Naughty Dog has disabled the feedback on its official add of Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet’s debut trailer, because the discourse has soured within the aftermath of the title’s announcement. PlayStation has stored the feedback up on its mirror, a lot to the shock of some followers.
A small, vocal part of the gaming populous have taken umbridge with new protagonist Jordan A. Mun’s look. It’s price noting the character is performed by real-life actress Tati Gabrielle, who additionally featured because the villain within the Uncharted film.
Writing on Instagram, Gabrielle mentioned: “I’m extremely grateful and excited for this chance to work on this sport, and with the online game God himself [Neil] Druckmann and the entire Naughty Dog crew. Thank you Neil for seeing me and trusting me with this new child of yours, I promise to make you proud dude.”
Many nonetheless haven’t forgiven Naughty Dog, and particularly sequence creator Neil Druckmann, for the plot of The Last of Us 2, which leaked devastatingly previous to launch. We keep that the sequel is likely one of the biggest PlayStation exclusives ever made, however the discourse round it has been bitter for nearing 5 years now.
While we don’t really feel we must always want to handle a number of the nastiness being thrown round on social media, we don’t assume Jordan’s look is especially misplaced for a sci-fi story. Sigourney Weaver famously shaved her head for Alien 3, for instance; final yr’s critically acclaimed Furiosa noticed Anya Taylor-Joy sport the same look.
