At the very beginning of the game when you are playing as Sarah, there is an implied death of a dog outside of her house. It's barking until you go next to the window, then there is a squeal of pain, and then silence.
Amomg the various abuses all the characters suffer ellie is nearly raped. Though not explicitly stated as Davids intentions its very heavily implied. Ellie brutally kills him with a machete before he can rape her
There is no dog fighting as in people making the dogs fight for sport but you briefly see two wild dogs fighting before they run off when you get too close
this is the only time i can think of but, there is a point where a character gets their head held underwater in a drowning attempt but they survive. you cannot skip this
you have to mash buttons to get loose from this attack, however failing this you can see a death scene here
it IS explicitly mentioned.
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at the end when joel is breaking ellie out of the hospital, marlene holds a gun up to him and says something along the lines of “before she gets raped and murdered” in reference to how messed up the world is and that it would be a waste of ellie’s immunity to not perform the surgery on her brain.
Ellie is almost raped by david. Though not explicitly stated as his intentions its very heavily implied. He is on top of her appearing to be starting towards raping her right before she kills him brutally with his machette. He fortunately doesnt manage to get any of her clothes off or ripped but it seems as though he did touch her innappropriately before she got him off her
In the beginning of the game a man is trapped under heavy debris, the players have the choice to shoot him after he begs to be killed and not left to turn.
It's optional but at the end of the game, you can brutally murder someone by shooting them with a flamethrower. Thinking about it now you can basically do it to any enemy in the game ( If you have equipped the flamethrower )
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joel and ellie both pass out underwater after jumping off a bridge.
ellie is also unconscious underwater when they are almost at the hospital near the end, and joel barely retains consciousness and pulls them both out of the water.
ellie is also found unconscious on a surgery table at the end and then carried out of a hospital all whilst unconscious.
100%, the gore can vary in some parts depending on how you choose to go about it but a certain level is inevitable.
death animations if caught by a bloater are probably some of the worse parts, also in left behind there’s a pretty nasty cutscene where ellie cuts the throat of an infected, and a scene where joel is impaled by a piece of metal lasts pretty long and it’s quite disgusting.
Early on in the game there are one or two instances of an infected popping out of the darkness attacking the player, but these moments are not exceedingly common.
"The Infected" are human beings whose bodies have been taken over by a variation of the Cordyceps Fungus. While it is unclear if they are still self aware or not, one character expresses his concerns that the person they used to be is still under there and just unable to control themselves.
idk why people said no, i think the bloaters’ design is pretty triggering for trypophobia, and you can find these lumps on the floor with loads of bumps on them which is kinda upsetting to look at too.
The infected are zombie-like creatures consumed by a fungal infection. The length of infection determines how malformed the body becomes. Some appear fairly normal, while others have significant fungal growths protruding from their bodies.
Joel has repressed his PTSD but it is very clearly there and plays a major part in the story. In the Spring chapter of the game Ellie is distant after the ordeal with David, could possibly be considered PTSD?
No, but Ellie was based on Elliot Page pre-transition and he was pissed that the devs used his likeness without his permission. He could've easily felt misgendered by the fact that the devs based a girl on him.
it isn’t outwardly discussed, but during the winter chapter you encounter (SPOILERS!) cannibals who are heavily implied to follow some kind of religion. david, the leader, says how he believe everything happens for a reason and when exploring the area you can see a banner that says “when we are in need, he shall provide”
two child characters also discuss the idea of heaven and how neither of them believe in it.
Ellie makes an objectifying comment about a man in a porn magazine however it’s intended as a joke and she’s a lesbian so it’s clear that there was no real intent of this.
in a way, when someone is bit that is a terminal illness as there is no way of recovering from it and it inevitably leads to death.
multiple characters, npc and main, are bit in the game.
Depends on who you ask, both main characters make it out alive and settle down in a nice town. The game ends on a big lie between them though and they go through alot to get there.
At the beginning of the game, there is a car crash where a speeding car rams the side of yours. There are a couple others similar to that. Two of the four major car crashes involves you in one of the vehicles.