The Last of Us Part II

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  1. Draknestia
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. El juego es bueno visualmente, pero como siempre díganme quién escribe el guión, un maldito sumió o su sobrino de 3 años, pasaron de convertir la historia de suspenso, acción y buena trama a querer vender ideas de inclusionismo que están muy fuera de lugar, una historia absurda donde matas al protagonista principal para enfocarse en Ellie y sus traumas, a pero arreglenlo con una escena de sexo que nada que ver, la verdar un gran juego visualmente, pero queda muy por debajo de los shoters genéricos que hay actualmente, mejor dediquense a a vender motores gráficos, que historias absurdas ganarían más. Espero la devolución del dinero.… Expand
  2. MattyTheLedge
    Jan 3, 2021
    3
    This game is an okay game. The gameplay, acting, graphics, weapons overhaul and enemy development are all excellent. Contrary to that, the narrative is a bit discombobulated, in my opinion. People loved the original for the deep, meaningful narrative. I also found that I personally was not connected to any of the characters within TLOU2, in comparison to the original.

    There’s been a lot    This game is an okay game. The gameplay, acting, graphics, weapons overhaul and enemy development are all excellent. Contrary to that, the narrative is a bit discombobulated, in my opinion. People loved the original for the deep, meaningful narrative. I also found that I personally was not connected to any of the characters within TLOU2, in comparison to the original.

    There’s been a lot of controversy regarding the whole gender perspective, specifically regarding a particular character you meet throughout the game. Abby is also built like a unit so, there’s speculation that she was designed with a gender bias (I’m not one hundred percent sure).

    People who don’t like the gender movement in the game have been seen as phobic but, that’s not necessarily the case. The game is based in an apocalypse, so people are unsure why gender is even a ‘thing’ in the game.

    However, people are more pissed off (including myself) as Naughty Dog seemed to have used Joel as leverage regarding the TLOU2 trailers, when in reality, Joel plays a very small part of the game. This is why people are so annoyed because, it seems that there has been a deliberate intention to destroy this whole ‘toxic male masculinity’ (mentality that men are supposed to have), by making Abby built like a heavyweight bodybuilder, and other aspects of the gender equality movement, specifically regarding a particular character in the game, and how Joel was killed by Abby earlier on in the game.

    The whole reason why people loved the original TLOU was based on the narrative between Joel and Ellie, and their father daughter relationship. TLOU2 rips that perception apart, totally and deliberately.

    Personally, I thought the game was okay but, I was not emotionally captivated as I was when I played the original. I felt the soundtrack and narrative was just up in the air, as you play Ellie and Abby throughout the game; Abby’s play through feels like a glorified side quest as she has no motives - her motive was achieved at the very beginning of the game which created an anticlimactic play through.

    The characters you meet in the game are also very hard to like. Not that they’re ‘bad’ or anything but, I just felt the game design didn’t allow anyone to really attach to anyone. In the original, you meet Bill and I loved him because he was funny, moody, angry, sarcastic - there was so much substance to his character - this isn’t the case in TLOU2, unfortunately.

    If you loved the original based on the narrative and bond between Ellie and Joel, then there’s a good chance you may not like this game.

    The game is excellent in terms of build quality and graphically but, TLOU was built on the companionship between Joel & Ellie and their journey together.

    This game is just a game without a great plot. Although it’s a good game, I got to a point where I just wanted to complete it to see if the ending would have made me feel, as the original did. Unfortunately, the ending did nothing for me, at all.

    My score is 3/10. This is a The Last of Us game but, it felt like a completely different franchise. I also felt that the game was deliberately designed for a particular movement, disregarding the fan base of the original.    … Expand
  3. Yourfingmother
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The game starts a bit slow. It has stunning graphics, which was expected, but the mechanics feel dated, the story becomes unbearable when the Abby part comes along, and the characters are not fully developed. It also forces its way into you liking Abby, with no success for me. The ending with Ellie forgiving Abby was anti-climatic after you spend the game killing people to get to that point. It was a let down to say the least.… Expand
  4. JakeBrannan5499
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I should start by saying, I'm not much of a gamer. It's very rare that I even become invested enough in a game to talk about it & give an opinion. I wasn't even going to do so in this case, but it seems to be what everyone else is doing, & I'm seeing a lot of deceitful & unfair criticisms from critics & trolls respectively. I just want to talk about the game & what I thought of it honestly & I'll try to be as fair as I can, but of course this is all my subjective opinion.

    I wanted to love The Last of Us Pat II, because the first game, in my opinion, is a masterpiece and is arguably one of the greatest video games ever made. It also presents an incredible story with some truly great characters. Joel and Ellie are two of my favorite fictional characters, & following their trek across a post-apocalyptic United States was an incredible experience. Because I love these characters, I was excited that we'd again be following them in Part II, this time with more of a preference on Ellie. And though that is the case for a lot of the game, I feel we also spend far too much time which characters we simply don't care about it, mainly the character of Abby. I think the actress who portrays her did a great job, but did we need to spend hours of time following her, in my view, no, especially given that after the first 2 hours of game-play, I (if I may be blunt) hated her character, given the fact that she kills Joel, way earlier than it should have happened. I hate the treatment Joel received in Part II; of course there's a bias on my part because I loved him in the first game, but I do feel like his character got dealt an unfair hand in Part II. I always figured that Joel would die, simply because it seemed like the obvious story decision that would push Ellie to become more independent (which in a way it does), but I wish we had spent more time with Joel and Ellie before his death. The counter-argument to that is "spending time with Joel & Ellie was the premise of the first game," & that's true, but Part II takes place years after that, their relationship has obviously progressed & changed over the years, & I would have liked to see where their father-daughter bond stood after all these years. If I'm being frank, I think Joel's death as it stands only serves as a way to subvert expectations, just for the sake of subversion, which is a poor way of storytelling.

    Before I continue, some small things I liked: I think the voice acting is great from everyone, the graphics are incredible, the game-play is a lot more of an improvement over the last game (which is to be expected given it's been years since that game's release), and for the most part I liked some of the new side characters, like Dinah and Jesse. I also liked Ellie and Dinah's relationship, & I think it did a good job showing Ellie's maturity.

    I mentioned earlier, but I think it was a mistake to focus so much on Abby, because I feel I'm not alone when I say I didn't care about her character and even hated her character (well, hate is strong word, but that's how I felt, especially after she killed Joel). She's a new character that we don't know, that we haven't spent any time with and have no history with, therefore of course I'm not going to care for her as much as i care for Ellie or Joel. I understand the game developers wanting to go in a different direction with Part II & want to show other people's perspectives, but the first game made it clear that it was solely focused on Joel and Ellie's perspective, & given Part II was marketed as mainly following Ellie, that's what myself & many others were expecting.

    I see a lot of faux reviews, calling out "SJW stuff," or Neil Druckmann's politics, & I really don't want to to give any of that the time of the day because I don't care about them. I don't care that Ellie is gay, in fact I think it's great. I don't care about the other perceived SJW or political stuff, even if I may disagree with it, I won't let it get in the way of me playing the game. And honestly, if you're so appalled by gay characters or even Neil Druckmann, why are playing this game? Sure, obviously you can, you have every right to play this game, but when you know this game's going to piss you off, & then you rant in a review of how pissed off you are, I don't know, I question your point in even being here.

    I do completely understand the double standard criticisms Part II is facing, especially in regards to SONY allowing a pretty graphic sex scene while in the past (& still to this day) censoring far less. I also dislike the notion that any negative criticism this game receives is the doing of bots. There are definitely trolls doing what trolls do, but there are folks with legitimate criticisms, & to ignore those criticisms does a great disservice to people who paid a lot of money for this game & were really excited about it.

    That's all I really have to say. I wanted to love this game, but I couldn't.    … Expand
  5. awalll
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I was disappointed by the end. The story was totally lackluster especially considering the amount of time they had to put this game together. So many holes in the storyline and almost half the game dedicated to a character that no one cares about and running missions for people that were hardly part of the story development in the first place. The result are missions the feel totally unimportant because there’s no attachment to the outcome of the characters. So much indecision even in the final fight scene. Go after Abby again only to save her to decide to fight her again only to decide to save her again. It felt like they were trying to pull so many last ditch efforts to get you to care about this new character development. I was completely engrossed by LOU 1 and the combination of gameplay and storytelling was sensational. This time I didn’t care.… Expand
  6. Hacim
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    I was a huge fan of the original TLOU, as well as the DLC that followed. The story, the characters and interactions, the emotional ties that were formed throughout playing were amazing.
    TLOU2 is ABSOLUTELY a beautiful game, and the play mechanics are sound throughout.
    But the story, the forcing of players to take on the role of Abby in order to try to force them to    I was a huge fan of the original TLOU, as well as the DLC that followed. The story, the characters and interactions, the emotional ties that were formed throughout playing were amazing.
    TLOU2 is ABSOLUTELY a beautiful game, and the play mechanics are sound throughout.
    But the story, the forcing of players to take on the role of Abby in order to try to force them to sympathize/empathize/relate to her and her decision making process is absurd.
    Joel is done a horrible injustice in the game. Was there a way for them to kill off his character if they "had to" and not make the game suffer in the process? Of course there was.
    Instead, Neil Druckmann (and almost assuredly Anna Sarkeesian) decided to spit in the face of all the true fans of the previous game and send players down a rabbit hole of bad story telling, with shockingly daft characters who make horrendous decisions that are contradictory at every turn and ruin what COULD have been the "Masterpiece" that the "professional reviewers" claim this game to be.
    I have been playing games probably longer than many of the professionals have been alive for. I remember the first time I played Pong. I beat Adventure when it first came out. I had Colecovision, the Atari 2600 and still have my old Famicom NES system somewhere in storage (though it is long since dead). I am a gamer and I know that a good story with relatable and likable characters who make informed decisions and have sensible through lines are the most important thing to my gaming experience today. TLOU2 did not have any of that. Good for Sony and Naughty Dog for making piles of money, as that is (at the end of the day) what is most important to their bottom lines, but when PLAYERS say that this game will go down in history on the same level as The Last Jedi and season 8 of GOT, they are not being hyperbolic or evil...just truthful about how bad this game is, and how much more we (as PLAYERS) expected after 7 long years of waiting.    … Expand
  7. Kfreeman
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The scene in the museum with Joel and Ellie is so beautiful and it honestly bumped up the score a few points for me. But that doesn’t change the fact that the game falls apart when you play as Abby. I didn’t hate abby as a villain at first. Wasn’t the best, but she had an understandable motivation. The way she ended up killing Joel was written so lazily and the character deserved better, but i tried to believe that the game could somehow make it worth it in the end. The stuff with Ellie wasn’t bad. Not even close to as good as the first one, but not awful. What this game fails to realize is the attachment that everyone has to Joel and Ellie. I honestly believe that there was nothing the writers could have done to make us sympathize with Abby. We know what Joel did and we don’t care. We had a whole game to fall in love with him and that won’t change just because one of the many people he killed happened to have a daughter. To make it even worse, when you play as abby it has nothing to do with Ellie! It’s a completely different story and it feels so disconnected from the game. What made the first game good is the connection between Joel and Ellie. This game took that away and then tried to turn the two of them into the antagonist. I don’t understand how the writers would ever think we could sympathize with the person who killed such a loved character.… Expand
  8. richabl
    Jun 29, 2020
    3
    In the world of commerce we vote with our dollars, and this game will keep me from voting for Naughty Dog in the future. Thankfully there are so many video games out there, that no matter how good of a game they release, I will be OK not playing it.

