The Last of Us Part II

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  1. Rustydiscogs
    Jun 21, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Let me first say that I am happy there are more diverse characters .. The Issues with the game come from the fact that the story is not only bleak and depressing (imagine Alien 3) but the themes of revenge and the relativistic nature of good v evil are overdone ..

    The first game was good because it took a cliche story and made it special with the beautiful characters and their relationships ..

    The gameplay is basically the same and hasn’t really changed much .... This sequel is not good ..    … Expand
  2. RR67
    Jun 21, 2020
    0
    Fairly simple story and misaligned with the plot of the first game, it just seems like they made the game with the legs.
  3. Mefesto151
    Jun 28, 2020
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. from a technical point of view, the game looks very good
    graphics, physics, the work of designers, animators - beyond praise
    fights and skirmishes became more dynamic.
    What sways the plot: I'm absolutely not interested in Ellie's orientation, how the relationship between Joel and Ally has changed,
    can understand, the girl grew up, teenage nihilism, etc. But, why did you have to kill your favorite character? why am I being forced to play for a killer, I absolutely do not **** her life, her feelings and experiences, I am not physically pleased to play for this disgusting giant woman, it's the second day of the game for Abby and I don’t want to continue the game.

    Thanks to those people who worked on the game. screenwriters sucks    … Expand
  4. ForeverFlat
    Jun 21, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I was excited for Last of Us 2 since its announcement as i enjoyed the first one greatly. I played this game and i have never been let down so much in my life. This is all because of the poorly written story. All of the deaths felt rushed or dry and the ending of game had no pay off and just made you felt bad because you played the game.

    Abby had potential to be a good character but forcing you to play her after you just watched her kill a favourite character is awful. You get zero interaction between Joel and Ellie in the actual game as he is dead within the first hour of the game.

    The best scene in the game is actually a flashback that involves no combat or story progression with showing Ellie receiving a birthday gift of a tour of a dinosaur / space museum from Joel. This scene is what LOU2 should've been but it was tainted by poor writing and character deaths.

    The game makes you feel bad by making you hunt down and kill the people who killed Joel and then make you play as Abby to showcase the pain you've caused. But this doesn't matter as they don't bring these characters up ever again. Manny was one of Abby's best friends and he gets sniped by Tommy and killed, he is never mentioned ever again by Abby. It also pulls this pregnancy card by making you feel bad because you killed a pregnant girl, even though she resisted when you asked her to point on a map and attacked you.

    Jesse was a fun character who cracked multiple jokes at all times with a bright personality and was a good adition to the cast, but was wasted drastically as he had like 6 scenes in the game and is killed off because he ran through a door and shot dead instantly. He is then forgotten like he never existed and only ever mentioned once again after him dying like 40% through the story on a **** piece of paper which is just focused on Dina.

    Dina was a good character which also was ruined by being placed in the back. She comes with you to hunt down Abby but mentions she is pregnant and is told to stay still in the Theatre and uses a radio to track down Abby via her friends. It makes sense to stay put but just sleeps after that and gets no screen time until later on where She and Ellie in a generic "Happy Ever After" scene where they get their own farmland and house with a great view away from all of the evils and society. But she just ditches Ellie when she goes back to hunt down and finish abby.

    Then Issac the leader of the Wolfs just dies, accomplishing nothing to the story other than to make it understandable how the Wolfs lost the attack to the scars because they had no leader. The two scars where okay characters but where ruined by little screen time they show up late into the story and get a good story arc by saving abby from other scars, then its ruined by the child scar getting upset and running back home to his mom, despite running away from him cause he mom tried to kill him.

    The last scenes shows another group which uses others as slaves by pretending to be Fireflies. Abby and Lev are caught and forced into slavery for 2 months. Ellie hunts them down to this area and attacks the compound to hunt down and kill Abby. She finds her but she is very skinny and basically on the brink of death to make you feel bad for Abby and then they fight each other with Abby restraining from fighting but being forced to by Ellie. Ellie then wins the fight and is about to kill Abby and decides not to because Revenge is bad, then lets her go and loses two fingers in the fight and heads back home to find Dina has left her and She can't play guitar anymore.

    The combat was ok. It was good but certain set pieces are poorly balanced on the Hardest Difficulty. Such as the area where you must wait for Lev took rescues from a horde which attacks in you in a locked room before they bust down a ambulance window. If you are low on supplies this room gives you little to none to survive which makes it impossible and can be a soft-lock. Later combat sections are just large open fields with large amount of patrolling enemies which drop the FPS drastically and force you to kill to proceed but on the Hardest Difficulty this is frustrating because you can't aim precisely against large groups of enemies with a PS4 controller.

