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  1. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The worst story in gaming history Dude the best guy will die and it's just a revenge story Expand
  2. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    This game had a high hope from everyone. They change the whole concept to reach rock bottom.
  3. Jun 23, 2020
    3
    graphics are good, gameplay is boring and dull and the story doesnt make any **** sense
  4. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    one of the worst story that could ever written for last of us 2,despite beautiful game grapichs and gameplay ,i couldnt take it anymore!
  5. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. La cagaron papus F era un juego fantástico en la primera parte pero q ahora hagan q el juego seah más inclusivo para contentar a los pendejos de hoy en día con sus gustos setsuales la pelo aparte se chingaron al anterior prota al inicio del juego osea daaaa por lo menos a mitad o al final para q no duela tanto F Expand
  6. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Joel is dead...
    The storie is so dumb,I want my money again!!!!!!!!!!kejrjrjrjrkrjrjjfifiroekrkfifpelekdifurueudjskskwwpwpspcodjdjrrudifudududeeurfjfjdjejekwowpqpwpqpwsosodifufhfhfhfffff
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  7. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    Game bad. Seventy five characters, i see, very much characters i must fulfill indeed.
  8. Jun 21, 2020
    1
    its a game with a VERY nice graphics that when you pass trough it , its just a Torture porn with bad story.
    very disturbing scenes from killing pregnant women's with knife to killing dogs which you have usually no choice in the matter . game is very slow in every thing from progress to even draw and reload weapons . its heavily influenced by its writer political agenda and point of view
    its a game with a VERY nice graphics that when you pass trough it , its just a Torture porn with bad story.
    very disturbing scenes from killing pregnant women's with knife to killing dogs which you have usually no choice in the matter . game is very slow in every thing from progress to even draw and reload weapons . its heavily influenced by its writer political agenda and point of view that they try to force on player in a very bad way for example to prove gender equality one of female characters that you play with have bigger arm and muscles than Floyd Mayweather a professional boxer which not only breaks your immersion because it doesn't look realistic but you ask yourself what dose having big muscles have to do anything with gender equality that they went this route ?! and after all the taste that a entertainment product leave in your mouth is very important and its a very bad taste for this one . i give it 1/10 because its nothing but a good looking game and i don't give a game 10/10 just because it looks nice to eye .
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  9. Jun 8, 2021
    1
    Sure, graphics are amazing and gameplay is okay or average, just like the first one.
    But who cares about that when you have ruined everything with this absolute poor story.
    Thanks, Neil!
  10. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    Terrible story, overrated game overall. Took them this long and they some how messed it up. Gg 0/10
  11. Jun 21, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This is the worst game I've played in the last decade. I was a huge fan of the first game, and played it on release in 2013 on the PS3. I've played the remastered version on the PS4 13 times on record, and it remains one of my favourite games of all time.

