Accustomed to receiving hate torrents from The Last of Us Part II, Naughty Dog is now preparing the main actress for her next game, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, to face.
It was one of the big surprises of the Game Awards 2024. In order to close a ceremony already rich in announcements, Naughty Dog revealed Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophethis future game on the release date still unknown. And if on the side of a large part of the players, the reactions immediately turned out very positivethe studio has not escaped a wave of criticism on the networks. In question in particular: the heroine embodied by Tati Gabrielle, who was in fact prepared by Neil Druckmann for what could wait for her.
Intergalactic actress: The Heretic Prophet anticipates hate torrents
This is indeed what the actress recently revealed – also to the casting of the saison 2 de The Last of Us – au micro d’Entertainment Weekly. “Neil prepared me. I know Troy’s experience [Baker]I know Ashley’s experience [Johnson]… I know the experience of Laura Bailey ” Ensures the actress of Intergalactic The Heretic Prophet. It then obviously refers to the actors of the video game version of The Last of Uswhich were all victims of a wave of hatred due to the scriptwriting choices made by Naughty Dog in The Last of Us Part II.
“There was a lot of hatred because I am a woman, a woman of color, that I have the shaved skull”adds in particular Gabrielle, after specifying that she did not wind immediately because of her little assiduous presence on social networks. “But once I saw him, Neil said to me, ‘I don’t know that. No matter what’s going on, you and I are going to create something beautiful. We are going to create something we will be proud ”. Extremely reassuring words from the director of Intergalactic The Heretic Prophet, therefore, also now sadly accustomed to all this hatred.
Fortunately, since the release of The Last of Us Part II, the creator seems to have learned to step back. “With The Last of Us Part II, we have made certain creative decisions that have earned us a lot of hatred. Many people love it, but many people hate this game ” He had declared in the Creator to Creator format of Sony recently speaking of Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet. And to the question “Who cares? »» Director Alex Garland, he then had fun: ” Exactly. But it’s the joke. Like: What do you know? Let’s do something that will not interest people as much. Let’s create a game on faith and religion ”.
A new license signed Naughty Dog
Because this is indeed what will be discussed in Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet. In this new action-adventure game signed Naughty Dog, we will discover the story of Jordan A. Mun, a bonus hunter embodied by Tati Gabrielle, in an alternative futuristic universe where technological progress has made space trips a reality in 1986. And so few details have been revealed on the context of the game or son gameplaywe nevertheless know that there will be a question of surviving on a hostile planet populated by robots.
Source : Entertainment Weekly
