Naughty Dog reveals The Last of Us remake's full accessibility features
With The Last of Us Part I releasing on the PlayStation 5 next week, developer Naughty Dog has revealed in a PlayStation Blog the full suite of accessibility options that'll be available to players at launch. Director Matt Gallant said that the remake was made to be "an accessible experience for blind players, for deaf players, for players with motor accessibility needs."
One of the biggest additions to The Last of Us Part I comes in the form of audio descriptions during cutscenes. Naughty Dog partnered with Descriptive Video Works, a company that's been specializing in describing games, films, and TV for nearly 20 years.
To provide an example of what the game will be like with that function, Sony recently released a version of the game's launch trailer with the feature active. This marks the first game to ever include an audio description feature for cinematics.
Last month, accessibility features for the upcoming remake were leaked. Among the leaks were different options for traversal, adjusting field of view for motion sick players, and skipping puzzles entirely.
The options present in the remake follow on from those present in The Last of Us Part II back in 2020, such as customizing button layouts, presets for vision, hearing, and motor impaired players, and a screen magnifier.
When the original The Last of Us released in 2013, the game was lacking in the way of accessibility options. Beginning with Uncharted 4: A Thief's End in 2016, Naughty Dog games have featured more and more options for different players.
Similar to the audio descriptions, Gallant highlighted a feature that will play dialogue through a DualSense controller via haptic feedback. Through this function, a deaf player "can feel the way a line is
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