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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  3. Negative: 68,475 out of 161975
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  1. Mist9
    Jun 21, 2020
    1
    I don wanna you promote lgbt every 10 minutes. Joel's life doesn't deserve this.
  2. AlwxUnder
    Jun 21, 2020
    0
    I feel a wild hatred for the flow of sexual minorities in the gaming industry. Games should be for players!!!
  3. gameover9
    Jun 21, 2020
    1
    This game has so much against it even before the story. It pushes nothing in terms of gameplay. It's the same as the first and in the sequel it's actually a chore and is boring and tedious. Level design is the only good thing about gameplay. A.I. is cheap too (some enemies are cool like the dogs). Honestly, if you think story is enough to overcome such backwards gameplay then why not putThis game has so much against it even before the story. It pushes nothing in terms of gameplay. It's the same as the first and in the sequel it's actually a chore and is boring and tedious. Level design is the only good thing about gameplay. A.I. is cheap too (some enemies are cool like the dogs). Honestly, if you think story is enough to overcome such backwards gameplay then why not put movies in the same category. They have such good story that you don't need any gameplay. The gameplay doesn't push the industry anywhere but back to the PS3 era. We have seen this gameplay before. There's nothing new and everything is very old.

    The story. Holy heck the story. Shock for the sake of shock has been done before. There's nothing new there. If you want to experience a repeat cycle of it then a montage of shock fanfics on the internet would do better. Trust me, you've never experienced anything like it. But even if you want to do shock then don't expose yourselves as ametures. What made Game of thrones initially good was that they knew how to pick up the story after the shock hit. Everyone went to try and replicate that but it was easy to tell the fake from the professionals because the fakes never understood that the power of GOT wasn't in the shock but the intriguing political duels and battles surrounding it. After "that" scene this game's story and characters become very awkward in their lines and acting. The script writers have no clue how to write a story from that point on and thought a cheaper version of GOT shock would be enough (pfft, ametures... hey, i'm actually sounding like a real critic). This game just keeps going back and forth and back and forth between stuff without character progression and without giving meaning to itself nor to the game it is a sequel of. Quite the opposite actually, it takes out all meaning from the first game. And the one point where they had an oppurtunity and could have maybe pushed the industry forward despite having a horrendous game before that point was completely missed. They could have given us a choice to kill her or not as that's the uniqueness of video game story telling. But nope, they opted for a linear approach (to be fair, it's not like giving us a choice there would have been newand revolutionary either) which is something seen in the oldest narrative games on the store and every movie on the planet, and then critics say this story pushes the industry forward in terms of story telling? No. That's Detroit. That's Witcher. Those pushed the story telling in the industry and the Witcher did it whilst advancing the gameplay in each entry. This, TLOU2, is just an insult. This game deserves to not be rated anywhere near those games or any game over an 85 anyway. The story was pushing "revenge is bad" via its linearity so bad that it failed. In the end, i didn't feel like revenge is bad. Abby gains everything while Ellie loses everything. Everyone except Abby loses in the cycle of revenge. Abby is the only one to have her moment.

    And by rating it as high as the critics have, they have nuked and cheapened and made meaningless all the hard work, effort, awards and approval the gaming industry has fought for all these decades. By falsifying reviews on the PS store even before the game's release (which is why i didn't review it there and decided to do it here) sony has spat on the work of all game developers and the industry. You have cheapened the efforts and achievements of the first TLOU game. If TLOU2 deserves a high rating, then many other games deserve higher.

    I give this game a 1 for good level design and good visuals, even though the latter is expected in a game coming this late in the PS4 life. But its flaws are too many and too deep.

    And don't get me started on the creepiness of Neil Druckman.    … Expand
  4. desmondk246
    Jun 21, 2020
    2
    The story in the first game was amazing, but this one's story is inexcusable. I don't understand why critics like this game, when the story is this bad.
  5. BlizTim
    Jun 21, 2020
    0
    Ok well, I’m not gonna say anything, if you have played the game, you probably know why, yup? I consider myself a tolerant person, but the there is some **** called exaggeration, which Naughty Dog guys forgot the meaning of. There is some sort of things I can comprehend, somehow, but exaggeration have never been in that group.
  6. Blav
    Jun 21, 2020
    4
    Fantastic art design, level design and visuals. Gameplay is solid and improves from the first.

    However, the story pulls this game down and this is a story driven gams, the game is bleak and much more darker than the first. The game has pacing issues, towards the end you feel yourself asking "how much longer?" Ultimately the revenge plot fails and after finishing it i asked myself what    Fantastic art design, level design and visuals. Gameplay is solid and improves from the first.

    However, the story pulls this game down and this is a story driven gams, the game is bleak and much more darker than the first.

    The game has pacing issues, towards the end you feel yourself asking "how much longer?"

