The Last of Us Part II

 PlayStation 4
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5.8

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  1. FeelMostAlive
    Jun 24, 2020
    10
    This is a brave and strong game. If because of some stupid people developers will stop creating this type of games it will be a great loss.
  2. Declan1802
    Jun 20, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. First let’s get the pros out the way:
    - The environment is beautiful, honestly one of the best-looking games I’ve played.
    - The gameplay is improved on compared to the first game, not completely overhauled but improvements in upgrading and the addition of new items and ways to improve your skill tree is welcomed and makes the second playthrough viable to max out the character on the new game plus option should you wish to do it.
    - The flashback sequence with Joel and Ellie at the museum was perfect, that should have been the story not what was given, that’s the only point I thought this feels like The last of us in storytelling and I will give praise for that.

    Now onto the negatives...

    -The treatment of characters is disgusting, Joel has had his character essentially stripped back to be viewed as a monster compared to original and it just angers me rather than saddens me that his death is handled the way it is and that essentially rather than let the player interpret the original ending in their own way, make it clear in black and white you shouldn't be okay with what he did, that doesn't sit right with me. Everyone on Abby's part of the story I just don't care about, her included because we've spent the entire first game playing Joel's story and seeing his loss and these people kill him and not only are we forced to play as them but sympathise with them? That isn't how I felt. Jesse I liked maybe due to his lack of involvement but then he dies, just out the blue without much drama around it. Tommy at the end is seen as some bitter only out for revenge monster and you can't even blame him.
    - The gameplay is repetitive I found myself getting bored after about 8 hours and the game is about 20/23 hours depending how fast you're going through your first playthrough. It was a slog to play and on the first run that’s not good.
    - The writing in general, its honestly baffling. Ellie making decisions that literally 20 minutes before she states she wouldn't make the plot holes are noticeable. The entire end act of the game is about Ellie being so consumed by revenge that she leaves the life she has with Dina and the baby to kill Abby finally and then by the end, doesn't even do it. I don't understand the point behind this.

    I honestly could say a lot more but honestly, I’m just sad, I could be angry which in terms of the writing I absolutely am but overall I’m just sad that my favourite game in the last of us, has received a sequel that honestly, just leaves a bitter taste in my mouth and leaves me not accepting that anything was made beyond the end of part one because i'd rather that was the case. Neil Druckman doesn't deserve the level of abuse he was and likely still is receiving but that doesn't mean you can’t point out that he ruined this sequel and franchise by delivering some cliché revenge is bad story while butchering the very characters that made the last of us what it is. I honestly didn’t expect this, I didn’t expect it to be as good as part one but I definitely didn’t expect it to be such a betrayal of the characters from the original game.    … Expand
  3. AdamTobin
    Jun 29, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The story ruined the whole game. They killed a main character horribly. They didn't give him the respect he deserved.… Expand
  4. someguy2332
    Jul 5, 2020
    9
    No, this Is not a perfect Game (no Game Is) but i find it to be a huge accomplishment. I Have put some 50 hours into this Game, played it twice, loved it twice. No, i am not a "shill". I went into it with really, really low expectations, the discourse and hate had killed My hype for it. "The story SUCKS" "The Script Is BAD".
  5. Freeze-IV
    Jun 26, 2020
    10
    Just finished the game...Loved it! Never wanted a sequel to begin with but this is the best it could be!
  6. Christopher_228
    Jul 1, 2020
    0
    Could have been a great continuation of the legendary first part. The whole thing was spoilt by the way that the radical feminist movement influenced the plot, the appearance of the characters and consequently the general impression of the game.
  7. Tellthem
    Jun 23, 2020
    10
    After playing through the game for 25 hours it was clear that this was a massive upgrade to its already incredible prequel. From a technical aspect there truly isn’t a game that can match this - possibly the closest is RDR2 - and the physics of the gameplay puzzle is phenomenal. The only downsides were that I was focused on the plot so much I neglected some of the safes that are hiddenAfter playing through the game for 25 hours it was clear that this was a massive upgrade to its already incredible prequel. From a technical aspect there truly isn’t a game that can match this - possibly the closest is RDR2 - and the physics of the gameplay puzzle is phenomenal. The only downsides were that I was focused on the plot so much I neglected some of the safes that are hidden throughout the game!

