The Last of Us Part II

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  1. solaris3
    Jun 20, 2020
    0
    A key moment to actually prove that gaming journalists are either paid for giving good reviews.
    The game itself is clusterf... of a story that only one man likes; the creator.
    Technically it's ok.
    I don't we ever will see a game reviewed so differently between users (real gamers) and sellout journalists.
  2. Ilyasuhach
    Jun 20, 2020
    1
    This video and game is awfully, me as player very much angry, your games was cool, but not this..
  3. Mako_eyed_boy
    Jun 20, 2020
    1
    Boiler plate game-play. Not disappointing, but nothing to write home about. Not much more to say. You wont find it difficult, but you wont' be blown away either.

    Visuals swing wildly between truly breathtaking environments to horrendous abominations with the character models / Mocap. We might have actually found the lowest point of the uncanny valley here. Quite an achievement, being    Boiler plate game-play. Not disappointing, but nothing to write home about. Not much more to say. You wont find it difficult, but you wont' be blown away either.

    Visuals swing wildly between truly breathtaking environments to horrendous abominations with the character models / Mocap. We might have actually found the lowest point of the uncanny valley here. Quite an achievement, being more jarring - not worse you must understand. Technically it's all very well put together it's just so much more unsettling - than Mass Effect Andromeda.

    But the story is where we really struggle. I don't want to give away any spoilers, but the story is terrible. Every beat of this story reads like someone who wants to prove what a big clever boy they are. It's a basic "If you seek revenge dig two graves" story, filtered though the eyes of someone who thinks they have something clever or original to say. They don't. They really, really don't.

    You know when a writer wants to prove that their story has depth, so they fill it with pointless unnecessary character death because "Death makes it deep!" (Think "Xmen The Last Stand"). That is the closest thing to an original idea in this story. It's just one long slog through misery porn because someone never learned there are other was to have a real emotional moment in a story.

    This is not Aeris' death in FFVII.

    This is not Johns death at the end of RDR

    This is Luigi coming up to Mario and saying "Mario, I have-a the AIDS" and Mario looking direct into the camera and saying "Mama Mia! AIDS is-a Bad!" while a single tear roles down his cheek.

    The writers think they're saying something important or unique about revenge, but I can't hear it over the sound of their own fart sniffing.

    Sorry to harp on about the story, but I cannot emphasise enough the shallow cynical trash this story is. It actively lessens the story of all other Naughty Dog games. Jak and Daxter is a worse game now for being connected to the company that made TLOU2.

    This games gets 1 point from me because there has been some real talent involved in some elements of the game (Again, the environments are beautiful) but for the rest of this game? I deeply regret that I had to spend my own money on this game.    … Expand
  4. Sanubis
    Jun 20, 2020
    5
    I feel that I need to say something finally.
    Been playing video games since over 30 years.
    Maybe I got too old but here are my thoughts. Recent years have shown a direction of blockbuster games that I dislike. I could name quite some examples but take death stranding as the most recent one before this. I think the people who create games like these have chosen the wrong medium. They want    I feel that I need to say something finally.
    Been playing video games since over 30 years.
    Maybe I got too old but here are my thoughts.
    Recent years have shown a direction of blockbuster games that I dislike.
    I could name quite some examples but take death stranding as the most recent one before this.

    I think the people who create games like these have chosen the wrong medium. They want to be directors and therefore fail to deliver what I call a true Game. If I want to watch a great drama I start Netflix and not my console...

    The point why these games get insanely high critic scores is that the people who do nothing else but play video games each day, all year round as a job become more and more like art critics who are bored by the art. The yearn for something freaky ,fancy, unexpected and games like last of us are a welcoming change in their routine. But like art critics who go nuts about a painting that shows little less then black stripes on white canvas they lost their connection to the casual guy next door and what he likes.
    The last of us part II is more a video then a game and instead of being fun to play it needs to shock you to get your attention, in my opinion, a cheap tactic.
    Test it for an hour before you buy this, probably it will help you to save money that you can spent on a real video GAME.    … Expand
  5. mustimustdie
    Jun 30, 2020
    0
    Disclaimer: I don't give a **** if Ellie is gay or if she now identifies as a man.

