The Last Of Us Season 2 Brings Back Spores For A "Dramatic" Reason

The Last of Us Season 2 releases this April, and the sophomore season will up the ante in terms of how the deadly fungus spreads--and this will include by way of airborne spores.
Neil Druckmann confirmed this during a SXSW panel recently, saying the reason the team decided to do this in Season 2 was for dramatic purposes. "Everything has to be drama. There had to be a dramatic reason of introducing it now. And there is," he said (via IGN).
In The Last of Us game series, the outbreak spreads from spores, but Season 1 changed things up and had the fungus spread via cordycep tendrils. There was a fan backlash against this.
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