You can also improve the explosive range of weapons and your aiming stability. The skills improve things like crafting speed, melee strength and the amount of items you can create.

You'll need to find various combat manuals before unlocking the relevant skill trees, but we found more than enough pills to max out the skills we liked by searching areas thoroughly. This story feels like it completes the picture. The finale isn't as powerful as the original, but this game definitely feels like a worthy companion to the first game and not a cash-grabbing sequel. Thankfully, the overall story is strong, if convoluted slightly by the various time jumps, but they do help deliver the biggest narrative payoffs. You'll spend long stretches in silence, which can make the constant hunting for essential crafting items seem hollow and repetitive. Sadly, Ellie has grown quite gruff and serious, much like Joel, and her conversations with other characters don't punctuate the horror with quirky levity as the original did. Some of the greatest moments from the first game were the witty back-and-forth between Ellie and Joel, from that cheesy joke book to interesting perspectives on being a teenager in a post-apocalyptic world – like why would you not eat food if you have it!? But there's also significant stretches of the game where Ellie is alone. This time, we meet Dina, Ellie's love interest who you'll remember her kissing in the E3 trailer, plus Jesse, Dina's ex-boyfriend who also lives in Jackson.

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