    To put this shortly. This game feels like everybody worked their butt off to produce an amazing game but they were forced to follow bad directions from poor story telling by N. Druckman. This game does everything but the story really well and since this game is all about the emotional story which was what made the LOU1 a masterpiece. It kills the game and makes it a chore to play with no pay off.

    Story - 1/10
    Graphics - 9/10
    Gameplay - 6/10
    Sound - 9/10
    Voice Acting - 10/10
    Characters - 2/10    … Expand
  5. RDon
    Jun 22, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. this game ruins the magic of the original game and besides that pushes forward the SJW agendas… Expand
  6. edperez20
    Jun 21, 2020
    2
    The story was just terrible, was i supposed to feel bad for abby for the ten minutes she was a child. For one thing i did not like when she killed joel in the most coward way of killing him like seriously people save you and you shoot him in the knee. Secondly the fact that druckmans self insert was a complete piece of trash spitting on him did not help. If abbys story was in the beginningThe story was just terrible, was i supposed to feel bad for abby for the ten minutes she was a child. For one thing i did not like when she killed joel in the most coward way of killing him like seriously people save you and you shoot him in the knee. Secondly the fact that druckmans self insert was a complete piece of trash spitting on him did not help. If abbys story was in the beginning of the game i might have felt sympathy but nope. The graphics were beautiful and audio was fine. game play was a little more smoother than the first but was repetitive and got boring. Ellie was alright, her blood lust felt real but when it came to the end it was just a complete hot mess. All in all it was a disappointment.… Expand
  7. Erixxire
    Jun 21, 2020
    2
    Excelente jugabilidad, escenarios estupendos pero, malos personajes y pésima historia.

    Darle fin de esa manera a el protagonista de la primera entrega.
  8. Nonceyjosh
    Jun 21, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I’m only 8,1/2 hours in. (8 hours and 30 minutes in) and I love it. The graphics are spectacular. People need to understand that Joel oiled a lot of people and what he did was wrong. Everyone knew that! Actions have repercussions. I love Joel so much but that’s what happens. But overall the storyline is amazing!!! Hopefully there’s gonna he a second one!… Expand
  9. ProjectEchoes
    Jun 21, 2020
    2
    I don’t have enough time or energy to explain how devastating this abomination of a sequel is. I am not a hateful person and I hold TLOU so close to my heart. What creators/writers have done to these characters, the one’s that meant something, is borderline unforgivable.

    I am, in this particular case, grateful for those leaks and the automatic cancellation of my preorder. They allowed    I don’t have enough time or energy to explain how devastating this abomination of a sequel is. I am not a hateful person and I hold TLOU so close to my heart. What creators/writers have done to these characters, the one’s that meant something, is borderline unforgivable.

    I am, in this particular case, grateful for those leaks and the automatic cancellation of my preorder. They allowed me to choose to instead watch this game from beginning to end and therefore not give them my $60.

    There are so many bad and incoherent things and moments in this sequel. From the awful writing and beyond. There are some moments in this game that give me a heartbreaking glimpse at what could have been.

    TLOU has no sequel. It stands alone.    … Expand
  10. tribalsuperman
    Jun 21, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Aboslute rubbish. Agenda driven and unsuitable to be called a "game". If it were an object, it would be toilet paper.… Expand
  11. Bast17
    Jun 21, 2020
    2
    The game graphics are beautiful, the gameplay is fun but the story and characters are trash and it is the most important part for me.
  12. GuilhermePitter
    Jun 21, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Bug bug bug!!!!, você espera anos por um jogo que a qualidade grafica ja e inferior ao que estamos vivendo na nossa epoca aomde pagamos caro por um jogo de qualidade inferior, aonde ja se viu voce esta jogando e do nada Ellie perde um BRAÇO… Expand
  13. TheGamer777
    Jun 21, 2020
    1
    This game could've been the greatest game ever made. But Neil chose not to make that happen
  14. SnowRexilium
    Jun 21, 2020
    0
    Outdated gameplay, mediocre at best. The story is just so inconsistent, illogical, and badly told--POOR. Regretting playing this game.
  15. LordxHobo
    Jun 21, 2020
    2
    I can't believe I waited 7 years for this... What a disappointment, the graphics are good and the gameplay average at best, other than that, there's not much I can say I personally liked about the game.