    For me, TLOU 1 has one the most breathtaking and immersive storylines of any game I have ever played. I was almost in tears in the first 30 minutes of the game and the ending left me feeling broken and empty. With TLOU 2, it seems they have totally ditched everything they built up (story wise) and went    Disclaimer: I don't give a **** if Ellie is gay or if she now identifies as a man.

    For me, TLOU 1 has one the most breathtaking and immersive storylines of any game I have ever played. I was almost in tears in the first 30 minutes of the game and the ending left me feeling broken and empty.

    With TLOU 2, it seems they have totally ditched everything they built up (story wise) and went in a totally different direction.

    A shame really.

    But hey, apparently if I think the TLOU 2 is **** because the story sucks, then I'm anti LGBT.    … Expand
  6. Siyamak
    Jun 20, 2020
    0
    Disappointing, simply disappointing. Just imagine waiting for a game for so long and and playing this disaster. Nougty dog played us all these years.
  7. NiKKiRMAN
    Jun 20, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Что это такое было? Сюжет просто отстой. Пытается отомстить но в пассивном режиме. Типа пришла мстить но не хотела, они сами меня вынудили их убивать. Мочит людей вообще не запариваясь, а некоторых аж жалко ей. Полный отстой.… Expand
  8. welly17
    Jun 20, 2020
    3
    Good graphics , not bad details, bad story and Bad characters that’s it , 3.5 from 10
  9. Xuyok
    Jun 26, 2020
    0
    Strong and independent women, and men are some suckers, it's **** Everyone constantly says that "the game is a masterpiece, and those who do not understand this are just stupid idiots." There is nothing special in this game. In this game, dumb artificial intelligence, the opponents do not have lateral vision, you stand a meter away from the person, but he does not see you.
  10. DgoBeb
    Jun 20, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. the last of us is 1 better than 2 parts, I do not understand why they gave a lot of points. The plot is not clear, Eli does not give a choice.… Expand
  11. David420
    Jun 23, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The Last of Us 2 is the best game I have played. After the First game it was logical that Joel's journey can't continue in a good way. This game is the bravest act ever done from a publisher like Naugty dog in this case. Many players didn't like the terrifying and dark way the story was told, but that is exactly what Naughty dog wanted to do. This game is the most emotional thing I have ever experienced. Additional the gameplay, graphics and the music were extraordinary.… Expand
  12. Thetreoman
    Jun 20, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Just wait for Horizon Zero Down part 2. My review is. It’s a great looking game with a terrible story. Instead of wasting your money on this game. Just wait for next gen, when all games will look this good, because you’ll get foot stories as well. In a dark time in this world we live in. The Last Of Is two should be leaving players happy and hopeful. This game will leave you sad. Ignore the critics and actually go watch twitch streamers and Youtubers play this game.… Expand
  13. Trig7079
    Jul 1, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Firstly, I think the negative reviews have such low scores as a result of the INSANE 10/10 critic scores. SPOILERS* This isn't a 10/10 game, not even close and no human in their right mind could think so. The game plays beautifully, looks stunning but leaves you feeling totally unfulfilled and empty. Its a shallow and medeocre experience. This is mainly due to the torture and killing of one half of the most beloved partnership in video games early in the game. We are then forced to play as the perpetrator of this act... To say I wasn't particularly interested in keeping said person alive was an understatement. Nothing that ND & ND did subsequently to this could undo the hatred I had for that character. If anything we should have played Abby from the start, allow to build a report with her, understand her motivations before the brutal killing we are forced to witness. This would then bring the two sets of characters together and justify the games story tangent. This is only part of what is a disjointed affair at best. Drawn out and poorly thought through. I think ND and ND have underestimated how beloved their characters were with everyone who played the first game. This game destroys all of that goodwill. This game turns characters we cared about into revenge zombies, as mindless as those infected we are forced to ENDLESSLY kill. As the game concludes we are left caring about nobody. Do I want a sequel? Maybe, if they can somehow rehabilitate Ellie and allow her some redemption. Otherwise, leave your crackpot ideas at home Neil Druckmann, you have managed to ruin a beloved franchise, where were the dissenting voices at Naughty Dog, surely there were people who disagreed with this suicidal direction? Was it worth 7 years of waiting?? Nope, it really wasn't.… Expand
