Naughty Dog's Neil Druckmann responds to Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet backlash: "Stick to your guns and do what you believe in"

A screenshot of Jordan drinking a soda during the reveal trailer for Intergalactic: The Hertic Prophet.
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澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Naughty Dog's Neil Druckmann has responded to backlash around the studio's next big game, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, and if the source of the backlash is what I think it is, I'm a little disappointed🐠 he's even giving these people any air.

I don't want to get too into the weeds for obvious reasons, but from my research it seems a vocal minority of anti-woke internet dwellers are big mad that Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet stars a woman of color who happens to be bald and isn't universally considered to be conventionally attractive. The audacity, I know.

Naughty Dog disabled YouTube comments on from last year's Game Awards afte💟r it was flooded with hateful comments directed toward protagonist Jordan's🐎 appearance. PlayStation's upload of the same trailer still has comments enabled, so you can see for yourself what some people are complaining about, but I wouldn't recommend it.

Anyway, Druckmann was asked to touch on the so-called controversy in a recent interview with , and thankfully he🐽 didn't sound too phased.

"I don't know if there's much I could add to that conversation, to be honest," he said. "It's just thܫat there's stuff happening right now with media that you just have to ignore for the most part, stick to your guns, and do what you believe in, and I feel like that's🍌 how I would want artists to carry themselves."

It's a🤡 perfectly acceptable answer, but an unnecessary one, in my opinion. I don't even like using the word controversy here, because that implies Naughty Dog did something to stir up controversy and for which Druckmann should have to explain. It didn't. We hardly kn🌺ow anything about Intergalactic, we haven't seen any gameplay, and the one cinematic trailer we have seen was... fine?

If anything, Naughty Dog is playing it s𒁃afe with Intergalactic. It just looks like a cool, Cowboy Bebop-ey action game, and it's deeply weird to me that it's considered by some to be controversial. But in a post-Last of Us 2 world, I don't know why I'm surprised.

Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet is "a game about faith and religion," which Neil Druckmann jokes will surely get less hate than The Last of Us 2

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