    The story is absolutely horrendous, especially after having played the first game.
  16. PoppinTron
    Jun 21, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game is so pathetic and was ruined in a matter of 2 hours. Yes, I understand that Joel had to have consequences for the action he did for the first game by saving Ellie but what type of consequence is killing him in the first 2 hours by the most pathetic way to die as if they hurried to kill the most liked character in the game. All in all this game was an atrocious piece of shi game and the writes of it and especially Druckmann really needs to reconsider his career path… Expand
  17. Magical_Nyan
    Jun 21, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Terrible hot pile of **** cant even refund cause they made joels death like 2 and a half hours into the game poggers.… Expand
  18. smitty123
    Jun 22, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Everything Naughty Dog built up in the first game was thrown away in the 2nd. Joel dies at the beginning without us even playing as him once. Missed opportunity but I got over it. We play as a character we have no emotional attachment to as well nor care for. The revenge story begins...I can deal with it. We then get what felt like a symbol female empowerment with the lesbian scenes and muscular female character. I can deal with it. We then are reminded of what Tommy is doing for revenge yet never get the opportunity to play as him. Another missed opportunity. Dina announces she's pregnant. How does this affect the story? Why even add this part? Nonetheless, the first half of the game was bearable. The 2nd half of the game is a different story. We are forced to again play as the character we do not care for. There is nothing the developers can do for us to sympathize for Abbie yet they force her story on us anyways. Jessie dies in an instant. Why even have scenes of him if he goes out like that? The least the writers could have done was instead of being fatally shot, have him hurt enough to fall to the ground and tell Ellie to tell Dina that he's sorry he can't be there for Dina since he knew she was pregnant before Abbie finishing him off with a gun to the head. But no, he is taken out with a snap of a finger. Tommy goes out the same way presumably. Again, we are forced to play the character for most of the game we do not care nor are emotionally invested it. After wasted hours playing as her, still do not care. It was during this point I just wanted to stop playing this garbage. She lets Ellie live AGAIN. Fast forward, we find out Tommy is alive. That was literally the only positive about the 2nd half of the game but now he's disabled with a missing eyes and a limp resulting in most likely no future in a potential 3rd game (I don't want one after this mess). Do we really want revenge after this? We were put through being forced to play a character I don't care for and lets Ellie live TWICE already. If the developers just had to FORCE the story, give us the option between choosing Abbie's story and Ellie's and I guarantee you, it would be unanimous that players choose Ellie and only choose Abbie because they're curious, not because they care for her character in any way, shape, or form. Awful game and it's generous I'm giving this game a 3 out of 10.… Expand
  19. haroun
    Jun 21, 2020
    0
    stop making lgbt stories in games!
    no one should defend a case through video games,gaming should only be about fun entertainment or cultivating our brains.
  20. PsYh0l0g
    Jun 21, 2020
    0
    Omg why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why
  21. raffars
    Jun 23, 2020
    2
    1. Абсолютное несоответствие характеров главных героев, по сравнению с тем, что было в первой части.
    2. Не соответствующий постапокалипсису мир из-за сильного акцента в сторону феминизма, происходящее выглядит глупо, не воспринимается реалистично, и не вызывает переживаний.
    3. Множество дыр и нестыковок в сюжете. 4. Очень навязчивая пропаганда ЛГБТ всю игру. Многолетний труд команды    1. Абсолютное несоответствие характеров главных героев, по сравнению с тем, что было в первой части.
    2. Не соответствующий постапокалипсису мир из-за сильного акцента в сторону феминизма, происходящее выглядит глупо, не воспринимается реалистично, и не вызывает переживаний.
    3. Множество дыр и нестыковок в сюжете.
    4. Очень навязчивая пропаганда ЛГБТ всю игру.

    Многолетний труд команды разработчиков напрочь испорчен сценаристами.    … Expand
  22. LisLazer
    Jun 21, 2020
    1
    Naughty Dog “subverts expectations” meaning they come up with one of the worst plots possible, discrediting the success and appeal of the first installment. Don’t waste your **** money.
  23. Blazerq8
    Jun 25, 2020
    1
    Very disappointed after waiting 7 years for this game... Very weak story compared to the first one, it will leave you angry and depressed when you finish it.

