The Last of Us Part II

 PlayStation 4
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5.8

Mixed or average reviews- based on 161975 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 8,550 out of 161975
  3. Negative: 68,475 out of 161975
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  1. Caioguitar28
    Nov 1, 2022
    0
    Ideological and forced narrative, nothing more. Don't waste your time and your money.
  2. Ramahi
    Nov 1, 2022
    0
    disaster game with disgusting agenda , poor using of the fame of the first part to put sneaky agenda , don't buy this crap
  3. tenseiga
    Nov 1, 2022
    1
    How can you destroy a beautiful story? Simply adding a little bit of political correct everywhere!
    This game is only a basket full of homosexual and trans themes and for THIS it won the goty.
    The story is embarrassing, the gameplay is the same only the graphic is good but a game can't win a goty only for it! If you want to play a 10/10 game just buy the 1st the last of us and forget    How can you destroy a beautiful story? Simply adding a little bit of political correct everywhere!
    This game is only a basket full of homosexual and trans themes and for THIS it won the goty.
    The story is embarrassing, the gameplay is the same only the graphic is good but a game can't win a goty only for it!
    If you want to play a 10/10 game just buy the 1st the last of us and forget about the 2nd part because after 7 years they just **** up the game.    … Expand
  4. Ghost_xd
    Nov 1, 2022
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. El juego es alucinante tanto en lo visual, en la historia, y en el gameplay. La historia es cruda y emocionante, tiene momentos muy sangrientos y la brutalidad de las muertes es alucinante. Muchos se quejan de la muerte de Joel en las primeras 2 horas de juego y la mayoría suele dejarlo ahí, y eso es un grave error, la muerte de Joel es lo que le da arranque a la historia, una historia de venganza, de una ellie furiosa buscando a aquellos que le arrebataron a Joel los cuales le perdonaron la vida a ellie porque no tenían nada que ver. Dando un pequeño salto justo a la mitad del juego, cuando abby y ellie se encuentran en el teatro cuando abby va a matará Dina y ellie le dice que se detenga porque no tiene nada que ver, me parece una escena hermosa demostrando que abby también tiene un límite. También me gusta el poder jugar con abby para entender el porqué mato a Joel, y aunque entiendas el porqué lo hizo, sigue doliendo la muerte de Joel y me parece genial que algo así ocurra, pocos juegos se atreven a matar a un personaje tan amado como Joel y encima lo hacen en las primeras horas de juego y a mi me parece genial, mostrando que el mundo de the last of us es cruel. El final me gustó mucho, con ellie y abby cansadas y golpeadas, ellie obligando a abby a pelear con ella, amenazando a abby con matar a lev con el paralelismo con la escena del teatro y ellie, me parece hermoso y la escena final sin duda la escena más bella del juego junto con la del transbordador espacial. Sin duda una secuela más que digna.… Expand
  5. Chad274
    Oct 31, 2022
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Graphics are amazing, music (when it's there) is terrific, gameplay is great; but the story is soooo generic and uninteresting. And it has nothing to do with what most vocal people say about the SJW themes or characters, is just that the "boldness" they were trying to bring was straight up bad. Gameplay and story aren't connected, you spend the entire game killing, and only in the "key moments" do Ellie or Abby feel "regret" or pain. The game does not give the player a "choice" to kill or spare (knock out) an enemy; like in Death Stranding, where you CAN kill enemies but it has a penalty, so you try to avoid it. In THLOU2 you just kill and nothing bad happens. And at a point Abby even kills her own comrades, they say her name when she holds them, meaning they know her and she has a relationship with them, but she doesn't feel bad about killing any of them? Only at that key moment she feels "bad". Both Ellie feels bad for killing a pregnant woman, and Abby draws the "same line", but then what about all the other women they've killed? Any of them could've been with child, and neither would have known, but both killed them without remorse. And I kinda can get behind the decision to kill Joel. But to do so liked that, was weak and rushed. Also Ellie was a character that didn't wanted to have to face loss again and again, and she treasured good things in that horrible world, and she can get mad at Joel for his confession, but still she wouldn't have done what she did, lose everything just to win, I don't buy that. There's no character development for the characters that we love, there "some" character development for the new ones but it is so lazy and bare boned. Some side characters die so suddenly, that as a player you don't care, showing that nothing would've changed if they weren't in the game. The sex scene had no point to being there, it had no consequence, or cause. It's a shame what they decided to do woth the story, and the characters we loved from THLOU. The game has good things, but they are dragged down due to that poor story and lousy writting.… Expand
  6. ProtoAlgo
    Oct 30, 2022