    The graphics in this game earn it a 3. Everything else is lacking to me. The game-play itself is stale and feels last-gen. The    In the world of commerce we vote with our dollars, and this game will keep me from voting for Naughty Dog in the future. Thankfully there are so many video games out there, that no matter how good of a game they release, I will be OK not playing it.

    The graphics in this game earn it a 3. Everything else is lacking to me. The game-play itself is stale and feels last-gen. The movement, level design, progression, weapons and combat are all uninspired.

    Now the story. Games like this are almost completely dependent on the story. If it is good, we can forgive other shortfalls. If it is bad, it ruins the game. This story is bad, and I mean REALLY bad. The developers even tells us "this game is not supposed to be fun". Well if that was the goal, they nailed it! There is nothing redeeming about this second installment of The Last of Us, and I can only hope that they do not make another...ever...
    I won't tell you what happens, but only encourage you NOT to play this game!
    Western games have fallen off a cliff into the abyss of agenda, and I would recommend looking to the east for your entertainment until this is corrected.    … Expand
  9. lokhy666
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    esperaba una mejor historia con 7 años de desarrollo jugabilidad muy mediocres la muerte de joel no tenia sentido para matar una franquicia con este tipo de narrativa demaciada inclusiva finalmente no sigio la linea de la primera parte despues de casi 30 horas de juego esperaba mucho mas por la espera pero que mas se esperaba si metio sus narices al juego anita sarkeesian decepcion por laesperaba una mejor historia con 7 años de desarrollo jugabilidad muy mediocres la muerte de joel no tenia sentido para matar una franquicia con este tipo de narrativa demaciada inclusiva finalmente no sigio la linea de la primera parte despues de casi 30 horas de juego esperaba mucho mas por la espera pero que mas se esperaba si metio sus narices al juego anita sarkeesian decepcion por la paticipacion sin tener idea de videojuegos solo intruducir su ideoligia… Expand
  10. Maximus7
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The low score is mostly from disappointment along with the poor story. I don't mind the bleakness or the revenge aspects. Infact, I like the fact that Ellie sees red after the infamous death scene. But this could have been something so much greater, and Druckmann decided to bait and switch and make statements that fall flat. Other than that, the graphics are phenomenal. Sound design is great, music is fantastic and most technical aspects are on par with anything else out there. Not only is this is the end of the console's life cycle but Naughty Dog had all the time in the world and Sony's blank check to get this done now they originally imagined, so I'd expect it be at this level. As far as the gameplay is concerned, it is almost exactly the same as the first, which isn't necessarily a fault, but it's not great either. But for a narrative driven game, they should have done better.… Expand
  11. Juganhut
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    I came into this game luckily not knowing any leaked story bits. I thoroughly enjoyed the original and the DLC，so Ellie being gay was known. That seems to be the reoccurring review negatives. To be honest, I don't care that she is gay. How the studio came about in reinforcing that fact seems like an attention grab that did work out in that aspect, but failed hard in it feeling natural.I came into this game luckily not knowing any leaked story bits. I thoroughly enjoyed the original and the DLC，so Ellie being gay was known. That seems to be the reoccurring review negatives. To be honest, I don't care that she is gay. How the studio came about in reinforcing that fact seems like an attention grab that did work out in that aspect, but failed hard in it feeling natural. Stereotyping Ellie to be more butchy with tattoos, how she walks, and overall less likeable and rebellious. The best thing about her personality is that she still is as clueless to life and judgements as in first game. With that aside, the story, minus the one early shocker, is very bland and forgettable. No surprises, no shockers, no big reveal or twist. Literally the story you are introduced after the epilogue is it. 23 hours of slogging and surviving. I find it hard to read a lot of the reviews that said they couldn't wait to get to the next story but because it was that good. For me, I wanted more story and hoped that upcoming bit was good. Nope. Gameplay is much of the same as original, which is not bad, but the lack of introducing key new elements is sad. The survival is much more easy than the original, presenting no challenge at all on normal mode, with exception of the extremely glitchy zombies who would seem to damage you regardless of dodging. Side characters are lacking personality and depth. Overall, graphics don't seem mutch better than PS3 version, let alone the remaster. Facial expressions seem like twitchy, nervous molds. Overall, the game is bland, slow, lifeless, and honestly feels like someone made the shell of a game, and knowing it sucked, banked on Ellie's sexual orientation to save the day. Obviously critics in mainstream will all praise, not to anger anyone for speaking likely the true opinion.oh, and that huge twist people are talking about (not one at end of epilogue) is not a twist at all as it is assumed in the opening sequence.… Expand
  12. Persona2332
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    When making a story driven game, if the story falls flat, the whole game falls flat. Gameplay has remained more of the same as the first game, which already was decent at best. Many aspects of the story clash with itself making it feel chopped up. Based off of what we have previously played, many characters fail to stay true to their characteristics. This really drags the game down as moreWhen making a story driven game, if the story falls flat, the whole game falls flat. Gameplay has remained more of the same as the first game, which already was decent at best. Many aspects of the story clash with itself making it feel chopped up. Based off of what we have previously played, many characters fail to stay true to their characteristics. This really drags the game down as more often than not I was left stunned as to why the decision to fundamentally change the characters was made. The stories theme of revenge never even meets a satisfying ending to close out this game.… Expand
  13. Bearablemike
    Jun 24, 2020
    3
    The game suffers greatly from the terrible narrative it has put forth. I judge it harshly on this because it is a story-based game coming off the heels of one of the best story-based games of all time. Everything else in the game is improved upon fairly well with gorgeous environments but it all gets dumbed down by that story taking away what could have been so much enjoyment. I'd sit thisThe game suffers greatly from the terrible narrative it has put forth. I judge it harshly on this because it is a story-based game coming off the heels of one of the best story-based games of all time. Everything else in the game is improved upon fairly well with gorgeous environments but it all gets dumbed down by that story taking away what could have been so much enjoyment. I'd sit this one out.… Expand
  14. andrellaren
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. 3 just for the respectable graphics and obvious effort put into the game but you can't mess up a story in this way, i hate everything about it, i just want to forget it ever existed, i mean *spoiler* you made me play with a new trash mongoloid character that ends up killing Joel, part one's protagonist?? its like we killed him, brothers over at naughty dog, take your pills! whats the point of this game? was it made "just to release a part 2 because 1 was so successful"? you made everything that was unique in the first part, the reasons we enjoyed it , hate in the second. i guess that's unique too.… Expand
  15. Essarie
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    disappointed.
    graphics are awesome.
    gameplay is improved, but still this is tlou 1.
    what about the story, i think there was a few ways to do that, but they chosed a .....
  16. Loyur
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. El juego mejora todo lo propuesto en la primera entrega como la jugabilidad,mecanicas,gráficos, cosas que más o menos se esperaban viendo que el estudio que lo hizo nos tiene acostumbrados a esa calidad de juegos, pero lo principal,la historia, justamente el apartado que hizo destacar al primer juego, el lado más fuerte de la entrega se va a la mierda .El juego se llena de incoherencias tanto de personajes como de logica, como porque Joel se fiaria de unos desconocidos e rir a la casa de estos o los valores morales que quieren meter como el de la venganza, como en un mundo asi te vasa a plantear esas cosas es que literalmente non tiene sentido.Es un juego totalmente innecesario el 1 ya había cerrado perfectamente… Expand
  17. khaiman
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined.

    I waited 5 years to play this
    And they gave me a horrible intro and **** ending..

    and now I just have to waste my time to forget about this game.
  18. atome365
    Jun 29, 2020
    3
    Disapointing writing, so much potential wasted, I give it a 3 for music,graphism and mechanics, nothing else
  19. TeomanDeniz
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The game mechanics, the artificial intelligence of NPCs and with some additional variety game looks great. But it's really disastrous to keep the story going like this. ///

    The killing of Joel in this way made the game realistic. It is really realistic for us to easily lose our loved ones in this universe as we easily kill people, but with a baseball bat? Seeing this does not upset the players, it angers. If scriptwriter want to kill Joel more, it's would even make more sense if Joel was died from gets bitten by a zombie. ///

    I played the game, and I have to say that I stopped playing before I could reach the end, the game is forcing us for saw these stories of people we wasn't wondering about. ///

    Want to compress a new character in that series? I think it's not a good idea to do it that way. ///

    Little unreasonable details: ///

    1 - Tommy ate a bullet from his vertebra. He was not hit with a gun on his head, he ate a bullet. And he just fainted. I noticed that Tommy was limping later in the game. But Ammy had to hit Tommy's leg hard to put him on the ground, and I heard the joint sounds easily. ///

    2 - Tommy fell into the sea while on the island, but how did he get to the aquarium before the 2 girls?    … Expand
  20. Ghost_Lince
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    Muy fuera de contexto respecto a la primer entrega, nada que ver, decpcionante
  21. Tyrael2020
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    El juego fuerza una agenda políticamente correcta que resulta innecesaria y solo vuelve al videojuego una excusa para señalar que se apoya la comunidad lgtbi, arruinan todo lo logrado con el primer Last of us
  22. BarkeepCat
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    Terrible storyline, instantly killing off a main beloved character in the most simple and meaningless way, forcing player to play as the most unlikeable antagonist, total disregard of main fanbase, overtly unnecessary sexual cut scene, pushing agendas... And finally, Zero payoff for the player end game.