    If you like the last Jedi and game of thrones season 8 then this is for you, I don't.
  24. aemtti123
    Jun 21, 2020
    0
    there's nothing too much things to say.
    if the goal of the story was making upsetting players this is great triumph even though i can't see anything benefit for doing that.

    worst part is refund is hard.
  25. LastofUsgovno
    Jun 21, 2020
    1
    Худшее говно! для сжв даунов! К бедным людям живущим в мультикультурном городке с подрастающими черными детишками и девушками лесбиянками приехали злые белые которые убили главного героя клюшкой для гольфа заставив смотреть ребенка на жестокость белых людей , наверно Русские шпионы или нацисты напали! ЛОЛ ТУПО ВЫКЛЮЧИЛ ЭТО.....Худшее говно! для сжв даунов! К бедным людям живущим в мультикультурном городке с подрастающими черными детишками и девушками лесбиянками приехали злые белые которые убили главного героя клюшкой для гольфа заставив смотреть ребенка на жестокость белых людей , наверно Русские шпионы или нацисты напали! ЛОЛ ТУПО ВЫКЛЮЧИЛ ЭТО.....
  26. Juan_Rangel
    Jun 21, 2020
    0
    Un juego que prometía mucho se fue al carajo gracias a las inclusiónes, a una historia sin sentido, juego lineal y por darle a Joel una muerte ridicula. Solo espero que Naughty Dog no cometa el mismo error con Uncharted 5
  27. michael_s00
    Jun 21, 2020
    3
    Even though the graphics and gameplay are one of the best, the terrible ending that the producers created really ruined the whole experience for me. I really hope they fix this somehow in the next game.
  28. cal_me_lizzy
    Jun 21, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The last of us part 2. oh god, alright. story wise, trash. everything else (graphics, gameplay, sound, voice acting, ect) amazing. hense the 2. for me, the reason i enjoyed part 1 was because of its increable story, compelling plot, and characters. having a dude who lost his daughter, through horrible eevnts, almost lose a second one was compelling, and felt human. on the contrary, we have a angsty revenge story. not to mention the fact they killed the best character of the game, joel, just like that. abby seemed like such a interesting villain, with her backstory and all. but it was ruined by the writting trying to make us think she was right to kill joel, just completly contradicting what the first game had worked so hard to do. thats bad writting. also why in the heck would joel trust a random girl he just met? he spent the first game not trusting anyone, and that was why his bond with ellie was so special, thats why saving her was so special. cons over, on to the pros.

    1. the game play
    the fight scenes, and npc's felt more real
    2. the graphics
    i mean this one is a given 3. sound
    jeezous the music, amazing. i could listen to the osts forever
    4. voice acting
    this is where i have to give major props. i mean just listen to the running moan in agony, it sounds like they are in real pain. ashley mever disapoints, hearing ellie scream as she watched joel be murdered in front of her hurt me on a level i didnt think a game could.
    5. the monsters
    oh my god the monsters. i still cant get over the part at the begining where ellie fell through the ceiling and ellie almost got eaten by a clicker (then the clicker was shot by dina but no one cares about dina) 6. graphics
    imma say it again. this game made me forget this wanst live action. every little detail was amazing. i am not at all hating on this game, i actually enjoyed a lot of the scenes, (mostly the flash backs with joel, sorry but ellie and joel are just too cute together)

    in conclusion 2/10. sorry but story is very important to me    … Expand
  29. duraes03
    Jun 21, 2020
    0
    After that masterpiece naughty dog shouldn have done the second part like this... the story is soo poor for the gameplay and the graphics itself...so disapointing naughty dog
  30. OlivaMtrz
    Jun 21, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. O melhor jogo que joguei na minha vida, simplesmente insano. É tão imersivo a ponto de te conectar com os sentimentos da ellie, te ensina o significado do ódio e da dor te coloca em contato com vazio emocional impreenchivel e de como a perda de joel a fez perder o próprio caminho. E simplesmente extraordinário!… Expand
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  1. Positive: 113 out of 121
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 121
  3. Negative: 0 out of 121
  1. GameMAG
    Sep 13, 2020
    90
    The Last of Us Part II is the high point of the PlayStation 4. The plot is controversial, but the game is the incredibly addictive adventure of Ellie, from which it is impossible to pull away from the opening and to the very end.
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  2. PLAY! Zine
    Sep 5, 2020
    93
    Not everyone is going to enjoy the motives of The Last of Us Part II. But if you try and manage to accept the subliminal and not so subtle messages as a fact that the world has gone awry and that people have the need to have somewhere or someone to belong to as their own way out, then... You will witness the boundaries of gaming expand. You will witness a true masterpiece.
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  3. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Sep 3, 2020
    75
    If you loved the original for its great characters and well-paced story – stay away from this game. However, if you’re aching to sink into the depths of depression, or just want to cut some throats and burn some zombies – Part II will deliver. [Issue#247, p.72]
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