The Last of Us' composer, Gustavo Santaolalla, has hinted at some kind of remaster or expanded rerelease for The Last of Us Part 2, supporting the long-standing rumours of the existence of a director's cut.
As you'd probably expect from one of the most popular franchises in gaming, The Last of Us has seen a lot of rumours in its time. One of the ones that has stuck around the longest, though, is that there's a director's cut or extended version of The Last of Us Part 2 that would eventually get released on PC and PS5, similar to The Last of Us Part 1.
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The evidence for this extended version of the game has always been a little slim and felt more like something that The Last of Us fans wanted rather than something there were a lot of signs for. That has just changed, however, thanks to Gustavo Santaolalla, the legendary Argentine composer who has worked on both of the games and the TV show.
As pointed out by the GamingLeaksAndRumours subreddit, Santaolalla recently took part in an interview with Blender earlier this week. At one point during the interview, Santaolalla mentions that he liked seeing the virtual version of himself that can be found in the game's opening hours in Jackson.
Santaolalla then mentions that a new version of the game actually lets the player go up to him and request specific songs to be played, something that obviously can't be done in the original version, where he just sits there and plays the same songs with no interactivity between him and Ellie.
That might have seemed like a slip of the tongue or just a mistake on Santaolalla's part, but he then cheekily says that he can't say any more about it, which suggests that
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