    The enemies are also vastly improved from the first game and the new infected types are terrifying to encounter for the first time. The human enemies ended up being the tougher enemies at times due to the way the AI functions.

    There’s a lot of review bombing and negative comments about the storyline but for me it clicked every harden than the first game. The story is about consequences and the cycle of vengeance and is handedly very poignantly. For people who can’t get over the plot twists, that’s a shame but maybe they can go on to write their own stories and games if they feel they know better? Some of the latter set pieces are as intense as something in a high-budget Hollywood film.    … Expand
  8. Inthedeepside
    Jun 19, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I think that i just too upset American game have lots of different between Japanese ones,but it doesn't mean you can make player contorl a fxxking gorila and kill everybody… Expand
  9. san0417
    Jun 22, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I´m sorry but this character treatment is unforgivable. Furthermore, the trailers were extremely misleading, basically lying to you to increase copy sales. ELLIE AND JOEL ONLY INTERACT IN FLASHBACKS!!!… Expand
  10. Bruce96
    Jun 19, 2020
    0
    Some games aren't meant to have sequels. This is the embodiment of how to **** up a sequel and mislead players into thinking OG joel into the game)
  11. ErhanCeylan123
    Jun 24, 2020
    1
    This is a story-driven game.Narrative is so bad in this game,pacing,charachters,emotions not like first game.Game doesn't want care charachters.
  12. SantiPar
    Jun 28, 2020
    0
    The combination of of identity politics and mediocre writing in THE LAST OF US PART II absolutely annihilated what could have been a decent (although completely unnecessary) sequel to the masterpiece that was the first game.
  13. yessir23
    Jun 19, 2020
    0
    what a disservice to loyal fans who paid for this and went through the game only to have them play through unlikeable characters and decisions that were uncharacteristic of them. I can't believe that they green lit this storyline what a waste of money.

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    how you gonna make us go through the entire game hell bent on getting revenge while making some questionable decision along the way. Only to have redemption taken away from us right at the end because ellie realizes at THAT! point that the revenge cycle needs to be broken here. Are you kidding me? Abby got her revenge and then some only to have her be shown mercy by ellie. Ellie loses joel, almost looses dina to slaughter, tommy gets shot in the face, jesse gets shot in the head and dies and then ellie leaves dina and their child, loses 2 fingers and all this is directly done by Abby so why in the flying F** should ellie show mercy? Honestly made so mad and disappointed at the end while the credits rolled. I couldn't believe I did all that just for some meaningless self realization of "revenge not being fulfilling".    … Expand
  14. Tactics360
    Jun 23, 2020
    0
    This game is what happens when you sacrifice character development and story for inclusivity, agenda and pandering. This is legit the worst game I have ever played and I have no idea how anyone thought that this story was either honoring the characters from the first or something worth telling. Please stop using what a character identifies as for the single quality that that character has.This game is what happens when you sacrifice character development and story for inclusivity, agenda and pandering. This is legit the worst game I have ever played and I have no idea how anyone thought that this story was either honoring the characters from the first or something worth telling. Please stop using what a character identifies as for the single quality that that character has. Hire better writers and not people who just want an ideology jammed down throats. Gamers do not want this. No one other than woke-folks want this.… Expand
  15. smizzlereview
    Jun 19, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. So disappointed to see how all the leaks are true. It really shows how much of a biased circle-jerk that gaming publications are that the reviews for this game are so high. I don't understand how any fans of the original game, or a casual player who owns a PS4, would at all agree with the scores that "professional" critics are publishing.

    Yes, the graphic and animations are great. A lot of work went into the graphics and are design, and you can really tell. However, this seems like the only part of the game that any thoughtful development went into.

    The mechanics and moment-to-moment gameplay haven't changed whatsoever since the original game was released 7 years ago. And back then, the original game played like an out-of-date action adventure. The Las of Us 2 has the same weak crafting system, same generic and uninspired stealth system that's been in games since the PS4 first came out.