    TLOU2 will make a lot of $ initially from unsuspecting fans. It will never reach    Terrible storyline, instantly killing off a main beloved character in the most simple and meaningless way, forcing player to play as the most unlikeable antagonist, total disregard of main fanbase, overtly unnecessary sexual cut scene, pushing agendas... And finally, Zero payoff for the player end game.

    TLOU2 will make a lot of $ initially from unsuspecting fans. It will never reach internal initial projections or total amount generated by Part 1.

    Question. Who will explain at the quarterly board meeting on projections and generated revenue on Part 2?

    Beloved franchise killed.

    Given a 3 rating for graphical achievement...    … Expand
  23. Tankereer
    Jul 9, 2020
    3
    This is so sad. I am always looking forward to replay first part again but I had to force myself to finish this one. This is perfect example how beautiful graphics and OK gameplay can be destroyed by awful storytelling. This was forced, unnecessary and sad.
  24. Wwwtor
    Jul 10, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The fact that this game is given 10/10 by many journalists is a testament to the fact that corporate corruption is very real. Don’t buy into these journalists’ 10/10 reviews. This game has a serious pacing issue. The character development also makes zero sense. They turned Ellie into an absolute killing monster that murders hundreds upon hundreds of people, but in the end she just gave up doing the one thing she was set out to do. This kind of character development makes no sense. Abby is also so poorly portrayed that I just can’t feel for her for the things that she did to Joel. If you want people to play as a new character, you need a MUCH better character introduction. Overall, this is a poorly written and poorly directed game that doesn’t deserve a 10/10 score in any way.… Expand
  25. Justguy3
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    This score is for the history that is the most important for me and this game throw away it.
  26. hollandjb
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    Unlike, most of the haters, I don't actually think the story is terrible. It's the dreaful pacing and structure that make it unbearable. They tried to get fancy with what should have been a sequential structure. Top that off with mediocre gameplay and I struggle to see why this game should exist, in this medium. The only thing it really has going for it is graphics which will just beUnlike, most of the haters, I don't actually think the story is terrible. It's the dreaful pacing and structure that make it unbearable. They tried to get fancy with what should have been a sequential structure. Top that off with mediocre gameplay and I struggle to see why this game should exist, in this medium. The only thing it really has going for it is graphics which will just be outdated in 5 years anyway… Expand
  27. juanjo69
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    the most disappointing ending I've ever seen in my life, gameplay is ok I guess, but it's like **** John Wick forgave the **** guy who killed his dog, I'm so disappointed I can't even stress it. 4 years waiting for this game, my favorite game, to get this **** and it doesn't even have multiplayer, wich I have supported throughout all these years. Naughty Dog is spitting in all the loyalthe most disappointing ending I've ever seen in my life, gameplay is ok I guess, but it's like **** John Wick forgave the **** guy who killed his dog, I'm so disappointed I can't even stress it. 4 years waiting for this game, my favorite game, to get this **** and it doesn't even have multiplayer, wich I have supported throughout all these years. Naughty Dog is spitting in all the loyal TLOU fans who love and care for these characters and what they represent and stand by. I'm just gonna pretend this doesn't exist and stick to the ending of the first game.… Expand
  28. Joee1978
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    The first game was perfect, you had a good game with a great history and the perfect ending, but now they Just improved the graphics, keeped the gameplay and made a sh**ty history that spits on the legacy of the first game. Its not that i only dislike the way things went with the campaign, but your history was straight up bad.
  29. Agatehorizon776
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game is not good. The gameplay, music, and animation are amazing, but the story SUCKS. Let’s start of with the thing that pissed me off the most, the death of Joel. Joel is extremely smart in the first game, he literally saw a “wounded” man walking towards him, and knew there was an ambush, but in the second, he saves Abby and goes with her, without knowing anything about her. That is not how Joel would act, it doesn’t fit his character in any way. Then we have Ellie, In the beginning she was amazing, but once you play the game, she goes for revenge, and once she gets the chance to honor Joel, the person who she loved the most, after losing everything (including the ability to play the guitar which was the only thing that reminded her of Joel), she decides that she went far enough, she doesn’t get any moment to shine in the whole game, and doesn’t even complete her goal. Then we have Abby, first with no backstory and only 20 minutes of playing with her, she kills Joel, and that was very poorly executed, because after killing Joel we have to play with her like for 15 hours, and all their attempts for us to get to empathize with her fail, because of her killing Joel, with no backstory at the time. This is not a good game, it kills many fan favorites, and doesn’t do them justice. They killed the highlight of the first game and my own personal favorite character (Joel), and then they made Ellie suffer more than she should. In my opinion they should just leave the game here, and don’t follow the story anymore.… Expand
  30. SlayerDeath
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Una porquería, el hecho de intentar ser inclusivos con las relaciones hacia las personas de la comunidad LGBTI es algo bueno, pero el haber matado a un personaje tan querido y amado por los jugadores fue algo que tuvo un golpe demasiado doloroso para todos, aún peor que al final ella perdonará a quién mató a Joel, no me quejo de los personajes, pero pudieron darle una mejor trama a la historia secuestrando y no asesinando a Joel y es por esto que le doy está calificación… Expand
  31. WraithDrake
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I finally got my physical copy of this game today and played it. While i loved the graphics and detail i can say for certain that's the only thing this game has. It played like the first game with some additions, the forced open area searching was just as overdone as it was in Uncharted 4 and i am already tired of it. The way the characters are now from the first game makes no sense that they would not have changed their mindset from the beginning. The way Joel stands out in the center of an unknown group and then doesn't lie makes no sense, also Tommy being that trusting to a stranger isn't feasible as from the first game. Either way at the end of the day the revenge story stinks, Abby gets away with cold blooded murder, and Joel is a wasted death stopped playing after that and i want my money back NaughtyDog.… Expand
  32. Joaquin_248
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. No one is mad at the game because of Ellies preference towards girl, no one is mad that Joel died. What people are mad about is how the story was executed. How do you kill off the main character in the first 2 hours of the game. And the way he dies is so disrespectful to him. Then they make us play as the killer for 10 hours!? What a joke. They even failed to write a simple revenge story. Ellie kills everyone in her path, including a pregnant woman, but cant kill the killer of her father figure. 7 years waiting to be disappointed like this.… Expand
  33. PAUL_102
    Jun 30, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Not the game I hoped to be, characters have lost entirely their essence and story from part I is completely secondary, also it lacks from coherency and realism when it is convenient depending the character. Not a Last of Us game for me anymore, but I respect other people's opinions and I understand they could like the storytelling unlike Druckmann with haters. Great gameplay and graphics tho… Expand
  34. Signman86
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    Horrible decision with the story. I've loved all previous Naughty Dog games but not this one. Why would you make us play as Abby? Who in there right mind thought this was a good idea? I have a better idea. How about continue with the first story and finish finding the cure to save humanity. I will never purchase another Naughty Dog game that Neil Druckman is a part of. He thinks he is aHorrible decision with the story. I've loved all previous Naughty Dog games but not this one. Why would you make us play as Abby? Who in there right mind thought this was a good idea? I have a better idea. How about continue with the first story and finish finding the cure to save humanity. I will never purchase another Naughty Dog game that Neil Druckman is a part of. He thinks he is a better writer than he actually is. He just went for shock value. I hope Sony hears these negative reviews as a sign not to make a third one!… Expand
  35. Cherkashh
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    One for the efforts, one for the schedule, and three for the gameplay part. Well - seven for the dead story, after such a beautiful first part
  36. davedave1125
    Jun 24, 2020
    3
    Before I continue let me put myself in context, politically I lean to the left and I am pro LGBT, women and BAME issues, I certainly don't dislike this game due to its perceived support of these issues. The story in this series has always been the most important element and the best part is the slow build up of each character, the narrative actually builds the character in front of us withBefore I continue let me put myself in context, politically I lean to the left and I am pro LGBT, women and BAME issues, I certainly don't dislike this game due to its perceived support of these issues. The story in this series has always been the most important element and the best part is the slow build up of each character, the narrative actually builds the character in front of us with some detail and thought. The quality of the first game makes the weaknesses of the second more obvious, to me the writer appears to have zero emotional intelligence which as I say is surprising due to the first game. Let me try to explain what I mean.

    My job used to involve giving very bad news to people (informing a person a members of their family had died) and this is how we would do it. I would knock on the door confirm I was talking to the correct person and give them the news in the most simple way possible. I would answer questions for about 10 minutes and then a second person would appear (Padre, Vicar) and they would take over. Why was it done this way? My relationship with that family member was tainted, he or she would always see me as being attached to a close relatives death, that is why a different person would look after them. To equate this with TLoU2 imagine introducing a new character who then goes on to kill a beloved character almost straight away? It does not matter how much character development you put in she will be tainted, unless she's a very likeable character (she isn't) she will never break through that initial feeling of disliking her. Then the game forces the player to get to know her? Instead of the complex relationship we originally had we got a rather cliched 'revenge' story, the complex character creation was dropped to push a painfully basic narrative.. disappointing.

    I am in favour of people showing trans, females and BAME in a positive light but why would you put them on the side of those who killed a beloved character? Why not have them included in a positive light?

