The Last of Us Part II

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  1. Metamoh
    Jun 25, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Don't believe the perfect 10/10 scores This game is a waste of money waste of talent waste of time Its the definition of a dumpster… Expand
  2. Jimson
    Jul 6, 2020
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The game is above average, the story would benefit from certain events being swapped (Abby before Ellie). The gameplay is incredible and extremely realistic.… Expand
  3. Vancemuffin
    Jul 13, 2020
    10
    This is one of the most timely and important games. If you have not played the first game please do so. Then play this one until the credits roll. Be open to the experience the game is taking you on. Graphically, narratively, technically one of the most impressive feats in gaming history. Take your time with it. Live in it. Embrace it. Feel it. Dwell on it. Reflect. Learn perspective. BeThis is one of the most timely and important games. If you have not played the first game please do so. Then play this one until the credits roll. Be open to the experience the game is taking you on. Graphically, narratively, technically one of the most impressive feats in gaming history. Take your time with it. Live in it. Embrace it. Feel it. Dwell on it. Reflect. Learn perspective. Be open to where your emotions might go. The mechanics and graphics alone are enough to carry this game. But the punches and surprises it pulls of are truly unforgettable. Truly a masterpiece… Expand
  4. Halohalo
    Jul 13, 2020
    9
    En mi opinion es uno de los mejores juegos de la ps4 si tienes una tienes que jugarlo y no te guies por criticas malas de metacritic (algunas) es review bombing y nisiquiera han jugado el juego, en apartado grafico es impresionante el detalle de cada ambiente y de cada personaje, la jugabilidad se parece mucho a la de the last of us y la IA de los npcs es brutal y casi dificil pero teEn mi opinion es uno de los mejores juegos de la ps4 si tienes una tienes que jugarlo y no te guies por criticas malas de metacritic (algunas) es review bombing y nisiquiera han jugado el juego, en apartado grafico es impresionante el detalle de cada ambiente y de cada personaje, la jugabilidad se parece mucho a la de the last of us y la IA de los npcs es brutal y casi dificil pero te acostumbras, la historia tiene fallos pero en general esta bien como representan el odio en en un juego y el mensaje que deja de la venganza puede dañarte a ti y a tus amigos totalmente recomendable… Expand
  5. tinyvent
    Jul 13, 2020
    1
    Cannot believe how disappointing this game is for me. Astounding graphics/gameplay wasted because of the garbage writing in this game. 7 years for this? Really? Y'all can't think of a better story? 2020's already been a sh*tty year and ND decided to drop this stink bomb of a game and thought it great. News flash it isn't.
  6. Joelthesurvivor
    Jul 13, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game was good for me- i agree some story choices made couldve been better handled- but overall i gave it a 8.5 which you cant give here- i played it as i loved the first one being my favourite game eever and i want to day that eventhough certain things didnt do it for me most of the game was satisfying and im glad i played it- loved it but not as much as the first one! I think that the game does what it said- divide people and therefore i respects everyone views so please respect each other too!
    Twitch-RumHounds insta- 3rumhounds Youtube-rumhounds    … Expand
  7. ap3rd96
    Jul 13, 2020
    7
    If you loved the first game you probably aren’t gonna love this one. This is honestly one of the most disappointing games probably ever. It tries to do something bold and different with the story but in my opinion it’s just done very poorly and could have been done much better. What they were trying to do with the story is interesting but it just doesn’t work. It was actually kind of hardIf you loved the first game you probably aren’t gonna love this one. This is honestly one of the most disappointing games probably ever. It tries to do something bold and different with the story but in my opinion it’s just done very poorly and could have been done much better. What they were trying to do with the story is interesting but it just doesn’t work. It was actually kind of hard to get through this game because the story is just not enjoyable for the most part. But it seems to me maybe that’s what naughty dog was trying to accomplish idk? Other than that everything else about this game is top tier. I mean the graphics on this game are absolutely gorgeous. I mean maybe the best of this generation. The combat was amazing I mean you actually feel what’s going on in game it can get super intense, and it’s top tier combat. The music like the first game is just exceptional. Playing on a harder difficulty gives you a real challenge and also that realistic feel which I love. I’d recommend waiting to buy this game until it goes on sell because i think it’s going to be very hard to replay this game if you aren’t the biggest fan of the story. The combat and actual gameplay can only carry this game so much. Having a great story is crucial to a game like this. So I can’t justify a $60 purchase. I was torn between giving this game a 6 or 7 and I ultimately choose 7 because it does have some very satisfying gameplay and some serious intense gaming moments.… Expand
  8. Belevedere04
    Jul 13, 2020
    9
    Great video game, the story is a bit controvertial but one of the best games I’ve ever played nonetheless
  9. Obytack
    Jun 25, 2020
    2
    Absolutely boring, not worth the money you pay to be honest.
    Try again next time.
  10. no1jaf
    Jul 13, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I created an account just to review this game. That's how strongly I about it.

