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It's the Last of Us Part I finale here on Normandy FM, as Vikki Blake joins us as we head into Salt Lake City. This week we talk about Joel's final decision, the merits of saving one at the cost of the many, and how not giving the player a choice can be a meaningful gameplay moment.

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Uh, remember that time we covered Mass Effect for this show? Well, it turns out we missed out on one of those game's true endings. So we decided we'd make a BioBit to cover it, talk about our feelings heading into Mass Effect: Legendary Edition for the show, and announce the line-up for our LE Roundtable episodes.

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This week we're going through what is probably the darkest segment of The Last of Us: Winter.

Fanbyte's Danielle Riendeau joins us as we talk through playing as Ellie, how violence can be framed as an act of love, and David, the worst person in the goddamn game.

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After a couple thousand miles of trucking it across the country, Joel and Ellie have finally found Tommy. This week Bryden Keks joins us as we talk about the happy reunion between Joel and his little brother, Ellie finally making the man confront his traumatic past, and how she finally starts to come into her own as a capable fighter. By necessity, really.

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Our lovely car ride takes an unexpected turn as Joel and Ellie head into Pittsburgh. This week, Alan Wen joins us as we talk Joel's gradual trust in Ellie and how it contrasts with our new friends: brothers Sam and Henry.

We also make a stop in an abandoned sewer, navigate a no man's land covered by a mouthy sniper, and talk about what it means to have a childhood when you're in the post-apocalypse.

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This week Paste intern Moises Taveras is our guest as we head into Bill's Town. It's time for gays being toxic to each other, biology lessons, and a deep dive into the psyche of a man who insists on being alone.

We also took some time to talk about the Bloomberg report that a Last of Us remake is in the works, and what the story surrounding it means for PlayStation.

Bloomberg's story:

https://www.fanbyte.com/news/new-report-paints-sony-as-risk-averse-and-stifling-developers-for-the-hits/

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With Ellie in hand we're headed to the capitol building and Madeline Blondeau is joining us to make the delivery. This week we talk about how Ellie's naivety tells us a lot about The Last of Us' world, how the game communicates danger with the Clickers, and how Tess goes out on her own terms.

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It's time for another episode of BioBits, our Bioware news show. Fanbyte News Editor and Kenneth's boss Imran Khan joins us to talk about the latest update on the Mass Effect: Legendary Edition remasters. For easy reference, here are the links to Bioware's breakdown and IGN's comparison footage that we'll be discussing.

Legendary Edition breakdown:

https://www.ea.com/games/mass-effect/mass-effect-legendary-edition/news/gameplay-calibrations

IGN comparison video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL-7-2dL0A0

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It's time for a new chapter as Normandy FM makes the transition from "Bioware retrospective" to "video game retrospective." We're talking about The Last of Us.

SDGC's John Phipps joins Ken and Eric to talk the game's depiction of fatherhood as we run through its iconic opening sequence, the dated (but accessible) stealth, and maybe at the very end we meet up with someone who will grow to be more important than Joel could ever know.

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It's our last Bioware episode (for now) as we head back to Mass Effect to talk about what is probably one of the best pieces of story in the whole series: Mass Effect Andromeda: Annihilation.

We talk about the tie-in novel's humanless view of the Mass Effect universe, how it gives closure on some of Andromeda's hanging threads, and wonder aloud if the next Mass Effect game will address the power dynamics of Bioware's science fiction universe.

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