Part of what makesThe Last of Us Part IIso great as a video gameis the dispersal of information.
And, obviously, thatll carry over toseason two ofThe Last of UsTV show.
Keeping things spoiler-light, in the video game, Abby is the main antagonist throughout the first half.
Kaitlyn Dever stars as Abby in season two of The Last of Us.Image: HBO
One of which [is] in the game… you play as Abby.
So you immediately form an empathic connection with her because youre surviving as her.
We cant do that in the show because youre not playing as her.
So we need other tools and that context gave us that shortcut.
It would probably get spoiled to them between seasons and we didnt want that.
So, right off the bat, we learn two things.
First, that quote makes it sound like season two splits the events ofPart IIpretty evenly.
Which, as Druckmann explains, does make sense narratively.
But emotionally, it does change much of what makes the game so special.
Were anxious to see how this new medium changes that.
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