    Loved the first game. It was one of the all-time best. It was made great by the incredibly well crafted story with compelling character arcs. This sequel had none of that; NONE OF THAT. All of these reviewers writing about a great touchy-feely story with moral lessons must be children. In my opinion, it all came across as Hollywood readymade fluff made up of tired topes. I know that some people will summarily dismiss this review by calling me a trans/homophobe without countering any of the points I make. Ignore those people and really think about what I'm writing before you spend your hard earned money on this game.

    It was all sacrificed to push an LGBTQ agenda. Not a problem in itself, but it was done in a way that did nothing for the story. It would have taken five minutes to set the sexual orientation of the characters and then move on to writing a great story and characters. Instead, they completely destroyed the bleak and raw atmosphere of the first game. It also took away valuable time to create meaningful, and most of all, CONVINCING character arcs. You have to suspend a lot of disbelief in this version of a post apocalyptic world. It created a story that was disjointed at best. It made cut scenes feel excruciatingly long because of the framing of lesbian love and trans story lines injected into them with no real purpose to the story line or audience. I am not saying this because I am against those social norms. I would feel the same way if the game was trying to convince me to accept vegans, or omnivores for that matter. It would deter from the the experience of the game. Unless of course that was the intended purpose of the game...

    There are loooong video sequences with many wasted minutes dedicated solely to: a lesbian kiss at a party between two of the main characters, cueing up the overused stereotype of the redneck that stirs up trouble because of it, a conversation between Joel and Ellie about the incident, a love scene between the two females in a basement pot garden, and then the happy couple living on a farm in the country raising an infant. Then there's all of the other small moments of dialogue incidental to this narrative. I don't want to buy a game to get prosthelytized to ad-nauseum.
    You could easily cut hours of video and live sequences from the game with no sacrifice to the narrative.

    And then there's the rest of the cutscenes. There are a lot. If I wanted to watch a movie, that's what I would do; not play a game. There are long sections of play where you're just running through a dream sequence or reliving a memory. I guess some people might call this gameplay because you have to open a door or crouch through some meaningless action. It felt like they did this as an afterthought to give you "something" to do as a player. The farmhouse sequence is one of the worst. You get to walk around as part of the happy couple carrying a baby while herding goats into a barn. Yes, really, herding goats. I found this to be a total waste of time. I found myself wishing I could skip many sections of the game and just "get on with it."

    Finally, they rewrote Joel into a faint shadow of what you experience in the first game. This is a fatal flaw. He was easily one of the best characters ever to grace the world of fiction. He is why the first game was such a success. Instead of vigilant, shrewd ,and wise; he's unaware, weak, and dumb. Then, he gets killed before the game really even gets started. He gets killed and replaced by protagonists that aren't written anywhere close to level that Joel was.

    Way to go developers. You just killed one of the best games ever. Even the wooden sky bridges running through Seattle fifty-stories high made the game feel like a fantasy adventure instead of the dark world of the first game. Horrible, horrible, horrible.

