During an interview for BuzzFeed, Neil Bruckmann, co-president of the Naughty Dog studio, has just planted the first nail in the coffin of good old Nathan Drake, hero of the Uncharted franchise. Indeed, according to him,the team put an end to the story (de Nathan Drake) and she can say that this time it’s over. Let’s move on to something else.“
Started in 2007 with Uncharted : Drake’s Fortunethe new IP definitely imposes itself with Uncharted 2 : Among Thieves, perhaps the best episode of the series. After a Uncharted 3 : Drake’s Deception (2011) excellent but a little less striking, the license settles down on PS Vita (the latest portable console from Sony) with Uncharted : Golden Abyss (2012), a real technological feat but clearly below what we had been used to. Finally, in 2016, Uncharted 4 : A Thief’s End closes the narrative arc in a masterful way, despite some lengths at the end of the adventure.
A saga inseparable from Sony
The Uncharted saga was entitled to a few compilations, remasters or eastereggs in other Sony flagship licenses and other ports, on PC of course. Nathan Drake will even be one of the protagonists of the Super Smash Bros Made by Sony roster: PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale (2012). There would even exist a film, released in 2022, which it would perhaps be better to bury in a sacrilegious temple, concealed by the thousand-year-old vines of a tropical forest long abandoned by men and gods.
Obviously, everything goes very quickly in the video game and very clever whoever could say that never again will a Drake go in search of an ancient lost city or a forgotten legendary artefact; taken over by another studio, rebootstory centered on another character of the license like Uncharted : The Lost Legacy (2017), multiplayer mode… In short, there is no shortage of solutions to one day see Nathan come close to death at any end of the inevitably rickety ledge.
