Awesome / Uncharted: The Lost Legacy

• Frankly, the concept alone: Chloe and Nadine, the two bad-ass ladies who managed to outdo Nate, working together in a wild adventure.
• An Easter Egg in The Western Ghats is gotten by having Chloe climb to the very top of the observation tower, and if you wait long enough, Chloe will do yoga while the camera pans around the epic scenery.
• An awesome moment for Nadine at the start of the game, right after she and Chloe escape Asav's clutches. She is enraged that Chloe attempted to sell her out to Asav and berates her for it, including giving Chloe an Implied Death Threat. Just because Nate was willing to let Chloe's Chronic Backstabbing Disorder slide in Among Thieves doesn't mean Nadine will.
  Nadine: What the hell was that back there?!
  Chloe: Messy, but effective.
  Nadine: You were going to sell me out, weren't you?!
  Chloe: It's called improvisation. God, who's being unprofessional now?
  Nadine: The hell is that supposed to mean?!
  Chloe: It means you let Asav get the drop on us. I'm starting to wonder whether you're worth the 50 per cent.
  Nadine: I Knew It! You were going to give me up! Guess a leopard can't change her spots!
  Chloe: You know nothing about me.
  Nadine: Fair warning: last person who betrayed me wound up dead.
• The final chapter is a Call-Back to the famous train sequence in Uncharted 2, and it is probably just as awesome. Sadly, no persistent helicopter this time around; but it makes up for it by combining the set-piece from 2 and the Madagascar chase sequence from 4 into a tense Indy Ploy counter-plot to de-rail Asav's train bomb at the last minute. Highlights include:
  • The duo commandeering an enemy truck's gun turret to clear the way. Stuff Blowing Up results in an entire section of train cars careening off the rails! Props to Nadine for taking initiative to jump from one car to another to pull it off.
  • Chloe and Sam meeting up toward the switch house and engaging the switch in the nick of time.
  • Chloe re-boarding the train in the logical fashion: crashing a jeep into one of the train cars. Even Chloe can't believe that worked out.
  • Nadine holding off Asav's goons for as long as she did until Asav showed up.
• Megalomaniacal psychopath he is certainly, but Asav being able to easily handle Chloe and Nadine at the same time, in hand-to-hand combat, is nothing short of badass. For comparison's sake, Nadine was someone who could make a briefly-unretired Nathan Drake look like a chump in combat, and still had the upper hand while fighting the Drake brothers two-versus-one.
• Building on the above, the climax has a doubly-awesome moment. Chloe and Nadine work together to pretty great effect, and bit by bit, manage to push Asav into a corner. However, the only thing that can actually stop him is the bomb getting dislodged from the force of their repeated attacks, soon falling onto the bastard's leg.
• Chloe's final words to Asav that are also a counter to Asav's claim that people will follow in his footsteps? "Progress demands sacrifice".
• The ending is a massive one for Chloe in a whole different way, as she managed to do the one thing the Drakes have never managed before: she didn't come away from her trip empty-handed! Unlike with Nathan's previous misadventures, Chloe actually managed to locate and acquire the treasure she was looking for, and turn a profit from it, too! The Tusk being a perfectly normal artifact compared to the previous supernaturally-maligned treasures helps with that.
  • On that note, Chloe managed to get Samuel Drake and Nadine Ross to work together on this job, despite the bad blood between them. Of course their hatchet from 4 is far from buried, so it was an incredibly risky gamble on Chloe's part, but in the end they at least come to tolerate each other on a professional level.

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