Naughty Dog delivered incredible stories with The Last of Us and based the new game on 2 animes with great stories

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Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet is the new adventure from Naughty Dog. The development studio is known for its exciting stories like in The Last of Us. In an interview, director and author Neil Druckmann revealed that the title was inspired by 2 animes.

What is Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet? A trailer for the new game from Naughty Dog was shown for the first time at the Game Awards 2024.

  • The sci-fi game is set in an alternative universe in which traveling through space has been possible since 1986.
  • You take on the role of bounty hunter Jordan A. Mun.
  • She searches for a criminal group, but ends up on the planet Sempiria. No one has managed to escape this planet for 600 years.

    • In the trailer we also see action-packed scenes in which Jordan fights a robot with her lightsaber. The whole thing is accompanied by a groovy 80s sound from the Pet Shop Boys.

    If you missed the trailer, you can watch it here:

    Trailer for Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, the new game from the studio behind Uncharted & The Last of Us

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    Intergalactic was inspired by 2 sci-fi animes

    What could the story be based on? In an interview, Neil Druckmann revealed that the game was inspired by 2 anime classics, which also come from the sci-fi genre.

    On the one hand, they were inspired by the anime film Akira. The film is considered a milestone in anime history, with numerous films and series having been based on it. It is rated 8.0 out of 10 on IMDb.

    In Akira, Tokyo was destroyed by a nuclear explosion and rebuilt as Neo-Tokyo. Shotaro Kaneda and Tetsuo Shima are in a gang and have fierce street fights. But when they land at a military base, one of them develops mysterious powers. Some scenes that also appear in Akira could already be seen in the Intergalactic trailer, as X-User LnL_spark shows.

    And the second anime? Cowboy Bebop is such a good sci-fi series that it can even compete with real-life series. It has a rating of 8.9 out of 10 on IMDb. The anime revolves around Spike Spiegel and his team, who hunt criminals in space as bounty hunters. The earth is uninhabitable, so humanity is spread across several planets.

    Here the inspiration is clearer: Jordan is also a bounty hunter in space. There could possibly be other things in the story that Naughty Dog copied from Cowboy Bebop.

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