    Ultimately the revenge plot fails and after finishing it i asked myself what did i even do?

    I loved TLOU1, even got the plat but does game is not a worthy sequel for me.    … Expand
  7. Aghreus
    Jun 21, 2020
    0
    Why would they do the fans of this game so dirty? Just pandering to game awards and LGBTQ+ folk for no reason other than causing drama. Just make games for the games sake and stop this pseudopolitical garbage. There is a lot of great game design in here but none of it came from Neil Druckmann.
  8. AdrixStrife
    Jun 21, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Killing off Joel because Fu*k you, and then going in a killing spree just to not kill the one that made you go in a killing spree. Wow what the writers were on when they wrote this forced **** of a story for a game like last of us. The whole games story is so forced that it feels disgusting playing this ****.
    Only pros of this game is I would say the graphics and music. Other than that both the gameplay and story is trash. Don't buy.    … Expand
  9. HaoZeke
    Jun 22, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The only feeling I felt when I finished the game was sadness. I can't really believe how the second game can be so bad, while the first game is so beautiful. The Last of Us was a brand I valued a lot. I still value the first game very much and I enjoy it even though it has been 7 years. However, I was very uncomfortable even when I finished the second game for the first time. Maybe I gave the game such a bad score because I was very emotional, but I am sure this game does not deserve 95. There are thousands of games and movies about zombies. What makes The Last of Us so popular is their characters. Father-daughter relationship between Joel and Ellie. These two characters make this game valuable. I'm not saying anything to Joel's death, I'm just bothered that it was done so badly. While I missed these two characters so much, I think we should have spent some time with them. Not with flashbacks! I think it would be a better time for Joel to die later. The death of Joel in the first hours of the game made me angry, I was angry not because he died, I was angry because we couldn't spend time with him. I also congratulate whoever came up with the idea of ​​playing with Abby. He/She couldn't make the game worse. I felt that the time I played with Abby was wasted. Another issue is that Abby isn't dead at the end of the game. Ellie is returning for revenge, but just losing more. Two fingers and Dina. So if this is a story of revenge, it's definitely Abby's story. Why is Ellie in the cover art? You have destroyed people's trust with false advertisements. In my country, this game is 1 in 4 of the minimum salary. I'm not sorry for the money that I spent. I’m sorry because they ruined the game that I love so much. Such a disappointment.… Expand
  10. Kratos_0611
    Jun 24, 2020
    10
    Naughty dog has delivered a masterpiece again. This game sets a groundbreaking milestone for the current and next generation games.
  11. RuinedXJosh
    Jun 21, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. As a gamer who actually played through the entire game before writing a review, bravo Naughty Dog.

    I'd like to point out that both The Last of Us and the remastered version have just over 9000 user reviews each since their releases, which are overwhelmingly positive, and somehow The Last of Us Part II has 41629 user reviews on the third day since it's release, which are overwhelmingly negative. And if you do some scrolling through the reviews, you'll notice that most of them were written on the release day. It took me 25 hours to plow through the story and beat it on the easiest difficulty with minimal sleep and breaks over the course of two days, so there's no way that all these people actually beat it on release day.

    The new game has improved on a lot of the existing features and added a few new ones. Weapon and player upgrades have been expanded. The listening mode has been improved. There's plenty of optional objectives that usually result in upgrade materials, collectible items, or even a new weapon on occasion. There's new terrifying infected enemies and a boss that I'm sure will cause some nightmares. The game also provided some of the most beautiful scenery I've scene in a game yet and I had to stop several times to take a screenshot of the moment.

    As for the plot, there's way too much unwarranted hate. I loved Joel and I hoped that he wouldn't die, especially after hearing about and avoiding the leaked plot and the outrage, but it would have made sense for him to die at some point in the story. I wouldn't have killed him off so early in the game, and I would've had him go out in a blaze of glory defending Ellie or something, with sad but touching last words to her, maybe in a letter if he didn't get to say them, but I'm not the writer.

    I also noticed a lot of hate, dislike, or contempt for the portrayal of LGBT characters in the game, which is funny because the first game already had that to a lesser extent. Now it's at the forefront and people have a problem with it? Remember when Joel and Ellie had to seek out Bill, and when Ellie swiped one of his gay porno mags? Or the DLC 'Left Behind' when Ellie has her first kiss with her friend Riley? Although, I wasn't the biggest fan of Ellie's love interest, Dina, because she could've done better, but it was her first love, so I'll cut her some slack.

    The story WAS GOOD. Maybe it didn't go into every little detail that I would've liked, or expand on certain characters more, and it wasn't how I would've written it, but it was a good story overall. Putting you in control of the "enemy", Abby, and trying to humanize them and explain their motives was interesting. At one point, you have to try and kill Ellie, and it was hard to do because I didn't want her to succeed, so I let her die multiple times and enjoyed her deaths.

