Naughty Dog is primarily noted for its work on narrative-focused linear action games in recent years thanks to the success of Uncharted and The Last of Us. Now it seems the studio's next game might be leaning into more open-ended design.
"I heard from somebody very in the know, who worked on [Naughty Dog's next game], that they're like 'Jesus Christ,'" Ben Hanson, formerly of Game Informer, says on the most recent episode of his MinnMax podcast (thanks, VGC). "The tone was like, 'You are all not ready for how amazing this thing is going to be.' I'm not going to say the game that they referenced to compare it to because I don't want people to be like, 'MinnMax said it was going to be exactly like this!' But they compared it to a game with a lot of player freedom. Like, 'Did you like that game?' And I said 'yes.' And it's like, 'Well, there you go! It's going to be good!'"