    AI is absolutely terrible. Here's an example that happened to me: throw a molotov at a group of infected, other infected (not clickers) run over to stand in the fire to investigate. Human AI are equally bad, at the AI you would expect in something like Fallout 76 or something. They will just run into kill zones where their buddies just died, they will be completely oblivious to bodies or stealth kills right next to them. Like, you'll grab one enemy as a human shield in broad daylight directly in front of 2 other enemies, and they'll be doing the "Oh, what's that sound? I better investigate." animation for 3-4 seconds until you shoot them in the face. This is especially bad as you'll be fighting the exact same 3-4 enemy types throughout the whole game, so the terrible gameplay stays the same through the whole game, which gets boring and fatiguing fast.

    So you probably didn't play the first game for it's gameplay, you loved it for the world and plot, which is why you're thinking about the Last of Us 2. Everything you like about the first game is gone. None of the characters have good chemistry or banter with each other, and the characters you like from the first game have had the parts that you loved about them conspicuously removed. New characters in Ellie's side of the story are mediocre at best. If you're that interested in the story, go watch the first couple of hours of the game / cut-scenes on YouTube before you decide to buy.

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    Joel dies in the first hour. The Abby character is just as laughable and unrealistic as all the memes say she is. Ellie's character has been turned completely one-dimensional by the start of the game, which is part of the game's weak thesis on cycles of violence and revenge. All the characters put on a forced gruff tone for their voice acting, and have flat and uninteresting dialogue to read off.

    At the end of the game, after killing your way through hundreds of people, and other characters who were involved in Joel's death get the bullet, you don't even get the choice of what to do with Abby. Ellie lets Abby live because....cycles of revenge? This lack of choice, and forced direction by the game describes the entirety of the plot and game design.    … Expand
  16. Jingyun
    Jun 22, 2020
    0
    Shame on directors They chose worse way to tell a story Just put any stupid things they want
    And mixed it together What a dumb
  17. Canopus1
    Jun 19, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Very mediocre storyline, everything seems very forced.

    Joel's death was extremely forced and dumb, they could have developed a more complex or interesting storyline for Joel's death but no. He encounters some random people in the forest, gets in the basement of a random house and get killed, just like that, the main character from TLOU1 and probably the main character of TLOU franchise gets killed in the most dumb way. Then you play like half of the game with a character you never heard about and you really don't care.

    Then, you play with Ellie and the whole storyline about "I must revenge Joel's death but my wife doesn't want to so when I came back she was no longer at home" is extremely cliché.

    Oh and by the way, you play hours with Ellie just to finally find Abby and let her go, so you literally played all that for nothing.

    I really don't understand what Neil Druckmann was thinking    … Expand
  18. Denismania
    Jun 19, 2020
    3
    Las mecánicas siguen iguales a la primera parte, los infectados y enemigos no son la gran cosa pareciendo mas a un Uncharted pero sin el frenetismo de la acción, la historia esta tan forzada que da miedo hasta da nombrarla por el temor de que nos llamen homofobicos
  19. raghaed
    Jun 19, 2020
    1
    hi im playing it for 2H its have bad start with long time you dont doing anything
  20. brightroar
    Jun 19, 2020
    0
    **** game. it’s not worth your time and money. a disrespect to the first one
  21. Soundhurst
    Jun 19, 2020
    3
    Once you see past TLOA2's exceptionally polished visuals what you're left with is essentially a movie with distinctly average third person stealth/action gameplay tacked on.

    The movie, unfortunately is a truly mean spirited and ugly affair. You name it - ugly characters, ugly personalities, ugly environments, the The Last of Us Part II has it all. The game seems to be more interested    Once you see past TLOA2's exceptionally polished visuals what you're left with is essentially a movie with distinctly average third person stealth/action gameplay tacked on.

    The movie, unfortunately is a truly mean spirited and ugly affair. You name it - ugly characters, ugly personalities, ugly environments, the The Last of Us Part II has it all.

