The Last of Us Season 2 on HBO will function content material that was lower from the unique The Last of Us Part 2 online game, showrunner and Naughty Dog studio head Neil Druckmann has mentioned.
Druckmann informed Entertainment Weekly that “fairly brutal” content material can be revived by way of the present, together with a few of the Lost Levels that have been considerably restored within the PlayStation 5 remaster of The Last of Us Part 2.
These included three completely different early variations of scrapped ranges, together with Jackson Party, The Hunt, and Seattle Sewers. The first two of those are rather more calm, with Ellie attending a celebration within the first and monitoring a bleeding boar within the second, however the closing one presents loads of the extraordinary horror followers of the sport and present are aware of as she’s stalked by monsters within the tunnels beneath Seattle.
Whatever lower content material has made its manner into the present will seemingly put followers on edge, nonetheless. “[It’s] fairly brutal, however I’m very excited for individuals to see it,” Druckmann mentioned. He additionally teased {that a} “fairly outstanding” character solely talked about within the sport will make an look, “just like what we did with Frank in Season 1.”
Season 2 is about so as to add many new characters, after all, together with Kaitlyn Dever as Abby, Danny Ramirez as Manny, Tati Gabrielle as Mel, and plenty of extra, however one query mark stays as Catherine O’Hara has additionally joined in a thriller position.
Fans seemingly do not have too lengthy to attend earlier than every thriller is answered, as Episode 1 of Season 2 is about to premiere in April, however there’s an opportunity some issues will stay unclear for for much longer. This is as a result of HBO plans to increase The Last of Us Part 2 past a single season, in contrast to the critically acclaimed Season 1 which coated the whole lot of the unique sport.
Fellow showrunner Craig Mazin has mentioned beforehand that Part 2 options much more story to cowl, so whereas Season 3 is not greenlit as of but, they’ve constructed Season 2 with a “pure breakpoint” after simply seven episodes.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.
