The Last of Us Part II

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  1. tqa4
    Jun 26, 2020
    6
    A good game with not revolutionary and artificially tightened gameplay.
    About the plot. A good first half, with the exception of some dialogs, but this is not important.
    The second half is more difficult in scriptingand oversaturated by the author’s attempts to forcibly feel the character of Abby. Perhaps getting rid of the many secondary characters and revealing it through a deep and    A good game with not revolutionary and artificially tightened gameplay.
    About the plot. A good first half, with the exception of some dialogs, but this is not important.
    The second half is more difficult in scriptingand oversaturated by the author’s attempts to forcibly feel the character of Abby. Perhaps getting rid of the many secondary characters and revealing it through a deep and natural storyline with Lev could have led to more empathy for Abby. But this is only an assumption.
    F*ck game journalists. F*ck homophobes and other garbage. F*ck the fanatics.    … Expand
  2. Mockingja
    Jun 26, 2020
    5
    TLOU 1 was a stunning game with some of the best storytelling, gameplay, and graphics I have ever seen. It sparked the discussion around whether video games are art. In almost all fields, TLOU 1 was revolutionary.
    However, TLOU 2 failed miserably at living up to its 7 YEAR DEVELOPMENT CYCLE and TLOU 1.
    Story: Characters die and are replaced with unlikeable ones that you can't    TLOU 1 was a stunning game with some of the best storytelling, gameplay, and graphics I have ever seen. It sparked the discussion around whether video games are art. In almost all fields, TLOU 1 was revolutionary.
    However, TLOU 2 failed miserably at living up to its 7 YEAR DEVELOPMENT CYCLE and TLOU 1.

    Story: Characters die and are replaced with unlikeable ones that you can't sympathize with.

    Gameplay: The gameplay gets repetitive after sneaking up on enemies and knifing them for the 42nd time.

    Graphics: This games one saving grace is its graphics, they are magnificent.    … Expand
  3. Marcymarc
    Jun 26, 2020
    5
    I think a lot of people are highly critical of the game because we all went in with incredibly high expectations. And on many fronts, naughty dog achieved that as it pertains to graphics, gameplay, level/sound design and acting. But no doubt, its dog **** story kind of takes you out of the experience. No, the game isn't terrible, in fact if you enjoyed playing the first game, you'llI think a lot of people are highly critical of the game because we all went in with incredibly high expectations. And on many fronts, naughty dog achieved that as it pertains to graphics, gameplay, level/sound design and acting. But no doubt, its dog **** story kind of takes you out of the experience. No, the game isn't terrible, in fact if you enjoyed playing the first game, you'll probably enjoy this one to. But the story, and particularly the ending is so dissatisfactory that it just leaves you with a bitter taste in your mouth.… Expand
  4. Lucian92
    Jun 26, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It has good graphics gameplay was OK Hated Joel dying that way hate abby 100% Hate the ending I don't see them making a last of us 3… Expand
  5. Nik21
    Jun 26, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This review is full of spoilers.

    First of all, there is a difference between a bad game and a game that you don't like.

    I finished the game couple of days ago so, I took a day or two to process my feelings about the whole storyline of this game I feel miserable, sad and depressed, I feel like I have a hole in my chest after finishing the game. No wonder it is facing huge criticism from the fans. I don't think this is a bad game but a game that I didn't like. It is a miserable game and that's how it was meant to be. It was meant to be divisive, it was meant to make you feel the roller coaster of emotions that you were going through throughout the game. I don't think any game has made me this miserable before and that's what this game does well.

    This game isn't perfect but just look at the Metacritic scores: 100/100. I don't get it, how?

    Also, I understand that there will always be trolls who haven't even played the game yet commenting stupid stuff calling people out in the company for pushing agendas but it is just outrageous calling your ultimate consumers incels, transphobic, homophobic, sexist bots for not liking the game.

    Now the ending it leads me in complete despair. I completely understand people who are saying it was a thrash ending. There is a loop of getting revenge, losing things, murder, getting revenge, losing more. Ellie broke the circle finally but it felt like it was too late for that and weird time to break the circle. I wanna be happy that she grew as a person but again I am miserable because she had lost everything to get that.
    Now on Abby's side of things. She was a decent character but I never ended up liking her.

    The first of half of the game when we were playing as Ellie I thought this was a 10/10 game but when we swapped to Abby I kinda lost interest I am not gonna lie ( the only time I somewhat enjoyed playing as her was when we had to defeat the rat king and WLF vs Scars battle)

    I just didn't like Abby although I understood where she was coming from.

    Like the surgeon who you mindlessly killed in the last game had a huge impact on the story, I like that tie-up. They introduced Abby at the very beginning of the game and then she kills our beloved character from the last game. The thing I don't understand is why did they think that we will ever like her?

    I felt like I couldn't sympathise with her, I understood her but I couldn't connect to her which Naughty dog desperately wanted you to.

    You built up this crazy story with Joel and Ellie and then you move into the first game and then move into the second game where you kill Joel right at the start and then you only get to play with Ellie for the first half the game and then right at the end. I didn't like that.

    I think Abby could have been a good offshoot game. A totally separate story in the same universe but don't throw her into this. Not with Ellie and Joel.
    And what is up with killing all the wonderful side characters? Now, Joel's death is particulars tough to swallow because the way he died was just not acceptable.
    The story didn't let him and Ellie explore their relationship. They just cut it off with his sudden death. Now about Joel, he is a hard & tough survivor, always on his game and not trusting people. But all of a sudden he starts acting willy nilly running to an unknown base.
    It was forced and little hard to make logic of.
    it was a tough scenario I understand like they were getting ambushed they really didn't have a choice. But still, at the same time, I wish his death meant more to Naughty dog.
    I wished there were some more things that had taken place before his death
    He was the hero of the first game and we lost him immediately.
    I appreciate the flashbacks but that does not rationalize anything.
    This is a gloomy sad miserable game that scared me and depressed me, to be honest, It was hard to play this game for an extended period because it was so dismal.

    As per the gameplay, TLOU 2 is a great survivor horror-based game. The openness, graphic, animations, cinematography, verticality and mechanics.
    What else can we expect from a 2020 game?

    Verdict: After 7 years of wait, I was not expecting this cruelty. I don't know why Naughty dog couldn't give us what we wanted after waiting for this long.
    Imagine how bad the Naughty dog team must be feeling who have worked hard for 7 years and facing such backlash just because of a dimwit named Neil Druckman.

    Misleading trailers, editing stills, desperate attempts to lure people in. Very petty and shallow marketing tactics I would say. You already have a massive fan base why would you do that?
    Injustice was done to Joel, Ellie and the fans.
    The rage is rage and criticism is justified according to me.
    Abby geta a clean slate whereas Ellie lost everything including her 2 fingers. Farewell to her guitar skills.

    My Rating 5/10 (for the hardworking people behind it)    … Expand
  6. GiruAfc
    Jun 26, 2020
    5
    A nivel de mecánicas y arte el juego es una joya
    La historia es simplemente mediocre por no decir que peor aburrido y con mas relleno que Naruto Un juego no solo es bueno por verse bonito
  7. Mosilaco
    Jun 26, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. el juego se salva por las mecanicas aunque sea dos cosas que le añadieron,(esquivar, tumbarse), los graficos y la musica es imcreible, pero la historia tenia un gran peso, me encanta ellie y es a la unica persona que queria , pero me obligaron 7 horas de juego con un personaje que no pedí y no me interesaba , no me conectaba con este personaje llamado abby y no me dieron la posibilidad de matarla, dejarme al menos una opcion para matarla o dejarla vivir por decision del jugador, me desepciono the game is saved by the mechanics even if it is two things that were added to it, (dodge, lie down), the graphics and the music is unbelievable, but the story had a great weight, I love ellie and she is the only person I wanted, but They forced me 7 hours of play with a character that I did not ask for and I was not interested in, I did not connect with this character called abby and they did not give me the possibility to kill her, leave me at least one option to kill her or let her live by decision of the player, I I disappoint
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  8. tombot403
    Jun 26, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. TLDR @ the bottom.

    The original Last of Us released 7 years ago when I was at the age of 14, it has always been regarded as the best game that I have ever played due to it's story telling, world building, sound design, character development, and graphics. So heading into The Last of Us Part 2, I had high expectations of course, Naughty Dog was well established as a amazing game development company that is always pushing the envelope. So heading into the game I was completely left in the dark, I did not watch reviews, or check out any of the story spoilers.

    The Last of Us Part 2 continues to push boundaries in regards to the graphics, sound design and overall immersiveness but it falls flat on it's story telling. When entering Seattle and taking in the level designs it's absolutely gorgeous how the game looks, and how it presents itself overall. The first half of the game keeps you captivated, it was absolutely amazing to play as Ellie again. You come to understand a lot more about Ellie and what happened during the years between the first game and the second game. Just as we hit the climax however, the story stops completely and begins the second half of the game. It kills all momentum from the first half and I felt the need to speed past this section of the game so I continue on the Ellie's story.

    Abby's section felt slow, I wasn't really invested into her story, mostly because I more invested in Ellie due to the first game. Now I'm not sure if this is the games problem, or a me problem, I just could not get into Abby's story emotionally. I feel like it's partially due to how she is shown during the first act of the story. We see her as cold, and brutal, and then the game tries to make us sympathize with her. I believe if they showed her flashbacks and story first and then Ellie's we would have come to understand her more. I don't hate her story, I just dislike how she is portrayed.

    I don't hate the game, I find it enjoyable at times and really amazing in a lot aspects, if Naughty Dog's aim was to make you feel a roller-coaster of emotions, I'd say they did it. A lot of people like this game, and a lot of people hate it, I think the best course of action is to experience it yourself, wither that through playing the game(would wait for a sale) or watching someone play. You make like it, you may hate it, or maybe find it okay, I personally find the game okay, it's a not a bad game, but it's not a good game. It's an okay game. It definitely does not deserve a 0/10, but it does not desire a 10/10.

    Ratings:
    Graphics: 10/10
    Sound: 10/10
    Level Design: 10/10
    Gameplay: 10/10
    Story: 2/10

    TLDR: Game is not bad, it's not good, it's okay.    … Expand
  9. Mokoloco
    Jun 26, 2020
    5
    I had such high hopes when i first bought it. I have successfully evaded the spoilers of the game when they were leaked however i feel as if i should've seen those before buying the game. The story is an utter mess which is the MOST important part of the game. How can you mess up a STORY based game while throwing that STORY in the garbage.

    What is annoying me too is HOW they handled    I had such high hopes when i first bought it. I have successfully evaded the spoilers of the game when they were leaked however i feel as if i should've seen those before buying the game. The story is an utter mess which is the MOST important part of the game. How can you mess up a STORY based game while throwing that STORY in the garbage.

    What is annoying me too is HOW they handled some characters. Characters that suddenly do stuff they did the opposite of in the first game MAKES NO sense. How are you able to mess up characters like that? There is a short * Tasteful Scene* in the game which nearly lead me to STOP playing the game because of how utterly disgusting it was. The end is so bad it questions you why the heck you played the game to get such a dumb ending.

