Nearly two weeks after the colossal event, we’re still getting tidbits of details trickling out of the vacant halls of the Los Angeles Convention Center. And it seems Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us Part II is the most recent game to have more delayed details emerge. This time, the sequel to the critically-acclaimed, action-adventure, survival horror romp will supposedly feature more than one playable character, if a recent video interview with the game’s co-lead designer, Emilia Schatz, is anything to go by.
Schatz – who has worked at Naughty Dog since 2010, working on games like Uncharted 3, the original The Last of Us, and Uncharted 4 – sat down with French gaming outlet Jeux Actu (literal translation “Games News”) to discuss The Last of Us Part II‘s E3 2018 gameplay demo reveal and other topics related to the development of the game. During the interview, Schatz said, “Well, at this point, we’re just ready to show Ellie as a playable character. That may change in the future, but we’re not really ready to talk about that just yet, so I think there’s quite a lot about this game that has not yet been revealed.” Though this comment – a reply to a question about how reducing the playable character count to one will affect The Last of Us Part II‘s gameplay – doesn’t explicitly confirm whether there will be more than one playable character, Schatz did indirectly imply that E...