Joel's Girl and the Boar Hunt: Find out what content had to be removed from the final version of The Last of Us II

Data miner Speclizer on his YouTube channel, he showed a conversation between Neil Drakmann and Troy Baker about what content had to be removed from the final version of The Last of Us II.

Attention, the material contains spoilers for the game!

What else is known

• ATthe original concept featured a character named Esther who would play Joel's girlfriend.
• Another version of the TLoU 2 story predicted that Abby broke into Jackson and won the trust of the city's residents.
• Neil Druckmann also described in detail the section on wild boar hunting, in which Ellie has to fight her propensity for violence while living on a farm.
• Dataminer Speclizer showed the model Ellie, which was created for wild boar hunting.
• The author also showed a prototype version of Jackson.

The Last of Us Part II is available exclusively on PS4 and PS5.

Source: Speclizer