    Gameplay: is good if you like the ctrl+c - ctrl+v from the first one with some small changes. This however was not good enough for me. Too easy to do certainly when you had so many years of development!
    Graphics and the Level design: The Graphics are gorgeous and the levels are very well made.
    Animations: The animations are really well done
    Music: Excellent music.    … Expand
  10. Hexereye
    Jun 26, 2020
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. SPOILER REVIEW:

    The game started very good. When Joel died i had my first "i dont wanna continue" feeling. I was over that a few hours later because i was focused to kill Joels Killers. Ellie Gameplay was really good and i enjoyed it. I looted everything, killed all people quiet and tried to explore everything. THEN the part where Jesse dies.. Everything fine... she found us.. whats gonna happen... 4 YEARS EARLIER. HERE IS ABBYS BACKSTORY. I was so disappointed at this moment and then i looked up in the internet that i have to play as ABBY FOR 10+ HOURS. OMFG. I immediately was dead inside. I hated her so much, not just because she killed Joel. So i fuc...ing rushed through her part, i didnt loot, i didnt kill people... i just tried to run through and continue the story. It was a PAIN......... So until now we have 2 Gamebreaking things. 1. Joels death. 2. 10+Hours abby. Now the real **** is happening. When you are at the Theatre as Abby, YOU HAVE TO FIGHT ELLIE AND KNOCK HER DOWN. LIKE WTF????? That was so bad to watch and just stupid. I didnt care for Tommy tbh... So we are at 3 MAJOR Disappointments... THEN we play as Ellie again. I slowly recover, playing as her is fun, no matter what she does. She wanna find Abby and kill her. She goes through that town and it is SO FUN TO PLAY HER AGAIN. and now the NECK BREAKING for us Players. SHE DOESNT EVEN KILL HER AT THE END. I MEAN LIKE WTF    … Expand
  11. SamiiDaisuki
    Jun 26, 2020
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. El juego no se merece las críticas tan negativas que tiene, algunas simplemente sobre cosas muy banales.
    El juego es bueno, aunque es tedioso que tenga tantas horas de gameplay, tampoco me agrada la idea de que me obliguen a jugar con un personaje que me cae pésimo, sólo para intentar empatizar con él. La jugabilidad está anticuada, pero los gráficos son fantásticos, y la historia estará mal narrada para quienes simplemente se pongan a jugar, y no presten atención ni quieran analizar el por qué de cada acción. Podría estar mejor narrada, y desarrollada para esos jugadores casuales.
    Comparando este juego con la primera parte, claramente es un mal TLOU, pero no es un mal juego.    … Expand
  12. SpaghettoInc
    Jun 26, 2020
    7
    Gameplay was pretty fun for the most part. Could get a little clunky at times but nothing unforgivable. Some really cool action sequence in the back half.

    Despite the controversy regarding the story I thought it was fine. Not great by any means but not nearly the tragity people are making it out to be. My main issue with this game is the pacing. You play through a good portion of the    Gameplay was pretty fun for the most part. Could get a little clunky at times but nothing unforgivable. Some really cool action sequence in the back half.

    Despite the controversy regarding the story I thought it was fine. Not great by any means but not nearly the tragity people are making it out to be.

    My main issue with this game is the pacing. You play through a good portion of the game as Ellie, investing time and interest into her story, then when it seems the story is coming to a climax you're forced to switch characters to a person you've grown to hate. And honestly, I have absolutely no problem with the writing in Abby's story at all. I don't hate they made me play as Abby. I hate that they made me run through the vast majority of the main conflict as Ellie and when **** finally starts to hit the fan they blueballed me and simultaneously ruins the pacing and momentum the story has been building up to. Mildy annoyed you're left with a half chub from the impending climax, you have no choice but to hate Abby when you start down her story path.
    And the writers really didn't do her any favors. The first few hours playing as Abby do absolutely nothing to help redeem her in the players eyes. In reality it just drives that nail of hatred further into your big toenail making you want to run through her story at lightspeed. And when you intentonally compel the player to not care about, or empathize with the character they've been made to take control of, players don't give too **** if Abby redeems herself. You just want to zoom through her story and see how the standoff plays out. Much like an unwanted step-father's attention; it just feels forced.

    Now I will say that even though Abby's story gives her some surface level redemption, what really made me come around was how fun the gameplay was towards the end of Abby's story.

    You beat some **** ass as Abby. You have some really amazing visuals climbing the skyscraper bridge. And some amazing gameplay featuring action sequences which is mostly lacking from the first half of the game. That is solely where her redemption comes from in my opinion and allowed me to finally connect with her as a character.

    Conclusion: With great gameplay, stunning environments, and generally a pretty decent story with fleshed out characters; the real thing holding this game back from being great is, what I can only assume, artistic liberties/choices taken by the games director. The choice to switch to Abby when he did instead of switching periodically just completely stops all the momentum and tension the story has going for it. "Is Ellie finally going to get this ****

    "Will the people of Jackson get vengeance for Joel's brutal murder on their own turf?"

    "Can Ellie find a way to forgive Joel for robbing her of a sense of meaning from her life?" "Will Abby get bent over a desk by some guy that died 6 hours ago?!?!?"

    These are the questions I found myself asking instead of paying attention to what was supposed to humanize an otherwise ****ty person.

    ENDING: I've seen a lot or people upset that Ellie doesn't kill Abby in the end. Personally I thought it was fine she opted to not kill Abby. Did I think Abby deserved to die? Yes. Did I want her to die? You **** bet, bud.

    The entire duration of Ellie's gameplay we only get flashbacks of Joel where he's painted in a terrible light. (Outside of the museum memory) But finally when we are about to turn that **** Abby's lights out for good we get a flash to a memory of Joel. One where he's not bleeding out on the floor. Or an uncomfortable conversation. We get a flash to a memory of forgiveness. We finally see Joel in a good light, and that's what made me okay with Ellie not finishing the job. Finaly thoughts: This game could have been an easy 9/10 with better direction. So in my opinion its Neil that's to blame for the Lukewarm experience.

    7/10    … Expand
  13. JWAY21
    Jun 27, 2020
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. My main issue with this game is some parts being very good, 10/10 even, and others being so unbelievably bad it almost makes you turn the game off. Naughty Dog did an excellent job in a bunch of different aspects, but ultimately failed in the most important one. I want to be clear, I do not hate the story, but i did not love it. I expected Joel to die and so did a lot of fans, and I don’t believe Joel was acting “out of character” for trusting Abby and her people. He had been in a trusting town for 4+ years and if you read the log book, they clearly try to help out whoever they can. However, the way Abby is set up simply makes it almost impossible to like or empathize with her. Joel was simply too beloved to be killed off like he was some NPC. And the fact that I had to play with his killer for 10-12+ hours was criminal. I don’t mind her being a playable character for a short amount (maybe 5-6 hours), but fans were told Ellie would be the only playable character by Druckmann himself so that was a slap in the face. Abby is also just a pretty **** person, the game tries to show you some good things she’s done to make you change your mind but Mel hit the nail on the head when she was **** her out. Naughty Dog also tried to make Ellie very unlikeable. They force you to do horrible things as her then judge you for it when you play as Abby (killing her dog for example). However, I actually really liked most of the new side characters; Dina and Jesse were great, and I think Abby’s crew had some bright spots as well. The acting in this game was some of the best i have ever seen, even with the subpar script they were given. Ashley Johnson absolutely killed it in every single scene. The facial expressions and animations are easily the best i’ve seen in a video game. The same thing can be said about the graphics, sound and music. The world Naughty Dog built and brought to life in this game is absolutely breathtaking, i found myself stopping and just admiring it regularly throughout the game. I have never felt this immersed in a game other than the first installment in this series. I’ve seen some complaints about how the gameplay hasn’t evolved at all since the last game and I don’t necessarily agree with that. While the core aspects of the gameplay may be the same even small additions like prone, dodge, and a knife that doesn’t break every time you use it give you so many more options on how to tackle each level. The puzzles in this game were your typical Naughty Dog puzzles. Not an extreme variety, you’ll get a few dumpsters and some ropes and a few secret entrances. TLOU will never blow you away with their puzzles. This game is rather easy to get lost in, however. Admittedly, I needed the hint feature to pop up on the screen a few times. The enemies in Part 2 suffer from
    the same thing they did in the first game: repetition. There isn’t much to say about this, you just fight the same 5 things the entire game, and most of them can be taken out with the same strategy. Human AI is still incredibly dumb with extremely narrow fields of vision. Dogs were a neat addition but ultimately very easy to counter. Overall, i rate this game a 7/10 with the cons being a bad set up for one of the protagonists, Joel dying way too early in the game, the way he died, drawn out sections of the game, repetitive enemies and lazy writing. The pros of this game are the graphics, acting, animation, sound, music, and level design. The story for the game as a whole falls somewhere in between pros and cons.    … Expand
  14. Seahawks12
    Jun 26, 2020
    7
    Ia y animaciones mejoradas , da gusto verlo y pelear , gráficos no va mas alla de lo ultimo que vemos.
    Historia muy forzada , diria que es otro juego , que no tendría que ver nada con el 1 muy forzada el cambio a los personajes , le pifiaste duro neil.
    Historia bueno sin palabras
  15. sungkha
    Jun 27, 2020
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Setting aside my review not as a fan but a writer. Like many of us, I understand the grief to have lost one of our most beloved character. Joel set us up on a emotional roller coaster that delivered such a beautiful ending in TLOU part 1. As much as I would like to give this story a negative review I truly believe the narrative is remarkable. Yet there is no redemption in vengeance.

    The ending left me with one question.. How am I supposed to feel?

    Ellie didn't grow from her experience, she simply.. Lost it all. Abby lost her father and all of her friends, yet she continued to suffer. Both characters showed emotional and heavy losses throughout the game but none of these characters were able to grow from their experiences. The game is an emotional wreck and the constant shifts of characters eluded any real meaning that could've made for a more or better less, redemption story.

    Beside the death of Joel the only other part of the game that I got emotional on was seeing a malnourished Abby. Only then did I feel for her character knowing that both characters suffered so much. Because of vengeance? To find justice? We're rewarded with nothing but grief.

    I feel pity for both of these character.    … Expand
  16. Ellan394
    Jun 27, 2020
    6
    I loved the first game. It is probably one of my favourites of all time and I've played it maybe 6 or 7 times. I also watch playthroughs of it quite a lot while I work. I was even going to get a tattoo of it. Part 2's gameplay, graphics and cast are excelent. Best gameplay I've every played. So amazing seeing different people and lgbtq represented. However the story is not good. It feelsI loved the first game. It is probably one of my favourites of all time and I've played it maybe 6 or 7 times. I also watch playthroughs of it quite a lot while I work. I was even going to get a tattoo of it. Part 2's gameplay, graphics and cast are excelent. Best gameplay I've every played. So amazing seeing different people and lgbtq represented. However the story is not good. It feels to me like they were trying to subvert expectations so hard that they lost sight of what the players actually liked about the first game. The story manages to be so slow, yet you feel rushed during certain areas. It's a very simple concept story wise, however it can come accross as lazy and boring. If they wanted to do the revenge anger story line there were other ways to do it that didn't involve THAT scene, but that's my personal opinion. You can tell in certain areas where they are trying so hard to make you feel something for certain characters, which spoils it. They give other characters better weapons and upgrades, just so as you'll enjoy playing as them more. Towards the end it felt too jumpy story wise. What was good about the first game was it only time jumped through seasons and the very start, however I feel like they made left behind, and because it did well, they decided to use that formula. However it doesn't work as well here, it's just so jumpy through many different times that it's messy and disorientating. I am honestly so disappointed. I think there's a way to respect what the players wanted and not pander to them, however this wasn't it. But subverting expectation so badly and so much it feels like a Game of thrones season 8 catastrophe. Naughty dog seems to always hit stories out of the park but this one was a miss for me. I'm so gutted.… Expand
  17. sakurarami
    Jun 27, 2020
    5
    Good game play, Amazing music and graphics
    Story plots poorly arranged. A waste of the previous story.
  18. AlexandrosBaits
    Jun 27, 2020
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I actually quite enjoyed this game. The graphics and mechanics of this game are probably the best I’ve ever played and seen. The story itself had a good concept, however some of the story dragged on for way too long, which made me lose interest quite quickly. My favourite thing for me about this game, in terms of story, had to be the fact Ellie was left by everyone at the end due to only wanting revenge and not thinking about any of her other friends. Due to her fingers getting bitten off at the end she couldn’t play guitar, which is meant to represent Joel and Cos of that she leaves the guitar and her memories of Joel behind.

