Further evidence has emerged that Naughty Dog is preparing a new version of The Last Of Us Part 2, apparently including new content.
Naughty Dog was already criticised by fans for wasting time with a remake of The Last Of Us Part 1 and yet at least that game was fairly old. The Last Of Us Part 2 only came out in 2000, on PlayStation 4, and yet rumours suggest a remaster for PlayStation 5 is already underway.
In terms of visuals, it hardly seems necessary, but the first hint of the remaster came from musician Gustavo Santaolalla who is also in the game as a non-player character.
In July, he accidentally revealed he’d recorded more lines for a remaster and now a reference to The Last Of Us Part 2 Remastered has turned up on a Naughty Dog developer’s LinkedIn profile.
To be honest, the Santaolalla leak was evidence enough – you don’t make that sort of thing up out of the blue and it’s very easy to imagine that he didn’t realise the remaster hadn’t been announced yet.
The artist that leaked the information today – we’re not going to embarrass them by mentioning their name – wasn’t a full-time employee but ‘lead outsource artist’, so they may have recently been let go as a part of job cuts at Naughty Dog.
The reference to a remaster is very clear though and certainly not a typo of any kind:
‘Responsible for overseeing the production of all outsourced environment art assets, weapons and interactive props for two iconic titles The Last of Us: Part One and The Last of Us 2: Remastered.’
No more information is offered beyond that, but Santaolalla described the remaster as an ‘enhanced edition’ and if he’s recorded more content for it then it seems very likely others will have too.
Previous Naughty Dog remasters have not added anything substantially new, so it’s hard to guess how far this one might go – but they may be looking to head off complaints that the remaster is unnecessary.
Either way, it will mean Naughty Dog’s last two games were both remakes or remasters and while they have said they’re working on something brand new, it’s still not known what it is.
It’s also unclear whether The Last Of Us multiplayer spin-off is still going ahead, as rumours suggest it was initially put on the backburner and that most of the recent job cuts came from that team.
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