Note: This review contains the mildest of spoilers for the main of The Last of Us.
I played Left Behind on grounded mode, which you can do if you have purchased grounded mode. It was a lot of fun that way. The final encounter is really epic and took me 15 + tries to complete. When I finally beat it, I felt like such a baller. That's the great thing about super hard modes. Many of the times I failed this scenario were also lots of fun as I tried to adapt when I made a mistake. Sometimes I would make it really far doing really risky stuff. But then, of course, somebody would take me down... It's funny, I found a lot of materials on my playthrough, but never enough to make anything. Then when I played some sections on easy to get trophies, there was stuff everywhere. That's grounded mode for ya.... Anyway....
I played Left Behind on grounded mode, which you can do if you have purchased grounded mode. It was a lot of fun that way. The final encounter is really epic and took me 15 + tries to complete. When I finally beat it, I felt like such a baller. That's the great thing about super hard modes. Many of the times I failed this scenario were also lots of fun as I tried to adapt when I made a mistake. Sometimes I would make it really far doing really risky stuff. But then, of course, somebody would take me down... It's funny, I found a lot of materials on my playthrough, but never enough to make anything. Then when I played some sections on easy to get trophies, there was stuff everywhere. That's grounded mode for ya.... Anyway....
Left Behind is a short DLC chapter for
The Last of Us. It took me about 3-5 hours on grounded mode. It takes
place in and around the events of TLOU. I'll try not to spoil exactly
what's going on... You play as Ellie, so you'll be knifing people
rather than choking them out or punching them. The action parts are
great and tense, and put you in some very interesting combat
situations that you don't see in the main game. Now that I've seen
these scenarios, it's actually pretty weird that they aren't in the
main game. They were a bit of a surprise to me, and I had a great
feeling of the gears clicking in my mind when I saw what was going
on, so I won't mention exactly what happens so you can hopefully get
that feeling too.
A big part of this DLC involves doing
non-combat stuff. And those parts are really fun and really well
written. Switching from playing as Clementine in The Walking Dead Season 2 straight back to Ellie is quite jarring and really
emphasizes the drastic differences between these two characters that
sound almost identical on paper. The story fills in a few interesting
blanks, and doesn't feel tacked on at all, especially if you play it
some time after playing TLOU proper (although a few of the artifacts
you find are kind of dumb, or at least placed in weird places. Some
are cool though). I imagine it probably does seem tacked on if you
were to play it immediately after beating TLOU. Then again, maybe
not, since the ending of TLOU pretty directly leads into some of what
you'll experience in Left Behind.
Left Behind is a great game, tier 2,
just like TLOU. 
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