    Oh yeah, let's not forget the original had one of the best endings in video game history. This sequel gets the title for "worst ending".    … Expand
  11. Alexkom
    Jul 13, 2020
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The game was really disturbing and uncomfortable, I hated to play Abby, like physically hated, and I was so heartbroken after finishing the game. I still haven't coped with this feeling of grief (and it's been almost two weeks already). But no other game made me feel such strong feelings, ever, so for me it's masterpiece. The story is great, but I realized it only several days after finishing the game (after some thinking). Scars plot line didn't work for me (looked a little bit like tomb raider), so minus one point for that.
    Anyway, I've started new game + and I see now all the moments which wasn't able to understand during the first time playing. Naughty Dog, so many thanks for the game.    … Expand
  12. doireann
    Jul 13, 2020
    10
    Beautiful game with a great story and brilliant character development. I understand if this type of game isn’t someone’s cup of tea, but it does a fantastic job at everything it is trying to accomplish.
  13. IDK-
    Jul 13, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. TLOU2 is a very fun action horror game in terms of gameplay.
    The gameplay is so much better than The original with many improvements I love the new combat and some of the new weapons this game brings. However, I didn't play last of us 2 just for gameplay I played it for its story and oh boi is it bad... Now the game has some really cool story moments when you're in the flashback scenes but the overall story is complete jank full of plot holes for example in the first game Joel was a deep complex character that knew the wasteland but here he's like oh look strangers hers my name and id dw about it. for me he's not even the same character any more.
    Most characters in this game are so 1 note its not funny take Dina as an example what is her character outside of "I love Ellie" what is there? Sure we learn some stuff from her past, but she's so one note that's nowhere near as complex as character Bill in the first game or Tes or anyone else that was there. This is failure of a sequel in my opinion. If there's a 3rd part I'm not buying it.    … Expand
  14. douglasmaxwell
    Jun 26, 2020
    10
    this game is excellent on every level. must play. on every level means every level.
  15. Johnsilver2
    Jul 13, 2020
    10
    I enjoyed it too much, the most ambitious game that I have played until today. I did not like Aby at first but little by little she won my heart to the point of drawing tears in a particular situation. Great game that explores the different faces that the characters have as heroes and villains at the same time. I finished it a week ago and I'm still reflecting on what I experienced.
  16. kjrg
    Jul 13, 2020
    9
    i just finished playing it and I did liked it. Yes, it is not perfect, story has some flaws, sometimes it feels a bit repetitive going from here to there, but at the end, it's brutal, crude, the gameplay makes you feel like you are Ellie/Abby, awesome graphics, great mechanics. At the end, the story makes you feel what Ellie and Abby both suffer, and makes you understand that it wasn'ti just finished playing it and I did liked it. Yes, it is not perfect, story has some flaws, sometimes it feels a bit repetitive going from here to there, but at the end, it's brutal, crude, the gameplay makes you feel like you are Ellie/Abby, awesome graphics, great mechanics. At the end, the story makes you feel what Ellie and Abby both suffer, and makes you understand that it wasn't fault of any of them. Somehow you get to empathize with Abby and her story. At the end, i like it.… Expand
  17. De_Motschi
    Jul 13, 2020
    10
    Mich hat das Spiel komplett überfahren. Eine emotionale Achterbahnfahrt der Gefühle die einen bleibenden Eindruck hinterlassen hat. Ich kann nur hoffen das es trotz der großen Kritik, die ich beim besten willen nicht verstehen kann, weiterhin solche mutig erzählten Geschichten in Games gibt. Denn der Einheitsbrei einiger anderen großen Studios beginnt mich zu langweilen.
  18. Macleod89
    Jul 13, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Absolutely loved the first game, played it over and over again, and when I heard they were making a second one, I couldn’t contain my excitement!! But when the second instalment arrived.........well I can say I’ve played it through once and will not be playing it again. The game itself was very well done and the graphics were flawless, but I didn’t enjoy playing Ellie as much as I thought I would and the whole character swapping was the final nail in the coffin. The biggest setback for me was the story, from the moment Joel died I just felt like the game betrayed him by letting us play the girl that killed him and tried to tell her sob story so that killing Joel wouldn’t be so bad. Then right at the end after all that struggle, Ellie let her go!! I mean WTF?!?! Just a totally piss poor effort from naughty dog. Will not be playing the third if there is unless it’s a total rewrite of this poor effort of a story!!… Expand
  19. OmegaRex
    Jul 13, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I want to start out by saying this was no where near the worst game I have ever played. In fact some parts of the game are actually really good. But for me the gameplay loops with the humans npcs and the writing in general didn't make for a fun experience. And honestly I disagree with the idea that the game is too bleak but mostly because the writing, imo, doesn't earn that emotion. I hope to say what I liked that keeps me from rating this game lower and then go a little bit into why this game just didn't gel well with me and was at times a chore to play.

