aughty Dog’s Neil Druckmann has revealed some extra particulars in regards to the studio’s subsequent sport Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet (which, by the way, is a dreadful identify and one I’m shocked the creators of The Last of Us are glad with) and should you had been hoping its sci-fi setting would possibly imply a lighter, extra frivolous journey than the The Last of Us, you would possibly wish to assume once more.
Speaking to Civil War and Ex Machina director Alex Garland on the Creator to Creator podcast (by way of Eurogamer), Druckmann revealed that the sport will likely be diving deep into the not-remotely emotionally charged waters of religion and faith.
Druckmann broached the subject on the podcast by referencing the combined reception The Last of Us: Part 2 obtained from gamers, stating, “We made sure inventive choices that obtained us a number of hate. Lots of people like it, however lots of people hate that sport.” When Garland dismisses the hate the sequel obtained, saying, “Who offers a shit?”, Druckmann responded “Exactly. But the joke is like, you understand what? Let’s do one thing that folks will not care about as a lot. Let’s make a sport about religion and faith.”
According to Druckman, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet takes place “2000 years” right into a future which “deviates” from our personal timeline within the late Nineteen Eighties. Part of this deviation includes the rise of a brand new faith, which “turns into fairly distinguished, after which we spend years simply constructing out this faith from the unique prophet all the way in which [to] the way it will get modified and typically bastardised and evolves over all these years.”
As is hinted at within the title, Intergalactic would not happen on Earth, and is as an alternative centred round a planet referred to as Sempiria which is the centre level of this faith. “This entire faith takes place on this one planet,” Druckman says. “And then at one level all communication stops from this planet and also you’re taking part in a bounty hunter that is chasing her bounty and he or she crash lands on this planet.”
It additionally appears that, not like The Last of Us and its sequel, Intergalactic will see your character Jordan A. Mun adventuring on their very own, with Druckmann stating, “So lots of the earlier video games we have accomplished there’s at all times like an ally with you.” Intergalactic, by comparability, will likely be extra about deciphering the mysteries of Sempiria. “I really need you to be misplaced in a spot that you just’re actually confused about what occurred right here, who’re the folks right here, what was their historical past.”
Frankly, I reckon Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet dabbling in fictional religions is much much less prone to incur the form of Metacritic bombings The Last of Us 2 obtained. The major objects of ire for Naughty Dog’s sequel had been the choice to kill off Joel, the truth that a woman had muscle tissue, and the depiction of a lesbian relationship between Ellie and Dina, all of which had been destined to set off people incapable of tolerating any perspective that does not default to heteronormative male. Then once more, possibly Intergalactic’s large twist is that God is a lesbian, by which case Druckmann in all probability has a good level.