    However my favourite thing about this game for me was the soundtrack. Oh my god it’s probably the best I’ve ever heard for a game with how dynamic and how well suited it is to the different environments!

    I’d rate this game a 7/10    … Expand
  19. Immutabletoe47
    Jun 27, 2020
    7
    The last of us 2 is a solid game with an interesting story. If not for the game being a sequel to one of the greatest PlayStation games of all time the game would not have received the backlash it did. It is understandable why people don’t like the game. Some characters deaths feel rushed and the ending leave you with many questions.
  20. GauravCOOL
    Jun 27, 2020
    7
    Was not expecting this type of story , but gameplay , music , graphics are awesome. Disappointed by story.
  21. karia2k
    Jun 27, 2020
    5
    After finishing The Last Of Us, I was so eager to continue playing that story. I could barely wait for a sequel. After finishing The Last Of Us Part II I feel no need for a continuation, because I honestly don't care about that story anymore. Unfortunately for us, it took a direction that was mostly about impact and 'cringeness' than actually the great storytelling that the original had.After finishing The Last Of Us, I was so eager to continue playing that story. I could barely wait for a sequel. After finishing The Last Of Us Part II I feel no need for a continuation, because I honestly don't care about that story anymore. Unfortunately for us, it took a direction that was mostly about impact and 'cringeness' than actually the great storytelling that the original had. The new characters feel empty and uninteresting, I literally don't care about any of them. Disappointing.… Expand
  22. HectorRamirez
    Jun 27, 2020
    7
    Es una montaña rusa de emociones, la cual te intenta dejar un mensaje y una lección. Simplemente buen juego
  23. Gumnouliss
    Jun 27, 2020
    5
    Great game with unbelievable graphics,and for those of you who haven't played even the game and you just rating it with a 2 you are pathetic,because you haven't even tried it to see how much effort naughty dog put into this game which we were waiting so hyped for 7 years and although joel is dead and they placed LGBT characters in the game doesn't make the game unplayable or either bad,itGreat game with unbelievable graphics,and for those of you who haven't played even the game and you just rating it with a 2 you are pathetic,because you haven't even tried it to see how much effort naughty dog put into this game which we were waiting so hyped for 7 years and although joel is dead and they placed LGBT characters in the game doesn't make the game unplayable or either bad,it just makes it different,and that they worked 7 years for this game for us to enjoy it and some of you are treating it like its **** its horrible for the community.
    But still amazing work naughty dog,keep up the great work you do on the games we love to see and play.    … Expand
  24. Katchaw
    Jun 27, 2020
    6
    #PORTUGUEASE

    Logo de cara, gráficos muito bons, nesse aspeto foi 10/10. Contudo, estragaram completamente a história. Não diria que o problema foi terem forçado um relacionamento homossexual, que não apresentava nenhuma química, mas sim terem forçado a ideia de empatia pelo outro, mesmo que o outro tenha matado quem amávamos. A personagem Abby foi pessimamente apresentada apesar da    #PORTUGUEASE

    Logo de cara, gráficos muito bons, nesse aspeto foi 10/10. Contudo, estragaram completamente a história. Não diria que o problema foi terem forçado um relacionamento homossexual, que não apresentava nenhuma química, mas sim terem forçado a ideia de empatia pelo outro, mesmo que o outro tenha matado quem amávamos. A personagem Abby foi pessimamente apresentada apesar da gameplay com ela não ter sido má de todo.

    Se o jogo tivesse tido mais diálogo entre os personagens e tivesse dado um motivo à Ellie de perceber que não valeria mais a pena procurar por vingança ,aí teríamos tido empatia, mas não, preferiram deixar que ela perdesse tudo que amava.    … Expand
  25. TheLethalKing
    Jun 27, 2020
    7
    overall good game. gameplay is superb and graphics are breath taking. story is convoluted and at some points confusing but overall passable
  26. Domlock123
    Jun 27, 2020
    7
    O jogo traz uma nova experiência com novas sensações! Você sente ódio amor raiva ao todo momento do game, porém, devido a certas escolhas da narrativa o jogo deixa a desejar.
  27. Micunplug
    Jun 27, 2020
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The game was great if you look at it for what it is, visually gorgeous. Similar to the first one!
    I think myself and everyone else are very upset at the decision to kill a character we waited 7 years to play again. In the first 2 hours. Then force us to play a character we do not care about for most of the game?! Almost as much as Ellie     … Expand
  28. Bosroid13
    Jun 27, 2020
    7
    Perfect., .............................................................., .
  29. DeathGu
    Jun 27, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. O jogo não é ruim mas ficou muito forçado o relacionamento da Ellie só para poder agradar a comunidade LGBT+, o desenvolvimento das duas foi muito raso e superficial, alem de ser muito sem lógica a morte do Joel, pareceu que não conseguiam pensar em uma maneira melhor para fazer uma continuação, o que é uma pena pois o primeiro é uma obra prima.… Expand
  30. Cyb092
    Jun 27, 2020
    7
    This game is not as bad as everyone says it is, but it isn't perfect. It is really boring at points, especially in the second half. The combat didn't change much other than the fact you can dodge and go prone. The story was fine, but pretty bad for a Last of Us sequel. The graphics are incredible. Story - 5/10. Gameplay - 7/10. Graphics- 10/10.
  31. The_Great_Foma
    Jun 27, 2020
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I believe that the game is not bad. Personally, I liked it.
    But! But there are some issues that I put 7/10 on.
    (1) JOEL'S DEATH. Yes, it is terrible and because of this already disappears some desire to play. I don't mind such a strong plot twist. BUT... but not at the beginning of the game! In the end, it would be better or better in the middle of the game, so that the emotions are stronger bursting. Well, also because of his death, there is a lack of a charismatic companion, because Dina is no good as a companion.
    (2) the PLOT. There are a few quibbles at this point:
    1) Trusting Joel and Tommy to strangers (Abby's company).
    2) The final game. Ellie was killing everyone in her path to kill Abby, and she stopped at the last moment. Of course, it could be put down to her comparing herself and Joel to Abby and the Lion. But **** This is such nonsense.
    3) the Storyline behind Abby. Yes, this is an interesting move to tell the motivation of the enemy. BUT it was so boring to play for her. But in places it was really interesting to watch. But other than that, it was boring, and honestly, I didn't give a **** Since I was more interested in watching Ellie's story. We would have done two hours of gameplay for it and everything is OK.
    (3) LGBT. I have nothing against LGBT people. As if who wants who and... Well, you understand. But the game is really too much with this theme. Sometimes there are moments where it was possible not to insert. And with friends noticed that the game has a lot of enemies NPC women.
    Well, the graphics and development in the game are great. I liked that we added the ability to crawl and jump over obstacles. I also liked the weapons in the game.
    Well, in the end, I liked the game, I got a lot of emotions from it, which made my mouth open in shock, and I can even say that I got a lot of sad emotions from the game, too. Especially after the final game, I couldn't sleep for two hours after that. But TLOU 1 will still be better.
    P.S. it is Better to take the game when there are discounts.    … Expand
  32. Hoggie
    Jun 27, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Quite enjoyable game but absolutely **** on the first game. Poorly executed story, boring playable character.… Expand
  33. MikyBro
    Jun 27, 2020
    7
    Trama noiosa e insensata, già il fatto che joel all inizio muoia fidandosi di abby non ha senso stessa cosa il finale, c e ellie smette di uccidere abby perche pensa a joel?!? Tralaltro il finale lascia supporre l uscita di 3... dovrò aspettare altri 7 anni per un altra cagata del genere?
  34. Cheezecake21
    Jun 27, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Good graphics(but every game is gonna have that soon), same gamplay as the first one with just a little more, nice animations, strange choices that have little to no explanation, absolutely horrible story, almost all the characters are unlikable, to long, and a horrible ending.… Expand
  35. Imagineum
    Jun 27, 2020
    6
    - Improved on the visceral weighty combat of its predecessor while reducing the frequency of daft puzzle sections. Loved it.

    - Second best looking game this console generation - right behind Horizon Zero Dawn.

    - The game tells a message instead of a story. Heartbreaking is the word- in a multitude of ways.
  36. Shinosaru
    Jun 27, 2020
    7
    I am not sure why people are giving this a 10 when this is about a 7 at best. While the graphics and audio are very good (I played mine on a PS4 Pro with headphones) the story I feel is not as good as the first with even parts that just don;t flat out make sense at all. There were actually times when I was literally laughing out loud at how absurd the game was getting and my wife wasI am not sure why people are giving this a 10 when this is about a 7 at best. While the graphics and audio are very good (I played mine on a PS4 Pro with headphones) the story I feel is not as good as the first with even parts that just don;t flat out make sense at all. There were actually times when I was literally laughing out loud at how absurd the game was getting and my wife was laughing too. In addition, the number of glitches and bugs I found on the sad side. I found one bug that had me actually stuck in a prone position in a truck and I couldn't get out without restarting the game. I found other bugs like infected stuck in the environment and not reacting to sound at all. There was one where i was told to lure the infected out with noise, nothing worked so i had to navigate while looking through a scope to find the infected i was missing. Real fun "rolls eyes". I really find it hard to believe that anyone who is giving this a 10 has played through the 2nd half of the game never mind the whole thing. Here is an example of a non spoiler issue LOL. There is a fence. Character says I need to find my way around. In front of the fence is a garbage can that if the game allowed you to, you could just climb on the garbage can and hop over the fence. There are quite a few of these moments in the game when you are scratching your head saying, "Why would they have me do this when i can just go right there?" I understand the whole suspend belief thing, but when my wife and I are actually laughing...

    is the game worth playing? Yes. I think they put a lot of time and effort into the game. As I am familiar with the area in the first part of the game, they did take some liberties ;) If you can overlook a lot of the silliness in the game (I think the general premise of this game was built around a silly idea) it is a pretty interesting game. I am playing it on hard and while the game mentions there are a lot less supplies, I never found myself running out of ammo or resources.    … Expand
  37. h_becvvi
    Jun 27, 2020
    6
    I was so excited for this game (just like everybody else), but at the end i am just... disappointed. They took everythink that we loved at the first game ant threw it into a trashcan.

    The gameplay is great. AI is pretty intelligent and more dangerous and allies are actually helpful. Graphics are excellent, the amount of details are really impressive and animations are at the next    I was so excited for this game (just like everybody else), but at the end i am just... disappointed. They took everythink that we loved at the first game ant threw it into a trashcan.

