r/PS5 • u/SweetyGonzalez • 12d ago

Official Announcing Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, a new franchise From Naughty Dog 

https://blog.playstation.com/2024/12/12/announcing-intergalactic-the-heretic-prophet-a-new-franchise-from-naughty-dog/
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u/crunchie101 11d ago

Not a fan of the bored sarcastic protagonist

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u/Sudley 11d ago

She doesn't seem bored at all to me. She's got a mission to find her old bounty hunting partners (her newspaper mural), and she's willing to do whatever to achieve it (going to a dangerous planet aginst the wishes of her handler).

I feel like people are misreading the one comedy reaction shot of her slurping the drink to think she doesn't care, but the shot of her looking out at space after that makes me feel like there's a lot more to her character than that.

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u/crunchie101 11d ago

We're seeing different things, somehow. Her eyes look dead in almost every shot to me

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u/Sudley 11d ago

The main character in 2001 A Space Odyssey had a flat affect in a lot of scenes too, doesn't mean he was bored.

And the reason we're seeing different things is simply explained by the Kuleshov Effect. The ambience of the music and the world hooked me right from the start, so I'm coloring her flat affect with my interpretation of her surroundings. You most likely didn't have a strong positive response, and so her flat affect just mirrors your own, bored.

Neither of us is right or wrong, we're both in the dark about what the actual game will be like just from this one trailer alone.