The malls


Not sure if anyone will read this, but the mall that Ellie travels through in order to find materials to fix Joel's wound was supposed to be in Colorado, but it looks exactly the same as the mall the she and Riley travel through which was supposed to be in Boston. You can really tell they're the same when Ellie and Riley are running from the infected and run into a room with mannequins and another with the broken down semis. When Ellie is looking for supplies by herself, she goes through the room with mannequins and searches the room with the broken down semis that's now filled with water. Were they supposed to be the same mall in the same place?

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Yes, both sections actually take place in the same exact mall. They never come out and say so in the game, but Ellie and Riley unknowingly discovered a worm hole which connects the spacetime in Boston shortly before the evens of TLOU1 with the spacetime in Colorado months later right after Joel is impaled by the rebar in the science building. Left Behind is about Ellie traveling through the worm hole back and forth across hundreds of miles in the United States and across months of time.

Or, Naughty Dog recycled assets because a mall is a mall.

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