    The plot holes have been looked at in some detailed and there's little point me retelling them, I just wanted to share what made me just stop playing this game. In my opinion if you enjoyed the first one for it's wonderful character creation and complex relationship (with a good balance of positive and negative narratives) then you may well be just as bitterly disappointed as me.    … Expand
  37. Seanb992
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    The game looks beautiful and it plays well. The presentation looks amazing but killing characters off for shock value is just cheap. The new characters are very unlikable. I couldn't wait for this game, but I'm incredibly disappointed. I imagine some people would enjoy it but it's not for me.
  38. Wiggins90
    Jul 3, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Was not impressed with the fighting mechanics, they seemed dated and a little limiting. The graphics were impressive, but there were several glitches that ruined it at times. The worst part for me was the story, compared to the first it was sad to see so many elements that made the first one great thrown away. All stories and shows seem to want to kill off loved main characters anymore cause they think they are making something shocking and surprising, only to do it in the laziest way possible and hope that making it graphic and violent will be impressive enough somehow, so it wasn't original, it wasn't innovative, it was a bad move, I only every hated the antagonist after that, and lost even more interest when forced to play as them. The ending is just tragic and makes everything up to that point meaningless. Might as well have just stayed back in the town and forgot the whole thing. She would be able to still play guitar at least.… Expand
  39. Hupplin
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This is my first review for a game I am about to give. Please don't flag me as a bot Metacritic because of this. I played the game on Survivor difficulty and it took me 33 hours 41 minutes to complete. I feel like I have earned the opinion I am about to give.

    Story(Spoilers): I started the game off vaguely hearing of the spoilers, knowing what happens to Joel, but not how it happens. That was the extend of my previous knowledge. I noticed friction between Joel and Ellie. I knew something went down between them where Ellie was not happy and Joel was slightly heart broken. The acting in this game was very good when you can convey such emotion in your face without needing to say words. I was broken inside after seeing what happened to Joel. Every person who saw this had the same heartbroken and shocked reaction that I did. We all hated Abby at that moment, but I'll get to talking about her later. Ellie and Dina had a sweet relationship in this game. There were some genuinely nice moments they had together. I didn't like how in the first 10 minutes of playing the game I was reminded 4 times of Ellie being a lesbian through a bigot and other comments made. Having genuine sweet moments of people in love holds more weight than making them feel like the world doesn't agree with their choices. Ellie is out for revenge and the story progresses rather well through the days leading up to finding Abby. I was forced to kill dogs in this game, which I wasn't happy to do, but I do understand in war these things happen. I love my current dog(Apollo) dearly and understand how it can affect people. When we finally catch up with Abby she is as evil as ever. We know why she wants to kill Ellie with all the terrible things Ellie did to Abby's friends. We just don't care. Ellie is who we saved from that hospital because of the love Joel had for her. We understand we doomed the world, but we just don't care. The best line from Abby's point of view was when we had the flashback to the day of the surgery. Abby's father is asked if it was his daughter could he do the same thing. Knowing his daughter would die on the table. Her father never answered the question directly. He just danced around it. When the time came where we had to play as Abby the entire community had the same reaction, disgust. We don't care who is was leading up to that point. The only question I had was how she because so ripped though. To get that built as a guy it takes consuming massive amounts of high protein/low carb foods. For a woman it is even harder to achieve. How angry would you be when there are people starving out in the world and some one decides to eat 4 times what others do just to maintain that build? I mean doesn't she have to go on missions? She would need to reserve possibly 8 hours a day to maintain that. A perfect example is the end of the game when she losing all that muscle from starvation. Anyways, at first I thought it might be a mission or two where I would play as Abby, but when I noticed the days progressing the same way as Ellie's story line I was not happy. I don't care if she throws balls for dogs or befriends some scars. When Abby's long portion finally ended we finally get a nice part where Ellie is second mother to Dina's baby. It's nice has Ellie seems happy at first, but than you realize that she suffers from PTSD. Tommy shows up and gives information on how to find Abby to finish things finally. I can best describe Ellie as a soldier who just never left the war. She is so damaged inside that she doesn't know how to live in peace. This happens to people all the time. Ellie leaves her for one last mission and after finding Abby, rescuing Abby, than forgiving Abby for killing Joel she heads back to an empty house. No Dina and no baby. The final scene shows the last conversation Ellie and Joel had before that terrible chain of events happened.

    What started as a review ended up being a therapeutic release of my feeling towards this game. Does this game deserve a 10/10 by the scared game critics who don't want to lose the influence of Naughty Dog? No way. Does it deserve a 0/10? Not that either. If Abby was turned into a character more similar to Owen than I would have been happy. She would have seen the flaws in constantly being at war and just got tired of it. She sides with Ellie in a fight against a new enemy that has Joel die tragically trying to save Abby from this other threat. I didn't go into the game wanting to hate Abby. Naughty Dog did it for me and tried so hard to change my mind, but never succeeded.

    The failure was not in the graphics, acting or game play. It was in the story. It had potential, but Naughty Dog dropped the ball and it rolled under the fence. Leaving us all as sad puppies.    … Expand
  40. Sillmeister
    Jun 24, 2020
    3
    Faces look wierd. Liked what fhey did with Abby. But playing as her sucked. Boring story for half the game... and then a crappy ending. Disappointed!
  41. Aramos0402
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    The gameplay is fun, the graphics are currently second to none, and all the sound is done very well. However when you are a story driven game which is also a sequel and it doesn’t coincide with what we know from the original at all it ruins the game. Then you also take favorite characters and completely disregard who they were in the original and lead them to an utterly disrespectful deathThe gameplay is fun, the graphics are currently second to none, and all the sound is done very well. However when you are a story driven game which is also a sequel and it doesn’t coincide with what we know from the original at all it ruins the game. Then you also take favorite characters and completely disregard who they were in the original and lead them to an utterly disrespectful death it’s just piss poor writing. This is the first story driven game I didn’t immediately begin a second playthrough after my first. I actually struggled just to finish it and it was not due to the violence it was due to the story. 7 years of waiting to get spat on what a disappointment.… Expand
  42. calculousprism7
    Jun 26, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The game play itself was fine and there isn't much else I could think to make it groundbreaking since they added jumping and such into it. Technologically speaking, this game is a masterpiece and creates a lot of immersion with the graphics alone and its cool to see all the characters I grew up to love in such clear quality. I personally am all for the LGBTQ+ progressiveness in the game but I understand why people are saying there is an agenda being pushed and that this game is too political, the way I feel they see it is that all of the male leads were either killed or crippled and especially some we grew to love were killed in ways that were disrespectful to the character themselves or just didn't make sense for the character to even be in the situation in the first place. Also, reviewers are pointing out that people hate the game for that reason and because Ellie is lesbian but we already knew that from the Left Behind DLC as they explored her relationship with Riley. The story is the most important part of the game though and all the amazing graphics and such mean nothing to me if the story is just not good which happened to be the case here. The story proceeds to villianize Ellie through making here hell bent on getting revenge on Abby for killing Joel, while making Abby seem like the good guy by saving kids and playing with dogs E.T.C. and we are practically forced to sympathize with Abby and even maim her as we play Abby which is just uncomfortable to do since most people playing (include myself) hate Abby because of her introduction getting us off on the wrong foot. I understand that the story is supposed to be dark and I'm not angry that Joel is dead (I went into the game expecting it since he would be fairly old now), but his personality was different from the first game since was extremely Untrusting of people. During the into of the first game he even leaves a family with a child on the street when given the chance to save them, while Sara was alive and right when the outbreak started (Just so no one can blame it on her death and Jackson softening him up), but now he's giving his name to a group of 8 people he's never met (all with guns), enclosed in a locked room while they are all giving him stink eye. He is a completely different person making rookie mistakes that don't make sense for a character as seasoned in the apocalypse as him. The stories theme contradicts itself by trying to make Ellie consumed by revenge when Abby was just as consumed with revenge herself, yet the game wants us to hate Ellie and love Abby. The quote used with this game is "Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves." but honestly, you only need one at the end of the game because Ellie has lost absolutely everything for absolutely no reason since she doesn't even end up killing Abby for some flawed 2 second change in motivation. While Abby ends up walking away with Lev, implying that they have a relationship similar to the one of Joel and Ellie in the first game, which we know was something to look forward to. The message I perceive from the story is if you embark on a journey of revenge, just commit to it since Abby walked away with a lot more than Ellie did despite embarking on her on revenge story. Just wanted to get my frustrations out of the way since I loved the first game (and the DLC for it) a lot but was so disappointed to wait 7 years to see all of my favorite characters ruined so hopelessly and for no reason other than "Shock Value".… Expand
  43. Ber4
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    Very good looking game with passable play mechanics and poor story. Graphics are really amazing and game play is ok for this kind of game but this suppose to be interactive movie and story is lacking everything. Worst story for long time in gaming industry and worst ending ever. How can anyone think that this is even enjoyable?
  44. GuiSantos
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    Like AVGN said: "graphics aren't everything".

    Graphics: Good, but in-game the downgrade from what Naughty Dog showed in the gameplay trailers are visible.
    Gameplay: Boring...
    Story: Bland
    But the main point for me is the deconstruction of characters in this game and of course, Abby. Why?

