A documentary on “The Last of Us Part II” without pretension

A project to match blockbuster ambitions, a team followed the long-running video game “The Last of Us Part II” with the aim of supporting the game’s release (in 2020) with a major documentary.

The Covid pandemic scuppered these plans and, more than three years after the blockbuster release on PlayStation, the two-hour film can now be edited and watched. It was uploaded to YouTube. It is available in 4K and has been translated into French (subtitles) since last Friday.

This The construction of Certainly never designed as a purely tongue-in-cheek promotional tool. But its late stint outside the main launch window undoubtedly cemented its vocal independence.

Rather than chronicling the journey to the land of the Care Bears, “Grounded” directly reveals the ambitions of the title, the team and its chief captain, Neil Druckman, but also the doubts and enormous difficulties that Naughty Dog Studios faced. To achieve a sequel equal to or even superior to the original opus.

To know all about this grown-up game, for grown-ups, that managed to avoid over-whelming fans and, above all, overcome some major existential crises, check out “GROUNDED – Making the Last of Us Part II” Strongly recommended.Recommended.