    This game seems to undo everything that made the first game so great. I felt misled by ths trailers, as we actually end up playing 70% of the game as Abby and not Ellie. A character Naughty Dog forces us to play as, and one of the most unlikeable characters in the history of media. Seriously, this character is horribly written and there's nothing to like. No, she's not transgender like many people would have you believe but she is not built like any real female so this makes her even more unbelievable. She does horrible things to characters we care about, and they force us to do some of these awful things as this she-hulk like character to the point I nearly stopped playing. It's that bad. The graphics are gorgeous, but that's it really. The gameplay is similar to the first, so it's good fun, but when you don't care about the story or character you're playing as it just doesn't work. I hated all 21 hours of this game (not the 30-35 advertised), have now deleted it and will not re-install. Very disappointed with this after a long 7 year wait. Booked time off work, and upgraded to a PS4 pro console for nothing.
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  12. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    Gameplay hasn't improved at all. The first game was carried by a gripping masterpiece of a story. This game did the complete opposite and by the end, I didn't care about anything I was playing anymore. The biggest gaming disappointment in 30 years of gaming.
  13. Jun 21, 2020
    1
    I sold this game.
    I bought Tekken 7 and Saints Row 3 Remastered with the money.
    The game is boring and it has a lot of bugs.
    The real "The Last Of Us 2" is "Left Behind".
  14. Jun 21, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. YA OROSPU ÇOCUKLARI JOELİ ÖYLE ÖLDÜRTÜP OYUNUN SONUNDA ABBYİ ÖLDÜRTMEYEN NEİL DRUCKMANNIN BURDAN AQ Expand
  15. Jun 21, 2020
    1
    I feel like Neil handed in his erotic fan fiction instead of the real script when he accidentally burned it while smoking his employees' resignation letters. It's clear they were grasping for straws and whipped up some top tier deviant-art writing skills to give any excuse to make this game.
  16. Jun 22, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Very good graphics, no one is surprised and everyone knew that they were going to be good, good gameplay, the story was very bad, Joel's death has been quite bad after that event, everything revolves around a revenge that does not materialize completely absurd and the end is bad enough, it leaves a huge gap, I do not share the negative opinions about elly's sexuality, it is only a detail, the most important thing was the story which was very bad, 7 years to create such a bad story. Expand
  17. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    The graphic, details are awesome. However, the story is even worse than **** It is more like politics-oriented than player-oriented. The story writer is the kind of moron that does not really care what core players want.
  18. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    lesbians? wtff, its so boring also i was waiting something more interesting
  19. Jun 21, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game isn’t bad as a result of shoddy craftsmanship, or clunky controls... No, this game is bad because it is mercilessly grim, and full of cynical, performative gestures designed to ingratiate itself to the worst sort of toxic, internet SJW’s. It opportunistically works it’s way down a checklist of hot button issues, especially regarding representation, while exuding this snide, pretentious attitude about it the whole way through. It seems to be calling it’s own audience a bunch of chauvinist pigs for no discernible reason. “See?!” It says. “Women aren’t just objects for YOUR enjoyment!!” Yeah, okay, fine. Some girls are buff or whatever, I guess? But this game is full of machismo-approved pornographic ultra violence. “Shut up!” It replies. “That’s all just a metaphor for what it feels like to live with the trauma YOU inflict upon the world every single day.” Yeah, okay. I’m gonna go play FF7R and listen to music now. You...try and feel better, okay? Maybe link up with someone who likes you and do something fun today. “Get back here, pervert!! I’m not done talking to-“ Expand
  20. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    -Bad characters
    -Boring dialogs
    -Disgusting story
    -Crap ending
    +OK gameplay
    RIP TLOU.
  21. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I've waited 7 years for this game to come out. The Last of Us part 1 was my favorite game and I loved it so much I named my Cat Ellie after the game...i have had the videogame poster from TLOU1 framed in my living room for all these years, I'm a huge fan. Naughty Dog needs to apologize to everyone for TLOU2. I beat both games but the sequel is so bad... I wish they never made a sequel that's how bad it is. The wilderness/scenery is great but that's it. The storyline is absolute garbage. The game feels dragged out and I even was bored alot of the time. It felt like I kept playing hoping it would somehow get better and and I'd feel better about it already being ruined in the first 2-3 hours of the game but it only continues to be absolute garbage. I wanted to cry not because of how sad it was but how let down I felt by the game developers and writers. They had all this time and no one working there could convince them to redo it and that theyre ruining the whole game. This game made me feel like ill never have hope in games again. To the people who played this sequel and liked it...did you even play the first game? Expand
  22. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    There aren't words to describe how bad is the story of the game, i mean the sjw can be happy but that is just a minority of all the people who whas waiting this game for so long... This game is dead.
  23. Jun 23, 2020
    0
    Just don't
    You'll end up with a history from a sicko George Martin wanna be.
  24. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    No words, looks like I have to leave gaming, or just switch to Xbox. Or just never buy a Naughty Dog game.
  25. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    Narrativa aburrida simplificaron a los personajes Escenas de acción anti climáticas y un gameplay lento y sin gracia y convirtieron a ellie en una merie su que lo logra todo a la primera.
    En general:no le llega ni a los talones al primer juego
  26. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    Absolute rubbish storyline, character development and overt use of shock tactics leave the game feeling hollow and a god awful ending. Absolute betrayal of the original game.
  27. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    2 girls kissing each other at the cost of killing my favorite character. Good graphics but lame story. I was expecting a follow up with The Last of Us 1, but no.
  28. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    Nobody wanted this. Nobody. What was going through his mind when he wrote this I do not know.
  29. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    You can buy as many positive fake reviews by People with names like "Bob07" or "Alex012" as you want, Neil Duckmann. This game still remains utter garbage. What a hot mess. Please don't thro your money at him.
  30. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    Saw the live stream play up to the two-hour mark. The stream ended with disgust.
  31. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Is hot garbage... All about inclusive **** nothing to do with last of us 1... Expand
  32. Jun 22, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. First of all please let me point out i personally regard The Last of Us as the greatest single player game ever made.

    I was 24 when i first played it and i never expected a video game to have such an emotional impact. Sarah's death in the prologue, Tess's sacrifice in Boston, Sam and Henry's deaths, the game had me hooked with hard hitting story moments. At the core of the first game we have the relationship that develops between Ellie and Joel, this is key to everything that is good about the game, the experiences they go through shape that relationship and develop the characters.

    Marketing trailers for the second game strongly suggest we will see that relationship explored further and tested. The closing scene of the first game we see Ellie question Joel about the events at Salt Lake City and its suggested she thinks he is lying.

    Ultimately Joel is killed at the hands of a new playable Character (Abby) whom we have no attachment with what so ever just 90 minutes into the game. Now i have no problem with main characters dieing, in a post apocalyptic back-drop one could say it should be expected but the way Joel's death played out left me feeling nothing, it felt ham fisted and forced through for shock value and to set the wheel in motion for what would follow, a story of vengeance.

    Why was it ham fisted and force you say?

    Joel and Tommy have both survived post out break for at this point 24/25+ years and yet we are supposed to believe they go like willing cattle to the slaughterhouse. Rule number one in any post apocalyptic world, do not trust strangers, particularly groups, better the enemy you know, in this case the infected.

    Naughty Dog did not want this game to be another Joel and Ellie adventure, so they got desperate in forcing an unbelievable situation in which Joel died and Ellie had the path laid before her to go and seek revenge.

    So Ellie & Dina set out for Seattle to find the people that murdered Joe and kill them, i feel that at this point the relationship develop between Ellie and Dina essentially stops. Ellie fights through countless enemies slaying them as she goes into what becomes a quest to find and murder Abby along with hopefully some answers.

    The cinema showdown, acts as a Cliffhanger. Jesse dies but given how little development he got it feels inconsequential to the story. I hate Cliffhangers and this one feels all the more worse as you are forced to play 6-8 hours as Abby, who is essentially a female terminator.

    I get what Naughty Dog are trying to do, there is always another side and perspective to every story but i choose my side 7 years go with the emotional attachment i formed with Ellie and Joel despite their flaws and no matter how many hours you force me play as Abby do gooder it will not change the outcome i desire for her and that is a brutal death at the hands of Ellie.

    If the Abby/Yara/Lev section of the game had been a standalone separate story from the Joel and Ellie story, i would have enjoyed it alot more given more character development.

