[Software]The Last of Us Part II Remastered: has it taken too long to arrive?

[Dean Ambrose™]

 

The Last of Us Part II Remastered is now a reality. A few days ago Sony officially announced it for PS5 and with a release date scheduled for 2024, so many fans were satisfied by a rumor that had been circulating the industry for some time. So much so that if we look at what happened with the first game, we will realize the extra time we had to wait with this second installment.

The Naughty Dog game hit stores in the middle of the pandemic. A title with such an apocalyptic theme, which takes place in a world in ruins due to another enormous global disaster, produced a profound impact that many players experienced in a very special way. It also helped that this continuation, with Ellie as the true protagonist, delved even deeper into the drama and the most emotional part of the saga's story arc.

Too long waiting
But we will not deceive you. This PS5 edition of The Last of Us Part II has been a long time coming and has taken the time it needed, for example, the first remaster of the saga, inspired by the first installment that we played on PS3 back in the year 2013, in the month of June. Indeed, on that occasion, the updated version for PS4, call it remastered if you want, landed in stores just a year later, in August 2014.

Furthermore, the times were practically the same because The Last of Us arrived in June 2013 and PS4 arrived in November of the same year. In 2020, in the same month we had The Last of Us Part II and in November PS5... which they have left on hold, like the phone calls that we do not want to answer, longer than desired.

So we won't complain about The Last of Us Part II Remastered hitting stores, but next time, folks at Naughty Dog and Sony, please hurry up a little more. That then the things that happen happen. No, we don't want to rush to release an incomplete game as we have seen in the past, that is of course... but the timing of releases is also a very important factor and key to success.

Without return and with another studio in charge
It must be said that this version of the game will not only graphically improve the original to adapt it to the graphical power of PS5, but a series of extras have been designed to make the experience much deeper. For example, in the less playable part we will have new appearances that we can use while playing with Ellie, or a mode to play the guitar freely, which fans of this musical instrument will like.

At the same time, a series of missing levels have been added that we were unable to enjoy in the title for PS4. But the most striking of another will be the No Return mode, a roguelike that represents a survival mode within The Last of Us Part II Remastered that will invite us to stay alive as long as possible in the face of the dangers that we will have to avoid. A great project that, it seems, is not being led by Naughty Dog, which carried out the version for the previous generation, but by another internal studio. We have to wait until January 19, 2024.

 

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