    I think the flashback sequences were really well done and brought back much of the feeling of the last title. And I do wish to make it clear that I came into this title as a fan of the last game, But they present a bit of an issue that will be gone over towards the end. I love the new infection types such as the stalker and the rat king and felt they were the most tense parts of the game. And I felt the end level of the game played much like ending to 28 days later where you unleashed an infected or two to thin out the guards. I love the subway are where you can pit infected against the gangs out to kill you. Moments like those worked and I loved them a lot. What doesn't work was everything else.

    The flashbacks, imo, should have been the opening to the game let us get back that feeling from the last game and then you kill Joel as it would have more impact. As it was the flashbacks seemed so random and out of place. I also don't like Abby as written because she doesn't make sense compared to Ellie in that Ellie has PTSD and yet Abby doesn't? And Abby going from a one track tunnel vision person to being altruistic after the deed is done just doesn't happen in human psychology and you need only to look at studies on the aftermath of families who attend the execution of someone who killed a loved one to know that you don't just go back to normal you
    after something like torture and killing people. I am sure some military Service people can back me up on that. So it takes me out of the immersion when Abby seems to walk away mostly fine but it's
    Ellie who is damaged. I mean even that doctor lady who was with Abby admitted to hearing Joels screams in her sleep and yet Abby is just fine? Ellie has nightmares about Joel but Abby only ever dreams of her dad and often not in a PTSD kind of way? Does this make any sense to anyone else?
    And that's really the rub. The story and plot conveniences tend to fall apart the more you think about it. Ellie's in trouble oh look Jessie just happens to be near by. Abby in the sight of the sniper Let's just have Manny show up out of no where.I could go on and on with the number of times I was taken out
    of the story but I won't. When I am fighting to survive against the infected that's when I was immersed
    anytime after that I felt taken out of the story and found my encounters with the human NPCs to be boring. I know others disagree and feel the infected sections were the boring part but I guess different strokes. I also felt a bit lied to as the cult that hated LGBT seems to be so little of this game
    when the marketing made it seem so much bigger then it was I thought they would be who we fight
    through out the game and we didn't. I don't understand the advertising choices.

