“The Final of Us” has lastly returned for its second season, leaving critics united of their reward for the present, and from the start, you can lower the stress between Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) with a switchblade. However, that hasn’t stopped us from clocking some excellent replications of scenes, pictures, and nice little easter eggs (which have been simply as cool as those we present in season 1) lifted proper out of the divisive sport “The Final of Us Half II,” together with one explicit spot in Ellie’s room.
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At one level within the season 2 premiere, we see the secretly immune inhabitant of Jackson scrubbing her weapons at a workbench. Polish rods, work instruments, and different attachments for her weapons are strewn about, exhibiting that Ellie takes this all very severely. Whereas it is a good little bit of visible storytelling exhibiting how far she’s come, for followers, it is an amazing little nod to the sport, provided that it seems to be precisely just like the bajillion workbenches you go to in each video games from “The Final of Us” franchise.
Within the authentic survival horror collection, workbenches have been dotted about ranges in an effort to restore and improve your weapons, with a few of the visible cues throughout the course of mirrored by Ellie right here. Visiting these benches is crucial to creating it via each video games, however within the case of “Half II” particularly, there’s one pit cease that will be nice to see make its method into the live-action adaptation.
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We hope Ellie finds one other workbench, if just for the present to recreate a memorable soar scare
Whereas the workbenches are a gaming mechanic important to the unique world of “The Final of Us,” it could appear fairly odd if Bella Ramsey’s Ellie finds herself stopping off at areas that every one look precisely alike, scattered out throughout her inevitably huge journey she’s set to go on. Taking this into consideration, it is smart that that is the one bench we’ll doubtless come throughout within the present’s second season, however there’s one we would be keen to make an exception for.
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In “The Final of Us Half II,” one well-known fix-it location is positioned in an condo constructing the place Ellie is searching for provides. You are already on edge as it’s, however as you are fixing your weapons, a WLF soldier comes out of nowhere, pulling you/Ellie away from the desk and teeing up a struggle to the demise, shattering the phantasm of security that you’ve got at all times had at these workbenches. (Sometimes, you are completely protected when upgrading your weapons at a station like this.) It is a sensible little scare that comes fully out of nowhere and is definitely simply the correct of pulse-pounding second that would make its method into the present.
Nonetheless, there are sufficient areas to supply nods to the beloved online game with out Ellie stopping to offer her pistol a tune-up. For now, we will wait and see if one other workbench seems on Ellie’s travels as “The Final of Us” continues on Max.
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