The Last of Us Part 2 is getting an official making-of documentary next week

4 months ago

We're just a week away from the launch of Naughty Dog's The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered for PlayStation 5, and the studio has now announced it'll be marking its arrival with Grounded 2 - an officially making-of documentary that'll be free to watch on YouTube.

Grounded 2: Making The Last of Us Part 2, as it's officially known, is the sequel to Naughty Dog's 85-minute making-of documentary for the first game, which launched back in 2015 and charted the "dogged development and unique philosophy" of The Last of Us 1.

Filming of the newly announced follow-up - as per the spoiler-y trailer below - started in 2016 but was abandoned when the coronavirus pandemic struck in 2020. However, the existing footage has now been revisited and assembled into a making of documentary that doesn't look like it'll entirely shy away from the more negative aspects of development at Naughty Dog, including crunch - a practice that was said to be particularly bad at the studio in a report back in 2020.

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