Inside 2020's most anticipated—and targeted—game: Violence, a virus, an LGBTQ love story

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Ex 'Westworld' writer Halley Gross joins Neil Druckmann to create the unexpectedly timely story in 'The Last of Us Part II' set in a virus-ravaged world

Halley Gross wanted to be a comedian. The former child actress set her sights on stand-up as she entered adulthood, hoping when she began college to model her career after that of Tina Fey.Dreams, it turns out, can come true.

With two LGBTQ anti-heroes at the heart of the game, the game’s themes touch on faith, sexuality and militarization and zero in on the struggle to maintain a sense of self. Or, more damning, how the latter is often misinformed by our country’s habit of erecting prejudicial boundaries.Advertisement The complaints had little to do with the actual game and instead claimed the studio had given in to some form of political correctness in emphasizing multiple characters from the LGBTQ community while leaving less-significant roles to some of the popular characters that had appeared in the first.

“We should be able to dismantle all of it for the sake of the story ... not to maximize sales or to give people a positive feeling,” Druckmann says. “Nobody is safe just because they’ve been the protagonist or what their identity is. Everything is in service of the higher themes of the story. Sometimes that leads to a dark place. Sometimes that leads to choices that we know are going to upset some fans. But you have to let that go.

 

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