    Now as I finish this off notice I made no mention of politics or Abby being trans or implied to be. My own daughter is trans so this was never an issue for me. Abby isn't bad because she's implied to be trans she's bad because her character arch just doesn't make sense and it made for moments when I should be crying into moments of Meh because the writing is so disconnected with what's on screen
    that it's hard to connect to those emotions that the game wants me to feel. If anything the politics
    and trans and gay rights issues are just so small that it's the least of this games worries. So much
    so that I don't mention them till now because they didn't really effect anything in either a good or
    bad way. You could honestly take them out and lose nothing from the story. And that's why I rate this
    so low. Not because of politics,not because of youtubers but because I played it and just found
    the game to have some bright spots but a lot of just baffling spots that just didn't add up to an experience I had hoped to have coming off the last game in the series. And as I close this out I want
    to say it's not as bad as I was lead to believe it would be, It's not great by any means but it needs so
    much more work especially on the Abby character. If they could tighten that up and keep the infected then maybe a third game will make me love the series again. Till then I just can't really recommend this game.    … Expand
  20. Balkonsky
    Jul 13, 2020
    0
    Honestly speaking, one big disappointment (gameplay, plot, characters, lore - everything from the first part is ruined). I would not recommend this game to anyone. Also, the authors' response to criticism was from being adequate. The game is purely awful, while the authors started emphasizing political context of criticism in order to make better impression. Such a disappointment.
  21. kfk
    Jul 13, 2020
    10
    Brilliant game. Graphics, animations, story, setpieces, voice acting, sound, music, performance capture and combat are all top notch. The only ones that disagree are incels triggered by the existence of gay people and people who didn't understand the story of the first game and were expecting a cliche buddy adventure with a happy ending for everyone and no consequences.
  22. BillionGhosts
    Jul 13, 2020
    10
    Без спойлеров.
    Сперва хотелось бы сказать о сюжете - он хорош. Да, сама идея, которую нам преподносят вначале игры, а затем в середине - проста, но не нужно забывать, что "все сюжеты давно написаны", а потому важны детали. И как раз в деталях и кроется весь сок TLOU 2. Малейшие спойлеры даже структуры сюжета могут испортить впечатление, потому что она важна для понимания как второй части,    Без спойлеров.
    Сперва хотелось бы сказать о сюжете - он хорош. Да, сама идея, которую нам преподносят вначале игры, а затем в середине - проста, но не нужно забывать, что "все сюжеты давно написаны", а потому важны детали. И как раз в деталях и кроется весь сок TLOU 2. Малейшие спойлеры даже структуры сюжета могут испортить впечатление, потому что она важна для понимания как второй части, так и первой. Сюжет второй части раскрывает отчасти и сюжет первой игры, дополняя ее и придавая объема, это шикарно.
    По поводу всяких повесток - их настолько мало, что вы их можете и не заметить, это слишком субьективно, но даже если вы ярый противник sjw, то играть сможете не морщив морду по кд.
    По поводу перекаченности одной из героинь - этому есть логичное и понятное объяснение.
    Некоторые говорят, что геймплей скучный и он остался прежним - это не так. В своей основе этот тот же шутер от третьего лица с упором на стелс. Меж тем есть и приятные нововведения, вроде прыжка и уклонений в бою. Но сама по себе механика не раскрылась бы без:
    - Дико агрессивных врагов (на максимальном уровне сложности, но об этом позже). Они просто не дают продыху - постоянно наступают, обходят с флангов, закидывают молотовыми, не выстраиваются в очередь, чтобы начать вас бить, а просто стреляют на поражение (и очень даже метко). Бои стали гораздо брутальнее не только из-за повышенной детализации насилия, но и тех условий в которые ставят игрока - постоянный прессинг со стороны превосходящих групп противника, которые не дают сидеть на месте и вынуждают использовать весь доступный арсенал.
    - Обновленных локаций, прибавивших в вертикальности и обьеме. Локации стали огромными, а конкретно арены, стали гораздо больше и вертикальнее, из-за чего столкновения с противниками заиграли новыми красками, чего не было в первой части.
    Некоторые люди не заметят всей брутальности и крутости боевки из-за сложности. Дело в том, что все, что я описал выше можно испытать только проставив максимальный уровень сложности. Ибо на нем противники перестают долбиться в глаза, перестают сидеть за укрытиями в ожидании пули и начинают действительно давить на героя, припасов становится действительно мало и столкновения превращаются в головоломки. Но, если вы не сторонник максимальных сложностей, либо вам неудобно стрелять с геймпада (да еще и в 30 фпс) как мне, то можно настроить конкретные аспекты сложности (и это очень круто). Отдельно настраивается глазастость противников, их агрессивность, количество получаемых припасов, агрессивность напарников (как часто они убивают врагов), насколько хрупок игрок. Рекомендую ставить максимальную агрессию противников и поставить побольше припасов, чтобы сделать чуть-чуть больше экшона.    … Expand
  23. Fifa_gta_cod
    Jul 13, 2020
    0
    Keep your ridiculous political agenda to yourself. An amazing game once turned Into straight trash.
  24. Vinicius_Vieira
    Jun 21, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. fenomenal.