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. By the end, I was rooting for all the infected to completely take over the world.… Expand
  7. Restinginflames
    Oct 30, 2022
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I know some people are butt hurt because they don't enjoy watching some of their favorite characters die, but I have to admit I enjoyed this story very much. If you're just starting this game and disliked some of the events that took place earlier on, I encourage you to keep playing and see the whole game to completion before you knock on it. What shines the most to me is that they did a fantastic job telling a great story from two main characters perspectives, making you love and hate both characters respectively.… Expand
  8. Artival
    Oct 30, 2022
    8
    The game itself is an absolutely fine linear Action Adventure. The writing feels forced at times, but the atmosphere, acting and polished game-play makes this a worthwhile experience - at least if you're not a homophobic person who bursts out with rage if fictional characters are handled differently than you want them to.
  9. joaopoc1998
    Oct 30, 2022
    10
    Best game i ever Played. Best graphics of the generation in a console. Amazing animations. A incredible and unique story capable of making you tense the whole game. Amazing performance by the actors
  10. asg6619
    Oct 30, 2022
    0
    second hand experience is not experience. plaese play the game. you will see this is a masterpiece.
  11. petreyus
    Oct 29, 2022
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Having Neil ruin the game by forcing you to play bland Abby half the game is a slap in the face l. Very apparent he had nothing to do with TLOU1 as that game is a master piece. The game doesn’t innovate at all you’re better off just playing TLOU remastered and do yourself a favor, if you liked the game DO NOT play part 2. It’s a boring story with identical gameplay.… Expand
  12. Hemes
    Oct 29, 2022
    5
    Just a masterpiece, i don't think that the game deserved all the hate that have received, we was just in duel, like Ellie.
  13. Muamal
    Oct 28, 2022
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Why is the game so full of agendas? This is a lack of respect for all religions… Expand
  14. WardBayern
    Oct 27, 2022
    0
    The is probably one of the worst game I have ever played especially when comparing it to the first one which is one of the best game of all time. The plot, the characters, the pacing...everything. The graphics are good, but that's about it.
  15. ricky6
    Jul 19, 2020
    10
    awesome, definitly a master piece, great work neil druckman and the all naughty dog studio, i give a 10 because the game needs support because of the review bombing , so 9.5 would be a great mark as same as god of war, red dead 2 or the witcher 3 for me.
  16. ReviewerT17
    Oct 26, 2022
    0
    There are games that I consider bad. And even games I dislike playing. This game is something I never thought I would ever encounter. I hate it. Just thinking about this game and its story makes me furious at how awful it is. I can laugh at Sonic 06 or Fallout 76. This game isn't like that. Some positive reviewers say the gameplay is fine and you don't have to pay attention to the story.There are games that I consider bad. And even games I dislike playing. This game is something I never thought I would ever encounter. I hate it. Just thinking about this game and its story makes me furious at how awful it is. I can laugh at Sonic 06 or Fallout 76. This game isn't like that. Some positive reviewers say the gameplay is fine and you don't have to pay attention to the story. The story is the whole point of the franchise. And the story for this game is so awful, it scars this game and makes it unplayable. Do yourself a favor and buy a real game that you'll actually enjoy, instead of this garbage. And steer clear of pre-ordering anything from naughty dog (or anything if you don't want to ever be disappointed like this).… Expand
  17. Kinox_
    Jun 25, 2021
    10
    This game is amazing the immense majority of People the score 0 didn't even play it...
  18. bluecheese666
    Oct 26, 2022
    9
    I watched the walkthrough from Kuplinov,love this game very much
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  19. theshallows
    Oct 25, 2022
    0
    This game is absolute garbage on every level humanly imaginable. It's extremely, extremely, extremely bad video game. Hopefully it never comes to PC, because nobody wants to play this trash anyway.
  20. LoomBoom
    Oct 25, 2022
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Pros:
    - Presentation and music were stellar
    - I liked Abby more than I thought, I will go so far and say she is a good character. I can’t blame her for being pissed at Joel. She also was kind and funny.
    - Gameplay is the best naughty dog has made. Not a big evolution, but I think they’ve reached the pinnacle of this type of gameplay
    - the Ellie segments when she was alone were well done in terms of mystery, tone, pacing, and story
    - Rat king fight was great
    - The segment when Ellie first gets to Seattle and it’s open exploration. That was **** cool.
    - the final resort area with Ellie I had had a lot of fun with actually

