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The white in his hair and beard highlight his age. Wrinkles carve grooves in his tired face. Though the change in character design is more dramatic in some cases than others, Joel, in particular, appears dramatically wearier and older than he did before. They also look pretty different as people, too. Protagonists Joel and Ellie are more naturally expressive – the elastic cartoonishness of their original faces has been replaced by realistically furrowed brows and, of course, wide-eyed expressions of horror when something tragic plays out before them.

It’s the cast’s faces, though, that really stick out. Developer Naughty Dog updated the game’s visuals, improving the graphical fidelity of everything the player sees, from the stomach-churning fungus boils covering a massive “Bloater” monster to the bits of bright green grass poking out from the cracked asphalt of a ghost town’s potholed roads.

In The Last of Us Part I, the most noticeable changes come by way of the character designs. Whether in small or large ways, it is altered.

By making a game look “better” than it did before, it’s changed into something else. They experience the same vision of a post-apocalyptic United States, where one traumatized man, Joel, reckons with his inability to part with his surrogate daughter, Ellie.īut despite sticking as close to the original script and general design as Part I does, it's still, ultimately, a new game in its own right. They follow the same story to the same conclusion, meeting the same characters and feeling many of the same feelings. Players first experiencing the game through the remake will understand the plot in much the same way. Also, let us know in the comments whether you believe Naughty Dog have maliciously and connivingly altered Joel's face for broader, Pedro Pascal-levels of appeal, in the comments below.Includes spoilers for The Last of Us Part I.Įven though it’s a remake of a game released in 2013 for the PlayStation 3, The Last of Us Part I is, in most respects, the same game as the original The Last of Us. Make sure to check out our equally statistically satisfying The Last of Us Part 1 review, read about the emotional trials of the hardest trophy in The Last of Us Part 1, and read the latest The Last of Us Part 3 PS6 rumours. We're now fully convinced that Naughty Dog has changed Joel's face to cash in on the handsomeness of Pedro Pascal, bump up The Last of Us Part 1 sales with star recognition, and inevitably gaslight us all into thinking this is how Joel has always looked. At first, we weren't entirely sure which Joel we were looking at - where does Joel the game character end and Pedro Pascal, the real-life Joel, begin? An arbitrarily higher score of 52% was enough to prove our hypothesis - Joel from The Last of Us Part 1 looks at least 2% more like Pedro Pascal than he did on the PS3, and 7% more Joel-like than the PS4 version.