The only thing I’ll say is with this demo we really wanted to show the duality of showing Ellie at peace within this community that has electricity, that has some semblance of old society. So that’s where the idea of hate is surrounded by good intentions. And we often pursue justice at any cost - whether it’s on a global scale with politics or on a personal scale. It comes form a place of how much they loved this person that was close to them that they’re willing to commit this heinous act because they believe that is just. Again, it’s like something that exists within us.
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But what I found interesting was that in these interviews with the parents who didn’t think the teenagers were innocent, you hear normal citizens, normal Americans, say, ‘I would skin them alive’. And it’s three movies and by the end of it you find out the teenagers are actually innocent. It’s about the murder of these three children by these teenagers (I might be getting the numbers wrong - I’m not sure). One of the things I did research for this, there’s a documentary on HBO called Paradise Lost. They are and yet they are very much connected. They’re two very different emotions, obviously… By the time you finish playing the first game you’ll be able to look at the two games and be like, oh, I see how everything kind of locks into place. And it felt like it slotted right into this world, the characters fit right into the story we’re trying to tell and it felt like this complimentary piece to the first game. So that became this primal thing, this ripe thing to explore in a video game. But if society is gone - and you see it in parts of the world where they don’t have those safeguards - the hate comes through and this cycle of violence permeates and people commit sometimes horrible acts.
So that idea is this exists within all of us and the only thing that prevents us from just tipping into this primal urge is laws, and the rule of law, and society. I wish I could make them suffer in the way they’ve made others suffer.’ And by that I mean, I don’t know if you’ve ever been in a fight or you’ve seen a video of someone torturing an animal or you’ve read about some atrocity and for a moment your mind goes, “I wish I could make that person pay. And then with the second game it started with this concept of - and it’s a hard thing to articulate - this idea of hate. That’s the whole first game.Įxactly - where Joel is even prepared to sacrifice his relationship with Ellie in order to protect her. That’s like the whole concept of Joel and Ellie and their relationship and that how do we make a player feel the unconditional love a parent has for their child. So it’s got this love aspect, this really dark aspect, and it felt ripe to explore in a video game. So with the first game, the thing that really sparked the whole thing is this concept of the unconditional love a parent feels for their child, and how a parent is willing to do anything - even horrible things - to protect their child. And now we feel very confident in the story that we’re telling and the reason to have a sequel. And because of those two years I really got to develop this concept and let it marinade and come to its own. I’m like, ‘oh, this was cool, and here’s this kind of journey…’ and then I’d step back and look at it and be like, ‘Oh no, there’s this kind of interesting twist, but what are we trying to say with this?’ I didn’t have anything to say.Īnd then I kind of stumbled on this concept that we could talk about but I’m actually glad that because of a bunch of circumstances I was diverted to work on Uncharted 4 for two years. I didn’t realise at the time my approach was wring but I was very kind of plot-oriented. Well, one, I’m not sure I was telling the truth wherever I said that quote… I guess there was a period where I was trying to find a story and felt like I was failing.
Warning: mild spoilers for The Last of Us Part II’s plot lie ahead. The Telegraph sat down with vice president of Naughty Dog and the director of The Last of Us Part II Neil Druckmann for an exclusive and wide-ranging interview exploring the game’s controversial themes, delving into some of the backstory leading up to the events of the demo, and addressing the question of what happened to Ellie’s surrogate father from the first game, Joel.
A gripping and grimly violent taste of the next chapter in original protagonist Ellie’s survival story, it managed to combine the tenderness of a blossoming same sex relationship with scenes of graphic dismemberment and gory murders. The new trailer for The Last of Us Part II was arguably the highlight of Sony’s E3 2018 press conference. As it is Outbreak Day, the anniversary of when the Cordycep virus decimated the world in the first The Last of Us, we thought it was the perfect time to revisiting this scintillating interview with The Last of Us Part 2's director Neil Druckmann from E3 earlier this year.
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