It appears The Last Of Us developer’s subsequent sport takes cues from Elden Ring and purposefully desires to make you’re feeling misplaced and confused.
Naughty Dog lastly revealed its subsequent sport throughout final yr’s The Game Awards however it didn’t actually clarify what the sport is and there are nonetheless numerous unanswered questions on it.
As proven within the reveal trailer, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet swaps the gritty realism of The Last Of Us for an 80s impressed sci-fi journey. You play as Jordan A. Mun, a bounty hunter who finds herself stranded on a distant planet known as Sempira, whose ‘communication with the surface universe went darkish a whole lot of years in the past’.
While we all know the premise, the gameplay of Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet is essentially a thriller – though it appears to be some type of third individual actioner. An insider, nevertheless, has now claimed the sport is impressed by FromSoftware’s juggernaut epic, Elden Ring.
This hearsay stems from MinnMax podcast host Ben Hanson, who teased in October last year that ‘any individual very within the know who labored on the sport’ had in contrast Naughty Dog’s subsequent title – earlier than it was formally introduced – to a sport ‘with numerous participant freedom’.
While he didn’t reveal the purpose of comparability on the time, Hanson teased the cited inspiration within the newest episode of The MinnMax Show.
‘I believe it’s wonderful to say it now, that sport was Elden Ring, is what it was in comparison with,’ Hanson mentioned. ‘If I’d have mentioned, ‘Naughty Dog’s subsequent sport is like Elden Ring’, then that reveal trailer comes out, I really feel like we might have been lit on hearth.’
While he doesn’t go into any additional element about what this comparability means, this comes after Neil Druckmann, the director behind Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, teased that he wished gamers to really feel ‘misplaced’ with none AI companion.
In an interview with movie director Alex Garland, Druckmann mentioned: ‘So lots of the earlier video games we’ve completed, there’s all the time, like, an ally with you. 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.
‘And so as to get off this planet – once more, nobody has been heard from this planet for 600 years or so – in the event you ever have hoped to have an opportunity to get off, it’s important to work out what occurred right here.’
What type of sport is Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet?
When mixed collectively, this means Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet is an open world sport – one thing the studio has experimented with previously by means of designated open areas in The Last Of Us Part 2 (the Seattle part) and Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End (the jeep sequence in Madagascar).
There’s an opportunity this Elden Ring inspiration, nevertheless, may very well be associated to the storytelling. Back in 2023, Druckmann mentioned he was ‘intrigued’ by Elden Ring and the way it doesn’t depend on a ‘conventional narrative’ to inform its story.
‘I’m extra lately intrigued by stuff like Elden Ring and Inside that doesn’t rely as a lot on conventional narrative to inform its story,’ Druckmann informed The Washington Post. ‘Some of the perfect storytelling in The Last Of Us is cinematics, however numerous it’s in gameplay, and shifting across the area, and understanding the historical past of an area by simply taking a look at it and inspecting it.
‘To me, proper now, that’s a number of the finest pleasure I get out of video games that belief their viewers to determine issues out. [Games] that don’t maintain your hand, that’s the stuff I’m actually intrigued by going ahead.’
He added: “That doesn’t imply we are going to by no means have dialogue, or reduce scenes, I believe these are instruments in your toolbox… And I believe there’s a solution to push that stuff ahead, at the very least for the type of video games we make at Naughty Dog.
‘I’m actually intrigued, once more, by no means resting on our laurels and attempting one thing a bit of bit new, a bit of bit completely different, that not all people’s going to love, however that’s OK. And the stuff that we’re engaged on now, I can inform you the groups are very excited by the completely different tasks we’ve at Naughty Dog.’
While it stays to be seen how it will translate into the ultimate sport, extra freedom within the narrative or gameplay is definitely an thrilling thought contemplating the polished execution of Naughty Dog’s previous tasks.
Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet doesn’t have a launch date (or perhaps a yr) but, however it’s set to be launched in some unspecified time in the future on PlayStation 5.
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