At this rate, we’ll ne'er spot the past of The Last of Us. Ahead of a high-profile HBO adaptation, Naughty Dog released a top-to-bottom remake, called The Last of Us Part I, for PlayStation 5.

Make nary mistake: The Last of Us Part I is fundamentally the aforesaid nonstop crippled arsenic its 2013 archetypal (and consequent 2014 remaster, for PlayStation 4). In my testing, guides that already beryllium for the archetypal use here—right down to the combinations for safes and different locked doors. If you’re seeking hyper-specific advice, you’re amended disconnected checking retired Kirk’s archetypal tips from [website crumbles into dust].

Still, Part I is the astir mechanically superior mentation of the game, nary question astir it, and with the enhancements travel immoderate changes. Like its contiguous predecessor, 2020’s The Last of Us Part II connected PlayStation 4, Naughty Dog included an awesome array of settings and accessibility options. You’ll find well implicit 60 sliders and settings you tin tweak. Most are babelike connected preference, the benignant of happening you’ll privation to set arsenic you play, but determination are a fistful that are worthy turning connected from the jump.

Vibrating Speech

Speech to vibrations, recovered nether the DualSense menu, is 1 of the fewer parts of The Last of Us Part I that makes it consciousness similar a morganatic PS5 crippled (rather than an highly beauteous PS4 one). The mounting makes the PS5 controller vibrate erstwhile a quality is talking, and it does truthful astatine the aforesaid cadence arsenic their speech. It’s beauteous cool! It’s besides a small aggravated by default. For me, I’ve recovered the speech to vibrations intensity saccharine spot astatine 5—just capable to “hear” characters speech but not truthful overmuch that it’s distracting.

Custom trouble

The Last of Us Part I is playable connected six trouble settings, ranging: very light, light, moderate, hard, survivor, and, erstwhile you bushed the game, grounded. But the situation isn’t truthful linear. You tin set the trouble for 5 antithetic aspects of the game:

• Player: Dictates however overmuch harm you instrumentality from attacks, and however often oregon infrequently you timepiece checkpoints successful the mediate of a fight.
• Enemies: Basically dictates however savvy (or not-savvy) your foes are.
• Allies: Determines however often your allies assistance you successful combat.
• Stealth: Controls a fig of variables related to sneaking, including however agelong it takes for enemies to alert their comrades aft spotting you.
• Resources: Regulates however often resources, similar food, ammo, and crafting supplies, appear.

So if you’re large astatine staying retired of show but conflict with the all-out enactment segments, you tin bespeak that successful a customized trouble setting. There’s besides a perk present for masochists. Though you can’t commencement a caller crippled from the highest imaginable trouble level—even if you’ve played it a 1000 times during its anterior iterations—you tin manually acceptable each 5 of those to grounded for a de facto hardest-possible run.

Photo Mode Shortcut

The Last of Us Part I is debatably 1 of the prettiest games connected console close now. In different words: You’re gonna wanna instrumentality a batch of screenshots. Typically, popping into photograph mode requires opening the menu, which slows down the gait of the game—unless you crook connected photo mode shortcut, successful the controls menu. When activated, you tin hop close into photograph mode by pressing some thumbsticks successful astatine the aforesaid time. Just marque definite to get the timing right, other you’ll crook connected Joel’s flashlight and ruin your shot!

Hints

Hints, astatine the precise bottommost of the HUD menu, are acceptable to sometimes by default. But they’re acold much cumbersome than they are helpful. For 1 thing, they lone connection proposal arsenic to the captious path. Sometimes you cognize precisely what to bash to proceed successful the communicative but, due to the fact that it’s a Naughty Dog crippled (dense levels worthy exploring), you privation to poke astir for a bit, spot if you tin crook up immoderate collectibles oregon cardinal resources. And that brings maine to the astir annoying portion of Part I’s hints: Once a extremity pops up, it doesn’t spell distant until you decorativeness the task it tells you to do. Here’s wherever I punctual you that each of the already-written guides for this crippled are conscionable arsenic effectual present arsenic they were a decennary ago.

Bow Reticle Style

For the astir part, yes, The Last of Us Part I is the aforesaid crippled arsenic The Last of Us. One subtle change: There’s a caller aiming strategy for the bow. And it kinda sucks. By default, it comes with conscionable a modular dot arsenic a reticle—not large for gauging distances erstwhile aiming with a bow. But if you alteration the bow reticle benignant setting, recovered nether the HUD menu, to classic, you’ll beryllium capable to spot the arrow’s way arsenic intended: with a wide trajectory showing wherever it’ll land. Not lone is this adjuvant AF, it’s besides a reminder that, yeah, immoderate things are amended near untouched.