    The gameplay is great. AI is pretty intelligent and more dangerous and allies are actually helpful.
    Graphics are excellent, the amount of details are really impressive and animations are at the next level.

    That whole think with custom difficulty and controls is pretty nice. And if you have some kind of health issues like blindness or so, you can still play it and i think that is good step forward not only for Naughty Dog, but for whole game industry.

    But at the other hand there is a story and story is a VERY big part of The last of us.
    From the beginning i thought it's not that bad even though the "golf part" (even it came earlier then every fan expected). But later they just made you do something in the cutscene and wanted you to feel guilty for this and later it just seemed like they're incriminating Ellie for what she did and they where putting this new character in front of her.
    We all know that Ellie isn't the only playable character (even though Neil said otherwise before the release), but the other character is completely new, and i think that we played as Abby (new character) for too long and that was unnecessary.

    i didn't bought this game because I wanted story of new good-bad character and little bit of angry Ellie, i bought this game because i wanted to see how Ellies and Joels relationship went after the events of the first game and how they continued in they journey and maybe some new characters, but not in the way they would throw a shadow over the main protagonist from first The last of us.
    I know that Neil wanted to do first game more like Joels story and the second game do more like Ellies story, but it come out as Ellies and Abbys story and as i said, it was unnecessary.

    The way they putted the story really broke my heart and i know that Neil can do better...    … Expand
  38. FuzzReviews
    Jun 27, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I don’t know what to think about this game. The gameplay is comprised of tense stealth segments and brutal shooting and melee combat. The stealth is still as tense and nerve-wracking as it is in the first game and there are minimal changes to combat besides some improved gore, animations and a dodge button.
    The guns still feel clunky and hard to aim, the controls still trapped in 2013, whereas the combat feels realistic and as brutal as the developers intended, giving perfect feedback to the weight of the weapons and force of the hits through vibrations in the DualShock controller. Human enemies cry out the names of their fallen companions and the dying cries of the people you mercilessly slaughter make you question why you’re killing them. The gameplay is essentially the same, for better or for worse, with some minor tweaks and improvements. I personally think it works perfectly to create intense action set-pieces (like the car chase or the melee fights with the beefy seraphites) and highly tense stealth segments.

    The environments are absolutely stunning, with nature engulfing the urban landscapes even more so than in the first game. The contrast of the grey buildings of Seattle and the green foliage and the harsh sounds of the rushing rivers creates a post-apocalyptic setting unlike any other. The lighting is phenomenal, with rays shining through windows and reflecting off of surfaces in realistic ways. All of this makes for a fantastic world that feels amazing to explore for the game’s 25 hour run time. The story however, feels confused and is riddled with plot-holes and inconsistencies. The story follows Ellie on a revenge plot, after Joel is murdered in front of her by Abby ( another playable character). The first 10 or so hours of the story were enjoyable, well paced and concise including new companion characters who I believe to have depth and be believable. Ellie however, does not respond to situations as she did in the first game. While this could be representative of the grief Ellie feels controlling and twisting her choices and decision making, I feel as though she makes incredibly poor choices that had me sighing or even laughing at times. At what seems to be climax of Ellie’s story, the player is given control of Abby for around 10 hours. This idea seems interesting and nuanced but feels far too long and somewhat frustrating as it cuts off Ellie’s story abruptly. Abby’s story attempts to create guilt in the player, showing that everyone suffers loss and grief in the cruel world of The Last of Us. While this story is rather effective at humanising the antagonist of Ellie’s campaign, showing the reason she killed Joel and her compassion for others, it feels misplaced and ill-paced. Perhaps if it was incorporated earlier or split into smaller gameplay segments it would help the stale flow that the middle part of the story suffers from. The ending of the story is not one I expected, but one I feel is nuanced and unique. It challenges what the player would expect from an ending in a story like this, challenging the morality of every decision Ellie (and the player) has made and how warped her intentions have become due to grief. While many players will feel frustrated or dissatisfied by the ending, I feel as though it provokes an interesting thought process. While the gameplay is perfectly brutal with intense gore and fantastic animations, the story feels muddled, deconstructing characters we loved from the first game and including an overly long segment following characters the player will most probably hate, yet it does have some shining moments of genuinely great story telling and narrative. While it’s certainly not for everyone, I’m sure many people will thoroughly enjoy this game. My recommendation is to play the first game, the left behind dlc and only play the sequel if you adore the gameplay of the first game enough to redeem the clumsy plot.    … Expand
  39. Jma3res
    Jun 27, 2020
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The game starts bad and it's boring and sucks until you kill Nora. Once you kill her, it becomes better and better until they decided to make the game longer without reason after Dina become mother. After that, it's the same, all its the same and it's just get boring, you want it to finish it. The game by itself it's good but as a sequel of TLOU2 it's sucks and the way many situations and characters are introduced are too sucks. Life is Strange is way better in this part.… Expand
  40. Wall-Ethan
    Jun 27, 2020
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The game is beautiful on the technical side. Stunning visuals, some atmospheric audio, decent gameplay mechanics, a mesmerising world to explore, the likes.
    But the story...
    Oh boy the story.
    At first i was totally on board, but they tried to fit way too much exposition and side story into an already long game.    … Expand
  41. TheJello
    Jun 27, 2020
    6
    Im going to be as fair as possible, semi spoiler-ish. This game was BEYOND beautiful in the way of graphics, actually a masterpiece 100%. The story has some moments that almost push you to an emotional response that coulda made this a positive review. All in all had the game been more about relations and the complexity behind such relationships they woulda succeeded on yet another masterIm going to be as fair as possible, semi spoiler-ish. This game was BEYOND beautiful in the way of graphics, actually a masterpiece 100%. The story has some moments that almost push you to an emotional response that coulda made this a positive review. All in all had the game been more about relations and the complexity behind such relationships they woulda succeeded on yet another master class game. The part that makes this half bad however is the stuff that ignores humans and our complexity and decides to focus heavily on human decisions. While decisions are a part of human complexity, and even something worth dwelling on they decide that the focus will be on decisions that affect themselves(such as someone preferring to be a boy, or individual sexuality) the reason this eats the games strong narrative is that those are personal decisions and don't make anyone harbor care for an individual. For an example, instead of trying to make people feel bad for someone not being excepted for being gay you should just focus on the decisions they made to make them seem cast out, like cutting hair or getting a tattoo that makes the city hate you... i digress. Basically TLOU succeeded so well because we weren't intentionally focused on joel selfishly choosing to having feelings he found a replacement for his daughter in ellie thus saving her at the end in a decision that you come to believe was morally wrong but understandable. This game is different and i just wish it showed more complexity not personal agendas.… Expand
  42. edkendals
    Jun 27, 2020
    7
    Just finished my second play through of the game. I would have originally rated it a 4 but the second play through opened my eyes to a lot of stuff and helped me see what naughty dog was trying to do. Still I absolutely dont agree with everything they were going for and I didn’t feel everything they wanted me to feel. Still I have never had a piece of media (movie or game) make me feel theJust finished my second play through of the game. I would have originally rated it a 4 but the second play through opened my eyes to a lot of stuff and helped me see what naughty dog was trying to do. Still I absolutely dont agree with everything they were going for and I didn’t feel everything they wanted me to feel. Still I have never had a piece of media (movie or game) make me feel the emotions I felt through out the game but especially the ending. It took several days and a complete second play through to in pack it all. This is an extremely intense experience and in my humble opinion is a must play if you enjoy dark and gloomy stories. Not a 10, not a 0. Definitely not for everyone.… Expand
  43. MrDeftino
    Jun 27, 2020
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Writing this review after finishing the game moments ago. After 30h ish of game time, I can say that I enjoyed most of it, but feel like Druckmann and Naughty Dog owe me a few hours back.

    Story
    What I loved about the first game was that it was relatively unique within the zombie survival-horror genre. The zombies themselves were unique, Joel and Ellie had a refreshing dynamic you don't see too often, and the "I'm immune" storyline was told in a new way and went in a direction I didn't expect, which ended up being the main event that serves as the heartbeat of this game. The Last of Us Part 2 has a story that took me 30 hours to beat, but got its message across within 10. After that, when you're reading between the lines you're often thinking "I know... you said that already... we get it... revenge is bad... Abby and Ellie are the same... war and violence is just an endless cycle that accomplishes nothing...". That message in itself is something The Walking Dead has been saying for 10 years, so it's remarkably disappointing to see The Last of Us fall into zombie-genre cliches - after the first was so unique.

    What lets down the execution of the story is the way in which it is told. I'm all for a good non-linear form of storytelling, but I think the dominoes are setup in the wrong order here. When the game switches half way through to Abby's past 3 days, you meet a lot of the characters you've already killed as Ellie. This made me form absolutely no emotional attachment to them whatsoever, so I never felt bad for killing them - except for the doggo Alice, she was a good doggo. If the stories were told side-by-side, and we got to know Owen, Nora, Leah and Mel before Ellie runs into them, it would have let those scenes sting a bit for the player - juggling between the idea that you kind of want Ellie to succeed but you also don't want her to kill these people. That idea is perfectly executed when the stories line up though and you're forced to play as Abby as she hunts down Ellie in the theatre. I still wanted Ellie to accomplish her goal so getting me, the player, to play as her opponent trying to take her down was a great touch, and made me do something I didn't want to do - much in the same way as Joel's infamous scene in the first game.

    However, this zig-zagging between stories all leads to a fairly disappointing ending. I understand the message of the game, I understand why every character does what they do, and I understand Druckmann didn't want you to really know which side was correct - they're both equally justified and wrong in their actions. But for a sense of satisfaction, I wanted Abby or Ellie to kill the other. Just put a pin in that story. End it properly. If Ellie won, she did it but at the cost of losing everyhing else - revenge made her lose more than gain anything - the point of the game still stands. If Abby won, she's become Joel - and the cycle will likely repeat in an imaginary Last of Us 3, and Ellie would have died seeking revenge - again showing she's lost everything. If the game wasn't so long-winded, I'd be happy with the ending the way it is, but after I've spent 30 hours of my life to ultimately get to an equilibrium that was present 5 hours in, it feels like a waste.

    Gameplay
    If it ain't broke, why fix it? The gameplay in this game is pretty much identical to the first, with a few minor adjustments here and there. The weapon upgrade system is the same but with new, sleek animations and the player upgrade system is just a little bit deeper with a lot more options. The weapon selection and core combat mechanics all remain the same, except for the melee combat. Melee has been changed so that more than one enemy can attack you at a time - which is welcomed, and it is now a bit more skill-based than the button-mashing style of the first game. You now have to time dodges by looking at tells from the enemy, and some enemies can dodge and grab you when you try to hit them. I found the dodge mechanic to be... pardon the pun... a little hit and miss. Sometimes you would dodge out the way, and other times I felt I'd still get hit even though I timed the dodge well and moved in the correct direction. This melee system works well overall, but without a lock-on system sometimes you can get hit after dodging because the enemy has gone off-camera and you need to find where they are again. It's a minor frustration, but it happened often enough to get under my skin a little.

