We’re just a week away from the launch of Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered for PlayStation 5, and the studio has now announced it’ll be marking its arrival with Grounded 2 – an official making-of documentary that’ll be free to watch on YouTube.
Grounded 2: Making The Last of Us Part 2, to give it its full name, is the sequel to Naughty Dog’s 85-minute making-of documentary for the original Last of Us, which launched back in 2015 and charted the “dogged development and unique philosophy” of the first game.
Filming of the newly announced follow-up – as per the spoiler-y trailer below – started in 2016 but was abandoned when the coronavirus pandemic struck in 2020. However, the existing footage has now been revisited and assembled into a making-of documentary that doesn’t look like it’ll entirely shy away from the more negative aspects of development at Naughty Dog, including crunch – a practice said to be particularly brutal at the studio in a report back in 2020.
