oh i'm not crapping on sands of time at all. It was just a handy example off the top of my head, lol. there's others, Navi in Ocarina of Time comes to mind, though i've never really gotten into that game much (the tedium of crossing hyrule field over and over again makes that game nearly impossible for me to play to completion...).

but yeah, all i'm saying is that that's one of the few real contributions the last of us made to gameplay, a support character who was, well, supportive.

...even if Ellie had a bit of a habit of killstealing, lmao.