If you’re good enough to beat The Last of Us: Part II on either Grounded or Permadeath difficulty, Naughty Dog has included a bonus treat to reward your efforts. As spotted on Twitter overnight, beating the game on the title’s hardest difficulty setting will play Joel’s rendition of Pearl Jam’s Future Days, which is featured prominently throughout the campaign. You can hear it below:
Meanwhile, if you manage to finish the game on Permadeath, you’ll be able to listen to Ellie’s version of Through the Valley, which was originally written by Shawn James and featured heavily in the game’s promotional material. Again, you can listen to it below:
As was the case before, beating the game on any other difficulty will reward you with a duet, as Ellie and Joel sing Johnny Cash’s Wayfaring Stranger together. The new songs should prove a bonus incentive for fans of the franchise to revisit the story on its most challenging difficulty tiers, though. Great stuff!
[source twitter.com]
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I doubt I'll finish this on easy. Harder difficulties are wasted on me as are multiple endings. Once through (or less) and move on. Should be on the soundtrack.
Already platinum it should be fun to play it again for the third time on grounded with permadeath.
@Cycologist Not arguing how people should play their games but it's strange when some treat games like movies by playing through once and moving on. Movies don't have alternate endings and playthrough styles. I know a guy that plays through half of every game leaving them unfinished, and ends up talking about games on the streets more than anybody else. And another guy that watches YouTube playthroughs and keeps talking about games without actually playing anything.
@1_W1NG3D_4NG3L neither do I! The most use I've had of any walk-through was revisiting certain cutscenes in games that I really enjoyed. (Particularly the ranch scene in TLOU Part I) Other than that, I find it baffling that people actually watch, say, 30 hours of gameplay by someone else. Weird, but idk, whatever gets people's boats floating.
Could've swore those songs played after beating the game anyway.
@1_W1NG3D_4NG3L Yep I also only watch a few minutes of Walkthroughs on YouTube if I'm contemplating buying a game but not sure how it actually looks or plays like, even with that I keep skipping large parts because I don't want it spoiled. I still find playing through a wonderful game just once weirder, unless you really hated your first playthrough, and even that I wouldn't advice giving up because I fell in love with games like Fallout 4 from my 2nd playthrough going.
@roe Through the Valley does for sure but I don’t think Future Days does in full.
I played the first game 9 times to completion. 1 plays through of the second one was more than enough. Game was far too long, repetitive and miserable! I wish I’d never played it tbh.
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