dark, who explains that "My sins
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