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Joel’s certainly alive at
some point – though we
haven’t any assurances
he’ll be alive at the end.my love for Tommy going to make
me willing to engage with these
dogs? Is there a way for me to avoid
it? Do I have to make this hard call?”
Finishing off a dog with a hammer
is a trauma that we don’t experience
much outside of indie French horror
movies, and we have a feeling we’re
going to get very good at avoiding
those encounters very fast.eLL On earTh
“Hopefully, we’ll feel those decisions
erode away at Ellie, and hopefully we
can more
deeply
empathise
with where
she’s going,”
says Gross,
ever so
slightly
ominously.
“On the one hand we want to
develop empathy, but we also want
to raise the stakes for Ellie. So, every
time you’re experiencing these
setups, you have to engage with
what would have been a typical
NPC. But now, you’ve shot him, andhis friend keeps screaming his name,
and you have to carry the impact of
your violence with you.”
While the original game tackled
a tale of the love that comes with
being a father, a daughter, and the
messy parts of building that
relationship, the sequel is clearly
ready to push beyond the (sort of)
happy ending and deal with
consequences and an introduction
to adulthood that is far more
complicated than broken curfews
and dropping out of college.
“What
we’re really
trying to do
is challenge
Ellie to see
who she can
become when
she grows up
in such a
hostile environment,” Gross explains.
“And part of writing is, very
unfortunately, torturing your
characters, putting them in hard
situations, and testing their values
and testing their drive. So while we
love Ellie, and we’re really excited toas the world went crazy
for the first hands-on
with the last of us
part II there was a sour
note, as Naughty Dog
confirmed there will be
no online multiplayer at
launch. however, game
director Neil Druckmann
explained the team had
worked on a multiplayer
component for the
game but it evolved
into something bigger
than anyone expected.
the upshot? We’ll beshooting one another
in the face with bows
and arrows later,
after release.
It feels like Naughty
Dog is taking a page out
of rockstar’s playbook,
and realising that the
last of us part II online
could be a bigger deal
as a separate release.
a dedicated online mode
similar to rDr2 could
also be something that
links a ps4 release to a
ps5 remaster.only online?
there’s method in the multiplayer madness
“you have to
carry the impact
of your violence
With you.”
the last of us part II
this release is definitely going to be a single-player
game, which will please fans of solo adventures.