Naughty Dog’s Neil Druckmann has revealed during a recent press conference that HBO’s second season of The Last of Us will make changes to the way the character of Abby is introduced.
Those of you who have played The Last of Us Part II will recall that Abby is controlled by the character in a snowy region before she is attacked by infected and bumps into Joel and Tommy. However, Druckmann noted that the show “couldn’t do that” as you obviously aren’t playing as Abby as it’s a TV show.
In the game, you play as Abby, so you immediately form a path to connection with her, because you’re surviving as her, you’re running through the snow, you’re fighting infected, and we can withhold certain things and make it a mystery that will be revealed later in the story.
Abby is now going to be introduced with her connection to Joel and Ellie revealed from the get-go, rather than the slower build-up seen in the game.
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Where that revelation happens in the game, if we were to stick to a very similar timeline, viewers would have to wait a very, very long time to get that context. It would probably get spoiled to them between seasons, and we didn’t want that, so it felt appropriate for those reasons to move that up and give the viewer that context right off the bat.
The Last of Us Season 2 will air on HBO on April 13, 2025.
[Source – Eurogamer]