    Something else that got under my skin was the AI detection. I played on normal difficulty and, while I like good AI when it comes to stealth games, the detection in this game seems a little funky. Blind clickers would often see me when I wasn't moving at all, some enemies would see me through walls, and some can see you from quite a distance away - which isn't an issue in itself, but when your listen-mode seems to only go 50ft or so, it's easy to miss an enemy further away who could be looking right at you.    … Expand
  44. HectorLaBoa
    Jun 27, 2020
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Todos los personajes aman a otros personajes del mismo sexo, que no tiene nada de malo pero es estúpido que cada 3er personaje sea así neta la el juego para mucho se mecere un 8.5… Expand
  45. RiconextDeliRU
    Jun 27, 2020
    5
    Игра нудная и скучная
    Однообразная
    Есть интересные моменты , но они не дают поставить высокую оценку Дух первой части есть, но играть за новых персонажей вообще нет интереса а уж переживать их истории тем более Так же раздражает, что тяжелые моменты в игре нельзя пропустить как в других играх и отбивает желание допроходить игру дальше    Игра нудная и скучная
    Однообразная
    Есть интересные моменты , но они не дают поставить высокую оценку
    Дух первой части есть, но играть за новых персонажей вообще нет интереса а уж переживать их истории тем более Так же раздражает, что тяжелые моменты в игре нельзя пропустить как в других играх и отбивает желание допроходить игру дальше
  46. withnoname
    Jun 27, 2020
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. First 50% of the game is amazing. The rest of the 50% left a bad taste in my mouth and made no sense. Completely destroys the Joel and Ellie character building from the first one.… Expand
  47. DonPelayio
    Jun 28, 2020
    6
    Buena jugabilidad, excelentes graficos y sonido. Primera parte de la historia entretiene pero los errores en la narrativa en la 2da parte hacen que se pierda interes en el juego. Echando abperder toda emocion en la historia. Es un juego que al terminarlo uno no sabe si ganas o pierdes
  48. Akashi_Rairo
    Jun 28, 2020
    7
    Ill put it as simply as possible. *SPOILER FREE*

    The game has superb graphics, a superb sound track, superb voice acting. The game has the same game play as the the 1st one so nothing new. but the engine for the game runs beautifully so much detail in what you can do. game play is repetitive, scenarios are repetitive. The story is a rubix cube of a mess. the pieces are not all    Ill put it as simply as possible. *SPOILER FREE*

    The game has superb graphics, a superb sound track, superb voice acting.

    The game has the same game play as the the 1st one so nothing new. but the engine for the game runs beautifully so much detail in what you can do.

    game play is repetitive, scenarios are repetitive.

    The story is a rubix cube of a mess. the pieces are not all put together until the end.

    The game severely lacked compared to its previous installment and really didn't bring the same wow as the first.

    i still enjoyed the story when i put all the pieces together but i think the way the story went didn't work.

    The game was still worth the 60$ but seriously NO MULTIPLAYER!?    … Expand
  49. Cuckbaiit
    Jun 28, 2020
    5
    If you want to play this game don't watch any videos or listen to the bad hype and please please PLEASE play the first game before you do. A lot of bad media about it is taken out of context. Watching the beginning then end of the game isn't going to be as satisfying unless you get there yourself. It would be the same if you saw the start then end of last of us 1. You wouldn't know whatwasIf you want to play this game don't watch any videos or listen to the bad hype and please please PLEASE play the first game before you do. A lot of bad media about it is taken out of context. Watching the beginning then end of the game isn't going to be as satisfying unless you get there yourself. It would be the same if you saw the start then end of last of us 1. You wouldn't know whatwas going on.… Expand
  50. EvreyskayaDysha
    Jun 28, 2020
    7
    not bad, but first better, much better.
  51. natt_npc
    Jun 28, 2020
    7
    Keep this quote in mind:
    “A game is an opportunity to focus our energy, with relentless optimism, at something we’re good at (or getting better at) and enjoy. In other words, gameplay is the direct emotional opposite of depression.”
    - Jane McGonigal “Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World” The only reason why this game is just mediocre for me is    Keep this quote in mind:
    “A game is an opportunity to focus our energy, with relentless optimism, at something we’re good at (or getting better at) and enjoy. In other words, gameplay is the direct emotional opposite of depression.”
    - Jane McGonigal “Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How
    They Can Change the World”

    The only reason why this game is just mediocre for me is that is doesn't understand why player's enjoyed the first game. The narrative lead (Halley Gross) clearly doesn't understand the medium of video games and how narrative works. She's treating it as it's a TV show and you can see that in the game.

    Abby is actually a great character and I really like her outside of her actions in Jackson. But I can't connect with her because she destroyed the hope that TLOU was giving you. Both Halley and Neal went for a Game of Thrones type of storytelling and tried to be shocking and deep at the same time. Again, if that would have been a TV show where I'm passively watching I wouldn't care at all but as a player it feels like a **** writing.
    There is no resolution at the end whatsoever. Why do we play games? To feel bad? To see that the 15+ hour effort didn't matter at all? No, quite on the contrary. We play for a play experience and TLOU Part II failed at that.

    What bothers me as well is that Abby and Ellie both had so many options to talk about their hate but no, they just keep on killing and fighting. I don't understand why it took Ellie so long to realize that revenge won't change a thing after she's killing hundreds of innocent animals and people just to get to Abby. That's really not the character we met in TLOU 1.    … Expand
  52. OtherworldGuy
    Jun 28, 2020
    5
    Passable game. Forever will be marred as "that controversial game from 2020" by both its detractors and supporters.
  53. Bigboss1993
    Jun 28, 2020
    5
    Duele bastante tener que opinar así de un videojuego tan esperado por mí. Una segunda parte por la que suspirabamos todos los fans de la excelente primera aventura que vivimos en el lejano ya 2013. El juego tiene muchísimos aspectos muy buenos e inclusos otros excelentes pero la historia que nos quiere contar y la forma en la que lo hace se debe criticar porque atenta contra lo visto en laDuele bastante tener que opinar así de un videojuego tan esperado por mí. Una segunda parte por la que suspirabamos todos los fans de la excelente primera aventura que vivimos en el lejano ya 2013. El juego tiene muchísimos aspectos muy buenos e inclusos otros excelentes pero la historia que nos quiere contar y la forma en la que lo hace se debe criticar porque atenta contra lo visto en la primera parte y contra los videojuegos en general. Nos encontramos un juego gráficamente espectacular en muchos momentos aunque en algunas zonas se notan las limitaciones de ps4 en algunas texturas. Aun así sin duda uno de los títulos mas potentes gráficamente hablando. Jugablemente es delicioso en muchos momentos aunque la IA sigue siendo mejorable e innova muy poco en mecanicas jugables aunque es muy satisfactorio derrotar a cualquier enemigo. El juego tiene muchos momentos de relleno puro y de tramos que son totalmente insustanciales e ilogicos. La zona de las plantas llenas de infectados del hospital directamente no tiene ningún sentido argumental y otros tramos de la historia se hacen realmente muy pesados. EL juego debería durar 10 horas menos de lo que dura y ser mas directo. Y ahora vamos con el apartado mas pésimo del título y sin duda el mas polémico.
    La historia.
    Aquí nada tiene que ver la raza de alguien o su condición sexual. Esto tiene que ver con la historia que nos quieren contar y de como lo hacen. Fallan estrepitosamente en todo esto.
    Lo primero que chirría con la trama es ver como Joel se fía y salva a una persona como Abby totalmente desconocida y se reúne sin sospechar con un montón de gente que no conoce en medio de un refugio. Es algo que el Joel que recordamos de la primera parte en ningún momento haría. Esto ya es un fallo argumental grave aunque no es el único. Nos quieren obligar en todo momento a que entendamos a Abby y a que le cojamos un cariño que nunca llega. Entiendo su motivación de matar a Joel para obtener su venganza pero lo que no se puede comprender es la manera de hacerlo. Mata a Joel torturándolo en el proceso, sin importarle que Ellie vea la escena sin poder hacer nada. Joel mató a su padre sí pero en ningún momento lo hizo disfrutando ni mucho menos dándole una muerte lenta y dolorosa. Joel hizo lo que hizo para salvar a Ellie, y no habria matado a nadie si le hubiesen dejado llevársela. Abby empieza dandole la peor muerte que se le podia dar a un personaje tan querido como Joel, nos lo arrebatan de una manera infame y queriendo que adoremos y queramos a la culpable. Aparte de todo esto la historia hace aguas en el transcurso de la misma y la resolución final carece de sentido alguno. Nos quieren hacer ver que la venganza no lleva a algun lado y por eso Ellie se arrepiente en el último momento. Pero esto no funciona así. Ellie ha matado a un montón de gente sí pero todos han intentado matarla antes, ella si hubiera podido habría ido a por Abby y de un disparo habria acabado con su venganza. Ellie no es como Abby. Ellie no se venga, solo quiere justicia. Si la historia fuera contada de manera diferente en algunos aspectos y la muerte de Joel fuera distina o simplemente no se hubiera mostrado quizás se habría aceptado mejor a Abby. Nunca lo sabremos.
    Mi nota final es un 5 aunque dan ganas de ponerle menos, es la realidad. Pero debo ser coherente y el juego tiene muchísimos apartados donde es muy bueno e incluso excelente pero la historia en este título es lo más importante y en este caso lo peor que han llevado y ejecutado. Espero que Naughty Dog se reponga de esto y que jamás saquen algo así de nuevo.
    Joel. SIempre estarás con nosotros y tu hueco nunca sera ocupado por Abby.    … Expand
  54. Corsario1971
    Jun 28, 2020
    5
    Ahora sólo importan las ventas... Druckmann no creo que tuviera en mente una línea argumental sólida para dar continuidad a TLOU, pero sí tenía muy claro hacer puro dogma con las líneas marcadas por Anita Sharkeesian. El "must have" reina por encima de lo que se quiere contar (si existe algo que contar) TLOU2 no quiere ser un en realidad un juego o desarrollar una buena historia, es unaAhora sólo importan las ventas... Druckmann no creo que tuviera en mente una línea argumental sólida para dar continuidad a TLOU, pero sí tenía muy claro hacer puro dogma con las líneas marcadas por Anita Sharkeesian. El "must have" reina por encima de lo que se quiere contar (si existe algo que contar) TLOU2 no quiere ser un en realidad un juego o desarrollar una buena historia, es una especie de panfleto que imparte doctrina moral a cascoporro. Y lo hace con la firme convicción de que el jugador no va a darse cuenta de eso y que va a terminar cayendo en su trampa. El "más difícil todavía" a Druckmann se le convirtió en un imposible, literalmente quiso sacarse la chorra con un núcleo nuevo de personajes sin atisbo de carisma, destrozando de manera tendenciosa todas las expectativas creadas a los fans mediante las campañas publicitarias...

