![]() ![]() This appears to be ambiguous romantic interest Tess holding protagonist Joel at knifepoint. In a tweet to promote a PAX Prime panel on the game's cut content, Druckmann said, "See how it originally ended as and I re-pitch The Last of Us for you." The following image was attached. ORIGINAL STORY: The Last of Us creative director Neil Druckmann teased the original ending to Naughty Dog's post-apocalyptic epic. I think that happened with other people, too." ![]() But then, as time passed and they thought about it, they came around and really appreciated. A few designers didn't like the ending I had in mind. ![]() A lot of people at the company felt the same way. "People said it's unclear, anticlimactic, unsatisfying. After everything they've done and everything they've been through, that was letting them off a little too easy - especially for Joel."Īs revealed previously, Naughty Dog staff were divided when this ending was changed. I was working on writing, and it didn't feel honest anymore. "The camera pulls back and maybe everything is going to be alright for these two. So, you're left with the idea that they are going to live the rest of their lives in this town. "Joel has killed all these doctors and lied to Ellie, and Ellie just fully buys into the lie. "The original ending when we pitched the game was a much more hopeful ending, where Joel and Ellie make it to San Francisco and that is a town run by people who are trying to restore society," Druckmann concluded. We decided it wasn't going to be about the first time she killed someone, it was more about this coming of age story of the impact that the horrors of violence has on her over the course of the game.Īfter the hospital shoot-out, the game's original ending would be that Ellie bought Joel's lie, and that the two of them would start a new life in San Francisco. "What we realised is that we had to get Ellie engaged more in the combat because when she was disengaged from the action for that long you didn't care so much. "Ellie's arc originally was that she didn't kill any non-infected people until the end, when she was going to kill Tess when Tess was torturing Joel," Druckmann explained. Given Tess' temperament, this could also be a fight about who drank the last of the coffee. In the scene depicted below, Ellie would have intervened and killed Tess - which would originally have been the first time she had killed a non-infected human. The storyline shifted and Tess took on this role where she became more of a believer and she helped motivate Joel." "Tess was betrayed by Joel and took on a mission to pursue him across the country. "Originally in the story Tess took more of a villain role," Druckmann explained in the latest issue of Game Informer (thanks, Videogamer). UPDATE: The Last of Us director Neil Druckmann has revealed more of his original idea for the game's ending, and identified the female character assaulting Joel in the previously-released concept art (see below). ![]()
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