    The game had some interesting characters and it did really well at showing that sometimes good and evil are indistinguishable, which is something they explored in the first game with Joel, the fireflies, and now with the new factions. Everyone was doing bad things for the right reasons. It was all so morally grey. That's part of why I loved the story so much.

    Overall, I give the game a 9/10 because of the lack of multiplayer and improvements that could've been made, but I'll make it a 10 to spite the haters.    … Expand
  12. nandasantos8151
    Jul 21, 2020
    10
    I’ve wait five years for this game and what can I say... It worth it a lot. They improved what worked at the first game and add more. The movements, the facial expression (not only during the cut scenes), and a lot of other things. The caracther growth is amazing (I don’t even think some of the people who "played" this game understand what that means) and the plot is consistent, nothingI’ve wait five years for this game and what can I say... It worth it a lot. They improved what worked at the first game and add more. The movements, the facial expression (not only during the cut scenes), and a lot of other things. The caracther growth is amazing (I don’t even think some of the people who "played" this game understand what that means) and the plot is consistent, nothing that happens is in vain.

    Summing up, just like the first one, this game makes me feel a lot and I coundn’t be prouder. And seeing that apparently everyone who decided to leave their opinion written here on this site only has bad things to say, here is my big thanks to naugthy dog ​​for giving me the privilege of playing this game before so I don’t have to buy a ps5 as soon as possible haha ​​and for feeding my soul with this amazing game!!    … Expand
  13. Thejackofus
    Jun 22, 2020
    10
    Such an amazing take on a revenge story. Tragic, beautiful and powerful. It never ceased to amaze me. Every negative review I've seen seems to either come from some bigot, someone who hasn't played the game but doesn't like what the leaks said, or someone who simply didn't like the game and labels it as "trash writing" or "bad story" with little explanation. Don't trust the mob hateSuch an amazing take on a revenge story. Tragic, beautiful and powerful. It never ceased to amaze me. Every negative review I've seen seems to either come from some bigot, someone who hasn't played the game but doesn't like what the leaks said, or someone who simply didn't like the game and labels it as "trash writing" or "bad story" with little explanation. Don't trust the mob hate mentality, play this amazing and unique game.… Expand
  14. Callamastia27
    Jul 19, 2020
    9
    I just feel the way Ellie went. I would go the same way even if it's bad. One thing I didn't like was that you need to play Abby too often. But expect this it's one of the best games I ever watched.
  15. Conjuredevil
    Jun 21, 2020
    1
    Never in a million years I thought I would be writing this review. I was insanely excited for this game , finished within 3 days - 30 hours. Utterly disappointed with the story arc and character development. Misleading trailers , half game is you know what. Please don’t make a third. If you have any doubts I haven’t played the game please look at my trophies PSN : Conjuredevil.
  16. Kinho04
    Jun 21, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Jogo ótimo com uma história incrível. A maioria dos comentários negativos são motivos por preconceitos mascarados de crítica! Também não entendem que a realidade do jogo é sobreviver por mais que seja vingança o pontapé inicial.… Expand
  17. luanpee
    Jun 29, 2020
    10
    It is very difficult to describe this game in its entirety, but it is great!
    They improved all aspects that were already excellent in the first game, but the strongest topic is the genius of how creators manage to manipulate our emotions in the most varied ways possible, arousing all kinds of feelings throughout the game!
    A continuation with a totally unexpected narrative that shows    It is very difficult to describe this game in its entirety, but it is great!
    They improved all aspects that were already excellent in the first game, but the strongest topic is the genius of how creators manage to manipulate our emotions in the most varied ways possible, arousing all kinds of feelings throughout the game!

    A continuation with a totally unexpected narrative that shows how important it is to know both sides of the stories and that the universe of The Last of Us is not only about Joel and Ellie.

    É muito difícil descrever esse jogo em sua totalidade, mas é genial!
    Melhoraram todos os aspectos que já era excelente no primeiro jogo, mas o tópico mais forte é a genialidade de como os criadores conseguem manipular nossas emoções das mais variadas formas possíveis, despertando todos os tipos de sentimentos ao longo da jogatina de uma forma brutal!

