The Last of Us Part II

 PlayStation 4
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5.8

Mixed or average reviews- based on 161975 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 8,550 out of 161975
  3. Negative: 68,475 out of 161975
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  1. Carlosdark
    Jun 19, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Honestly this game is not for fans, en serio esto honestamente no es para fans… Expand
  2. renzzzzz
    Jun 30, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. extremely heartbreaking, i avoided the spoilers/leaks i was about to go out and get a physical copy then i accidentally saw a tweet saying Joel died in the first 2 hours of the game and at that point i don't care anymore i started watching gameplays, read user reviews and it's all true, a complete garbage ruined by some people who think they made creative choices and bold moves but in reality they delivered garbage with a cheap shock value plot twist that nobody asked for. Joel, Ellie, the programmers/graphics team deserve so much better than this awful game.… Expand
  3. SternRitter
    Jun 19, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Where to begin? Last time I was this angry over a piece of entertainment was The Last Jedi and dare I say this is even worse? Joel and Ellie were the reason people love the first game. Their characters and their story was handled with love and care in the first game. This game not only butchers their relationship it completey throws it out the window in favor of this new Abby character. The marketing was deceptive and everything was in service of Abby. They might as well have killed Ellie when they killed Joel because this franchise is effectively dead now!… Expand
  4. Skivbrard
    Jun 26, 2020
    2
    This game made me sad a lot even for 2020. Critics reviews are nothing but extreme hypocrisy
  5. Martradh
    Sep 3, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I’ll start with the positive then proceed with the negative.

    Positives-

    The graphics are excellent. I would slow down my gameplay just to take in the scenery.

    Negatives-

    The game play is repetitive with very few new enemy challenges.

    This game was delayed and still had bugs where people would spawn often right beside me.

    The characters you play don’t develop. They are mostly angry, bitter, and thoughtless, but for a few moments of humanity.

    You have no options to make decisions which makes it feel like your forced do things not in Ellie’s character. I would sit there and not press the button the game was indicating I press. Its the first time playing a game I thought, this is miserable. Unfortunately, it’s just a downward spiral for her character.

    Abby is an unlikeable angry person who cheats with a guy who’s girlfriend is pregnant. He’s an unlikeable POS too. Their whole group is unlikeable. Being forced to play her character was not fun. I rushed through her sections of the game which unfortunately is a huge part of the game. She does one good thing and I guess we are supposed to feel like she has been redeemed. Nope. Also her father is a unethical doctor who didn’t inform his patient he was going to kill her before being he put under anesthesia. Abby is an angry sociopath and her deceitful father got killed because of his own horrible decisions. Joel prevented Ellie’s murder.

    It was apparent early on revenge will take more than it gives. But that is the core of the story and repeatedly reinforced ad nauseam. This drives the plot to nowhere. Nothing was gained by the experience. We literally end with less family, less digits, less purpose than when we began which I understand is the point but what a disappointing experience. Its like GOT or the SW trilogy. When your ending is bad it ruins everything that comes before. I replayed the first game twice. This game has no replay value.

    We get the point. Revenge is bad.

    Red Dead Redemption 2 is an excellent game because the characters have story arcs. They change and develop and realize life doesn’t have to be misery. This game begins with misery, with some misery in the middle, a blip of hope, then a strong miserable ending.

    In summation. Excellent job and creating a graphically beautiful game. Boo for releasing a game with bugs still in it even after a delay. It’s misery and depression with amazing graphics.    … Expand
  6. K4tana
    Jul 4, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. If you liked the first game do NOT buy this one, run away from it like its the devil its self.
    You will hate the story due to some poor plot twits in the game that come more has a cheap shoot then an actual plot twist. The game play is basically the same but you can jump now hooray for innovation!
    Graphics look amazing jaw drooping but it all goes to waste since you the story is probably one of the worst ever in gaming, you though the mass effect 3 ending was bad? Oh boy you haven't seen nothing.    … Expand
  7. Miolo_de_Pao22
    Jun 22, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. No other game have told a story like this one did. A story that could have happened in real life. There is no real villain or hero. Every one has his motives for doing stuff. People are so used to the cliche that they don't want anything different than that.… Expand
  8. Zulemaflor
    Jun 22, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Excelentes graficos. Pero la historia esta quebrada. Jugar con un personaje odioso obligatorio es fatal. Jugar con ellie es sensasional. Hay horror y suspenso. Pero despues se convierte en un juego de guerra mediocre. Lastima de graficos… Expand
  9. chubbhceese
    Jan 16, 2023
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game doesn't deserve all of this hate from the review bombers and those that haven't even played the game yet.

    Story - 7/10
    The story is OK. Definitely not as good as the first game. The story was actually going pretty good up until the Abby portion. I know what the writers were trying to convey, but by us playing as Abby for what seemed like forever, it seemed to diminish the anger we had from Joel's death. And it wasn't because I started to see things from Abby's side. It was because we were focusing so much on her that I started to forget about Joel. Abby's story was kind of boring.

