' composer, Gustavo Santaolalla, has hinted at some kind of remaster or expanded rerelease for , supporting the long-standing rumours of the existence of a director's cut.
As you'd probably expect from one of the most popular franchises in gaming, The Last of Us has seen a lot of rumours in its time. One of the ones that has stuck around the longest, though, is that there's a director's cut or extended version of The Last of Us Part 2 that would eventually get released on PC and PS5, simila♏r to The Last of Us Part 1.
The evidence for this extended version of the game has always been a little slim and felt more like something that The Last of Us fans wanted rather than something there were a lot of signs for. That has just changed, however, thanks to Gustavo Sa🉐ntaolalla, the legendary Argentine compose💮r who has worked on both of the games and the TV show.
, . At one point during the interview, Santaolalla mentions that he liked seeing the virtual version of himself that can be found in the game's opening hours in Jackson.
Santaolalla then mentions that a new version of the game actually lets the player go up to him and request specific songs to be played, something that obviously can't be done in the original version, where he just sits there and plays the same songs with no interactivity between him and Ellie.
That might have seemed like a slip of the tongue or just a mistake on Santaolalla's part, but he then cheekily says that he can't say any more about it, which suggests that it's something that he wasn't meant to say and that something is really in the works. A PC rerelease of Part 2 has seemed like a no-brainer ever since Part 1 released, but the mention of such a specific new feature seems to suggest that it's an expanded release that has things that weren't included in the original game.
As we said above, rumours of a director's cut of Part 2 have consistently been floating around for quite some time now and it certainly seems like this is what Santaolalla is talking about. It could also just be a PC release with one weirdly specific new feature, but it certainly seems like it's just one of a few different things that might be added to an extended version.