    nunca tive uma experiência desse nível em relação a jogos.

    os gráficos são nota 10 e a jogabilidade é extremamente fluída.

    a história é envolvente e você se sentr na pele das protagonistas.    … Expand
  25. Fil_toTheo2
    Jul 13, 2020
    0
    Мне тяжело писать этот комментарий, так как я ждал эту игру почти 6 лет, после того, как прошёл первую часть на только купленной PS4.
    Я очень старался не натолкнуться на спойлеры перед выходом долгожданного продолжения, и все эти годы ожидания я внимательно следил за новостями о продолжении истории Элли...
    Я не могу не сказать о том, что эта игра, на мой взгляд, лучшая игра на данный    Мне тяжело писать этот комментарий, так как я ждал эту игру почти 6 лет, после того, как прошёл первую часть на только купленной PS4.
    Я очень старался не натолкнуться на спойлеры перед выходом долгожданного продолжения, и все эти годы ожидания я внимательно следил за новостями о продолжении истории Элли...
    Я не могу не сказать о том, что эта игра, на мой взгляд, лучшая игра на данный момент, потому что она пропитана с головы до ног огромнейшими усилиями в разработке, огромным желанием сделать шедевр и что-то стоящее, вниманием к мелочам, эта игра просто выбивается из всей индустрии! Но моя оценка вызвана ярым недоумением и огромным вопросом: «Почему ND так сильно прогнулось под феминизм??? Под мнение меньшинств??? Откуда такое желание угодить ЛГБТ и им подобным??? Зачем???»
    Весь этот гомосексуализм они пытались засунуть в каждую свободную ячейку этой игры, а затем Нил предложил возмущённым игрокам не покупать - если не нравится. Мне жалко, что в наше время почти ничего не остаётся кроме «серой морали»!
    Михал 27лет

    It’s hard for me to write this comment, since I have been waiting for this game for almost 6 years, after I completed the first part on the newly purchased PS4.
    I tried very hard not to run into spoilers before the release of the long-awaited sequel, and all these years of waiting, I carefully followed the news about the continuation of the story of Ellie ...
    I can’t say that this game, in my opinion, is the best game at the moment, because it is saturated from head to toe with tremendous efforts in development, with a great desire to make a masterpiece and something worthwhile, attention to details, this the game just gets out of the whole industry!
    But my assessment is caused by ardent bewilderment and a huge question: “Why did ND bend so much under feminism ??? Under the opinion of minorities ??? Where does such a desire to please LGBT people and the like ??? What for???"
    They tried to put all this homosexuality into every free cell of this game, and then Neal suggested that indignant players not buy - if they didn’t like it.
    I am sorry that in our time almost nothing remains except “gray morality”!
    Michal 27 years old    … Expand
  26. EBKJIUD
    Jul 13, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Одна из лучших игр по технической части, эмоциональной за последние годы… Expand
  27. theblackswordmn
    Jul 13, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. They sacrificed story and gameplay just for shock value. Game controls have not been improved, and the story forces you to play as someone right after you start hating that person, the game and the story. Save your money. Play the original and forget this version exists.… Expand
  28. Gerfy
    Jul 13, 2020
    10
    I would like to thank the creators for their work. This is great. Including history. The script writer delivered what he wanted no matter what. The story is exciting and impressive. The plot will cause resentment in many, but as for me, this is exactly what you need. Complex and unbearably difficult denouement of the fates of our favorite heroes. Sleepless nights are guaranteed.
  29. Re_vet
    Jul 13, 2020
    0
    Worst game ever! I have never seen such a bad game. Uncharted 1 to 3 were good games. Uncharted 4 was okay but this is no good.
  30. Enkindled
    Jul 13, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. There are several reasons why you should avoid this game. I`ll evaluate this for you in the most objective but complete way I can, so you can see how this game was massacred. Please note that I loved Last of Us 1, and loved the DLC. I`ll talk about the technical, and the propaganda at the end.