    I was hoping for a happy ending, but I understand why they didn't go that route and it doesn't affect my score. My score was affected by 2 things. The OK-ish story and the fact that they pulled an MGS2 on us.

    Now comes the easy part.
    Graphics - 10/10
    Not alot needs to be said here. This is top tier stuff. How did they get the lips to move so well?

    Sound - 10/10
    Again. Not alot to be said. The score was fantastic. Sound effects were great and made me flinch many times.

    Gameplay - ??
    I'm bad at reviewing this stuff. I played good. *shrug*

    Other -
    Loading screens! I could die and then be right back in the game within 5 seconds. It was amazing.    … Expand
  10. Flayton
    Jul 5, 2020
    0
    Just two hours ago, I already finished. I understood why the fans fell in love with the standard part)

    I will be brief. During the passage of the sequel, I have a difficult feeling, and I will play the Game Tycoon product, when the developer will have many game points, and the rest of the game for the gameplay and quests would not have enough points.
  11. oldrsd_sa
    Jun 20, 2020
    0
    I don't like when games are used as a medium to express political agendas. Enjoy
  12. Liam96
    Jun 23, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game is mess. More so the direction and writing, feels rushed and looks like they were arguing over what should happen. Their were parts I enjoyed, which was the parts of playing Ellie and the flashbacks of course. The gameplay was good I liked it, Visually great, and music is good but without a story this game has no legs to stand on.

    I've waiting over 6 years for a sequel, 3 years for it to come out, I was over the moon when I found out it was happening. Then this, why? I get what they were going for and I think if they which the two playthroughs around it would been better, Showed no promotional stuff on Ellie and joel. I think making you play as Abby was a bad decision especially after you was just getting started with Ellie and starting to get to know the other characters. I didn't like what they were going with Abby and lav aswell trying to push them like the new Ellie and joel that was silly.

    All in all I think this story would have been a good 3 game not the second and destroy all that character building from the first. Can't be for nothing! Felt like it in the end.    … Expand
  13. Linaria
    Jun 21, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I played the previous work, but I feel sad as such a player.
    I can not help feeling empathy for the character whose operation changes from the middle, and I can not help doing it.    … Expand
  14. ohmcharan
    Jan 19, 2021
    10
    Don't listen to the gAmeR reviews from people raiding due to manufactured trend created by aNti sJw conservflakes spread throughout the youtube.

    Play it yourself and decide it's a masterpiece for me

    Unbelievable graphics
    Gripping story
    Detailed gameplay mechanics
    10/10
  15. GabFire
    Aug 9, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Um jogo extremamente impactante, amei de verdade, personagens que fazem tu gostar e odiar todos eles ao mesmo tempo, chegou a me deixar confuso. Realmente antes de lançar, eu estava muito ansioso para ter o jogo em mãos, depois que lançou, fiquei assustado com a morte do Joel logo de início, porém com o passar do tempo, comecei a entender o que a Naughty Dog queria propor no jogo e realmente amei. Recomendo muito quem não jogou ou quem tem medo de jogar porque ouvir ou leu muitas asneiras sobre esse jogo, que jogue e desfrute de algo que provavelmente vai te impactar de alguma forma.… Expand
  16. Tecliano
    Jun 24, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Congratz Naughty Dog you have cost SONY a customer for life, with your shameful DM CA attacks to keep your bad deceitful ADVERTISING, your pathetic director's crappy story from coming out in mainstream reviews and trying to crush the leaks. all in an attempt to fool customers into buying your depressing preachy HYPOCRITICAL product. Seriously SONY some ANIME cleavage is absolutely unacceptable but you are allowed to put that awkward sex scene with Abbey and Owen, by the way a question Owen looks alot like Abbey's dad, are they related????? DISGUSTING.… Expand
  17. AokiNanuk
    Jun 19, 2020
    2

    First, the story and sometimes even the delivery of the voice lines ranges from mediocre to outright awful, although I would leave the voice actors out of the picture, they weren't given much to work with. The characters you've known from the previous game somehow got severly dumm and angsty. The story is bleak and very straightforward, with visible attempts at cheaply manipulating the
    First, the story and sometimes even the delivery of the voice lines ranges from mediocre to outright awful, although I would leave the voice actors out of the picture, they weren't given much to work with. The characters you've known from the previous game somehow got severly dumm and angsty. The story is bleak and very straightforward, with visible attempts at cheaply manipulating the recipient being more than frequent. The characters don't grow, they act illogically, generally come out as unlikable and seem to be wrapped in a plot armor 10 inch thick. The comparisons with fan-fiction levels of writing are actually one hundred percent spot-on. I'm not even going to talk about the controversial agenda pushing that's going on, I'm sure everyone has already made their picture about that.
    The other bad part is the combat. Naughty Dog has never been famous for their combat systems. However, as combat is a VERY integral part of this game (more so than in the first one, dare i say), the issues only rise in prominence and often you'll question yourself "what the **** just happened?" or "did the camera/auto-targetting/glitches (yes, the game has some minor glitches in the enemy AI) just decide to **** me over?". The combat and crawling through maps looking for hidden resources is fun a while, but gets repetitive and annoying very quickly and it only gets worse as the game goes on.

