Grounded, which was added to the game post-launch as an excuse to inflict more misery on TLOU fans, revels in being an absolute bastard to anyone who plays it.

In anticipation of The Last of Us: Part II, I recently decided to take it upon myself to play through my favourite game of all-time on its hardest difficulty. My face throughout my Grounded playthrough.

Welcome to The Last of Us’ Grounded Mode. I’ve got this, this could be the one.Īnd then an infected grabs me from behind and it’s the same gruesome death scene I’ve been watching for the last hour. The enraged clicker thrashing blindly around the room is an inch away from his prey before the round is chambered and then quickly in his skull. Shit, forgot to chamber the second bullet. One hits its target the infected barely had a second to lunge towards me before he collapsed in a heap. The two clickers spasmodically walking into the room creates a moment of breathless tension before they’re dispatched with the same reliable routine: brick, knife. But David’s in trouble (probably because he’s been dawdling around the room oblivious to the danger we’re in), so the knife comes out again and another one hits the floor. Two more run through with one soon to have a brick in his face followed up by a knife in the eye. David decides he’s going to have responsive AI -for once- and slugs him three times.

The first infected screams through the door no problem. That’s all I have to take on twenty of the infected with, but those last two need to be saved for when a Bloater jumps from the roof and becomes laser-focused on ruining my day.

Two rifle rounds, a single arrow, a molotov, and a nail bomb.

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