  14. Salvarth
    Jun 20, 2020
    2
    I’ve been waiting seven years for this to happen... i literally had tears in my eyes watching the trailer for the first time. I hopes were high... possibly to high. Instead of focusing on Joel and Ellie you get to play a character that feels to forced. I don’t mind playing a lesbian or trans or whatsoever... but what I mind is the heartless introduction to those character. I couldn’tI’ve been waiting seven years for this to happen... i literally had tears in my eyes watching the trailer for the first time. I hopes were high... possibly to high. Instead of focusing on Joel and Ellie you get to play a character that feels to forced. I don’t mind playing a lesbian or trans or whatsoever... but what I mind is the heartless introduction to those character. I couldn’t connect I single bit and therefor this game was horrible. Gameplay was clumsy here and there, Musik/Atmosphere was really good but focus of my review is the story and it is how Neil said... this game is about hate. He was right... I started to hate this man… Expand
  15. oooooooooo
    Jun 20, 2020
    3
    You need dozens of developers to make a game and only one pearson to destroy it. Yes, l'm talking about Anita. I hope, it won't sell good and other developers will finally understand, that it's a bad idea to make a game for minorities. They don't even buy it. Of course, this game has amazing grafic, interesting gameplay but the story...... Oh my god. What I've just watched.... ImagineYou need dozens of developers to make a game and only one pearson to destroy it. Yes, l'm talking about Anita. I hope, it won't sell good and other developers will finally understand, that it's a bad idea to make a game for minorities. They don't even buy it. Of course, this game has amazing grafic, interesting gameplay but the story...... Oh my god. What I've just watched.... Imagine first part without its story. Will anyone play in it now?-No. Will people play this game in 2030?- probably no. It won't have anything to offer. Nowadays we play tlou 1 for the story, music, characters, cause it's timeless.Now I'll go and sell my disc before naughty dog starts selling it with 50% off… Expand
  16. BigDaddy90
    Jun 20, 2020
    0
    I don't need to say anything. Everything that I want to say about this game is already on here for you to see. Reviewers were definitely paid, who in their right mind would give this a 10/10. LEAVE POLITICS OUT OF VIDEO GAMES, you play video games to get away from that. Such a shame... NaughtyDog please re hire the old staff from the first game that made it so brilliant, if there even is aI don't need to say anything. Everything that I want to say about this game is already on here for you to see. Reviewers were definitely paid, who in their right mind would give this a 10/10. LEAVE POLITICS OUT OF VIDEO GAMES, you play video games to get away from that. Such a shame... NaughtyDog please re hire the old staff from the first game that made it so brilliant, if there even is a 3rd game...… Expand
  17. Appova
    Jun 20, 2020
    2
    You are forced to play with character that you do not like. The graphic is amazing , but game was bad writen
  18. Spiltake
    Jun 20, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Joel muere apenas empieza el juego, Aby (asesina de joel) es jugable y te pone en contra de la protagonista (Elie) bajo su causa, Dina es irrelevante una pieza de relleno que solo sirve como referencia de la preferencia sexual de Elie, no hay opciones alternas en la historia, Tommy tiene poco protagonismo… Expand
  19. EscapedLunatic
    Jun 27, 2020
    0
    I guess the entire community of ''Gaming Journalists'' are paid shills, this here is the confirmation.
    This is truly the darkest timeline, i was about to gauge my eyes out at certain points of this joke of a game.
    To think it was made by the same gaming studio that produced timeless classics such as the Crash bandicoot series, Jax and dexter, the Uncharted series and last but no least    I guess the entire community of ''Gaming Journalists'' are paid shills, this here is the confirmation.
    This is truly the darkest timeline, i was about to gauge my eyes out at certain points of this joke of a game.
    To think it was made by the same gaming studio that produced timeless classics such as the Crash bandicoot series, Jax and dexter, the Uncharted series and last but no least the first Last of us game.
    Oh how the mighty have fallen.    … Expand
  20. fat4lix
    Jul 7, 2020
    10
    It's just for justice, because stupid many zero votes. Plot it's not ideal but it's not main part of game, because this is game, not book!
  21. someBADvibes
    Jun 22, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I'm going to get the incredible characteristics of this game out of the way.
    There is no doubt in my mind that this may be the most stunning video game I have ever played.

