There’s absolutely nothing ambiguous about the word gameplay and yet I get the distinct impression that Sony and Naughty Dog are going to end up pretending that having frame rate options counts as changing the way the game plays. Sony is starting to come across as either incompetent or purposefully deceptive and I don’t know which is worse. This is what I mean by poor communication. What does it mean and why, considering they just put out a 10 minute gameplay video, did they not just show exactly what they meant? Just this week Naughty Dog said that ‘gameplay mechanics would be rebuilt’, a phrase that seems to be specifically constructed to be as a vague as possible. And yet leaks and rumours repeatedly say that, actually, nothing has changed in terms of the gameplay.

It’s not necessary, nobody was calling for it, but at least it shows that they’re doing as much as they can for the remake. Naughty Dog has repeatedly said that the gameplay will be improved, which most people took to mean they’d swap in the Part 2 mechanics.

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