The Last of Us is a wildly popular video game and it’s been three and a half years and hopefully, finally The Last of Us II will arrive this year. While the video game was supposed to launch in a few weeks, it should be expected now that everything and anything expected to release in 2020 will be delayed. While we sit here waiting for the sequel, we don’t really know a whole lot about what part 2 entails. Here is what we do know:
Details About Part II
We know that the players will be able to play as Ellie, who is out for revenge. Besides that, we also know that Joel has been absent from the pre-release material. Where is Joel? The voice actor, Troy Baker; does clear us some information about the morally ambiguous protagonist.
“WE’VE DONE A GOOD JOB OF… PEELING BACK LAYERS AND LEARNING MORE ABOUT JOEL..”
Baker continues:
“What we’ve done such a good job of doing [in The Last of Us 2], is to continue to peel back layers and learn more about him – I even learned more about Joel and I’m the guy that walked into [the Last of Us audition] and said “I know the truth about Joel!”. I knew his truth back then, but [after The Last of Us 2], I know even more of [Joel’s] truth.“
Expect the Unexpected
Baker then teased that fans should “expect the unexpected”:
“If we have done our job right, people will question everything [about The Last of Us 2]. I want [fans] to be able to challenge their own ideas about what this game is, what this world is, who the characters are — everything.”
He also suggests that fans should be prepared for the story of part two to go in a different direction than part one:
“I want people to go in open-minded to this story, and allow Joel and Ellie to tell their story — not the story that people think that they want to be told…If people go in open-minded to this thing,” he teases, “I think they will have a completely different experience than if they go in close-minded.”
When Baker First Heard Part II’s Details
Baker also revealed that he was quite surprised when hearing the plans behind part two. He says that he was explained Joel and Ellie’s story in part two one night while socializing with series creator Neil Druckmann:
“I think it was about a year after that when[Druckmann] said, “come to my house, I want to walk you through the story.” And after about an hour he reached the end. At first, I was very diligent and taking notes, and I was like “yes! All that’s great, I just want to make sure of…” but by the end of it, I was silent — like I was sat at the feet of the greatest storyteller. It was an amazing story. And so here we are now — I think three or four years from that moment of him first having an idea — to now being literally days away from it being released.” he smiles with a look of disbelief, “And again we find ourselves in that same position of: I don’t know whether people are going to like it or they’re going to hate it, but they definitely will NOT be ambivalent about it.”
What do you think about what Baker has revealed for The Last Of Us II?
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