    Hay otros estudios que hubiesen incluso matado por contar con una base tan bien construida como franquicia... Bueno, pues Naughty Dog prefiere verla en llamas desde la orilla de una playa...    … Expand
  55. AverageAtomx
    Jun 28, 2020
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. In my opinion i think this game its graphically so precious and you see the love with which its made but the story its so so fcking terrible.
    First Joel dies ok but whit a golf stick are you serious? In my opinion i think Joel can dies by a shoot protecting Ellie or something more honorable for this character who only wanted to save a little girl. Second how dare they maje you play with the assasin of Joel and not a little bit time no no approximately 10 fcking hours man so extended and forced. The game its good graphically the game surpassed that anteccesor but in story In history it doesn't even come to a little part of TLOU PART 1. Even doom eternal has more history than TLOU PART 2.    … Expand
  56. cazem11
    Jun 28, 2020
    5
    Look game play wise it was great, the only complaint was that it didn't change anything from TLOU. The graphics, music, VA, it was great the music and graphics especially. but its all bogged down to the terrible story. Forced dialogue, little to no character development, forced and dry romance, it feels as if ND was trying to force and agenda or political message with this story. if thisLook game play wise it was great, the only complaint was that it didn't change anything from TLOU. The graphics, music, VA, it was great the music and graphics especially. but its all bogged down to the terrible story. Forced dialogue, little to no character development, forced and dry romance, it feels as if ND was trying to force and agenda or political message with this story. if this want TLOU2 it would have gotten a better score from me, but the game just doesn't hold a candle to its predecessor.… Expand
  57. VdaSickness
    Jun 28, 2020
    5
    Me parece un gran videojuego, con un gran desarrollo, con una solidez en su política constructiva, con algunas lagunas en el guión pero eso no hace que el juego deje de ser maravillosamente humano e impresionante, Gracias por este titulo.
  58. Scarface3699
    Jun 28, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Good graphics. Awful story just left me feeling like i cant wait to forget it in time. No replay ability. Just meh man… Expand
  59. Aimeejh
    Jun 28, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The game play is really good, everything is much better, graphics is so good. But abby, i hate her, shes a horrible person, then they did Joel dirty, i loved Joel and he always reminded me of my father so to do one of my favourite characters like that and many of others fav, was just not right, why naughty dog? Should of just made a great second game about Ellie and Joel and or even dina, but they didn’t do the game right and then they drag it out so they can make a third game and then get paid more money, also why did they make a sex scene with abby, that really disturbed me, it was so disgusting … Expand
  60. Rhi207
    Jun 28, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. So, I've been a huge fan of The Last of Us. I love Zombie anything & have always been fascinated with the idea of an apocalypse. With that in mind here's my review of the game.

    1. The Game-play: Great mechanics - if you liked the game-play in the last one you'll enjoy it here. BUT, the lack of new things you can do is kind of a bummer. It feels like a version 1.5 rather than a whole new game. It can also feel a bit repetitive, which I felt in the last game and was hoping they would address some of the monotonous parts in this game. Also, sound, music, graphics all great, but that's not what made The Last of Us awesome - I mean it helped for sure, but it was the amazing story that captivated players.

    2. The Story: Ugh, where to start. I'm so torn regarding the story. There are aspects I enjoy and there are others I HATE. I'm trying to keep the spoilers to a minimum. The fact that the game makes you play as the "villain" pisses me off. I don't want to play as "her" I want to shoot "her"

    Now, addressing Abby, in another game I would have liked playing as Abby. Maybe in a spin off? But not in this game & not in this setting. Also - the whole transgender thing feels forced. It really doesn't make any sense regarding the story. Transgendered people are what? .01 of the population - the odds of someone surviving a fall out of this size is highly unlikely. What makes more sense is Naughty Dog wanted to be the first at something and decided to force it in there regardless if it made sense or what it would do to their story. Lev on the other hand, I don't feel is as intrusive. He at least kind of makes sense. So its not that I don't 'like' transgender characters, but when it feels forced, and harms the story I just cant get behind it.

    Also, I didn't love Ellie in this game as I did in the last. Maybe it was more of a problem with how the story was set up rather than Ellie herself. Regardless, I just didn't jive with her like I did in the last game. And Tommy? It was amazing the fake out they pulled, I thought for sure he was dead. Then to see how he behaves? It seemed out of character for him.

    All in all I fall somewhere in the middle. The great parts of the game helped pull up my score some but the bad parts greatly hurt my overall experience.    … Expand
  61. Ravi47
    Jun 28, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I waited for this game. I am from Nepal. The physical disc is still not available but I some how manage to get it digitally. After I finished the game it left me with a bit of mixed feeling. I don't think the storyline is anything wrong. But both Abby and Ellie story should not be shown in the same game. This game should have been standalone Abby games only and the revenge part of the story of Ellie should have been a different game.… Expand
  62. Jael_marcos
    Jun 28, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. english is my second language sorry if i write some of this wrong but i need to get it out of my chest
    I think we were disappointed by this game because the build up this fake plot in the trailers and they gave us the wrong expectations. We all knew this game was about Ellie's revenge and we all thought it was because someone was going to kill the girl in the trailer (Dina) then we play it and they kill joel at the start of the game! What made The Last of Us different wasn't the zombies! It was the characters! We loved Ellie's and Joel's dinamic, i liked that they were fighting because of what happened at the end of the first game and it would have been amazing if they tried to solve that problem between them as they get revenge for Dina, it would have been like meeting each other again, making their bond stronger. I think it was such a waste.
    Aside from that, once i accepted Joel was dead, i found really interesting the dinamic of showing us two different POVs but the way they put it in the game didn't work, it's like reading harry potter and when harry is about to kill voldemort you realise you have seven more books or movies with voldemort's POV. No one wants that. No one is going to empatize with a character once the heroe has gone through the entire journey.
    They should have mixed Abby's and Ellie's stories so it woudn't be so repetitive and we woudn't have to play with Abby for so long.
    I really, really liked Abby's character and her story was really good as well but the way they put it in the game didn't work. Having to punch and choke Ellie at the end of Abby's plot is a thing no one wants to do even if we now know Abby's motives and reasons, Ellie is the protagonist!! We don't want to hurt her, even less using the character who killed Joel!!! Then again, using HP reference, it's like 7 new Voldemort's books or movies and maybe you like him a little more o you understand him but then Voldemort goes and kill's Ron or Hermione, all of that is wasted!!!
    Ellie being happy with Dina and the baby in the end and then going back to look for Abby...at that point i just gave up. I continued because i needed to see the end but man, that didn't make any sense.
    Why not making a fight like the one in the end but in the theatre insted? Instead of using Abby to try to kill Ellie just let us use Ellie, Ellie forgives her because she remembers her talk with Joel and then that's it.
    But no. They killed Joel, Abby is now free with her friend and Ellie is all alone and she can't even play the guitar anymore. I know "life isn't perfect" and "not every ending is happy" but the ending stopped being happy the moment they killed Joel, at least Ellie and us deserved an ending like the one in the farm. Ellie, at least, being happy. Joel died for her to live and now she has to live a sad life. Dissapointing.
    I gave it five stars because the gameplay, music, graphics and even some parts of the story are amazing but then again the main plot of the game should have been better after of 7 years of waiting for a second part.    … Expand
  63. roozbehgh
    Jun 28, 2020
    5
    I'm giving it a 5 cuz of all the hard work the developers put into the game. I can imagine all their faces when they were gradually learning about the narrative and thinking to themselves: "all this work man..all this work...".
    anyways, I think enough arguments have been made around the plot and story and I for one will never ever relate to what they were trying to sell us by dragging us    I'm giving it a 5 cuz of all the hard work the developers put into the game. I can imagine all their faces when they were gradually learning about the narrative and thinking to themselves: "all this work man..all this work...".
    anyways, I think enough arguments have been made around the plot and story and I for one will never ever relate to what they were trying to sell us by dragging us throughout the whole game only to reach an ending which felt unsatisfying to say the least!. I do grasp the concept of "people not always getting what they want" but it has to be "real". it has to be implemented correctly into the world built around the characters and their personalities and backgrounds.

    It's a mess. it's a disaster and quite honestly a total disrespect towards the first game and all its fans.
    game-play wise it completely has my respect but story wise (which these types of games are thoroughly based on!) it feels like an icy bowl of tomato soup! it's good for ya, but it tastes like ****

    but I have to say...I get the fact that throughout history there have been men and women that decided to burn the world and watch it turn to dust just to make a point. Druckman did just THAT...    … Expand
  64. Noctiluca
    Jun 28, 2020
    6
    Forget about the leaks, SJWs, anti-SJWs, deceptive marketing and all the noise that surrounds a big part of this game's criticism. The bulk of it's problems are it's lack of focus, poor pacing and, ultimately, a poor consideration of what made the original story and the characters not perfect, but great and relatable.

    This game has a lot of good qualities. From it's impressive visuals,    Forget about the leaks, SJWs, anti-SJWs, deceptive marketing and all the noise that surrounds a big part of this game's criticism. The bulk of it's problems are it's lack of focus, poor pacing and, ultimately, a poor consideration of what made the original story and the characters not perfect, but great and relatable.

    This game has a lot of good qualities. From it's impressive visuals, sound fidelity, visceral combat (on high difficulties), highly detailed vast environments and some really tense moments, The Last of Us Part II significantly improves almost every technical aspect of the original, making the artists the real stars of this show.

    However, these qualities aren't enough to carry a broken, messy story, as the game tries to undo notions about some of it's characters, and spends a lot of time brushing through themes that were already best presented in the first game, while also bringing new themes every now and again without time for proper reflection.

    For an example, there's a lot of story and gameplay time used at an attempt to redundantly show and equalize "both sides of a coin" – which is not a complicated or new concept, especially after the winter and ending section of the first game – while forgetting the player is already, understandably, biased towards the side they spent the most time connecting to. This concept is made clear pretty soon, but the creators think it's necessary for you to see a whole lot more of it, all while drawing some less effective, fanfiction-like parallels to reinforce what's already obvious and control some of the damage they did themselves. Not to mention, without getting into spoilers, that the main catch of the ending only gets to develop throughout 9-10 hours or so of this twenty plus hours long game, making most of what's been played seem even more unnecessary for the overall resolution, even more if you think that characters had plenty of time to reflect on what they're about to do.

    By watching and reading interviews, it definitely seems like Naughty Dog wrote big chunks of this story long after starting development, without a solid backbone to base their decisions on, flip-flopping time and time again about what the core of the game is. Characters only seem to have clear-cut intentions and ideas when writers consider it necessary to deflect criticism about character actions. Otherwise, their motivations are an open-ended world of complex possibilities where you fill the gaps the writers left open.

    In short, this sequel will stick with you long after you finish it, but probably because it leaves you wondering what it could have been if writers didn't recklessly place most of their bets in it's eye-rolling shortcomings.    … Expand
  65. InShane
    Jun 28, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. So, I just beat "The Last of Us Part II..." Where should I start? I feel like, in parts where the game was good, it was excellent! But in parts where the game was bad... It was down right horrible.
    The gameplay was fun, I liked a lot of the new mechanics they added, like being able to go prone and the fact that you can be "stealth" in tall grass added a lot more options and the dodge button was a nice touch. I liked... MOST of the new enemies: Shamblers were gross as **** and really fun to fight, Stalkers offered a fresh new type of challenge and they actually jump- scared me once or twice. They did a good job at making the Scars function exactly like the creepy cult that they are: Their whistling gave me shivers every time I heard it. The skill trees were cool and gave a lot of fun options to improve your character. One thing I DID NOT like, was the addition of dogs... They make it VERY hard to avoid the dogs and I did NOT enjoy killing any of the cute doggo's in this game. Over all, gameplay wise, "The Last of Us II" was very satisfying.

