TheLastofUs creator Neil Druckmann explains why they used MortalKombat2 for a key scene in Episode 7, “Left Behind.”
One of the most important scenes in Episode 7 of The Last of Us features Storm Reid and Bella Ramsey's Riley and Ellie visiting a run-down arcade within a shopping mall and spending time together playing games before everything goes wrong.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY The discussion of violence within video games became particularly prevalent in the 1990s and 2000s, and Mortal Kombat was a leading factor in the discussions, with Senator Joe Lieberman famously blaming video games for causing violence in real life. The Last of Us has also received criticism for its depictions of brutal violence, and so the linking of the themes made sense for the creators to bring it to the forefront.
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