Naughty Dog Creative director, Neil Druckmann, has now revealed how the planned ending of The Last Of Us was made & how the ending was meant to be this antagonist to be Tess, who was initially meant to be play a “betrayed” villain like role. “What’s interesting is that, originally in the story Tess took more of a villain role…Tess was betrayed by Joel and took on a mission to pursue him across the country. That storyline never worked out”. This was because the team failed to see why Joel would undertake this enduring mission with no real motivation, and even why Tess would “go for a year around the country” on a personal vendetta. That is when the “storyline shifted and Tess took on this role where she became more of a believer and she helped motivate Joel.” Ellie was also scripted a lot differently too, with her original being a “far more innocent character”. Druckmann revealed that it was only not until the very end that Ellie killed a non-infected, this would turn out to be Tess as she tortured Joel (the picture we saw yesterday). However, he later goes on to say that “what we realised is that we had to get Ellie engaged more in the combat because when she was disengaged from the action for that long you didn’t care so much. So that changed pretty early on.” This was when the chapter with David was introduced. This was used as a way, not for Ellie to kill her first person, but for a “coming of age story of the impact that the horrors of violence has on her over the course of the game”. Personally, I thought this section was one of the best parts of the game. We saw Ellie completely break from her innocent shell, and in a way become more ruthless than Joel himself. They certainly fulfilled the “coming of age” story. Finally, we reach the ending where it was initially pitched to be more “hopeful”, with Joel and Ellie reaching San Francisco and living out the rest of their lives. Ellie would have bought into the lie from Joel, and San Francisco was to be run by people aiming to bring back society. All a little too good to be true for my liking. More surprisingly is the fact that the current ending “tested very poorly”, with common complaints of it being “anticlimactic” and “unclear”. However, the team came around and the current ending was used to full effect.
Posted on: Wed, 07 Aug 2013 10:56:57 +0000
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