Screenwriter Halley Gross explains the process of deciding which content best suited the overall tone of the game.
The Last of Us Part 2 goes big. The news of the duration of the game, between 25 and 30 hours, is not the only one that has arrived today about the Naughty Dog game. One of the most ambitious titles from the creators of sagas like Uncharted reveals more details of its development. For example, despite the fact that it will be considerably longer than other recent titles from the developer, it could have been still much larger than it is, as it was originally proposed.
This has been explained by Halley Gross, co-writer of the title where she relates in an interview with Sector that they cut “a large amount” of game content, according to her, this being the hardest moment of the study during this process. Gross adds that the creative director, Neil Druckman, was in charge of all the decisions, and one of them was to understand if everything remained as a cohesive experience.
Everything under the same focus
“We have a great studio with a lot of talented people and great ideas, and we had to choose which ones stayed in the game to fit in with the story and what we wanted to convey.” “In the end, everything had to fit the main idea. Druckman was in charge of everything, and everything had to correspond to a central theme. The hardest part was removing content, with many things that were not in the final game,” he adds. .
Although it is common to discard all kinds of content, it would be interesting to see what ideas have been removed and know what fit they could have had. In any case, The Last of Us Part 2 goes on sale on June 19 for Playstation 4 and you can read our Reviews next Friday, the 12th at 9.01am on Meristation.
Source | GamingBolt
