A gamer shares a picture of a bug in Naughty Dog’s acclaimed game The Last of Us that sees a confused Joel left with a deceased Ellie at his feet.
A gamer making their way through the PS4 remaster of Naughty Dog’s critically acclaimed action-adventure game The Last of Us has shared a screenshot of an unusual bug in the game that left them with a recently deceased version of Ellie lying at their feet.
The first entry in the franchise made the leap from consoles to computers earlier this year with the release of a PC port of The Last of Us Part 1, though the excitement for the game’s release was quickly overshadowed by the numerous technical problems present in the remake.
Originally released for Sony’s PlayStation 3 in 2013, The Last of Us has been praised by players and critics alike for both its tense, stealth-focused gameplay and its grounded and mature narrative. In the decade since its initial launch, The Last of Us has been remastered and remade for two subsequent generations of Sony consoles as well as receiving an adaptation into a critically acclaimed HBO series.
The most recent revision to the fan-favorite game came in the form of a full remake, titled The Last of Us Part 1, that was released for PlayStation 5 and PC. While the remake was praised for giving the now 10-year-old game an impressive graphical facelift, numerous bugs in The Last of Us Part 1 on PC have somewhat tarnished the title’s lofty legacy in the eyes of some gamers.
In a new post on the r/thelastofus, Redditor Idkwhattonameththis shared a screenshot of an unexpected and grisly bug they encountered when playing through the PS4 remaster of The Last of Us. The eerie screenshot shows Joel standing over the body of a seemingly lifeless Ellie sprawled out on the ground in front of him.
Making the unusual bug all the more unsettling is the fact that another version of Ellie is standing beside him and staring down at her own corpse. While the terrifying Clickers in The Last of Us are usually the source of the game’s most frightening moments, this screenshot shows that technical glitches can sometimes be equally eerie.
Several Redditors responding to the screenshot of the unusual bug found it amusing, with one response calling it “The dark version of the Spider-Man meme.” Another response poked fun at the title drop trope in games and movies, joking about a cliché-filled big screen version of
The Last of Us that ends with Ellie and Joel finding dozens of dead doppelgangers of themselves before Joel exclaims “Ellie, we’re the last of us!” Showing that the bug wasn’t an isolated incident, one Redditor linked to another post that featured a screenshot of an axe-wielding Joel standing over a seemingly decapitated Ellie.
In a game already filled with some truly terrifying moments, this unusual glitch manages to up the scare factor just a bit more. And unlike the comparatively benign, though still slightly creepy, dancing Joel bug in The Last of Us Part 2, there appears to be no clear cause for the unexpected appearance of Ellie’s lifeless double.
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