    -> The Good part:
    a) Graphics are awesome, no problem there. However, most games nowadays have amazing graphics and sceneries that live us in awe, so I don't think that "good graphics" can redeem anything. But yeah, they are good.
    b) Gameplay was kind of fixed. The first game has stiffy gameplay to me, but it worked. They polished the right places and it feels better. Again, not a redeeming factor. In no way, this gameplay stands out from any modern game. Additionally, if I am going to compare to newer games, it is still far behind what it should be.
    c) OST is fine, audio is top-notch. What you expect from big-budget titles.

    The Bad. Be prepared:
    a) Supreme, epic, god-awful story. It is like they ripped the script of TLOU 1 and tossed it into the fire. We all expected that something bad was going to happen, and we were fine with it. After all, Joel stormed into a base, killed everyone, and ran away with mankind's cure in its arms. Yeah, well. Joel was dumb down in a horrific way. It is like he is nothing in this world. His death has no meaning. Ellie, by her turn, was more mature in TLOU 1 than she is here. The story does not feel like an epic adventure you start to be surprised, no, it is about random, non-meaningful acts of violence to shock you. But again, they have NO MEANING. They will shock you sometimes, but you will just be sad to see the scenes, they will not appeal to anything. Some people liked it because "it is like real life". Yes, but this is still a game. We expect that these kinds of scenes to build up to something. But in The Last of Us 2, they are there because they had no idea how to write a story. Thus, they took the lazy road, shocking you instead of bringing you content that would make you think, like the first game. Plot holes EVERYWHERE.
    b) The characters. They are hollow. They have no depth. I have no idea how could someone say "great characters" in their review. You will feel nothing for any character in this game. Hollow, boring, uninspired. Even Ellie lost her maturity in this game. Joel became a dumb person. It is sad for me to say this because the first game knew how to build them. They feel like those Walking Dead characters that appear in one episode and die 2 episodes later, where they make a 15 min flashback of their past to TRY to give you some feeling but fail.
    c) Abby. Those who care about Abby being muscular and etc are just ignorant fools. Who the hell cares? The problem is how they handled her. She kills Joel, a beloved character, a death with no meaning in this game. But how, in the Nine Hells, are you supposed to like playing with her for HALF THE GAME? They try to picture her as a good person but fail. You CANT build empathy towards Abby for three reasons: 1) she kills a beloved character; 2) the writers and the director FAILED in providing Abby with a solid background and origin story to make you understand her; 3) she goes after another beloved character. Writers and director... you failed this character, it is not because of who Abby is, is what you built for her in-game.
    b) The conclusion. The conclusion of this story is not consistent with the whole game. The conclusion is something I would expect from a Pixar movie or a child's book. "Killing is bad". "Vengeance will not bring him back". OH PLEASE. Ellie killed hundreds of people to achieve her vengeance too, in the end, let Abby go because "vengeance leads nowhere". REALLY? Well, writers, I guess that the 100 people Ellie kills are nothing them. They are manikins, balloon people. Their deaths mean nothing then, The only important life is Abby's life. Want some real world? If someone would feel guilty and have a conscience crisis, it would have come IN THE BEGINNING. Ellie would kill people that she would realize had NOTHING TO DO with Joel's death and had a crisis right there. She would see in the first 1-3 kills. NOT AFTER 100. Not, in the end, facing her friend's killer in the face! That how these kinds of crisis work in the real world, go read about it. Hence, the EPIC conclusion for this game is... KILLING IS BAD. Abby gets her vengeance, Ellie does not. Why? Because the director wanted.

    Finally, everyone talks about SJW propaganda. And yes, it is there. So now let me explain why it is handled badly. These topics are important for the real world, yes, they are! But guess what? For the world of LAST OF US, they are not on the top of the list. Thus, in many moments, it feels out of place. You see they just tossed in there because of agenda. No gamer would care about these discussions if handled properly! Go learn from BORDERLANDS 3 how to make amazing diverse characters.

    Don't buy this game.    … Expand
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  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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