    So i'll end my review like AVGN about this garbage of a game: "this game f*** sucks!"
  45. amjad_shaikh
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    The Last of Us Part II - is a poorly written technical masterpiece. The right way to deal with it is to move on frankly, it was franchise where we all cared more about story and character and that's what is doesn't have anymore!!
  46. hern_n
    Jun 24, 2020
    3
    I loved the last of us part 1, the gsmeplay wasn't anyrhing special, what carried that game was the stoey, specifically Joel and Ellies interactions with one another.
    In part 2 they destroyed all that, got rid of Joel for shock value less thsn 2 hours into the game, then msde you play as the characters that killed Joel for half the gMe! Not to mention the the worst ending ever, cant give    I loved the last of us part 1, the gsmeplay wasn't anyrhing special, what carried that game was the stoey, specifically Joel and Ellies interactions with one another.
    In part 2 they destroyed all that, got rid of Joel for shock value less thsn 2 hours into the game, then msde you play as the characters that killed Joel for half the gMe! Not to mention the the worst ending ever, cant give thus game any hugher score, specially since this game is all about the story.    … Expand
  47. Anneldest
    Jun 29, 2020
    3
    I tried giving the game a chance. The gameplay was decent and the graphics were amazing. My problem is with the story. The characters' choices felt forced and there was no pay off to it. Joel was treated poorly in this game and Ellie wasn't any better. I hated how they tried to get us to feel bad for Abby. Maybe it could have worked if the writing was better. As a writer myself, I hateI tried giving the game a chance. The gameplay was decent and the graphics were amazing. My problem is with the story. The characters' choices felt forced and there was no pay off to it. Joel was treated poorly in this game and Ellie wasn't any better. I hated how they tried to get us to feel bad for Abby. Maybe it could have worked if the writing was better. As a writer myself, I hate when characters do things for the plot and not as a character. It makes it feel force and blend. All in all, I wish they left it alone. The last of us didn't need a second game. It is not the worst game but it did not do the first game any justice… Expand
  48. Barry_allen
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    Bad finish very bad but the graphics and details were excellent. I give him a low score for the lousy story and how forced he was.
  49. Arthur_Hz
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    While Having amazing graphics and attention to detail the game in general feels like its trying to be red dead redemption 2 but failing miserably ar it, the gameplay feels outdated and clunky at times, the story is unsatisfying and all over the place, the characters act like anything but human.
    TLDR this game offers nothing new besides the graphics and what it takes from other games it does poorly
  50. Pangar
    Jun 24, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Being honest here. The game Is **** The pros come from the graphics and game play. Other than that the game fails. From forced political agenda to horrible story writing. To be clear Im not a homophobic or transphobic person. I have plenty of gay and trans friends, the problem though is the game forces it into your brain with a hammer and nail expecting a pat on the back for its courageous effort. Second problem is the story itself. Joel dies within the first few hours, now im not upset that he died im upset with how he died. By some random character not explained or mentioned in the first game who threw a temper tantrum because Joel killed her daddy because he was literally about to butcher Ellie without even thinking to ask If Ellie wanted to go through with it. Ellie in the first game I think would definitely sacrificed her self for the cure if given the choice, but she doesn't get a say and Joel has to save her. Not to mention Joel dies stupidly Joel from the first game would never trust random strangers so easily or give his real name out so carefree. THEN afterwords im forced to play about 10+ hours of abby who at this point who i **** despise and they make no attempt to make me have sympathy to words her. The true fans and people who loved the first game and the relationship between Ellie and Joel Hate this game because it ****s on the first game. In the first game when it revealed Ellie was gay that was fine because it was subtle but there, yet this game it shoves all the SJW agenda down your throat. If they had built up Joel's death slowly while giving us some motivation for abby while building her character and have us develop sympathy for her maybe once Joel trusts abby and reveals his true name thats what sparks her anger again but plans it out instead of just beating him with a golf club in the first hours of the game THAT would have had fans respond alot better than the current game maybe even better have Abby be conflicted about killing Joel once he shows his kindness and compassion for those close to him and have her have second thoughts about revenge but no shes a black and white character with no feelings or sympathy to her in duller than a wooden sword. This isnt a **** bot this is a real person with there true thoughts about that game if this gets removed or silenced by metacritic it just proves they cant handle criticism and are children who pitch a fit when there agenda falls short… Expand
  51. r1krdo
    Jun 27, 2020
    3
    Gameplay is almost the same as the first one with small improvements not enough to make it enjoyable for me, puzzles are repetitive and tedious, the graphics are amazing as expected and the story is awful, as you may already know. Pretty mediocre in my opinion, the story makes it a 3 for me.
  52. Fr33lanc33
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I purchased this game to enjoy another story of Joel and Ellie this was what was sold to me in the advertising within the first 2 hrs I am force to play as a new character which has just brutally beaten one of the characters I have loved for years to death gameplay is pretty much the same as tlou remaster the characters dont have much relatability they are almost forgotten after their death needless to say unlike tlou and uncharted this story this interactive movie is garbage I for one will tread very carefully before I purchase another naughty dog game again this feels like mgs2 I would call this the fallout 76 of the year when it comes to disappointment… Expand
  53. Parziva1
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Ok. I think i should start with the cool things: First of all, the gameplay is just like the original game, so that's a good thing. The music really fits, and the visuals are really beautiful. I can hear, i can see, and i can play in a wonderful way.

    So, why do i give it a 3?
    The story, THE **** STORY

    WHY DID THEY DO MY DEAR JOEL DIRTY LIKE THAT? WHY?
    Because muh revenge. Just because of that.

    I'm going to be absolutely honest. I wouldn't have minded if Joel had died. BUT DEMONIZING HIM AND BEATING HIM TO A PULP? REALLY? There are better ways to manage things like that.
    Now, Abbie. ABBIE. I really had a bad time playing as her, i couldn't forgive her for Joel, and the only thing i liked about her side of the story was the Scar brothers (though they killed one of them, so..... Yeah, that was really **** overall)

    Another thing i found really sad and disappointing was the ending. YOU DO A WHOLE **** ADVENTURE TO SEATTLE, YOU TRY TO AVENGE JOEL (your "dad"/parental figure), WHICH GOT BEATEN UP AND KILLED IN FRONT OF YOU, YOUR (PREGNANT) GIRLFRIEND ALMOST GETS KILLED, YOUR FRIEND/BIOLOGIC DAD OF YOUR KID GETS SHOT IN THE FACE AND DIES RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU, So you spend a long time trying to rebuild your life, with constant traumas from the past, and your "uncle" (which was also deformed by the same bad guy) finally gives you a hint of where THE VILLAIN may be.
    So you decide to risk it all to finally get that sweet revenge. YOU FIND HER, YOU FIGHT HER, YOU WIN! But nooooooooo, i can't kill her, She aint that bad of a person, she cares about his friend (which you don't know at all so why would you care?) SO WHAT WILL I DO? I'LL SET HER FREE! I'LL **** LET HER GO WITHOUT ANY KIND OF REASON!.
    What i'm trying to say is, the story really should've at least allowed you to have a choice in the matter, because for me, i would've definitely killed Abbie, without a doubt (but that doesn't mean that everyone will have the same idea as me, so it would've been great to have a choice).