    Uma continuação com uma narrativa totalmente inesperada que mostra o quanto é importante conhecer os dois lados das historias e que o universo de The Last of Us não se trata somente do Joel e da Ellie.    … Expand
  18. Matheusedus
    Jun 21, 2020
    1
    Belos gráficos o resto é bosta, historia horrivel, vamos fingir que nem existe assim o 1 vai ficar na história com uma boa lembrança
  19. done257
    Jun 25, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. achei ridícula a morte de joel e pra piorar os roteirista te fazem odiar a elie por sua hipocrisia com esse papo de vingança não vale a pena… Expand
  20. Skipeur
    Jun 21, 2020
    10
    Le jeu est incroyable un gameplay fluide réactif et complet parfait pour ce genre d'histoire et les personnages attachant je vais pas vous en dire plus mais allez s'y foncé le jeu est incroyable
  21. versupas
    Jun 21, 2020
    10
    An absolute 10 GAME!!! Just 3 hours in, but the feeling of playing Ellie again is fantastic. 100% best graphics of this generation on PS4. Gameplay is familiar picks right up were TLOU 1 left it, but with some new additons that make it more fun. Like I said jusf a few hours in but the story already got me hooked.
  22. Jetfan44
    Jun 21, 2020
    0
    Can't believe how much I hate this game.....part 1 was possibly the best game ever and part 2 completely flopped in every way possible. Ellie was so cute in the first one, you actually cared what happened to her, now shes an SJW roaming the streets calling people bigots. What a waste of $65
  23. Mutherf1916
    Jun 21, 2020
    10
    Los que votan negativo al menos tengan la dignidad de jugarlo y no perderse esta obra maestra, talvez no tiene el nivel que nos conecto con ellie y joel pero su nivel de acción y combate es mayor
  24. Gouveio
    Jun 26, 2020
    1
    Gráficos bonitos mas falha o ritmo no jogo. Muitas vezes há que dar voltas pelo cenário até encontrar como avançar. Os combates contra os infectados são repetitivos e fáceis. Diálogos de adolescentes. É difícil que a história goste aos fãs do primeiro jogo. Tem situações muito forçadas. A nota dos médios está manipulada, Sony teve que pagar por esses 10/10.
  25. Sidermine
    Jun 24, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The idea of the plot is precisely conceptually cool, but some kind of torn realization makes the impression blurry and you feel the events in the game separately from each other, because the connection between them is not really felt. I think that is why it is difficult for players to consider Joyel's murder in the context of the plot, and not as a separate event, and the same thing with the ending. I only feel sorry that I spent $60 and a lot of my time on this… Expand
  26. SerMattis
    Jun 21, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Loved it! I'll never understand how vile people can be about something over the Internet. ND talks about the game being about the themes of hate. How ironic that he in turn and Naughty Dog recieve so much hate from people who demand and expect something to be there way that they couldn't produce themselves. Great game… Expand
  27. Nic03
    Jun 24, 2020
    2
    El gameplay es como el del 2013 con un par de agregados.
    Los gráficos están bien.
    La IA por momentos funciona mal, tirando a los personajes hacía atrás cuándo te les acercás. Obviamente se siente poco natural y rompe la inmersión.
    La historia está llena de huecos argumentales e inconsistencias.
  28. Krzysiu85
    Jun 21, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Gra kiepska przez propagowanie i wciskanie na siłę ideologii LGBT. Żałuję że kupiłem tą grę.… Expand
  29. Wheromant
    Jun 21, 2020
    10
    One of the best games ever. If all of you haters wanted the same magic between Ellie and Joel, go play the first part!!!
    The violence in this part is beyond everything. Neil Drackman is a **** genius.
  30. barklounger
    Jun 22, 2020
    3
    To call reviews fake or untruthful, just because the player chooses to not like the direction the story went is pretty sad considering it’s the player/consumer who put these elite triple A game developers in the place where they are now. To call us disingenuous or untruthful tells us that they don’t care about our opinion/rating if it doesn’t align with the money generating scheme that isTo call reviews fake or untruthful, just because the player chooses to not like the direction the story went is pretty sad considering it’s the player/consumer who put these elite triple A game developers in the place where they are now. To call us disingenuous or untruthful tells us that they don’t care about our opinion/rating if it doesn’t align with the money generating scheme that is currently set up. You can see this with your own eyes - I don’t need to tell you. Just look at the difference between PAID shill reviews who are on board with the SJW/diversity/gender politics band wagon and reviews from people who are honest and UNPAID who work their asses off every day to be able to buy the things we enjoy. We don’t work all day to fight to get to the weekend only to crack open a game that goes south within the first hours of the game - and continuously goes south right to the end.

    Yeah, that’s great - all the shill reviews are going on and on about graphics, and lighting and “mood” and they’re not even being truthful about story and characters. They just want you to keep your head down, eat up the story slop and move on to the next BAD GAME like a mindless drone. They got their money from you, they could care less about anything else after they robbed you of what could have been a well oiled story with amazing characters. I will close by saying I will NEVER buy a naughty dog game again, ever. Thanks for the slap in the face. I hope this disaster sinks the stock of your company and buries you. You deserve it. How’s that for a fake review?

    PS. The only review bombing on this game are people LITERALLY saying “I don’t like all the negative talk around this game so I’m going to give it a 100 even though I haven’t played it”. You are the worst kind of people, your “review bombing” has already moved this terrible game UP a few points. I hope you’re happy knowing you are a part of the problem.    … Expand
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Metascore
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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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