We lastly know what Naughty Canine’s new sport is, and it is…nicely, it is fairly completely different to The Final of Us, by the appears of issues. Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet is a sci-fi motion sport that is “at present in improvement for the PlayStation 5 console”.
Naughty Canine introduced Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet throughout yesterday’s Recreation Awards ceremony, which can also be the place we discovered that Hideki Kamiya shall be returning to direct a sequel to 2006 Zelda-esque action-adventure sport Okami.
As studio head Neil Druckmann says in a followup PlayStation Weblog put up, Naughty Canine has been engaged on this sport because it launched The Final of Us Half 2 in 2020, and it will be the studio’s “wildest, most artistic story but”, in accordance with Druckmann.
Naughty Canine’s new sport revolves round Jordan A. Mun, a “harmful bounty hunter” who finds herself stranded on a distant planet generally known as Sempiria.
The planet’s communication with the remainder of the universe “went darkish” tons of of years previously, and Mun must discover out why if she needs “to be the primary individual in over 600 years to go away its orbit”.
Though the debut trailer does look quite completely different tonally from The Final of Us (together with an look by the superb Pet Store Boys album Really, of all issues), Druckmann says it’s going to nonetheless supply “an emotional, character-driven epic journey”.
He additionally guarantees “the deepest gameplay in Naughty Canine’s historical past”, with the studio “taking our learnings from our earlier franchises and pushing them past something we have ever completed earlier than”.
Mun shall be performed by Tati Gabrielle, who you might know as The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’s Prudence or the Uncharted film’s Jo Braddock. Coincidentally, she’ll even be showing as Nora within the upcoming second season of the TV adaptation of The Final of Us.
It isn’t clear whether or not or not that is the venture on which Naughty Canine’s new artwork director Raf Grassetti is working, however we do know that soundtrack duties shall be dealt with by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, often known as 9 Inch Nails.
That wasn’t all Naughty Canine revealed throughout yesterday’s present, both. The Final of Us Half 2’s long-awaited PC port was additionally lastly unveiled, and it is hitting Steam on April third.
We seemingly will not hear a lot from Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet for some time; Naughty Canine says its workers will “put our heads again down” to work on the sport “for now”, so keep tuned for extra on this.