    And now... The story...... Good LORD, what a mess! The story of "The Last of Us Part II" is full of plot holes, contrivances and conveniences and does not feel like a continuation of the events of the first game. Rather, it teeters on the threshold of being some “edgy” kids DeviantArt fan-fiction. I would say the biggest issues with the story are it's beginning and it's end. The beginning of the game has Joel, acting completely out of character and is way too trusting of these random strangers he JUST met, which ends up getting him killed (in a **** way). I hear a lot of people saying that the reason Joel is so trusting is because he has been living comfortably in Jackson for 5 years... I don't buy this: Living comfortably for 5 years doesn't make you stupid, the story just needed Joel to die (in a **** way) to get the horrible revenge story going.

    The middle of the game’s story is kind of all over the place: You play as Ellie for a bit, then the game forces you to play as Abby, Joel’s killer, in an attempt to make her seem likeable, which doesn’t work, at least, it didn’t work with me. I found Abby to be very unlikable. In fact, a lot of the new characters in this game feel unlikable which made their deaths hollow. When Jesse died, all I could think was “Oh no, not… Whats-His-Face.”

    And the ending is just… Baffling to me. Ellie and Abby have a brutal fight which during the middle of, Abby bites 2 of Ellies fingers off. Ellie’s goal of revenge against Abby is only a few seconds away……… And she just let’s Abby go. Mind you, a flashback of Joel playing the guitar (Which he was teaching Ellie to play and can no longer do because he is dead and she just lost fingers) is what makes her decide to let Abby go. This woman first took your father figure away from you, she then took friends away from you and finally she took 2 of your fingers away from you. Ellie… Girl…… Having a flashback of your father figure playing a guitar after the person you’re trying to kill bites off your fingers should have thrown you into a fit of rage! But no, she’s all like: “Just go.” And that’s it. All this does, is give Abby another opportunity to come back for you. I can’t sugarcoat it, this game fails from a story perspective, which is a shame, considering the fact that it’s a narrative driven game.

    I would give the game a 5: "The Last of Us Part II" is fun to play, but the overall narrative pulls the game way down. My fear is that, if they add a DLC chapter like they did in the first game, it’s going to be about Abby killing Tommy or something. I think the only way they can fix the story from here, is for Ellie to wake up from all of this being a bad dream…    … Expand
  66. Ghoul_glitch
    Jun 28, 2020
    7
    Честно говоря, сюжет не очень плохой, понравилась игра
  67. thriuenug
    Jun 28, 2020
    5
    Complicated and confusing story. Everything is a mess, i'm dissapointed about this game
  68. Anima2z
    Jun 28, 2020
    5
    wonder what happened to the writers to deliver such a downgrade, is really bad, if it wasn{t for such a terrible writing it could be a real 10, but the story is such a nonsense, people are just blind by visuals and music, the only reason I give it a 5 is for the amazing work of artists and gameplay team
  69. Thohorne
    Jun 28, 2020
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Graphically this game was absolutely insannnne!!! No doubt about it. The attention to detail was just incredible, the fighting, mini puzzles etc were all spot on. Unfortunately my experience was dampened by the killing of Joel within the first hour of the game! Like firstly he deserved far more imo. The entirety of the part 1 was spent investing in his character and it left us wanting more. The story follows a revenge plot but dragged on for soo long that i litteraly didnt care by the end! I was over it. To some extent playing as Abby was a genius idea but I feel the order the story follows could of been executed a lot better. I do believe Joel had to die but I felt this would have been better achieved later in the play through.… Expand
  70. orajens
    Jun 28, 2020
    7
    I just finished playing and overall I have mixed opinions on this game; gorgeous graphics, mechanics well put together although the storyline seemed empty and not well focused on. An unbalanced game?

    Up until the end, very well done. The ending needed more. The character development certainly needed more. I will certainly play again. If a followup was to be introduced, hopefully,    I just finished playing and overall I have mixed opinions on this game; gorgeous graphics, mechanics well put together although the storyline seemed empty and not well focused on. An unbalanced game?

    Up until the end, very well done. The ending needed more. The character development certainly needed more. I will certainly play again. If a followup was to be introduced, hopefully, they'll take the user reviews into account.    … Expand
  71. hatchiedave
    Jun 28, 2020
    5
    It wasn’t easy to come to terms with the events that took place during this game. I played most of the game angrily but in the end the story took me trough all the paces it meant to take me trough. Everything clicked in the end and I realized that I was having the same emotional conflict as the characters. It was fantastic experience and extremely emotional. Loved it!
  72. Davidm322
    Jun 28, 2020
    7
    As a sequel to one of the best games made for ps3 this had some big shoes to fill. Some clever alterations such as the added skill trees have definitely improved the game along with something as simple as going prone to improve the stealth mechanics. there are many welcome changes like this that keep the basic gameplay the same as its predecessor albeit a more refined version. The familiarAs a sequel to one of the best games made for ps3 this had some big shoes to fill. Some clever alterations such as the added skill trees have definitely improved the game along with something as simple as going prone to improve the stealth mechanics. there are many welcome changes like this that keep the basic gameplay the same as its predecessor albeit a more refined version. The familiar feel of the controls is what reminds us of the original and the addition of new types of infected keeps things interesting. As a game the last of us part 2 is excellent, the graphics are some of the best ive seen on ps4 and the gameplay itself works well. the emphasis on the brutality of melee combat is also a good addition. There are however some major issues with the story itself that i do not agree with. it is not just the events that occur that don't feel right but the pacing itself seems odd at times. some parts of the game feel as if they would work better in a different order. I also found myself enjoying the first sections as Ellie on her quest during the first 10 hours or so alot more than I thought i would given what had happened. However i really disliked Abby and no matter how the character development tried to justify her actions to make you like her it wasn't going to work. I found the latter part of the game where you play as Abby to be a tedious slog that I just put up with to get back to being Ellie to find out what happens next. I was also bitterly disappointed with the end of the game but understood the direction they were going in. To conclude the brilliant gameplay and graphics make this a must play but it is seriously let down by its story.… Expand
  73. Mercury47
    Jun 28, 2020
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Judt finished it and honestly I enjoyed the gameplay and the breathtaking graphics and the world they built is phenomenal but after sometime the gameplay get really repetitive and a bit boring. The story is the worst part of the game. The characters are uninspiring and the way they killed off Joel was done poorly. Half of the game you play as Ellie and the other half as Abby and I hate that I have to play as Abby it gets really boring after sometime and felt more like a dlc and disconnected from the actual story. They try so hard to get you to care about this character and other character that are just bland and it just doesn't work. And the ending was put a nail in the coffin. Ellie killed like 1000 people to get to Abby and when she had the chance to do it all of a sudden she has a change of heart. The theme is just a generic revenge story and you learn in the end revenge is bad. This one was a disappointment story wise… Expand
  74. Joelforever9
    Jun 28, 2020
    7
    Nice Soudtrack, Beautiful graphics and Amazing Gameplay, The storie is meh... But i cant dislike The last Of Us Part 2 because its a beautiful game.
  75. Danil_M_I
    Jun 28, 2020
    7
    I enjoyed to play this game, but the story was a huge disappointment for me. Прости Джоел, мы все просрали.

    gameplay 10/10
    landscape, animation, graphics 10/10
    story before Abby 6/10
    story after Abby 3/10
  76. Xandru
    Jun 29, 2020
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. So this game is good and defintely not the 0/10 fans are giving out of frustration which i understand, but its just not right and not objective constructive critisism. Everything under a 5/10 is just not fair. The graphics and environments are beautiful. Voice acting, cutscene and facial aninmations are great and are very high quality, ive nevers seen something like this in a video game. Gameplay even tho it was only very slightly improved since 2013 was also good and i had a lot of fun throughout the game (NPCs were kinda lacking tho). The ingame animation as well as the character models are also stunning, sound design and weather effects are equaly good.
    Story: The fact that the main characters are a lesbian and a masculine bodybuilder female dont change a single thing ( I think a hetero relationship might have been even more annoying), but sometimes i had the feeling that it was more about Ellies love life instead of her revenge and mainly at the beginning killed the serious atmosphere and took the spotlight of Ellies sorrow over Joels death. Which btw was very predictable imo (when it was first announced that it was about Ellies revenge my first guess was that Joel is killed by fireflies). The flashbacks and cutscenes are nice but they could have delivered this agenda otherwise without spitting in our faces after waiting 7 years and paying 70 dollars. It was written pretty badly with a lot of predictability, plot holes and poor character choices. Also trying to justify Abby killing Joel with her story didnt work (I stll wish Abby a very slow and painful death) and just stretched the game a lot which has pacing issues. Character development is weird (unnatural) to non existent. Having to fight Ellie and hit her was painful (not in a good way) and i couldnt take that part of the game serious. Dont forget about the unnecessary forgetable characters like Mel and the mexican guy (i even forgot his name). All in all storywise the sequel only damaged the franchise and its characters not even coming close to tlou 1. If u unlike me only bought tlou2 because of the very unsatisfying story i guess it only deserves a 3-5/10.    … Expand
  77. agusbritez10
    Jun 28, 2020
    7
    Realismo es poco, explica muy bien lo que conlleva obsesionarse tanto por la venganza que provoca poner en peligro emocionalmente tu integridad y los que te rodean. Historia que no te dan respiro ni un segundo en cuanto a acción, aunque creo que le sobran horas de juego y hasta a algún punto se vuelve repetitivo pero de todas formas es una obra maestra con una gran carga emocional yRealismo es poco, explica muy bien lo que conlleva obsesionarse tanto por la venganza que provoca poner en peligro emocionalmente tu integridad y los que te rodean. Historia que no te dan respiro ni un segundo en cuanto a acción, aunque creo que le sobran horas de juego y hasta a algún punto se vuelve repetitivo pero de todas formas es una obra maestra con una gran carga emocional y grandes momentos de acción.… Expand
  78. WesJ130
    Jun 28, 2020
    5
    Gameplay is amazing. Wasn't feeling the story. It would have gotten a higher score if this wa wasn't a tlou game.
  79. Tavo-Tabu
    Jun 28, 2020
    5
    Español:
    Quizá sea demasiado tarde para dar mi opinión pero igual quiero hacerlo.
    Es un videojuego hermoso, pero con una historia que supongo no a todos agradará, pero que a final de cuenta entenderás y la aceptarás, quizá no sea lo que esperábamos, pero es una experiencia que si o si tienes jugar. Hablando por mi, hay momentos de la historia donde llegue a sentir desesperación, rabia,    Español:
    Quizá sea demasiado tarde para dar mi opinión pero igual quiero hacerlo.
    Es un videojuego hermoso, pero con una historia que supongo no a todos agradará, pero que a final de cuenta entenderás y la aceptarás, quizá no sea lo que esperábamos, pero es una experiencia que si o si tienes jugar.
    Hablando por mi, hay momentos de la historia donde llegue a sentir desesperación, rabia, frustración, etc. pero que más adelante lo entendí, y quizá no conecte con los personajes, pero llegue a entenderlos y aceptarlos. Las polémicas que rodean al juego (LGBT) para mí no significaron nada, y realmente nunca llegue a notarlo en el juego, no es como que sea una gran sorpresa si tomamos en cuenta el DLC de la primera entrega, solo disfrute el juego lo más que pude y estoy agradecido con eso, todos deberían jugarlo antes que escuchar las críticas que estoy seguro no todas son con sinceridad.
    En fin, es una experiencia agridulce, quizá nunca te sientas en paz con lo que sucede, pero lo entiendes, y al menos para mí eso es suficiente.
    En pocas palabras es un juego increíble, pero no perfecto, no era lo que esperaba, pero no dejo de sorprenderme, es simplemente hermoso.
    Larga vida a The Last Of Us.    … Expand
  80. danielibarrah
    Jun 28, 2020
    5
    a very powerful continuation. Naughty Dog takes the theme of the game in a way that the player can identify at itself.
  81. Samuel04
    Jun 28, 2020
    5
    Buenos gráficos buena jugabilidad pésima historia si esperas algo de la historia te recomiendo que no te hagas ilusiones
  82. WillyGauss
    Jun 28, 2020
    5
    Not worth your time, Neil Druckman destroyed this franchise,Joel Died only because He is a white straight man LMAO
  83. Drunkman
    Jun 29, 2020
    7
    I did not like the game either plot or gameplay. Very monotonous, we just clean the rooms. The graphics are good, artists, animators, programmers are great! Get Drunkmann out of Naughty Dog!!! Sorry for the short review, but this game didn’t leave me any impression. My rating is 7 out of 10.
  84. Jeffsplanet92
    Jun 30, 2020
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. There are SPOILERS in this review!

