Video Game· 2013· Action
The Last of Us: 1 recorded work traces back to it, and it draws on 2 recorded sources.
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Neil Druckmann, who wrote and directed the game, co-wrote and co-created the series, and several episodes follow the game's scenes and dialogue closely. The most praised episode is the one that abandons the game entirely for a story it tells in a single line.
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Neil Druckmann has named the Coen brothers' film among the game's influences: its sparse, unsentimental violence and long silences shaped the tone of Joel's journey, together with McCarthy's The Road.
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Real world
The infection is a mutated Cordyceps, the fungus that takes over insects' bodies, which the developers saw in a Planet Earth segment.