    Cinema Cliffhanger, Abby in full search and destroy mode after finding pretty much everyone else involved in Joel's murder is now dead. I like the way Nora died tbh that was a minor highlight.

    Jesse dead, Tommy shot and down, we are forced to hunt Ellie as Abby, this almost made me throw up the game did not revert back to Ellie being the playable character at this point. Thankfully Lev shut downs the Terminator before she can execute Dina/Ellie/Tommy, given her little develop and her friends deaths, it would of been in her character to kill all 3.

    Farmhouse act 1, at this point i thought the game was going to end, it would of been weak (Abby essentially letting her go once more) but with Ellie sat on the tractor overlooking the horizon, with JJ in her arms the credits could have rolled with a reasonably happy but unfulfilling ending.

    Ultimately Ellie is still haunted by Joel's murder, Tommy turns up alive thankfully but semi crippled to set the next step of the game in motion. Abby is in Santa Barbara. Following a short play as Abby both Abby & Lev are captured by another group known as the Rattlers and taken prisoner/slave.

    Ellie leaves Dina/JJ to go hunt Abby down, despite Dina's warning she will not wait for her to return. At this point i was just glad to be back playing Ellie, after so much time being forced to play as Abby.

    Ellie slays countless to get to a somewhat reduced Abby who has been left to die, after saving her life, forces her into a fight she does not want for once. Beats her only to let her live.

    The ending shows Ellie's sense of loss, Joel dead, Dina and JJ gone, she cant even play Guitar anymore after loosing two fingers. A brief flashback shows Ellie wanted to forgive Joel for his lie, the game should have ended on this scene, which is by far the most emotionally powerful moment in the entire game.
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  33. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    I waited 4 years to play this
    Its almost like someone let a teenager write bad fan fiction.
    This franchise is all about the story. Without the story the game means nothing.
  34. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    Please for the love of all that is good and holy in this wonderful world we live in, do NOT traumatize yourself by diminishing what fleeting love you had in this franchise and just hold the dear memories of the first game dear to your heart. (Please avoid this game at all costs though)
  35. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. No puede ser que maten de manera tan tonta a Joel es injusto con la primera parte Expand
  36. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    This is one of the worst video games of all time. I don't need to go into why.

    Here's what I think they should do to fix the game. Redo the entire story and release a second version with a different plot. You can use the same assets and the same gameplay elements, but the game's story would be fixed. Since the game's story would be fixed, this game would playable again. No one has
    This is one of the worst video games of all time. I don't need to go into why.

    Here's what I think they should do to fix the game. Redo the entire story and release a second version with a different plot. You can use the same assets and the same gameplay elements, but the game's story would be fixed. Since the game's story would be fixed, this game would playable again.

    No one has ever done something like that for a video game story so it would be an original design decision. That way, people who like this version can still enjoy it, but for people who want an actual story can play the real version. Both versions would be debated upon, but the decision to redo this game entirely with a new story would make me forget about and forgive the mistakes made in this version. I know that this won't happen because the Niel Druckmann fell to one of the oldest stumbling blocks in history which would be pride. He directed a masterpiece and the praise got to his head. Instead of looking at what the fans loved about the first game, he did his own thing, confident that he was smarter than everyone else, and ended up destroying his own masterpiece. It's not the first time that a leader has fallen to pride and it certainly won't be the last time. If Niel Druckmann and the team completely redid the game with an actual story, it would be one of the quintessential comebacks of our time. It would surprise everyone and would earn the respect of every gamer who felt betrayed by this version. As it stands though, this game is completely unplayable.
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  37. Jun 21, 2020
    1
    Guys, buy game and refund it within an hour. This way they will drop its price where it is worth to buy it.
  38. Jun 21, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Le tenía ganas al juego. Estaba muy ilusionado con la parte 2 y la cagaron. Expand
  39. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Why does everything have to be gay now? It’s so forced. Video game creators now want to pander to the alphabet people, and it’s costing them money. Good, I hope this company fails and learns a lesson. Expand
  40. Jun 21, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Only 1. This 1 is for the picture, and your work with people with disabilities. But the plot, that's **** Expand
  41. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Worst Story,
    Bad plot,
    and Pro Golfer Abby

