15 Amazing Facts About The Last of Us

ELLIE’S INSPIRATION

Here’s an interesting fact- the inspiration for Ellie – more specifically, how she functions during gameplay – was actually an idea Druckmann and co-director Bruce Straley had for Uncharted 2 that never even made it into the final game. More specifically, they had conceptualized a mute character the player would be with for a large chunk of the game, with the intention being to create a relationship between the two without any spoken word.