The Heretic Prophet is the first new Naughty Dog IP in ages – WGB

The Game Awards 2024 was capped off by Sony’s Naughty Dog revealing a model new IP that has been in improvement since 2020. Given the developer it goes with out saying that it’ll be a PlayStation unique.

Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet is the primary new IP from Naughty Canine in practically twenty years. The studio has labored on nothing other than The Final of Us and Uncharted, so it’s thrilling to see them tackling one thing new and rather less miserable than The Final of Us.

The trailer leans right into a retro sci-fi vibe not altogether dissimilar to Guardians of the Galaxy. In reality, like Star Lord main character Jordan appears to have a factor for holding onto nostalgic objects; she’s watching 80’s anime, her ship has been branded Porsche, she has a Sony CD participant and is sporting Adidas sneakers. It’s…effectively, the trailer does lay it on a bit thick, coming throughout extra like advert placements than a part of who Jordan is, however hopefully the total recreation will make higher use of it.

“Intergalactic stars our latest protagonist, Jordan A. Mun, a harmful bounty hunter who finally ends up stranded on Sempiria – a distant planet whose communication with the skin universe went darkish a whole lot of years in the past” reads the official blog post. “In reality, anybody who’s flown to it hoping to unravel its mysterious previous was by no means heard from once more. Jordan should use all her abilities and wits if she hopes to be the primary individual in over 600 years to depart its orbit.”

I discovered it barely humorous {that a} recreation titled Intergalactic appears to be about being stranded on a single planet. However perhaps we are going to get to go to a couple of extra locations?

The debut trailer didn’t actually do a lot for me, I’ve to confess. The nostalgic sci-fi vibe has turn out to be overplayed lately and the trailer doesn’t give us a lot of an thought of what the sport will actually be, and even do an ideal job of organising the story or vibe. Nevertheless, Naughty Canine are a superb studio and I’m excited to see them do one thing that isn’t The Final of Us, even when I used to be type of hoping they’d go even crazier and return to their cartoony Jak & Daxter and Crash Bandicoot days.