    Cons:
    - The supporting cast was awful. The scar siblings were so boring and I honestly hated their entire storyline. Dina and Jesse just couldn’t match the banter Ellie and Joel had in the first game. They were not that developed, thus I didn’t really care for them. Abby’s friends suffered a similar fate of just being underdeveloped. I didn’t really care for them at all.
    - Abby’s storyline just felt like a lot of padding. Abby was a good character imo and I understood her motivations, but it just felt we were dancing around the bush in her storyline just waiting for Ellie to show up. The scar siblings storyline took up the majority of her story and it was just an average rescue story involving characters I thought were bad
    - Revenge being the theme of the story. It was fine, but I didn’t find it mind blowing or anything like that. It really lets you know revenge is bad at every corner for better or worse. After I got over the initial shock of playing Abby, I didn’t think the change up in the story was that impactful. It felt like two games in one. IT SHOULD BE STATED I was spoiled so bad so maybe that initial impact was ruined for me. Honestly it might have been a good thing because I might have dropped it if I played it blind. I was able to accept that I was going to play Abby for so long before playing that I accepted her quicker than I probably would have. So the story and it’s themes were decent, but not groundbreaking like the first game where it developed the bond between Joel and Ellie so well and it showed what people will do for love. That’s hard to top man.
    - Final con is what I alluded to before: the chemistry between the characters is just ok. The dialog and banter between Joel and Ellie was so strong, so coming into this game I actually preferred it when the lead characters were alone because I just thought the dynamic between the other characters were weak.

    In terms of the structure of the game, it’s hard to say how it would be improved. I think I would have preferred if we had a journey with Abby from the start to kill Joel. We find him and kill him and then we switch to Ellie before and then go on a journey to kill Abby. That way I would have cared maybe a bit more about Abby's friends and all that. But I understand they wanted to make it dramatic when the switch happened so idk.

    Overall, I’d say it was a good game, but not a great game. I’d give it a solid 7/10. I enjoyed my time with it and don’t regret playing, but there was a lot a lot of things that were disappointing and flawed.    … Expand
  21. SkadooshKun
    Mar 9, 2022
    0
    An absolutely abysmal game!

