Summary
- Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, which was unveiled last December, still appears to be a long way off.
- Neil Druckmann revealed in a Creator to Creator chat with Alex Garland that he still isn’t sure what the game will look like by the end.
- “I have a theory, I have an idea. But it’s still evolving and changing as we’re making it,” he said.
During The Game Awards last year, Naughty Dog finally unveiled its newest project — Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet. We were treated to a brief CG trailer showing Tati Gabrielle in the lead role of Jordan as she made her way through the Cowboy Bebop-inspired ’80s sci-fi backdrop, opening us up to a brand-new world from Naughty Dog.
But it’ll be a while before we get to explore it for ourselves. Speaking during a Sony’s Creator to Creator interview with 28 Years Later director Alex Garland, Neil Druckmann briefly talked about the progress the team has made so far, and how his ideas for the story are still in flux.
I still don’t know exactly what this thing’s gonna look like at the end. I have a theory, I have an idea.
“We still have a ways to go, but I’m very excited to see […] these things are so complex and big and there are so many people involved. I still don’t know exactly what this thing’s gonna look like at the end. I have a theory, I have an idea. But it’s still evolving and changing as we’re making it.”
What Is Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet About?
Neil Druckmann also set the stage for Jordan’s story during his Creator to Creator chat, going into more depth about the game’s setting. It takes place in an “alternate history timeline”, which fractured at some point in the ’80s — hence all the retrofuturistic tech and analogue sci-fi. In this deviation, a new religion surfaces with a prophet at the center, and across an expansive 2,000 years, it “evolves” and is “bastardised”.
At this point we’re introduced to Jordan, a bounty hunter exploring the vast expanses of space as she hunts down her target. But amidst this intergalactic cat and mouse chase, she crashes onto a planet and is left stranded.
At one point, all communication stops. And you’re playing a bounty hunter chasing her bounty, and you crash-land on this planet.
Stuck on an alien planet with zero communication, Intergalactic: The Heretic prophet is a truly lonely experience, surpassing even the straggling dregs of humanity in The Last of Us. There won’t be any companions, just Jordan and her musical energy sword to keep her company.
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Sony Interactive Entertainment