    Now, to wrap things up, i will say this: If you like it, good for you, thou art a free individual. BUT, that doesn't mean that i will enjoy the same things as you. For me this game was really good, a solid sequel to the masterpiece that was the first TLOU, but for every right it gave me, like the gameplay or the soundtrack, it kicked me in the balls with the story. I enjoyed the first half of the game with Ellie, though i feel that some traits of her where changed (but since she grew up it's all right); i DESPISED the second half with Abbie, and the end was pretty disappointing overall. So yeah, that's why i think it deserves a 3    … Expand
  54. avk117
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    Destroys our beloved charachters in such a shameless way, game play mechanics and graphics are impresive but what happend with the fun or enjoyable part of this game? Non sense writing is very obvious here.
  55. ALESLEY8487
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Everything you expected graphics, game play wise and good music though lacking in parts. The story is very lacking and includes an unnecessary side main story quest. It starts as a revenge story but loses its value then for no reason tries to justify the bad guys actions. By the end you hate the bad guys more but let them live for no good reason when all you want to do is kill them. It has no replay value and a useless new game + mode. In the end naughty dog dropped the ball on this game of fetch.… Expand
  56. AlOOYMaX89
    Jun 24, 2020
    3
    The story is a failure, and the sequence is a failure. A huge difference between the first part and this very disappointing part, with great regret, after waiting seven years.!!
  57. mrshibe
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    One of the most disappointing sequels in video game history. my week is ruined.
  58. Novo1690
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Gameplay is improved vs TLOU while graphics and level design are excellent. They can't however make up for the awful storyline and terrible dialogue. It seems like the writers forgot who the characters from TLOU were and ran out of original ideas. They added in THREE 'surprise' pregnancy scenes... the first one was fine but three? They try to make you feel sorry for Abby but it just doesn't work, I'm not going to forgive someone for killing Joel because she's nice to her dog. None of the new characters other than Jesse are likable but he dies and is then pretty much forgotten about for the rest of the game despite being Ellie's best friend. I could go on but the story is awful, I could've written a better one myself and I am in no way qualified to be a story writer.… Expand
  59. Plarval
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I’m only about 16-17 hours in. I’m currently playing as Abby for some reason and hate it. What a horrible design/story choice. Oh, I’m sure it will wrap up in the story somehow at the end, but I don’t even want to get there. It’s such a chore to go through these events as this character. Just mid blowingly bad. Such a beautiful looking game. It plays just fine. It gets repetitive probing around and attacking people, but there’s strategy to it to give some interest. I just can’t stand playing as this character. Ellie was kind of a mess, but I liked the dynamic with her and Dina. This section of the game ruins all that. I hate it. I can’t give it a zero, but it’s bad.… Expand
  60. Thelucsio
    Jul 9, 2020
    3
    Una mierda de juego solo copia las mismas mecánicas que el primero y una pésima historia
  61. airey
    Jun 26, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The Last of Us creators have always described it as a story-driven game. Its story is, undoubtedly, one of the most relevant aspects of it. It's what differentiated TLOU1 from other Zombie-like survival games of that time and what made it one of the best games of the year it released.
    Enter TLOU2. First things first: Amazing graphics, one of the best ones I've ever seen in the PS4. Gameplay-wise it retains most of the mechanics of TLOU1 with some AI improvements: it won't bring much innovation to the table and the developers decided to play it safe, seeing how well they work in TLOU1. The lack of innovation is accentuated by its lack of multiplayer mode, and The game becomes somewhat repetitive towards its end with the QTEs becoming incredibly predictable.
    This could all be forgiven, though, if the story made up for it. After all, this is a story-driven game, and its story was one of, if not the best, aspects of its predecessor. But as you may all know already, the story is complete rubbish. Most fans would infer that Joel would die in this series, but his death was nonsensical and out-of-character, and the consequences of it were unsatisfying. The game is linear and doesn't allow choices to be made, and in some parts while playing as Ellie you will be forced to do acts you don't want to do only to have the game scold you for having made them, which doesn't make any sense. Compare it to games like Telltale's The Walking Dead, where you made hard choices and faced the consequences of them, or Spec Ops: The Line, where the game forced you to make bad choices, but you didn't know it at the time you made them.
    Inconsistency is also a key part of this story. In the latter part of the game you play as Abby, the woman who killed Joel. Not only does the game NOT scold you for the horrible things you do as Abby, but it tries so hard to make you empathize with her and justify her actions that it even comes off as hypocritical towards Ellie. Given that Joel was a beloved character in the series, this comes off as just pretentious writing, bringing the dread and depression of the game to the point of exaggeration.
    The ending is just as bleak, forced, and disappointing as the whole story of the game is. It almost feels that the creators of the game wanted this game to make you feel miserable for playing it; which can be a good thing, but they forced this guilt on you so hard that it just wants you to not touch this game anymore.
    Games can get away with shallow and almost nonsensical plots if the rest of its parts make up for it. But TLOU never wanted to be one of these games. They relied heavily on the story, and the story was a complete mess. That's why it earns a 3/10.    … Expand
  62. retroMaster
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The game is full of plot holes and was excruciating to play through it started off well, the game was visually beautiful, the game play was a bit clunky and felt outdated, the lack of puzzles in the game as also a bit disappointing, and the story well it felt too forced and the ending was terrible Ellie did not get get revenge at all in the end which was just a waste of time if you didn't get to soar Abby's brains all over the wall instead you lose 2 fingers and she gets away is this a full game? I didn't enjoy killing puppers at all… Expand
  63. ghostjunk
    Jun 25, 2020
    3
    Not sure what they were thinking making fans wait 7 years to simply pull the unexpected twists they added to this deeply flawed story. It’s one thing to subvert expectations, but if you’re not going to do it well, don’t trade in character logic for shock value. As a genuine huge fan of the first game, I couldn’t be more disappointed with the creative choices made in this disaster of aNot sure what they were thinking making fans wait 7 years to simply pull the unexpected twists they added to this deeply flawed story. It’s one thing to subvert expectations, but if you’re not going to do it well, don’t trade in character logic for shock value. As a genuine huge fan of the first game, I couldn’t be more disappointed with the creative choices made in this disaster of a sequel.… Expand
  64. JGamalielLR
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The same gameplay with two new actions but actually works for the kind of game but the story don’t let you enjoy the game, and then force you to sympathize with the villain and force to play with, trying to give you another perspective doesn’t work for the cruelty of his actions, and a final with nonsense it doesn’t change nothing. If that was all better stay in Jackson and not ruin the story of Tommy and Maria or the life of Jesse.… Expand
  65. EjekatMed
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    This game is far, far from the fisrt one. I am so disappointed. The history goes and comes, and I some times I feel like its a new Days Gone.
  66. SovngardDZ
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    The game is good technically but the storyline is awful. This story should be done about another characters in this universe but not from first Last of Us.
  67. ItsQuim
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. They simply took what made the first game so incredible and completely destroyed it. Killing Joel in the beginning of the game was an awful decision, specially the way they did it, turning him into a gullible character, contrasting the first game. The way they tried to make Abby into a somewhat good character with understandable intentions was pitiful, by introducing her as just a stranger to the story that just decides to kill Joel in cold blood ruins any intention of an invested player trying to understand her, making the 10/15 (!) hours that you will have to play with her painful. This game has one of the worst stories I have ever played (comparing to the amazing game that was the first one). One of the biggest disappointments in gaming history.… Expand
  68. Darkcsrnival34
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    This game is absolute trash. The graphics are great and the gameplay is good, but what made the first one so great was the narrative and the story which this game fails hard. Save your money and just consider this bad fan fiction.
  69. Rekrah94
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    Visuals are great and gameplay is fun. Story not so much. Add the lack of multiplayer and I cant say I'm happy with the price I paid for it.
  70. kubiakg83
    Jul 9, 2020
    3
    I loved last of us and when we get a sequel we want something at least equal to the first one this was not the case the story was garbage and so were the characters
  71. Johnnystylez
    Jun 27, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The story is all over the place! some scenes should be before other scenes, in the second half of the game in Abbys story it shows you the pregnant girl getting shot it won't leave you wondering if she's going to Be okay because she's dies in the first half of the game, other than The horrible story the gameplay is alright and I watched 3 Streamers play the full game and we all thought the same thing, the story is all over and Joel dies 2 hours in, the strongest character is dead before you even get to see him, gameplay is good similar to the first one Environment is pretty the story is Garbage… Expand
  72. venture77
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. While the visuals and animations of this game are top tier, and the game play is solid none of this can make up for the plot. Killing off one of the protagonists of the first game isn't a bad thing, but doing it in such a disrespectful way and then forcing you to play as, and try to get you to sympathize with, the person who killed him is. Maybe this appeals to some people but to me this one of the most idiotic writing decisions i have ever seen. Nothing can make this game redeemable.… Expand
  73. Metsuki
    Jul 3, 2020
    3
    After finding out this terrible site was deleting reviews I decided to make my own “honest” review. The Last of us II. Stunning graphics. Decent gameplay. That’s literally it for the positives which is why I’m being fair & giving it 3. When a game literally makes me not want to play it anymore there’s something wrong. There’s a point in the game where something happens to the mainAfter finding out this terrible site was deleting reviews I decided to make my own “honest” review. The Last of us II. Stunning graphics. Decent gameplay. That’s literally it for the positives which is why I’m being fair & giving it 3. When a game literally makes me not want to play it anymore there’s something wrong. There’s a point in the game where something happens to the main character(not going to spoil). Then the game for whatever reason makes you play as Abe. When that happened I was done with the game. I think I’m being extremely generous with my 3 being that the game made me STOP PLAYING. I ended up watching the rest through a let’s play.
    Side note. I think it’s extremely dishonest that metacritic & certain journalist have a problem with all the negative reviews by saying they’re are bots & saying this & that but they have no problem at all with all the 10/10 review bombs. This is why I’m no longer looking at sites like this & ign for my reviews. I’ll be going to trusted sites like Steam (user reviews)    … Expand
  74. TsiStb
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. So disappointing..The story is just so trash and cheap made dunno how they managed to ruin first games success cause its all about story in this game..Gameplay sound and graphics are really good but the Story is so bad.Keep your money people its not worth 70$..Wait for it to drop so you can see with your own eyes how trash is this story made by Neil fck**ng Druckman… Expand
  75. JDOG777
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    Got ten hours into this and was disappointed and bored.

    Will be selling tomorrow.
  76. Megablitz2000
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    While it has some pretty good gameplay and graphics, it was the story and even how some of the characters were written that let this game down heavily.
  77. gamer_lippe89
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    The game was horrible, full of bugs, bad gameplay. They destroyed the history of the game.
  78. TheBozzSilver
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I just finished last of us 2 and I was very impress with graphics and the accessibility menu. The story was not too bad, but the sequence was what made it bad. Everyone knew Joel was going to die, but not so early and so brutal. I believe if he die in by the end and abby was a dlc, the user score would been different. It just was not fun to see joel die the way he did. Then be forced to play as the killer.… Expand
  79. LL00LL44
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. O jogo tinha tudo para um desenrolar magnifico, mas matam o Joel do nada, um cara que era desconfiado de tudo e todos, e do nada o jogo vira uma onda de vingança parecendo o GOW, tirando que eles deixaram o jogo pesado demais com isso não da nem vontade de querer jogar de novo, forçam muito o emocional do jogador, estende de mais o jogo e tipo os gráficos estão lindos mesmo, mas é só isso, vingança você vê em todos os games e é bem comum isso, quem é fan boy vai dizer que o jogo tá ótimo mas não ta a historia é vazia, sem um proposito a mais, só vingança, e com partes que você cansa ate de jogar que é a parte da Abby, se fosse pra ser assim o jogo nem tinham q ter sido feito, cagaram totalmente com a desenvoltura dele, espero que não tenha parte 3 por que ele não teria mais o que conta por que todos os personagens que a gente amava morreram de formas revoltantes.… Expand
  80. Whitegrave
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. What I do not understand about this game is the logic behind the actions of the characters. Let's take Abigail as an example. Her father was killed by Joel in the first game. Her reaction was to take revenge on Joel for murdering her father. Due to the post apocalyptic nature of the game there is no society, ergo it can be argued that what Abigail did to Joel is a logical reaction to what Joel did to her (indirectly via killing her father). The game goes on and you see the characters interact with each other in various ways. The voice acting is top notch. The visuals/gameplay are all top tier. I will not be talking about the technical aspect of the game any further since that point has been stated many times by thousands of people. My gripe is with the story and how the characters act. Let's talk about Mel first. Mel is a pregnant woman who chooses to go to the front lines during the part of the game where you control Abigail. Why? You are pregnant?????? You can physically see her huge belly. What kind of backwards thinking is this? Not only are you endangering your life and the life of your unborn child, you are risking the life of Abigail and Emanuel (and the dog too). This is not the type of game that can allow this type of logic. This is not metal gear. During this mission they get into a car crash, fire fight with the cult, and fighting the mushroom zombies. At one point in order to get through an area Abigail boosts up Mel and you see her slamming her belly onto the metal thing she is trying to climb. You can hear it. I do not understand how this works? The other, and last, thing I want to talk about is Ellie's mission to get revenge and kill Abigail. Fueled by rage Ellie goes on a crusade and proceeds to kill many people, including the pregnant Mel and her unborn child, in order to reach Abigail and end it. This is the part that i do not understand. Ellie shows mercy and tells Abigail to leave. The moment this happened all the lives Ellie took were for nothing. Their deaths meant nothing. Their deaths were as insignificant as the deaths of bugs hitting your windshield. What was the character thinking at the time? Hopped up on all that adrenaline from losing two of her fingers (which is scientifically impossible for a human to do but I digress) how can she make the choice to leave Abigail after all that. I understand that games are subjective not objective, that means what i do not necessarily like someone else will. Yet I find that there is a line somewhere that separates subjectivity from objectivity. Things like plot holes and continuity errors should be objective not subjective. I find how Ellie acts to be illogical. It is true, hatred only begets hatred. And while crude the term "Revenge Bad" is inherently true. The problem lies with how the characters decided to act on these statements. Abigail disregarded the reason that Joel killed her father and acted on her hatred. After Ellie is sparred by Abigail, she makes a conscience decision to act on her hatred and try to kill Abigail. If Ellie wanted for the cycle of hatred to end then she should have stayed with Dina at the farm. The moment she went out of her way to find Abigail, killing anyone and anything that stands in her way, she should have had the resolve to see what she was doing through. Imagine john wick killing all those henchmen and goons and after reaching the guy that killed his dog he just spares him. That feels off doesn't it? Imagine Kratos reaching Zeus, after all the killing that he did, and he just leaves. This is what happened in the last of us part 2, Ellie leaves Abigail free. This is not the same girl from the first game. It is disappointing. if you enjoyed the game then I am glad that you had fun. I just wish that I did too.… Expand
  81. Sammorris
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    I’ve never felt so empty after playing a game in my life. I really have mixed emotions about this game. It was definitely one of the saddest games of all time, but not in a good way. I felt the parts where you played as Ellie were great. I enjoyed her bond with Dina and Joel, even if we only see him a few times in the entirety of the game. I despised Abby as a character. Naughty DogI’ve never felt so empty after playing a game in my life. I really have mixed emotions about this game. It was definitely one of the saddest games of all time, but not in a good way. I felt the parts where you played as Ellie were great. I enjoyed her bond with Dina and Joel, even if we only see him a few times in the entirety of the game. I despised Abby as a character. Naughty Dog expected us to play for hours as her character, and actually like her after what she did to Joel. I couldn’t stand playing as her and I thought that portion of the game was terrible. I don’t think Joel’s death was executed well at all. In the first game he is shown to be smart during the apocalypse, yet in this one he is sloppy and let’s himself get ambushed and killed. He died too early and in a way that just felt offensive. The graphics and atmosphere are incredible, the combat is good and it was satisfying killing the WLF members, but the ending to this game was god awful. It felt so disrespectful to let Abby live and have Ellie be the one suffering loss. The two characters we loved in the first game are treated so disrespectfully in this one, and the ending just made me feel so empty. I really hope that if there’s a next instalment to the series that Naughty Dog learn from this. And I hope to god we don’t play as Abby or let her survive.… Expand
  82. Matt1234
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    I was immensely disappointed by this game. The story in it for a story game and for a sequel to the first where the story was one of the best stories I have ever seen, is nothing less then disappointing.