    If you've loved the original The Last of Us because of its combat, you're going to be happy with this game. If you¨ve enjoyed it for its story or characters, you're in for a very unpleasant surprise. Save your 60$, buy on sale if you want to try.    … Expand
  18. smurf123444
    Jun 26, 2020
    0
    Terrible story line. Chinese communists have taken naughty dog as well as any other game these days.
  19. sabinoplane
    Jun 28, 2020
    0
    Sadly even though the idea wasn't thaaat bad and had some potential this game was ruined and the story is not satisfactory for most fans
  20. LightBioshock47
    Jun 21, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Pura lacração e bugs, se não quer ser doutrinado evite esta porcaria pois é uma clara ferramenta ideológica!… Expand
  21. alulubule
    Jun 19, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I like how they made Joel the only likeable character in the game tô just kill him in the first 2 hours
    Depressing    … Expand
  22. GarrusIsBeast
    Jun 19, 2020
    0
    This game is full of SJW content, weak unsatisfying story, and the gameplay doesn't help at all! Why Naughty Dog? Just Why?
  23. elreki
    Jun 19, 2020
    1
    + Graphics, gameplay, soundtrack
    - Story, characters

    This game is nothing more than misery porn created to satisfy ego of one small little man.
  24. corncake
    Jun 19, 2020
    0
    This "game" is the embodiment of teenage angst, was this supposed to be for the fans?
  25. Veemon
    Jun 19, 2020
    1
    Looks gorgeous and has some great acting. But my god The story and new characters are horrendous.
  26. WeeFecker
    Jun 24, 2020
    0
    Solid Graphics, sound design and gameplay, however the story in this heavily story based game is hot garbage. The game's theme of revenge has been over done and cliché and does nothing of interest with said theme. Many of the new characters are unlikable for a variety of reasons and the characters from the previous game display plot forced stupidity and do things that make zero sense. TheSolid Graphics, sound design and gameplay, however the story in this heavily story based game is hot garbage. The game's theme of revenge has been over done and cliché and does nothing of interest with said theme. Many of the new characters are unlikable for a variety of reasons and the characters from the previous game display plot forced stupidity and do things that make zero sense. The marketing material straight lies about certain things and more. Do yourself a favour and save your money for better games.… Expand
  27. Jferap
    Jun 19, 2020
    1
    An absolute middle finger to every fan of the first game. And it’s not due to any LGBTQ **** that doesn’t bother me. The story in general is just absolute dog****, filled with plotholes. Don’t even get me started with that poor excuse of an ending. Neil took a fat **** on this franchise, and I will pretend this game never even existed.
  28. WitcherPavit
    Jun 19, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game was disappointing at best, the gameplay, and the looks were stunning but the story didnt make up for it, as it dumbed down from the first making it all feel pointless. The start was strong but the last nearly 75% dropped down in quality as it goes on. Trying to make you sympathize an antagonist can be great, but naughty dog has done it in a terrible way where it just makes you despise the antagonist more and feel more sympathetic to Marlene. The story is just disappointing and a massive step down from the nearly perfect narrative of the original. This might be the biggest disappointment to me and maybe of this entire year so far, its a shame to see naughty dog go from the great things of uncharted 2, the perfect conclusion with uncharted 4, and one of the greatest narratives of all time with last of us, dumbed down to this big mess. Get the game on sale is my verdict, but even then, be prepared for disappointment in narrative.… Expand
  29. simthzhang
    Jun 19, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It's been a long time since I was so angry with a game. I have to say that the narrative and interactive experience is the best I have played in the PS4 era, and the performance of music and pictures is also top-notch. But this cerebral palsy plot ruined everything.
    Joel can die, but he can't die so stupidly, Ellie can be kind, but he can't be so kind. It feels like the entire production team is enjoying the process of destroying all the original characters. nausea    … Expand
  30. jialigary
    Jul 1, 2020
    1
    Metacritic blocked me to rate this game. Thats just terrible.

    The game wants us to build empthy over a new character who brutally murdered people and brutally beat pregnant woman. This is just the worst story I have ever seen.
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#2 Best PS4 Game of 2020
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#1 Most Discussed PS4 Game of 2020
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#3 Most Shared PS4 Game of 2020

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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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