    No plot, no interesting characters.. I can't believe we waited 7 years for this.
    This game is horrendous and you shouldn't play it.
    Honestly, the moment the game asked me to play as Abby, I shut it down and deleted it from my playstation.
  22. ZangBang
    Oct 24, 2022
    7
    75/100
    The Last of Us Part II takes the gameplay foundation laid by the first game and expands on it, but not always in positive ways. The cycling of human and infected enemies still keeps the experience pleasantly variegated, and to each group new classes have been added. These additions aren't unique enough to meaningfully shake up the experience, but the new ways in which we can    75/100
    The Last of Us Part II takes the gameplay foundation laid by the first game and expands on it, but not always in positive ways. The cycling of human and infected enemies still keeps the experience pleasantly variegated, and to each group new classes have been added. These additions aren't unique enough to meaningfully shake up the experience, but the new ways in which we can approach them definitely do: dodging and counterattacking are rewarding new mechanics that make melee offense a much more worthwhile option, layering combat significantly, just like hiding in the tall grass, underneath vehicles and underwater amplifies the strategic options for stealth. Alas, these improvements, and combat as a whole, is severely undermined by the overwhelming size of areas. Levels are much bigger than they were in the first game, and although this might seem like a clear improvement, it becomes apparent after a while that their bigger size often makes the experience significantly worse than before. Areas are now so big that it often becomes extremely, embarassingly easy to alert the enemy only to then run away far enough to make their AI lose your tracks. By repeating this, the player can easily trivialize a significant chunk of the game, only because areas are so big that they allow you to. Nonetheless, many areas are contained enough to prevent this, and the human AI is notably improved since the first game. Plus, exploration is always rewarding thanks to the hunt for materials, greatly immersive, and environmental puzzles are now decently creative, if still repetitive. The characters of The Last of Us Part II retain the same level of believability and psychological depth that made the first game special, but the story itself lacks the same spark, being thematically repetitive as it is entirely devoted to a moral lesson that is extremely overused in media.    … Expand
  23. Rains01
    Oct 24, 2022
    9
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  24. Mateogear
    Oct 23, 2022
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Like many others, I hated the story. The gameplay was great, but being forced to play Abby, after all the investments into Joel and Ellie, just didn’t make sense. I did not enjoy playing as Abby at all.… Expand
  25. cwwalker
    Oct 22, 2022
    10
    Excellent game in all respects. What more do I need to say to confirm my user rating.
  26. smandabomb8
    Oct 22, 2022
    10
    The greatest story ever told in a video game. Thematically and emotionally powerful, the narrative of this sequel alone is enough to warrant a near perfect score, but the gameplay bangs too so a 10/10 it is.
  27. emilyrileyt
    Oct 22, 2022
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Beautifully done follow up to an amazing game. You can expect the same attention to detail in the graphics, gameplay, music and casting as in part 1.
    The story is an excellent tale of revenge, and how far some people are willing to go to achieve this. Expect the unexpected!    … Expand
  28. Ky_Tree_No
    Oct 21, 2022
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The Last Of Us Part II isn't really concerned with the idea of combat, though its admittedly great-lasered-down gameplay would make you believe otherwise. It mostly decides to wrestle against a multitude of heavy, capital-I Important topics instead, drowning its already submerged dead weight of self-seriousness with one of the bleakest, most uncompromising plot structures I've seen for a blockbuster PS4 game. Mostly, I found it hard to watch, with the inherent revenge thread being one-upped by frequent pulpy lashings of blood among the many encounters along the way in an ill-fated attempt at discouraging revenge, but I also was slapped senseless by the silliness of it all, and whether this even works as effective allegory.

    it's a shame to watch as all of the ambition and technical beauty on display here goes wildly underserved by its moral simplicity. Why is this as thorny as your typical Oscar drama? Remember at the end of the previous game when Joel set a dangerous precedent by lying to his surrogate daughter Ellie to her face? Where's that? Well, mostly sideline in favor of the least interesting plotline. There are only so many slow, agonizing Important, dramatic moments about family, revenge, and death you can take before they all start to blur, and unfortunately, this has very little to offer beyond them. So unbelievably gorgeous tho.    … Expand
  29. stephanBRA
    Oct 20, 2022
    10
    Fantastische Fortsetzung des ersten Teiles. Bin immer noch total geflashed. Grandiose Geschichte, fesselndes Gameplay. Bitte mehr davon.
  30. DVOL
    Oct 20, 2022
    0
    Brilliant animations, AI, voice acting, graphics, and gameplay. Unfortunately overshadowed and laid to waste by an awful story. They demonize the beloved characters from the first game and attempt to make you feel empathy for the new character who makes unarguably worse moral decisions. Such a waste of potential for the franchise.
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#2 Best PS4 Game of 2020
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#3 Most Shared 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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