We’re enjoying The Last of Us Part 2 right here from 1pm BST (5am PT / 8am ET) because the anticipated sequel to the PS4 traditional turns into accessible from as we speak.
THERE’S GOING TO BE SPOILERS
VG247’s resident video producer Alice Liguori picks up the controller to deal with Ellie and Joel’s return, and you’ll watch our stream proper right here with us.
The Last of Us Part 2 comes seven years after the unique game, and is a sequel that our review describes as a generation defining masterpiece. We’re not the one ones gushing over it like a bleeding head wound, as reviews are praising Naughty Dog’s swansong on the PS4.
Four years after the primary game, Joel and Ellie are eking away an existence within the walled city of Jackson. As you’d count on in a brutal wasteland, it’s not lengthy earlier than that semblance of calm comes crumbling down and our survivors set off on a quest for bloody revenge.
Be ready for some large modifications in The Last of Us Part 2. Creative director Neil Druckmann supposed to make daring decisions with this sequel, taking parts of the primary game that gamers have turn out to be hooked up to and tearing them aside.
“The first game is so sacred. The ending is so sacred,” Druckmann said in an interview published last week. “People are always like, ‘do another one but focus are all new characters.’ Or like, ‘do it in, like, Europe. Or do it in Japan. Do something really different’.”
“To me, at that point, you might as well just do a new IP,” he continued, “versus saying: no, we’re gonna double down and we’re gonna expose what this ending means. To take some of the things that people hold sacred and just… dismantle it.”
We’ll be usually streaming The Last of Us Part 2 over the approaching days and weeks on our YouTube channel. You should subscribe to it, because it’s super-rad.
