Last Of Us 2: 9 New Gameplay Mechanics That Change EVERYTHING

1. You Can't Unlock Everything First-Time Through (New Game Plus?)

Saving the best for last, a recent gameplay deep-dive highlighted that Ellie has so many potential ways to upgrade, there's no way to unlock all of them first-time through.

Instead, Naughty Dog are fleshing out three specific pathways for you to experiment with. It's almost an RPG, "how do you want to play" mentality, and examples given are crafting items for healing or attack, acquiring the ability to stealth kill faster, versus better range in listening mode.

Alongside this, it feels like the developer are teasing a New Game Plus, as deliberately saying that we can't unlock everything first time, begs the question of a second or third trip through the story.

Or, as another way to hammer home causality and memorability around how your particular Ellie is played, we could be stuck with our loadouts, and have to live with them.