    Mr Director,
    What do you want to tell me?
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  42. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    Just Cause **** The Company.....
    #refuseTLOU2 ____________________________________
  43. Jun 22, 2020
    0
    paso de ser un survival horror a un survival progre, ok no primero comenzando con que el protagonista murio forzaron y metiendo ideales de los lgbt, una historia bien pedorra y como toque final el que el juego te obligaba a cometer actos inmorales esto lo invierten y lo ponen como "mate un centenar de personas pero no me vengare de la asesina de mi novia y mi padre adoptivo"
  44. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    The storyline was just a cheap and disingenuous cash grab on the LGBTQ+ community, bordering on the offensive cultural appropriation has never looked so pathetic.
  45. Jun 21, 2020
    1
    A bad history. The final is horrible. I dont like this game, I wait for this ****
  46. Jun 21, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. bad storyline, its really confusing and already have no desire after the scene where Joel’s death. Expand
  47. Jun 21, 2020
    2
    Experiência decepcionante, no quesito história. Nitidamente se preocuparam bastante com o relacionamento da Ellie talvez por ser homossexual infelizmente transformaram a história em um fetiche no restante da muita preguiça de assistir ao ponto de eu querer pular as cenas, o que fizeram com o Joel e o fim do jogo praticamente sem desfecho realmente é muito decepcionante, fico aquiExperiência decepcionante, no quesito história. Nitidamente se preocuparam bastante com o relacionamento da Ellie talvez por ser homossexual infelizmente transformaram a história em um fetiche no restante da muita preguiça de assistir ao ponto de eu querer pular as cenas, o que fizeram com o Joel e o fim do jogo praticamente sem desfecho realmente é muito decepcionante, fico aqui pensando que foram 5 anos pra entregarem isso, mas em critérios gráficos o jogo está fenomenal, os comandos dos personagens está mais leve e fácil de comandar, os upgrades das armas ficou mais divertido com as com animações uma pena terem estragado a história. Expand
  48. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    Boring game with no real reason to exist, the first one was great all they had to do was make a game that wasnt trans propaganda or some dumb stuff like that its a bad movie with bad diauloge
  49. Jun 21, 2020
    1
    Me afecto mucho la muerte de Joel ; creo que mereció un mejor final...
    buenas gráficas
    la historia no me gusto mucho .
    the last of us 1 su historia me gusto más .
  50. Jun 21, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It's heartbreaking to give this game such a low score considering how much I adored the first one however it's unfortunately what it deserves. The graphics are stunning as expected for a 2020 game, I found myself in awe walking around the different sets, the acting for the most part is phenomenal, the gameplay is great (most of it was recycled from the original game so really nothing new other than the fact that Ellie is faster and less bulky than Joel was making room for some interesting mechanics), the music was breathtaking, the story and character writing however was not. Naughty Dog completely ruined this games potential when they wrote such unlikable characters, I found myself being bored during most dialogue and just switched off to admire the graphics. To give such a beloved character an awful excuse of a 'send off' for no reason other than to fuel a revenge story is insulting to fans of the original game and by the 6th hour into the game it doesn't even feel like you're out for revenge it just feels like Ellie's on a rampage and Joel's death is just the best excuse they could come up with and to then be forced into playing as the character that killed him & expecting us to care for her is just rubbing salt on the wound. ND's handling of trailers was absolutely disgusting I avoided spoilers like my life depended on it and bought the game thinking I was going to get an Ellie focused story (a character who I loved) to build upon her character with Joel as one of the possible side characters (I wouldn't have even been mad if they killed him off at some point respectfully), instead she's been written as an uncharismatic teenager that nobody likes, her personality has completely changed and I guess you could read into it and say it's just a part of growing up in an apocalyptic universe however this is never explained. Joel goes from a careful, smart survivor to someone who willingly tells a group of armed strangers his name regardless of the reputation he built in the events of the first game. Scenes are ridiculously violent for the sake of being violent to a point where I personally had so much anxiety I had to stop playing for a while. If there's one good thing about the story & characters I suppose you could stretch and say it's ok at diversity, there's a handful of lgbtq+ characters & different ethnicities however it's not GREAT representation, scenes feel forced and one of the characters even plays into a harmful stereotype for bi people so take it or leave it. Overall The Last of Us 2 just feels like Naughty Dog ruined a perfect story with incredibly enjoyable characters just for the sake of making a sequel and getting more money, as a long time fan I will definitely not be buying anymore products from them. The score of 4 is based purely on graphics and gameplay but it's definitely not worth your money.
    It's upsetting to see reviewers blindly hating this game JUST because it features lgbt people at the center of it. However it's equally as frustrating to see people blindly supporting it, at the end of the day the story is just simply an injustice to the original game that so many people love and that's all it really boils down to.

    Graphics- 9/10
    Gameplay- 7/10
    Music- 8/10
    Story - 1/10
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  51. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Quite possibly the worst sequel to an amazing first game, ever made. Piss poor story. Whoever wrote this needs to stop writing for games for the rest of their career. Absolutely ruined the good name of the last of us. The thing that made the first game so good was the relationship between Joel and Ellie and how they formed a Father Daughter bond. I could have written anything half decent and it would have been better than this trash... Expand
  52. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game make me angry. The plot is very poor and unreasonable.
    Naughty dog ​​give the Father's Day gift is KILL the joel. Rubbish GAME!!!!!!!!
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  53. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game's story is so **** it makes me sick. The Abby section is boring as hell and made me want to end it all with a **** rope. The ending is just trash. Why even **** release this stupid **** game.

    Do not buy.
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  54. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. No fun. Used to enjoy Naughty Dog games cause they had some humor. Killing your favorite character up close, clubbing his brains out with a golf club disgusting and shocking. Ultimately, 30 hours of boring, same-old-same-old stuff we've seen before. I hope Naughty Dog dies along with this game. Ugh! Triple Ugh!!!!!!!!!!! Expand
  55. Jun 22, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Let's make a game where main character is lesbian and smoke weed in the basement with another girl, while Joel is getting murdered. THEN ACTUALLY KILLS JOEL YOU SHOULD KILL YOURSELF. Expand
  56. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Let me try to explain it briefly

    In last of us 1, the whole thing is about Ellie and Joel and you grow to really love and care about them

    In last of us 2, they kill off Joel in the first 2 hours. Then, they make you play as his killer (Abby) for 10 hours, as you try to kill Ellie. Then, you play as Ellie for 10 hours trying to kill Abby. You kill hundreds of people and dogs trying to do this. Then, after all that, Ellie doesn’t kill Abby, and nearly all the characters are dead, abandoned Ellie, or are crippled by injuries. The final shot is Ellie trying to play Joel’s guitar, but failing to because Abby bit off two of her fingers

    You can’t make that **** up

    And people have been waiting for 7 years for this
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  57. Jun 21, 2020
    1
    The game itself has beautiful graphics but lacks the almost recycled gameplay of the first, identical Npc's and the ending is simply disappointing. Do yourself a favor and invest your money in another thing.
  58. Jun 21, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Wtf? The worst thing must be the part III... What a disappointment of game, all that waiting for this crappy game. Expand
  59. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Bad writing. Bad story. Bad ending. Rukned the amazing experience that The last of us 1 was for me. Good job. 1/10.

