“The Last of Us” is a bit of a deceiving game.
At first glance, there doesn’t seem to be any immediate thing that separates this from, well, any of the other dozens of zombie shows and movies from the past few decades.
This is no groundbreaking mix of genres like “Juan of the Dead,” or “Shaun of the Dead,” or even an inventive romp like the zombie musicals “Anna and the Apocalypse” and “The Happiness of the Katakuris.” The game doesn’t necessarily add something drastically new to the mythology of the zombie like the fast zombies in “28 Days Later” or giant mutant ones from “Resident Evil.”And yet, the games, and now the HBO adaptation, take what you know about the zombie genre and make small but significant changes that quickly add up to a very special and unique story.
“The Last of Us” is more than a story about surviving the apocalypse,
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