The entire game has been rebuilt with new lighting and shadow effects that give a massively improved air of natural beauty and grime throughout the game. Static and unnatural lighting are no more in The Last of Us Part 1. While not every detail will stand out as noticeably upgraded, there are some incredibly well-reworked visual effects that stand out no matter how you look at it. I went back and forth between playing The Last of Us Part 1 and The Last of Us Remastered (which was upgraded for the PS4 Pro around 2017) to get a good look at the changes. The Last of Us Part 1 takes the full power of the PS5 and brings the most expressive edition of Joel and Ellie’s original story yet. My answer after playing it is… almost everything. Still considered to be quite the stellar game, there was wonder at what would be improved. There was a bit of confusion, then, when Naughty Dog announced it would be rebuilding the first Last of Us for the PS5.
The games have been toted time and time again as some of the best action, storytelling, and visuals that PlayStation Studios titles have to offer. Naughty Dog has nearly always been at the cutting edge of delivering the fullest on what a PlayStation game can do and The Last of Us franchise has been a recurring prime example of that.