    They say Joel deserved to die because he killed so many people. Who cares about morality in post apocalyptic game? Guess what, Joel killed for his daughter, just like how abby killed for her father. People can forgive abby but not Joel. That's stupid. Also, if they had even TRIED to make abby empathisable IN THE LEAST or relatable or likable or showed that she had an absolutely legit reason to kill an old and popular character, it would have been understood. But no she just appears from some where and goes, "I gotta kill him because he killed my father," and the player doesn't even get to relate with her pain or her suffering missing her father. You are SUPPOSED to feel bad for her, rather than actually relating with her missing her father and wanting revenge. Morality can f off in this world, unlike how everyone is saying, because its a post apocalypse and everyone will do whatever to survive. In the game as Ellie you also kill a ton of people. Does Ellie deserve to be curbstomped by some guys now?

    Also, I have seen a bunch of people who claim to have played only the first 4 or 5 hours proudly saying that they like it, and are also criticising players who leave a bad review but have finished the whole game. Automatically discredited. Play the whole game first, then leave a review.

    Joel isn't properly given the redemption he deserved in this game. Just because some didn't like Joel and left a good review doesn't mean theirs are more valuable than the ones that liked him and have left a negetive one. Leave your own experience. Don't criticise others because they didn't have a similar experience with the characters as you did. Everyone has different sentiments attached to the same game. Calling us angry men because we didn't like what happened with Joel and how his value was drowned over some needless plot channeling is a bad move. Get yourself fixed. Just because you disliked him doesnt mean he deserved to be forgotten and his value diminished after his death. The gamers who liked him and held more worth of him in their hearts deserved a better account of him, and our opinions are just as valuable as yours.

    I also would like to point out how you think every bad review is a result of review bombing but every good one is legit. Coping much? Next time, make a good game rather than trying to desperately and shamelessly escape criticism after having made a total dumpster fire.
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  60. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    Worst game I've ever had the displeasure of playing basically ruins the previous game by trying to tell an "enlightened" view of violence while being the ones who made the game that way. I'm sad that this did so poorly because no game developer will ever attempt this twist after this tragedy.
  61. Jun 21, 2020
    1
    Technically, it's a great game, but Last of Us is a series that was unique to its story. The story of TLOU part II is a big disappointment, I definitely do not recommend it to the fans of the first part
  62. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    I don't need to be an expert on script writing to know this game's script is totally trash, like what the heck were they doing the whole 7 years this crap was on development? Honestly it's like ND doesn't take it's position on the game industry with the same seriousness they used to, and I warned everyone I could about not trusting the company this time, I told my friends and family aboutI don't need to be an expert on script writing to know this game's script is totally trash, like what the heck were they doing the whole 7 years this crap was on development? Honestly it's like ND doesn't take it's position on the game industry with the same seriousness they used to, and I warned everyone I could about not trusting the company this time, I told my friends and family about all the red flags ND was showing judging by their behavior on social media and the way they handled the leaks and what did they do? They called me crazy and closed minded (like if that was an insult) who's laughing now eh? Expand
  63. Jun 21, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. As most people on here, I am really disappointed with this game, especially as it has literally been the game I have looked forward to the most in years.

    Positives:

    Either way I'll start off with the positives, the graphics are stunning and the music and general environment you're playing in certainly holds up to what I've been expecting from Naughty Dog. That's really the only reason, why I'm even rewarding this game with any points. Also there are some new mechanics to the gameplay although it is mostly the same as in the original.

    Negatives:

    You start off in the game and the game starts off very quietly until they kill off Joel, which is in itself already quite a bad decision. Killing off one of the players' most beloved characters for shock value is really not the best decision. Especially as Joel had barely made an appearance in the game before his brutal murder. Ellie goes on to find the killer, Abby and basically goes on a revenge trip together with Dina, her girlfriend. After Joel's death I was quite shocked and already had lost some of the appetite to even continue the game. But after a short break I decided to continue playing regardless. I was determined to kill Abby, the person who killed Joel. After getting about halfway through the game Abby suddenly breaks into their safehouse and Jesse, another side character who I had grown to like was again killed off for pure shock value in a very distasteful manner. Before knowing the outcome of that event it switches to Abby, the person you just really hate, like seriously, I don't know if I've ever hated a character more in a video game. So now you're supposed to play as the villain and get a little bit of backstory as to why she was so obsessed with Joel. Alright he killed her father, but do you really think that would make me suddenly like Abby? No I still hate her, like many people considering the reviews I've already read.

    Making the player play the game again through her point of view was a really bad decision and also what ultimately killed off my intention of seeing through the game. I played through the first couple of hours of Abby's story, but I will never start liking her and I feel like Naughty Dog greatly miscalculated how easy it would be to convince us of her. Also the characters around her are all also either unlikeable or just forgettable. Which is also a perfect way to describe this game. Naughty Dog ruined the series by making a story as bad as this one and I don't even know if I'm going to finish the game. It's a shame as this is the first time I have never been disappointed this much by a game and considering it came from Naughty Dog, a company I always trusted, that's even worse.

    If you want my advice, don't buy this game. You'd get more enjoyment out of just replaying the first game, which was truly a masterpiece.
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  64. Jun 21, 2020
    1
    LGBT+, anti traditional, anti human, torn storytelling, questionable plot decisions - all together gives you worst game of the year.
  65. Jun 21, 2020
    1
    *sighs*

    Really Neil. As a member of the LGBTQ community I am appalled that this is what passes for storytelling these days. EVEN I can see the virtue signaling and after the reveal of Ellie being a lesbian in the DLC for the first game I thought we would actually get some sort of inclusive loving moment between her and her lover. No we get this instead: and what did we get? 1/10
    *sighs*

    Really Neil. As a member of the LGBTQ community I am appalled that this is what passes for storytelling these days. EVEN I can see the virtue signaling and after the reveal of Ellie being a lesbian in the DLC for the first game I thought we would actually get some sort of inclusive loving moment between her and her lover.

