The Last of Us Part 1 accessibility adds DualSense haptic feedback for subtitles

Naughty Dog’s remastered and enhanced rerelease of Last of UsPlayStation 5 will feature new graphics, game features and, according to the PlayStation Blog Friday blog, many accessibility options, both returning and new, for PlayStation 5. Part 2 of “The Last of Us”. One of those new features exploits the PS5’s DualSense controller features in an intriguing new way.

Part 1: The Last of Us game director Matthew Gallant said that Naughty Dog will enhance subtitles for in-game dialogue using the controller’s vibration features. The new in Part 1: The Last of Us is “a feature that plays dialogue through the PS5 DualSense controller as haptic feedback. That way a deaf player can feel the way a line is delivered, can feel the emphasis, along with the subtitles to give some sense of how that line is delivered,” Gallant said.

“We’re expecting this to be an accessible experience for blind players, for deaf players, for players with motor accessibility needs,” Gallant said. “The biggest new feature we have are audio descriptions for cinematics. We partnered with Descriptive Video Works, a professional service whose background is TV, movies and video game trailers, and integrated it into the cutscenes and across all our localized languages.”

These accessibility features are available in a glimpse and sound preview. Part 1: The Last of UsIn the video above. Naughty Dog, a PlayStation blog contributor, outlined the long list accessibility features that will be coming to the PS5 game. These include presets for vision, hearing and motor accessibility as well as visual aids and magnifications, anti-motion sickness considerations as well as interface options and game difficulty settings.

Part 1: The Last of UsPS5 to be available Sept. 2nd