    - The graphics are out of this world,
    - The audio design is complex and atmospheric
    - The voice acting was phenomenally done by a group of incredibly talented actors.
    - The environment has an engrossing allure to it that makes made me feel like I was truly there.

    However, there are a few fascinatingly apparent flaws that I will not get out of the way: storytelling and character development.

    In a game franchise such as The Last Of Us, the graphics and audio design is hardly anything compared to the impact the story has on the player. There are far too many shallow characters, plot holes, timeline shifts, and unnecessary plot points for this game to exceed the gaming industry with the same success shown by the first game. Not to mention the horrific choice made for Ellie in the ending. Here are a few notable mentions:

    Con #1) Why does Ellie's anger show no recollection or representation as seen in The Last Of Us 1? When Ellie was faced with situations in which she needed to defend Joel, she killed everybody in the way. No questions asked. But in this game, when Ellie finally has her chance to avenge him, how the hell did Naughty Dog decide that Ellie no longer had a hatred towards Abby after she receives a flashback of Joel's brutally bloodied head? Because Ellie felt for Abby? Because she thought if she killed Abby she would be doing Joel wrong? Did we forget this game was about Ellie's revenge? All of Abby's friends were murdered, she killed Ellie's friends with no hesitation. All of Ellie's friends were murdered, yet she doesn't feel the need for revenge, the entire point of this plot. Now some may argue that this is an act of Ellie maturing and understanding the consequences of her actions. To me, that is a load of BS. Ellie has made many choices in this game that stray so far from her as a character that it almost feels like a different person.

    - Con #2) Abby, alongside many of the new characters in this game, have absolutely NO depth in any way. The only characters I really felt for were the ones shown in the previous game, I wonder why that is. Naughty Dog tried unbearably hard to introduce "the other side of the story" to show that Joel had it coming for him. Was that "other side of the story" even remarkably moving or reasonable? Absolutely. Not. Why were we given so much time with Abby to understand who she is and her relationship with her friends and father yet not a single hour of it was enjoyable or justifiable? There were 100% zero sympathies I felt towards this girl. So not unless you give me a Last Of Us Part II dedicated to why we should care about this Abby girl or why her story even remotely convinces me that killing Joel in the way she did was okay, I'm going to say this is a case of a disastrous narrative and Abby is garbage excuse for an antagonist/main character.

    Con #3) I'm not even going to explain how horrendous the writing is in some of these side-characters. The number of plot holes that are accompanying them makes me want to throw up just as many times as Dina did. I will say that the story seems engaging when you are playing through Ellie's POV and there aren't any cutscenes to ruin it...
    The fact that I need to say that the best part of the game was playing through the museum flashback two years prior to the events of the main plotline with Ellie and Joel shows just how unenjoyable the game really was for me.

    Naughty Dog put so much effort into trying to show us that we were the true bad guys yet non of that effort had a single ounce of pay off. If you want us to fall in love with your new characters the same way we fell in love with the original ones, give us more time, please. Give us the depth and development that Joel and Ellie and Tommy have. One of the main reasons Abby even exists was that she was a perfect way to introduce the idea of gender fluidity, LGBTQ+, and independent femininity into a video game. But it just wasn't necessary. All-in-all my main gripe about this game is that some of the best writers in video game history have somehow messed up what was 7 years of anticipation and hype for one of the worst stories I have ever experienced.