    No we get this instead: and what did we get?

    1/10 Gameplay - they didn't change this much from the first game, 7 years later, this really does just feel like chapter 2, not a new game but the same game with more story being told.

    0/10 - Story.... what in the actual...... I am not kidding, the story is a disjointed pandering mess. People need to STOP listening to twitter and STOP listening to Anita. It's time we remove these cancers that are frankly tearing down our communities and the goodwill we have been working on for the last 60 years. Then when you had the actual opportunity to have an inclusive sex scene in the game, you choose to make a slightly rapey straight scene, that was not touching, that was not at all endearing (this is different than something intended for erotic purpose)? LITERALLY WTF were you thinking?

    7/10 - Graphics, literally the only redeeming factor this game has is how good it looks and how smooth the animations are... for the time it took and the progress since, this could have been much better.

    Seriously I want my money back. I should never have bought this game and frankly OFFENDED at the way it treats LGBTQ issues/ellie's relationship. It's an outright INSULT to the LGBTQ community.

    Harvey Milk didn't die for Anita Sarkessian to RUIN the LGBTQ movement's progress with her faux feminist -give me money- agenda.

    Side note: Metacritic keeps erroring out my response here. Are they intentionally blocking low reviews of the game?
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  66. Jun 21, 2020
    2
    ı **** hated this ending story characters and gameplay is fine but wtf wrong with this ending ı really dont understand this
  67. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The story sucks. It is like a very bad fanfiction and destroys our favorite character from the last game in the first **** hour.It is an abomination do not buy it man ( lgbt trash) Expand
  68. Jun 21, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I am so disappointed! This has nothing to do with Homophobe! The story and character development makes no sense! Expand
  69. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    Pura lacração, cagaram a história, saudades da época em que existiam heróis de fato nos games, ainda existem excessões é claro, mas atualmente é essa merd*
  70. Jun 21, 2020
    2
    They **** a perfect history of the last of us dont deserve this sequel and completely political
  71. Jun 24, 2020
    0
    Me sinto traído. last of us é sobre ellie e joel. ellie e joel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! o que esses loucos estavam pensando quando criaram essa abominação?
  72. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    If you like this game, I suggest you to go and watch the last season of Game of Thrones and the new Star Wars movies. These were made exactly for you! xd
  73. Jun 22, 2020
    0
    This is not Last of us. if you will change name i give 9 or 10. But u fooling people with false advertisement.
  74. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Gays gays gays gays Gays gays gays gaysGays gays gays gaysGays gays gays gays Gays gays gays gaysGays gays gays gaysGays gays gays gays Gays gays gays gaysGays gays gays gaysGays gays gays gays Gays gays gays gaysGays gays gays gays Expand
  75. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. La historia está muy forzada con estupideces cómo lo de tocar la guitarra para que al final no tenga dedos para tocar o matar al protagonista por qué dice su nombre Expand
  76. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    7 largos años para que nos den esta porqueria de juego. y no, el juego NO es bueno. Es increible que exista gente que defienda lo indefendible. la historia escupe en los personajes principales y destruye lo que tanto trabajo les costo crear con el primer juego. no queda mas que pensar que este juego nunca existio y seguir con nuestra vida.
  77. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    The story sucks! The gameplay is ok but tue story is bad. This is a shame with the first game story line really a shame
  78. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    I can't believe that I waited many years to see a continuation and in the beginning they kill the most beloved character in the game. and without giving a story behind the characters. Basically the problem is the story of the characters and the bumps in the story. a shame to have to spend money for a memorable game and see how a big one falls
  79. Jun 21, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Beautiful graphics and the sound engineers did an good job bring that chilling clicking sound that I loved in the first game. But sadly, this game is more sit, watch and listen to what the developers message of ‘story’ is. Characters are tossed away like small trash and you feel forced to continue since what you can about is teased in doses. Lackluster and honestly disappointed in the game. Expand
  80. Jun 25, 2020
    0
    A game made for NeoMarxism basement players 7 years for this?? Im all about the story in games and thats what makes them amazing and great! the first game was amazing now its big pieces of mountains of diarea poop, Gameplay was good could had been a bit better for a 7 year clone game., Graphics amazing, Sound even better. Story holy #### what a mess!! what is wrong whit you Neil DruckmannA game made for NeoMarxism basement players 7 years for this?? Im all about the story in games and thats what makes them amazing and great! the first game was amazing now its big pieces of mountains of diarea poop, Gameplay was good could had been a bit better for a 7 year clone game., Graphics amazing, Sound even better. Story holy #### what a mess!! what is wrong whit you Neil Druckmann seriously! or did you get forced to write this mess... Heres an Idea that would had saved the company millions and maybe the company! If we could play as tommy! why you say? story wise it makes allot of sence! for that kind of a power full character to ge a big story! And forcing ppl political bs in games are a big no no! thats why this kinda stuff happens. this is just evil and sad tbh! Expand
  81. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The only good thing are the graphics The story is boring they did such a good job on the first one but it feels like theynmade this ine for the money I wanted to turn off the playstation or go play another game Dont play it Expand
  82. Jun 21, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Listen gameplay and graphics were good that's the reason why I gave it a 3 and not a 0. But the main issue with the game is how they treated some of the most beloved characters and the story telling in the game. They killed Joel off by the hands of the Abby who I never really connected with. Also not to mention the forced identity politics being shoved down your throat. Dina was one of the worscharacters in the game, she felt like a hindrance and ruin the moment for me when walking in Joel's house. The whole point of this game was revenge and guess what, you don't even get to kill abby at the end. Naughty dog have gone done the star wars route. Great visuals but terrible storyline. I hope we don't get a part 3. Expand
  83. Jun 24, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. If you are letting Abby kill Joel, you should make Abby a hot woman, because Abby is ugly as ****
    Stupid game.
    Braindead game. Ellie goes to kill Abby, and then she kills all Abby’s friend but unbind Abby? Braindead
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  84. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    Tanto tiempo esperando, para al final un resultado mucho peor que el de tlou 1.
  85. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Joel dies in the beginning, Ellis doesn't kill Abby