    As far as video game sequels I've played from Naughty Dog, I have not had any complaints as all. The entire Uncharted Series was enjoyable, the first Last of Us game had a mix of suspense and climax, but I have many questions for the Last of Us 2.
    I didn't really care if the game was pumped with politically correct narratives. What i wanted was more screen time with Joel and Ellie, and the flashbacks don't really do it for me. There were also 2 things that made this game worse, it was the delayed release date and the false advertising from the teaser trailer. In my perspective, delayed products are always the worse, even when it wasn't even worth the wait. I don't understand why Joel had to die, but we cant do anything about it. The entire pace of the game bothered me the most, because the flashbacks felt like downloadable content. Its like there was another chunk of the story that's missing. I've heard other people say that the game play mechanics and the graphics were outstanding. However, if the story is not satisfying, the entirety of this game is pointless.    … Expand
  85. orbitfold
    Jun 29, 2020
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It's a potentially wonderful game ruined by the incompetence of its director. The last of us 2 *somehow* manages to be less than the sum of its parts. Gameplay is greatly improved, the graphics are incredible, level design is stellar. Yet I had to stop playing it at the ground zero level because I reached that point where I started asking myself why am I still doing this which is the point where I trained myself to stop playing a game. It is two maybe even three games lazily slapped together for no apparent reason with very little thread connecting them. The characters are impossible to care about. And whatever good will we have remaining from the previous game Naughty Dog (or rather I assume Neil Druckmann) has no qualms throwing out the window.

    Ellie is now about as sympathetic as a rabid badger. The chemistry between her and her supposed love interest is non-existent. The only characters that I liked were Lev and his sister. But as I said it is three games seemingly written by three different people or groups of people. If only there was someone that would be responsible for keeping a sense of direction in this game. I don't know, like a "director" if you will. I sometimes wonder if Neil participated in those crunch sessions because the direction in this game seems like it was done by someone who **** off at 16:00 every day.

    Another huge problem is that the game is 30 hours long. That might be fine if you are a child. If you are an adult with responsibilities a game has to justify every single of those hours and the last of 2 can make an honest claim for doing that for about 15 of them. The rest is pointless padding that annoyed me the more I played of it. You play as Abby during this part. Which I guess they thought would be kinda cool and that is literally how much thought they put into it. Because it isn't cool. It is pointless and stupid. The motivations of the characters are laughable. Here is what would have happened in reality - Abby comes and kills Joel. The rest of the town including Ellie go **** this sucks" and go on with their lives. Joels death *really* didn't feel like a driving force behind the game. And in about 10 hours it was entirely forgotten with the characters just going through the motions.    … Expand
  86. yakovlevyuri
    Jun 29, 2020
    6
    Well, play Desperados 3 instead.
    The looting simulator quickly became boring.
  87. IdoHorovitz
    Jun 29, 2020
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Beautiful visuals, great acting and fun gameplay, that are being held back by an unsatisfying storyline and an ending that leaves a bad taste in your mouth just for the sake of making you feel bad.… Expand
  88. xDaNN1
    Jun 29, 2020
    6
    Gráficos: 9/10
    Jugabilidad: 8/10 Historia: 4/10
    Final: 6/10
    Le pongo esta nota porque para mí en este tipo de juego es más importante la historia .
  89. Samurat
    Jun 29, 2020
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Привет из СНГ. Лгбт пропаганда немного испортила впечатление от игры, но стоит отметить что с технической стороны игра шедевр, а сюжетно также неплоха. Смерть Джоела вызвала у меня те эмоции, которые и ждали разработчики, браво. Отличная игра, но ух сука, убирайте лгбт повестку из игр… Expand
  90. Avedoido
    Jun 29, 2020
    5
    Achei uma sacanagem a forma
    Patética como trataram alguns personagens. Jogos não deviam ter viés ideológico.
  91. kumakuma
    Jun 29, 2020
    5
    Nice graphic and music.
    The most important is the story, just like ND they usually did before , but they failed. It is so disappointing .
  92. T0pa
    Jun 29, 2020
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. El juego me a gustado ,pero no le sobran horas ,le sobran horas con el otro personaje . SPOILERS ,................ ......,.................,.,,............................tanto venganza para que luego te haga 1 enfrentarte a ti mismo y luego no te pueda ni vengarse, siento que la saga murió para mi .entiendo que se mate a Joel que te hagan manejar a la tía que lo mata , pero que te obliguen a manejar la la mitad del juego y luego no te dejen matarla , para el final que le dan a elie matarla suicidándose . una lastima haber explotado a tanta gente para esto ....… Expand
  93. elGiralGol
    Jun 29, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. En el apartado jugable, visual, las expresiones de la cara... todo eso sería para poner un 10 al juego. Donde el juego baja 5 puntos es en la historia. Soy fan del primero, por eso, al matarte a Joel en la primera hora de juego es un error muy grande. Te hacen querer al personaje de Abby cuando desde el principio ya sabes que le vas a tener manía. Y todo el resto del juego... hay momentos muy disfrutables matando gente, infectados, huidas muy bien hechas, momentos frenéticos... podemos disfrutar todo eso ( resalto la parte de criticar Jurassic Park 2, me encanta jeje). Pero la historia está vacía. Muchos ratos parece un culebrón, te matan personajes de repente, agujeros de guión, decisiones de personajes que no entiendes... y del final del juego...mejor no hablamos. Acabas con amargura y pena, muy diferente de cuando acabamos el primero. Larga vida a The last of us Parte 1… Expand
  94. MNocovka
    Jun 29, 2020
    7
    Игра достойна только 7 потому что в качестве графики и в качестве всяких мелочей игра сделала шикарно,но сюжет подвёл
  95. Moroken005
    Jun 29, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Took my time to finish the game and I was disappointed with the story and the ending. Game play, graphics are very good 8/10. Story is a 2/10 and that is me being very generous. Killing off Joel is very disrespectful to the character and the players. I don't have a problem with having him die at some point but the way they did it was bad. If they just made last of us part 2 about Abby and Lev's relationship , I think the story would've been a lot better. They could've taken this game to so many directions, but they simply chose the wrong one. A major disappointment after waiting for 7 years. I would've gave this game a 1/10 if I was reviewing it based only on story. But I had "fun" with the gameplay, only. Jump scares and action was great...I don't think I would play a Last of Us part 3 if they decide to continue the story, Because I really don't have any connection with Abby and based on the ending, I don't care about Ellie as well. It was done poorly. RIP Joel...… Expand
  96. JustArtin
    Jun 29, 2020
    6
    The visuals , gameplay and sound design are amazing my only problem is with the plot of the game . Would've given the game 9 if the ending would've been better and the second half of the game didn't happen . Overall this is a pretty good game .
  97. angrygamer07
    Jun 29, 2020
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. gameplay: Incredible. Sometimes feels repetitive but the firs one too so i won´t critizise it

    characters: Bad. The only interesting ones were constructed on the previous game, except for Dina, wich I found cool and a great partner,

    story: It was a good idea, but was poorly executed. Abbys gameplay is too long and didnt make it easy to emphazise with her. I find okey that ellie didn´t killed her at the end, but she could have reached the same conclusion at her home. I find really forced the ending and how Ellie losted everything. It is as ND tried to make it sad on purpose, without thinking if it would make sense. I think inclusion wasn´t a problem, but hurts me that ND uses their best-seller to shout how tolerant and good they are. Whatever I liked Dinellie and find them as a good couple so ok

    Conclusion: The expectatives were too high, and I am sure whatever they made there would be discontent fans. it was a good game, but OF COURSE is not the masterpiece everybody is talking about. Is not normal how much hate is recieving, and neither the 95 of metascore. I hope they have learned that lying to fans is bad and that they should threat their games with more respect, not to see it only as a cash-maker.    … Expand
  98. Vladimir99
    Jun 29, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I really can't give this game more than a 5 I really can't. To kill of such an important character in the first two hours was just...
    The fact that Joel got killed with a golfstick makes it even worse. The false advertisment, the story, the ending, everything about this story sucked. What? Ellie wants to get revenge on Abby and in the end she doesn't even do it. But before that she kills, pregnant woman, innocent people etc.
    The character development just sucks, honestly. In the first game, Joel was this very cautious guy, who didn't trust anybody and now he just gets in a room with people he doesn't know and even tells them that they can restock at their base. It just does not make sense. Honestly, at some point I felt forced finish it, because I already bought it.
    The game jjst didn't maje any sense. It just wasn't fun at all. The fact that in the end of the game everybody leaves Ellie and she is alone is just... depressing. That's all I can say about this game.    … Expand
  99. Corweezy18
    Jun 29, 2020
    6
    I don’t think the Last of Us part 2 is a trash game. However, it has a very flawed story. It is riddled with plot holes, extreme pacing issues, and uninteresting characters. The game also contains huge sections of the story (I’m talking 12 hours worth) that seem to to progress the narrative in absolutely no way, and seem to only be present to highlight identity politics. It’s a story thatI don’t think the Last of Us part 2 is a trash game. However, it has a very flawed story. It is riddled with plot holes, extreme pacing issues, and uninteresting characters. The game also contains huge sections of the story (I’m talking 12 hours worth) that seem to to progress the narrative in absolutely no way, and seem to only be present to highlight identity politics. It’s a story that loses its focus at nearly every turn and ends up being mediocre at its best. This all being said, The visuals are absolutely breathtaking. This is the best looking game on the PS4 PERIOD. Environments are riddled with detail and the game does a fantastic job of making the world feel very realistic. Combat is also very good here. Every hit has weight, and the stealth rivals Metal Gear Solid.

    The Last of Us part 2 has some good aspects. The gameplay, and visual are exactly where they need to be. However, this is a narrative based game. The messy story structure, boring characters, and plot holes make this game an absolute drag to finish. There isn’t much desire to revisit this flawed revenge tail anytime soon. Save yourself the money and wait for this price tag to drop.    … Expand
  100. Partorger
    Jun 29, 2020
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The dumb death of Joel, the hard-burn smuggler. Who told strangers his name. I am not against his death, but it is woven stupidly.… Expand
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  1. Positive: 113 out of 121
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 121
  3. Negative: 0 out of 121
  1. GameMAG
    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.
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  2. PLAY! Zine
    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.
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  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]
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