    Scoring: graphics 9/10 sound 9/10 acting 9.5/10 gameplay 5/10 (did not innovate gameplay at all over the course of 7 years) story 2/10 (bland revenge story that has been overused)    I was immensely disappointed by this game. The story in it for a story game and for a sequel to the first where the story was one of the best stories I have ever seen, is nothing less then disappointing.

    Scoring:
    graphics 9/10
    sound 9/10
    acting 9.5/10
    gameplay 5/10 (did not innovate gameplay at all over the course of 7 years)
    story 2/10 (bland revenge story that has been overused)

    I got to a 3/10 because for a story driven game where the story is bland none of the technical achievements mean much, when you cant enjoy and buy into a story the ends about half way through, you already know who dies and what happens to side characters there isnt much in the way of surprises for roughly 10 hours because you can use your intuition and know exactly what is going to happen within those 10 hours your playing, Its also weird to see a story teller try to manipulate you into liking a character that is inherently evil and is proven to be this way constantly throughout the game. While they try and convince you the beloved character is the evil one for defending them self and being forced to do certain things that they could've worked around easily or avoided. This game is also not getting bad reviews because everyone who doesn't enjoy it is a homophobe because that would be quite the dilemma for me being a bi male it portrays the LGBT+ characters as ones who lash out when people defend them and not accepted by anyone but 1 person which is a shame because of how progressive this game is. It doesn't serve the community well at all as it paints it as a community that just wants to stand for itself and lash out at people trying to protect them and defend them from bigots, and for the trans character there are only 2 people who accept him which isnt a message (I'm not trans but I have a feeling that they wouldn't want to be shown this message) someone who is trans or is transitioning shouldn't be worried about is people to accept them for who they are. Overall the progressiveness missed the mark by having a negative light on most of the things that are concerned with sexuality and how people feel inside and how other refuse to accept them and when they are accepted they lash out at the people who accept them and defend them it makes us look horrible and its a shame they felt the need to go in this direction with the progressive characters. Finally if you see people saying the game is supposed to realistic and it wont have respectable deaths for every character, I raise one question, and that is how are women who are pregnant able to do things the average human probably couldn't with as much ease as they have doing the specific task to me it seems weird to make an argument about how the game is supposed to be ultra-realistic then have viably pregnant women go to the front lines and perform very demanding tasks.

    All of the above is the reason I gave this game a 3/10.    … Expand
  83. JayFons386
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    If 2020 couldn't get any worse. This game could of been a shining light to a dark year but manages to add to the list of this years disappointments. Game looks & feels great but it is overshadowed with a lack luster story with new characters who were fillers for slaughter in a revenge yet not revenge game. True fans of the original will feel let down but if this is your 1st introductionIf 2020 couldn't get any worse. This game could of been a shining light to a dark year but manages to add to the list of this years disappointments. Game looks & feels great but it is overshadowed with a lack luster story with new characters who were fillers for slaughter in a revenge yet not revenge game. True fans of the original will feel let down but if this is your 1st introduction you may feel its ok. Not a triple "A" $60 title or value. Wait for a sale $20 bucks max.… Expand
  84. Scarlet90
    Jun 28, 2020
    3
    Fake / Misled marketing To earn great selling in History,
    Great Work Naughty Dog,
    10/10 Misleading Fans to think the game is only Joel and Ellie,
    Indeed u trick the whole world to make 4 million sales .
    Good work, Great work.
    Great Mislead trailer, Great at mislead everything ..
  85. LEHR
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    The history is very bad, and the gameplay is the same as the first game....
  86. pascamp81
    Jun 26, 2020
    3
    Jogo superestimado, gráfico de Play3, historia lacração, jogaou fora toda a historia de apocalipse zumbi, é muito fraco o jogo
  87. Slamurai_Jack
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Rating up top, in-depth reasoning for each score below.
    Visuals: 10/10
    Gameplay: 6/10
    Story: 1/10
    Tone: 4/10
    Overall: 3/10. I weigh the story the most highly as it's (at least to me) the core of the game. Such a waste of 7 years waiting.

    Visuals:Easily only of the most beautiful games I have seen in a long time. The way they put Seattle together made it feel real and intriguing. Many of the vistas were simply breathtaking. From a studio known for constantly pushing the limits on visuals they once again knock it out of the park.

    Gameplay: If you enjoyed the first game then this is basically most of the same. There are a few additions like going prone and breaking windows, but overall it's the same as the first. And to be honest, I wasn't a huge fan of the first game's gameplay either. But that's not what made the first game special. I will say that in the first game Naughty Dog seemed to realize that their core gameplay loop wasn't exciting enough to take a huge amount of the game, so there were a lot more environmental puzzles (lots of ladder moving, some people liked it others didn't) that helped cut up the shooting and stealthing into smaller chunks at a time. This game feels like there is a lot more time spent shooting and stealthing with very very few environmental puzzles thrown in, which I feel like is a big missed opportunity. Overall a decent gameplay loop but nothing special or innovative about it, but again that's not why I nor others loved the first game.

    Story: Because I guess there was a story. Why does this story suck? For a number of reasons. Firstly, the killing of Joel. It was such a disservice and they spit on his grave. Specifically the way it was done. There is a world where in this game Joel dies and it is heart wrenching and painful but it is part of the story and becomes one of the most poignant events in modern video gaming history. It could have been done right. But how Joel dies is antithetical to who he is. The supremely cautious man who once ran over somebody because he simply thought it might be an ambush waltzes in to an ambush nonchalantly and is killed for it. Who Joel is as a character is not the type of person to be caught in this type of situation. Full stop. When Joel was killed I was so angry I almost put the game down. Not because he died, but because of how Naughty Dog did him. In a word, dirty. Then I have to play as Abby. Here is where the pacing and sequencing of the game break down for me. If this is the story they wanted to tell I needed Abby to be "humanized" before I see her kill Joel. I put that in quotation marks because introducing this character at the start of the game as the murderer of one of my most beloved characters in all of gaming leaves absolutely no room for her to become humanized anymore. At this point the next 10 hours of the game become a slog I have to get through because I no longer care about Abby, and the story they write for her is not nearly moving enough nor her character likable enough to get over the hurdle they themselves placed. But I continue playing. Why? Obviously so I can get back in Ellie's shoes and murder this piece of garbage. And they disappoint again. You don't even get to kill her. This robs me of the only payoff getting me through the game. Again, it's a story-driven game and that's why I'm here. The core gameplay loop isn't enough to give me a fulfilling experience, I'm in it for the freaking story. I don't get any more of one of the best written relationships in gaming history (Joel and Ellie), and I don't even get that much Ellie, or at least it seemed like it after playing as Abby for so long. Ellie herself kills so many people during her quest, but in the end doesn't kill Abby. Why? I don't know. Flashbacks? It's not what Joel would have wanted? I find this reasoning hard to believe as Abby has done just about everything a person could do to be deserving of murder and after leaving a trail of bodies behind her Ellie just walks away. Ugh.

    Tone:At this point I've written too much, so I'll keep it brief. The first game was beautiful because of the vein of hope that ran through it. In a grim, brutal world there were constant rays of hope shining through. Characters you would meet that could smile and cause you to laugh. Most of those moments revolve around Ellie (I mean, who can forget the giraffe?). So even in a very dark world you saw hope for the future. This game has changed Ellie to a much darker version of herself. I can buy this, but now there is no overarching message of hope, nobody to deliver it. There are almost no bright spots, and they are few and far enough between to be utterly forgettable.