    The game seems to be more interested a pushing a political agenda than actually telling a compelling narrative, as things really lose direction and focus towards the middle of the game especially.

    A thoroughly unenjoyable and bleak affair from start to finish.    … Expand
  22. TheOnlyMason
    Jun 19, 2020
    1
    Bruh what’s there to say, 2 hours into the game and my while vibe gets killed.......literally
  23. pang122
    Jun 19, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Better technology than before, but terrible story. Abby kills Joel, but at the end, Ellie just lets Abby get away. Can't accept it.… Expand
  24. Danick90
    Jun 20, 2020
    0
    How to destroy a brilliant game with political ideology. In my opinion the first part has been top 3 in the last decade, for this reason I'm completely disappointed with this big change in the argument. It hasn't sense
  25. Mayuresh77
    Jun 25, 2020
    10
    The cycle of revenge ends here. I am going to see my mother... (Masterpiece).
  26. Jaaybee89
    Jun 20, 2020
    0
    Probably the most dreary and boring game I have played. Ridiculous story with forgettable characters.
  27. Stuglord
    Jun 19, 2020
    1
    Spoiler free review, Pros
    Amazing graphics + Scenery is awesome
    The cons
    Gameplay hasn't changed much from the first game, The uber cons
    The story....my god it's bad, and considering it's a story driven game it suffers massively because of this
  28. DancingMadman
    Jun 19, 2020
    4
    Ну по порядку.
    Графика - 10
    Взаимодействие с миром - 8 Музыка - 8 ( как по мне хуже 1 части ) Геймплей - 6 ( по сути с 1 части в 2013 году ничего нового почти и не увидел в нём, по этому такая оценка) Сюжет - 3 (очень плохо, опять же если бы не 1 часть возможно была бы оценка - 6) Взаимоотношения между персонажами и оценка второстепенных - 2 Общая оценка - 6.5. Была бы, но учитывая    Ну по порядку.
    Графика - 10
    Взаимодействие с миром - 8
    Музыка - 8 ( как по мне хуже 1 части )
    Геймплей - 6 ( по сути с 1 части в 2013 году ничего нового почти и не увидел в нём, по этому такая оценка)
    Сюжет - 3 (очень плохо, опять же если бы не 1 часть возможно была бы оценка - 6)
    Взаимоотношения между персонажами и оценка второстепенных - 2
    Общая оценка - 6.5. Была бы, но учитывая надежны и ожидания от игры, а также время (7 лет на секундочку) ожидания, ставлю 4 не более.
    Даже не смотря на феминизм и то как игра уходит в сторону ЛГБТ сообществ ( хотя самого действа оказалось на удивление мало). У игры куча других минусов, начиная от сюжета и заканчивая отношением персонажей между собой.

    Well, in order.
    Graphics - 10
    Interaction with the world - 8
    Music - 8 (as for me worse than 1 part)
    Gameplay - 6 (in fact, from the 1st part in 2013, I almost did not see anything new in it, this is such an assessment)
    Story - 3 (very bad, again, if it were not for 1 part, it would probably be an assessment - 6)
    The relationship between the characters and the assessment of minor - 2
    The overall rating is 6.5. It would be, but given the reliability and expectations of the game, as well as the time (7 years for a second) of waiting, I put 4 no more.
    Even despite the feminism and how the game goes towards the LGBT communities (although the action itself was surprisingly small). The game has a bunch of other minuses, starting from the plot and ending with the ratio of characters to each other.    … Expand
  29. Circiro
    Jun 19, 2020
    0
    Very boring game. Go from A to B, watch a cutscene, rinse and repeat. Didn't like the story too, nothing new, secondary character are bad represented, and plot twists can be easily guessed. Same bad combat system of the first game too.
  30. Reidloscidem
    Jun 19, 2020
    3
    I'm just baffled on how so much was not mentioned in the reviews! We were lied to. Period. I can't trust the media's reviews anymore. A narrative was so bad that I COULDN'T EVEN FINISH IT! I purchased a product wanting to have engagement in the previous story. I was massively disappointed.
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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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