Naughty Dog Would Be A Perfect Match For A Dark Fantasy Blockbuster
More and more rumours are pointing to Naughty Dog working on a fantasy title as its next big project. Aside from Factions 2, we have no idea what the studio is working on right now, and that mystery in a medium so often fraught with leaks is oddly exciting. The Last of Us and Uncharted are two of the most consistent and beloved names in gaming, even if gamers still have a problem with muscular women and their daddies being murdered with golf clubs.
Everything Naughty Dog touches turns to gold, so the idea of it not only tackling a new genre, but a setting so far removed from its usual staple is ripe with potential. Not knowing what form that might take represents an unpredictability that for so long has been lacking in the triple-A space, especially when it comes to Sony’s own library of console exclusives.
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PlayStation has been known as the home of narrative blockbusters for the better part of a decade now. Horizon Zero Dawn, God of War, Days Gone, Ghost of Tsushima, and all of their associated sequels and spin-offs follow a third-person formula with a heavy focus on narrative and characters. Some are open world, some are linear, but all of them occupy a space that for so long now we’ve been able to predict. I’m not saying these games are bad, but knowing what to expect so consistently is rather boring.
Naughty Dog is especially guilty of this. The Last of Us Part 2 was so brilliant because of its own subversive approach. Joel was beloved by millions for the wrong reasons, so killing him off in a deserved and thematically relevant manner sent fans into an uproar of unjustified misogyny. Developers, actors, and fans were harassed for finding
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