    Conclusion: Naughty Dog took just about everything I loved in the first game and all my hopes for the second game and smashed them to pieces within the first two hours of the game. Beautiful graphics can't make up for that. Ugh.    … Expand
  88. somehowdamaged
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    I do not understand why they did with this game. We all waited 7 years for this game to come out just to be disappointed by the way this game planed out. We are forced to play as an character the kill a fan favorite of the franchise.
  89. Bk201v1
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    The vast difference in user and critic scores goes to show just how out of touch these people are with the real people who play this game. I gave this game a 3 just because it had beautiful visuals. The story of part two **** on everything that was established in the first game. Horribly disrespectful to fans like me who waited 7 years for this game.
  90. Tadusku
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    This is my first review for a game. After having played this game, while the graphics are wonderful and the game definitely keeps you on your toes at times, the story is sadly lacking and forces you to play as a highly unlikable character for half of the game after killing off a key character to the story.. I recommend the game for people that have not played the first one, but I can notThis is my first review for a game. After having played this game, while the graphics are wonderful and the game definitely keeps you on your toes at times, the story is sadly lacking and forces you to play as a highly unlikable character for half of the game after killing off a key character to the story.. I recommend the game for people that have not played the first one, but I can not recommend the game to any fan of the original.… Expand
  91. Ronnkkelly
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The first half of the game is a literal 10/10, the story turns into more of a message for SJW's and a feminist weird movement. Look im all for respecting what ever the **** the current issue is, which seems to be everything now a days, but they turned this game into a message rather than an amazing story, they forgot their roots and force you to be apart of this bs... they mislead everyone with fake scenes from trailers and just absolutly cram their agenda down your throat. People play games for an escape from reality and when you put real world issues like this into a game about a zombie apocalypse, it makes people question the developers intentions. I really hate to say it but the story is terrible and SPOILER alert if your not aware, you are forced to play as the antagonist for 8 hours, its absurd... i give it a 3 / 10 . Honestly it hurts me to even say that, maybe I'm a "bigot", maybe m not "woke" enough... idk but this story ****ing sucks. What a let down after waiting 7 years... this is what the fans get, this is honestly one of the worst things to happen in 2020.… Expand
  92. MasterY0SHI
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    Just bad story telling! The game looks beautiful and that’s the only reason it got as high score as it does.
  93. Dayfiree
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I just completed the game the graphics and time effort that went into this game is amazing and I am still in awe of that. However, the storyline was terrible you have to spend over 10 hours playing as Abby who killed joe just a few chapters before. They then delve into the characters backstory which is nice to see there motives but that could have been summerized in a cutscene. I play last of us 1 and loved the characters I expected Joel to die in this game as Ellie’s motivation to attack whoever did it. Just didn’t think I would spend half the game playing as a character I hate to my core.… Expand
  94. Saj_sama
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Joel deserved better , I don't mind him dying was kinda expecting it (I avoided all spoilers before playing this) could have sent him off in an epic way like protecting Ellie or how John Marston died. To top it off they made me play as Abby and no matter how hard they tried to humanize her it just didn't work for me I already knew Abby had her reasons to kill Joel with out them tryna explain it to me for 10 hours and trying to make her likeable they tried so hard to make Ellie seem like the bad guy killing the pregnant lady killing the dog etc but each time Ellie killed Abby's friend it was self defence and or she showed emotion/regret where as Abby in that theatre scene was about to slit Deena's throat by while saying good despite knowing she is pregnant. And all the events in Jackson Seattle had no emotional toll on Abby she was happy dandy looking for fire flies where as Ellie was an emotional wreck and had PTSD. The lesson which naughtydog is tryna teach was revenge= bad thn why did it have the opposite effect on me where I wanted revenge till the end of the game and they couldn't even give me that, Joel wasn't avenged and Ellie lost everything.
    The last of us was my favorite game of all time this part 2 ruined it for me    … Expand
  95. Hendranw
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    Atleast the graphic is amazing and game play is so smooth but...

    We need a great stories, not a lesbians or f*ck scene !!!
  96. asrielfortuna
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    As a fan of the first game, it sucks to give its sequel such a low score. I'll get the pros out of the way. For the most part, the graphics are a huge improvement with the lighting and animations. Although, the new models look a little off. I preferred the older models. The soundtrack is absolutely amazing like the last game and its pretty easy to get immersed into the game. Gameplay-wise,As a fan of the first game, it sucks to give its sequel such a low score. I'll get the pros out of the way. For the most part, the graphics are a huge improvement with the lighting and animations. Although, the new models look a little off. I preferred the older models. The soundtrack is absolutely amazing like the last game and its pretty easy to get immersed into the game. Gameplay-wise, it plays pretty much like the original did. I was hoping for a few more improvements to it, but I can't complain. However, by far the worst thing about this game is the story. It is such a disappointment compared to the original. There's little character development for the new characters that are introduced, and characters from the previous game make decisions that they never would. The story itself is rather lack-luster too, with it being a generic revenge story and saying "Revenge is bad, look at these consequences." The original Last of Us was praised for its amazing characters and story, so due to how bad it is in this game, I have to give it a 3.… Expand
  97. rodxtar
    Jul 5, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Creo que el director de este juego (Neil) no entendió que la gente no es fan ciego de la franquicia, si no de los personajes (Ellie y Joel) y el vinculo y la historia de estos 2, la gente que amo el primer juego no amo el mensaje del primer juego, NO! amo los personajes y la historia de como un hombre que perdió a su hija, por la crueldad del mundo y de las personas, queda destruido y pasa ser un hombre roto, y como una niña con mucha inocencia y carisma va cambiándolo de nuevo, y este pasa de verla a ella como una molestia, un paquete que debe entregar a verla como su hija y ser capaz de dar la vida por ella.

    En este juego desecharon lo bueno del primer juego, para darle mas importancia al mensaje, cosa que como dije arriba no fue lo que atrajo o enamoro a los fans del primer juego, jugabilidad es buena? Cierto, pero no es nada que no haya hecho su predecesor o títulos como los de tom raiden, the evil witchin, el primer juego rescato en el 2013 el genero de suviver horror que estaba muerto y había evolucionado a una especie de accion-shoter, y capto a este publico amante del genero mas su narrativa personajes he historia que en ese 2013 fue innovador, hoy 2020 no rompe ningún esquema la parte 2 así que tampoco es el mejor juego como lo ha indicado la critica.

    Involución de personajes de Joel, no vengan con cuento que 4 años va a cambiar a un Joel que se la sabe todas, y confiar en extraño? es absurdo, y si Ellie en el primer juego tenia carisma, era el relajo cómico, tierno, de tanta masacre con su inocencia, su cambio o evolución de personaje fue pésimo, al punto que si no fuera por la Ellie del primer juego, muchos preferirían a Abby sobre esta nueva Ellie, que ya eso es mucho que decir y dejar mal al personaje, sabiendo el odio a Abby por su acciones.

    La historia pésima, narrativa pésima, guion pésimo, con conveniencias argumentales al estilo de una película de acción de Hollywood, y así luego nos quieren vender realismo, el realismo les conviene para justificar unos eventos pero para otros se les olvida este realismo, como el hecho que Ellie debio morir como 4 veces en este juego y simplemente eventos o por misma decisiones de otros personaje sin lógica alguna le dejan viva, y no porque sean buenos personajes y no quieren matar por matar, cuando en este mundo te matan por lo mas mínimo para quitarte tus recursos, y no te mataran después que amanezas de muerte, vas por tu venganza y fallas y aun así no te matan?

    Gráficos buenos es verdad, pero tiene muchos bugs, los enemigos se buggean, prometieron una AI excelente pero fue otra mentira, así como los trailers y de que esto seria la historia de Ellie y solo ella, publicidad muy engañosa.

    Otro punto muy importante y que nadie menciona no hay multijugador online, literalmente pase 1 año jugando el online pague todos los paquetes de armas y en esta entrega no lo ofrecen, me imagino por el hecho de que en el primer juego ni se molestaron de mantener el servidor sin hackers y pasan de repetir la experiencia por su poco interés en mantenimiento y solo sacarnos dinero con paquetes de armas...

    En serio no la tenían difícil, era un juego muy esperado, muy querido, personajes amados... Si Neil quiere dar sermones que haga películas o se meta a político, en la industria se viene a ganar dinero a vender juegos, no a dividir al fandom, no a perder fans, no a joder una franquicia, no a perder dinero, que aunque esta vez nos engañaron con falsas promesas y publicidad la próxima vez no va a pasar téngalo por seguro y se lo haremos pagar de la forma que los gamers podemos hacerlo y es dejar de darles nuestro dinero.

    Para terminar siento que esta historia hubiera quizas quedado mejor para una tercera entrega como fin de una trilogía, y en vez de esta historia nos hubieran contando en 1 solo titulo la historia de Abby, de sus amigos, para empatizar con ellos y que el segundo titulo terminara cuando Owen encuentra el pueblo de Joel dejándonos en suspenso que pasaría y así creando una división sana de quienes ahora apoyan a Abbie y quienes seguían apoyando a Joel, eso, así se haría de forma sana la división del fandom y no por odio o por querer dar de que hablar de forma barata, porque vamos el director no es que haya inventando el agua caliente con esta historia mediocre como su ego le hace creer. 7 años para una historia mala cualquiera con 5 dedos de frente saca una mejor historia en 1 día.    … Expand
  98. Styner
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. False advertising they showed older joel and ellie but in the game the scenes are flashbacks with young joel and ellie so that annoyed me, they really did us like how abby did joel.

    Abby was the worsr part of the game mainly due to not being likable because well she killed joel... To top it all off they force you to beat up ellie as Abby... Why? Who thought that waa a smart move,who thought playig as abby was a good idea..

    The ending waa a disgrace abby gets to have her revenge get a new best friend and to top it all off has a lead to a group who can help her.

    Meanwhile Ellie gets nothing and loses everything.

    Now onto the review.

    Gamplay is a solid 5/10

    Graphics is a 10/10

    Story was a 3/10

    Ending 2/10

    Overall a 3/10

    A flawed game,the last of us really was more like the worst for us.    … Expand
  99. MrLevinTurbo
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    Gameplay is fun. Doesnt make up for the terrible storyline though. They butchered everything that made me love the first game. Thanks for wasting my time.
  100. juan_agui714
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    This game was not what was advertised on trailers and it's so deceitful. Do not let the "good" reviews fool you. I pre-ordered the game and painfully played through it. Not once did i feel any resolve. With that said the game is a technical wonder, which does many things right... however when you have a bad story on a story driven game, then what else can you expect but low user reviews.This game was not what was advertised on trailers and it's so deceitful. Do not let the "good" reviews fool you. I pre-ordered the game and painfully played through it. Not once did i feel any resolve. With that said the game is a technical wonder, which does many things right... however when you have a bad story on a story driven game, then what else can you expect but low user reviews. sorry naughty dog, but you failed on this one.… Expand
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#2 Best PS4 Game of 2020
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Universal acclaim - based on 121 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  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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