The Final of Us Half 2 was initially designed as an open-world motion sport that was closely impressed by Bloodborne.
Affirmation got here through co-game director Anthony Newman, who revealed throughout within the improbable behind-the-scenes documentary, Grounded 2: Making The Final of Us Half 2, that for the primary 4 or 5 months of improvement, The Final of Us Half 2 was a “purely melee focussed” sport that “stored getting greater and greater as you explored”, as impressed by FromSoft’s fan-favourite journey.
Grounded II: Making The Final of Us Half II
“After we began out making The Final of Us Half 2, Neil truly needed to be very formidable about altering the sport virtually fully,” defined Newman.
“For the primary 4 or 5 months, the sport was sort of an open world impressed by Bloodborne. And it was purely melee targeted, prefer it was all hand-to-hand fight.”
“It wasn’t simply the melee fight, we have been additionally structure construction,” added lead sport designer, Emilia Schatz.
“Bloodborne had a really open area that stored getting greater and greater as you explored. I actually like that feeling that you simply get of mastery over the world. It begins to turn into virtually a personality within the sport itself. And so, that was additionally one thing we have been .”
Initially, this path got here from making an attempt to “make it as completely different as humanly attainable from the primary sport as [Naughty Dog] might” however finally, based on Newman, “the open world factor did not work with the story we have been making an attempt to inform” and so this was “dial[ed] again”.
Naughty Canine co-president Neil Druckmann says he has a “idea” prepared for a 3rd and remaining chapter of The Final of Us collection.
Speaking on the very finish of the identical behind-the-scenes documentary, Druckmann acknowledged that while he did not but have a narrative totally fleshed out, he did have a kernel of an concept that “is as thrilling as [The Last of Us Part 1]”.
Earlier at present, we reported that the voice actor who performed Abby in The Final of Us Half 2 has revealed that not solely did she obtain abusive messages when the sport was launched, however abusers additionally despatched dying threats about her toddler son, too.
Laura Bailey confirmed that the “actual hardcore dying threats” have been so regarding, they have been handed on to police, while her child son – who was “born throughout all of it” – additionally acquired threats, too.