    Lqbt shoved down our throat
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  86. Jun 23, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I am one of the many who finished the game and was left feeling uneasy, and feeling that things are left unresolved. I can agree with all the banter about "Joel deserved better" and "This has an agenda" to a certain degree. It definitely felt like the PC culture was being jammed down my throat, and as for Joel, I'm not sure about deserved better... He murdered countless people and forsake mankind to save one girl. I am not saying I would have chosen differently. I would have made the same call, especially after losing my daughter many years before. When you murder someone there will be repercussions. Abby was one of those waves that Joel had created, and it caught up with him. You kill that many people, and you are asking for the worst possible outcome. Put all that aside, at least for this review. This game felt like a slap in the face. It felt like no one wanted to write it, or maybe there was just a lack of real story after the first one had been tied into a neat little bow for us. I do not know how much influence the Co-writer Halley Gross had, but I looked into her, and her reputation is less than impressive. She is a failed comedian, claiming it was some misplaced fear, when in reality she just isn't funny. Her writing is lack luster at best, and bringing her into the fold was a MASSIVE mistake on the studio's part. I feel that this whole stunt was like the studios and critics saying "Oh you want a sequel do you? The first wasn't enough? Well here is your **** sequel!" as if to put us in our place about craving a sequel to something as good The Last of Us. We understand that puts pressure on studios, but if this is the response we get for wanting sequels and remakes that actually do their counterparts justice, then I would rather have nothing at all. Killing Joel, and then FORCING me to play as the person who brutally beat him to death, is a **** insult to anyone who played the first game and don't even pretend like it isn't. Driving a narrative of seeing how bleak the world would be, and beating the dead horse of "revenge is bad" is just lazy writing. Showing me that my enemy has struggles too, and attempting to humanize them is just infuriating. Your counterpoint is immediately invalid, because it comes simply down to "I know my enemy has feelings, and cares, and wants, and struggles. The thing is, they killed the only thing I had left in this world, so I don't give one flying **** who or what that person is. Showing me their side of things is not going to change my mind that, that person needs to pay the piper. Just like Joel did." And then at the end you strip us of even that. This story felt lazy, and insulting all the way through. No amount of "good" gameplay will ever compensate for just throwing out good character arcs. I wish I could even give a decent review of the gameplay. I can't. It was fine enough for what it needed to accomplish, but the A.I. was piss poor. It felt like the clunky A.I. from the first game, but now even easier to sneak up on. Survivor mode was a joke. My biggest complaint... Killing animals. I have a problem with killing innocent creatures that do not have the capacity to even begin to understand the complexities of what drives man to slaughter each other with no reason or rhyme. I spent more time trying to figure out ways to NOT kill anything in parts that included animals, than doing any other thing in that game. I will give you this, you animated it and made it sound convincing. So good so, that the first time I killed a dog and heard it yelp, it made me so **** angry I turned the damn game off for the rest of the day. I had trouble justifying even turning the damn thing back on. I am disgusted with any game that includes killing innocent creatures. You couldn't even give us gameplay redeeming enough to recommend this game. Fire Neil, and absolutely fire Halley Gross. This game spit in the face of not only its fans, but in the face of its own predecessor. Next time put the goddamn pen down and think that it might be better to produce nothing than produce whatever the hell you call this. Expand
  87. Jun 21, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    the last of us is about joel and ellie their are the last of us without them it just can't be and since joel is dying there is already 1 person gone I thought ok we are now just going to play as ellie for the rest of the game but no you must play as abby that really ruins the whole game why do you play if her plays nothing on anyone cares about her the story is not right you don't feel a click with the characters it seems like some scenes are missing because then ellie sees someone get hung up and cut open and then in the next scene she's flirting with dina come on a little bit apart part 2 should just have been about ellie's uniqueness that was much better than this it's totally ruined and seriously ellie sacrificed so much to abby and then let them go so stupid
    there were a few points that I liked about the game
    1.graffics
    2. the relationship of ellie and dina
    3. the pieces that you will be playing the guitar
    4. characters that sing
    5. gameplay
    just say the story is just not true at all they ruined it by killing joel and it is not running at all gronologically this game could have been much better than this, wondering if part 3 will come and if so what about it because ellie has nothing and nobody more and i think if you dont have play the first game that you would like this because you dont have the conection whit joel and ellie
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  88. Jun 21, 2020
    1
    I have never been more saddened by playing an IP that I loved so much than by playing the last of us 2. The only reason that I loved the first last of us as much I did was the story and more than that, the relationship between Ellie and Joel and how it evolved throughout the entirety of the game. In the last of us 2, that doesn't exist. Characters like Dina are just bland and feel likeI have never been more saddened by playing an IP that I loved so much than by playing the last of us 2. The only reason that I loved the first last of us as much I did was the story and more than that, the relationship between Ellie and Joel and how it evolved throughout the entirety of the game. In the last of us 2, that doesn't exist. Characters like Dina are just bland and feel like forced additions to just advance an agenda.
    I will say that the environments and the voice acting were really beautiful. Sadly though that isn't why I wanted to play the last of us 2. I wanted more of Joel, I wanted more of Ellie. I wanted more of their chemistry. But let's just say I didn't get any of that.
    To me the end of the last of us will always be the ending of the first game.
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  89. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    Sto gioco fa proprio schifo trama pessima e solite cose ripetitive,sinceramente dopo tutti sti anni mi aspettavo qualcosa di migliore. LA GRAFICA NON FA UN GIOCO.
  90. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Don't you ever play this game! joel is beaten by abby this game is completely pointless. Expand
  91. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    Sony allowed this new 'franchise' to get hijacked and destroyed, just to promote some stupid woke agenda. Story is a disgrace. Game play is the same, no improvement. 0. Stay away..
  92. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It's a very boring game, A stupid AI is a game for oblivion, Clearly, he doesn't deserve those positive ratings that he has Expand
  93. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    It's disgusting, what you did to Ally. You destroyed her character with this ending. I hope,than your company goes bankrupt and you will never again touch to gamedev.
  94. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Lol big cums