    I will be giving this game a 3/10 sheerly out of pity for the incredible artists, sound designers, animators, and voice actors who put so much work in to hard carry the writers that developed this tragedy.
    So how can I put this lightly? If you have the money to purchase this game, put that money into something else, and walk away. And to those who have already played the game or have watched a playthrough, I am so sorry. You and I are gonna take a deep breath and pretend this didn't happen. Deal? Deal.    … Expand
  22. linkisssez
    Jun 20, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The game is built very cool, but there are a couple of points that I want to note. The first of these is a lot of twists in the plot, I never thought that with a very good character they could do that. Secondly, the game for Abby alerted me, it is very long and boring. What can I say about homophobia, but nothing, it is very small there, as for me it is only at the beginning and because of this I am not ready to lower the rating of this game.… Expand
  23. Djeki
    Jul 5, 2020
    0
    Не мог поставить оценку пару недель. Но я терпелив, и не смотря на то что полыхает уже не так сильно 0 я всё равно поставлю
  24. LosTigeros
    Jun 20, 2020
    1
    The story this game tells us makes absolutely no sense since the beginning.
  25. serpiente1919
    Jun 26, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I really can't describe how much of a joke this game turned out to be. Seven year wait with a lot of hype surrounding it. Everyone grew to love Joel and Ellie together, and their father/daughter relationship. Then after all these years you release it, the sequel to a truly great game. Within two hours Joel dies like a **** rat, nothing heroic, nothing smart, no sacrifice, just cold brutal ****

    I think everyone knew that Joel was going to die at some point in the game, but within 2 hours of a twenty some hour game, damn. And they have the **** audacity to have us play as the **** who shot his leg with a shotgun, tortured him for several hours and then ending his life infront of Ellie with a **** golf club to the skull. That right there should have been where I stopped playing.

    The slog fest that is the Abby(Joel killer) storyline lasts for 10+ hours, even if you rush it which you probably will do, since they **** ended Ellie's gameplay on a cliffhanger with Abby about to shoot her, after she has just came to kill Ellie. I can't even make this up, they force you to play Abby's storyline to make you humanize her, but all you can think about is Ellie and the **** cliffhanger. Like who in their right mind gives a flying **** about Abby after you see her beating the **** out of your favorite characters from the earlier game?

    I want to wrap this up, since it's actually way too much stuff to be said. Basically Ellie moves away to a farm with Dina and her baby, far away from everything. She is suffering from PTSD and nightmares about Joel dying. So she sets out to find and kill Abby, again. You find her tied up and dying, you are also dying. You fight, she bites off two of your fingers, you hold her under water to drown her, but you don't kill her. She drives off in a boat with her kid to join fireflies and attempt to have a good life.

    Ellie returns to the farm to find the house abandoned. Ellie sits down and plays on the guitar Joel gave her, it sounds like **** cause she misses to fingers, she puts it down, camera pans to window where we see Ellie walking into the horizon. Leaving the only thing she had after Joel died, music. She lost her **** girlfriend and Dina's kid, basically Ellie's kid, and **** Tabby is seemingly living her best life in a town of 200+ people. Roll credit. **** this game. DO NOT BUY IT    … Expand
  26. GHOSTACIDZ
    Jun 20, 2020
    2
    It has amazing graphics decent gameplay but hardly any innovation in the gameplay mechanics to set it apart from the first game but the story is awfully it just a boring tired tale that been told a lot of times already and it dosent even execute the story well. And the ending will just leave you tired and miserable
  27. Zerogam3
    Jun 20, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Enredo fraco e preguiçoso, todo um desenvolvimento em vão pra uma conclusão decepcionante… Expand
  28. moawthing
    Jun 26, 2020
    0
    awful bad epic fail disgusting toxic i've lost 60$ terrible story horrible trash don't buy it
  29. Jake21
    Jun 21, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The game is really beautiful, the gameplay is good and enjoyable, but the story is awful, they tried to be George R. R. Martin but in the end they just were David Benioff and D. B. Wiess. Another thing that I hated was that they tried so hard to make us feel empathy for Abby, but that's impossible and when I played with her I only wanted to see her die . The end is the worst part of the game, we did and lost so many thing to get our revenge but in the end we don't have it… Expand
  30. Dsaw
    Jun 20, 2020
    5
    It has good visuals, it’s a good game but the story **** everything up, like it makes no sense. It just stupid how they **** up the story by adding random ass characters
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  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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