    i find the abstraction of technology hampers the natural flow and revelation of woman's natural beauty in a healthy relationship

    look asking for nudes makes every chick worse period because it decimates and sense of class they could have developed
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  95. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Joel dies and ruins everything. Really liked his character but the game is dry and can't hold a candle to the first game. Do not buy this game unless you like being disappointed and betrayed. Expand
  96. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. A story showing blood and gore 24/7 and just having Ellie killing hundreds of people isn't depressing it's just generic, a revenge story after killing the main character we've been invested in from the previous game just for a revenge story that has no payoff isn't unique or great storytelling, a game trying to be bleak and cruel and showing the world is bad and depressing with no happy moments just to have a thematic message about revenge isn't good.

    The reason the first last of us was good was that it had positive moments to make the depressing moments, well... sadder and vise versa. It also just focused on two characters and their development, not just the thematic relevance of the character's actions. a game being bleak all the time isn't good storytelling. it's just sad for the sake of being sad and that's just dumb (and honestly, it's not even that bleak for a video game considering **** like spec ops the line and dark souls exist.)

    if every movie, game, and tv show was made just for getting emotions from people than all they would have to do is just show a young child dying from starvation or literally most things from world war 2. There is a reason fiction and reality are different and that reason is that real life is **** boring and disappointing so saying this game is like "real life" isn't a compliment it's actually an insult really. Things in fiction have to have logic behind the things that happen but in this game Sooo many contrived things happen because the dumbass who wrote this didn't care enough to put more thought into it not because it's "real"

    But honestly whoever did support this game or didn't do anything against it like boycotting it or anything else should be happy with what they've done because of them one of the most anticipated game of all time has been filled the same virus as the movies have and that's the dumb SJW mental illness and let's not be delusional now the game's industry has been going downhill for some time now but this is kinda the breaking point. The biggest franchise in the film industry like star wars has been molested by Disney and so has the same been done to the game's industry by sony and that's because we did absolutely nothing but watch as it happened. Now this game is gonna win game of the year because the reviewers were paid to suck its dick and more games are gonna follow in it's wake to the same pit hole as all the other franchises and its all because of sony, One of the biggest games company and it took a dump on all of its consumers in front of them publicly and from the looks of it, 15'000 delusional dumbasses paid for it and loved it. great...
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  97. Jun 21, 2020
    4
    Diría que es un gran juego gráficamente hablando con una muy buena jugabilidad, lamentablemente este tipo de juegos dependen mucho de una muy buena historia para que sea excelente, cosa que carece demasiado.
  98. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Nada de lo que haces tiene significado al final. Joel de repente pasa de un juego a otro de ser el más desconfiado del mundo a meterse a una casa con un grupo de extraños. A tomar por culo Expand
  99. Jun 25, 2020
    0
    Naughty Dog tell me this .. When I buy packaged food in the store, when I bring home I find that it is sour and stinks. I go to the store and they give me money back for spoiled food. How can I get a refund for your sour game? In the game, everything is bad and the plot and gameplay. Everything stinks of a spoiled product.
    And one more question. How are you going to regain the confidence
    Naughty Dog tell me this .. When I buy packaged food in the store, when I bring home I find that it is sour and stinks. I go to the store and they give me money back for spoiled food. How can I get a refund for your sour game? In the game, everything is bad and the plot and gameplay. Everything stinks of a spoiled product.
    And one more question. How are you going to regain the confidence of the players after such a spit in the faces of the fans.
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  100. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    Horrible. Gameplay is boring and monotonous. The plot is bad and uninteresting. Only the graphics is good. Do not waste your money.
Metascore
93

Universal acclaim - based on 121 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Negative: 0 out of 121
  1. Sep 13, 2020
    90
    The Last of Us Part II is the high point of the PlayStation 4. The plot is controversial, but the game is the incredibly addictive adventure of Ellie, from which it is impossible to pull away from the opening and to the very end.
  2. Sep 5, 2020
    93
    Not everyone is going to enjoy the motives of The Last of Us Part II. But if you try and manage to accept the subliminal and not so subtle messages as a fact that the world has gone awry and that people have the need to have somewhere or someone to belong to as their own way out, then... You will witness the boundaries of gaming expand. You will witness a true masterpiece.
  3. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Sep 3, 2020
    75
    If you loved the original for its great characters and well-paced story – stay away from this game. However, if you’re aching to sink into the depths of depression, or just want to cut some throats and burn some zombies – Part II will deliver. [Issue#247, p.72]