The Last of Us Part II

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  1. NxtDoc
    Jul 19, 2020
    9
    Hurts so good seems apropos. Gameplay is a massive improvement over the 1st entry.

    The world is gorgeous.

    Soundtrack is great

    And the story takes huge risks, alongside great storytelling.
  2. kluch975
    Jul 19, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. TLoU2 is by far one of the most impressive games I've ever played, both technically and narratively. The gameplay is fluid and brutal and a massive improvement on the predecessor. The visuals and attention to detail is constantly stunning. The openness of areas was fantastic and allowed multiple approaches to feel valid when engaging in combat whether it be stealth, all out ordinance, or a mixture of the two.

    The violence of the gameplay is gutwrenching, entirely by design. If it makes you feel uncomfortable then it's working as intended. The violence very much is designed to interweave and complement the plot of the story.

    ----Spoilers ahead----
    As many know at this point Joel is murdered brutally within the first few hours of the game by a character named Abby. This appears to be the most controversial aspect of the game because... reasons. But I personally found this to be narrative genius. This is a gutwrenching moment that the player is able to experience with as much raw hate and loss as Ellie. We want to track down this Abby person. We want Ellie to succeed in getting retributive justice. But as we play, we see the damage this violence is doing to her mental health. We see the pain and suffering imposed to those around her. We see the people we are killing have names, loved ones, friends. As we play staying alive, pushing on, our quest gets harder and harder, until it finally breaks both us and Ellie when she reaches her antagonist. Then the true narrative genius occurs (unfortunately by nature of spoilers and the internet the plot twist is undercut) but now we play as the villain we've all been hating up to this point. The game asks us to walk a mile in the shoes of our enemy. Wait she also has lost someone dear to her. Wait she also is just seeking justice. Wait am I the bad guy? Is Ellie the bad guy? Is Joel the bad guy? Wait I remember that person, that dog. I stabbed them in the neck and watched them bleed to death. **** they have friends and family. This is very much a social experiment that many will not be interested in or willing to approach. Many video games use guns, weapons, and violence as a gameplay mechanic to make something fun. TLOU uses it as a tool to push its story a long. They want us to question why we take joy out of this. I found Abby's storyline to be a very interesting character piece. Many seem to be turned off by the "randomness" of it with the introduction of the seraphites and Lev's storyline, but I found them incredibly important stories. For one, Abby's plotline is an exact foil to Ellie's. Rather than taking vengeance Abby begins to find empathy. She begins to understand the "other" are still people just doing what they think is right. That shades of grey exist in the world. Yes, she still commits acts of unspeakable violence/murder but in this world that is the status quo. Its kill or be killed, but nonethless she makes the choice to walk away from it. She has the opportunity to kill Ellie and Dinah, to take an eye for an eye, especially given that Dinah is pregnant, just like Mel was. But in that moment she stops. She remembers the emptiness, the bitter nothingness killing Joel brought her. An eye for an eye only makes the world go blind. So she spares them. The game finally ends exploring how Ellie remains traumatized and broken by everything that has happened. We have to remember this is someone who has only ever experienced violence and a fungal apocalypse. She has mental illness both visually apparent and explicitly mentioned in her notes. She is not capable of making rational decisions and thus goes after Abby again, but this time finds a beaten, empty husk of the person she hated who has been exposed to months of torture by a gang of sex traffickers (?) in California. The ending is a grotesquely beautiful mixture of cinematic gameplay that leaves you as a player resenting yourself being behind the controller only for at the final moments for Ellie to finally come to terms with what she has done and what she is doing, what Abby and the players learned along the way. As Ellie sees her reflection in the water (ironically enough Abby's submerged head) Ellie realizes this isn't the way. That killing Abby will not solve her problems. It's a bittersweet ending that at a glance may feel meaningless, but the emotional takeaway, the realization of the damage both of these women experienced is a compelling look at human weakness and growth.

    This game is not for everyone. If you cannot stomach explicit violence or are unwilling to look at what is intended to be a piece of art with a critical yet objective eye you will not enjoy this game. Treat TLOU2 like a bittersweet oscar film, one that isn't meant to have a happy ending, but is meant to be an interrogative look at the human condition in all its ugliness. In that effort I think TLOU2 is a masterpiece    … Expand
  3. Chamorro
    Jul 19, 2020
    10
    A SAD story but
    a true one
    One of the Best Games of ps4.
    Please play it is very intresting The emotions in this Game are so strong
  4. Ivanlel
    Jul 19, 2020
    10
    Exellent in all. Better than The First chapter. Great visual, music, characters, story.
  5. monkeyface0422
    Jul 19, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I don’t see why everyone is so upset with the game. There is valid criticism of the game, but everyone who is review bombing just because Ellie’s gay, Lev’s trans, and/or Joel died is pretty dumb. Yes, Joel died in a terrible way that he didn’t deserve, but that’s kind of the point. This is a post apocalyptic world for christ’s sake, a lot of people died in horrible ways. It’s a messed up world where messed up stuff happens to messed up people. Anyone upset that a character died is playing the wrong game. And Joel, Jessie, and Yara’s deaths being so sudden is really shows how unforgiving this world is. Also, the revenge plot didn’t bother me that much. It may be overly used, but I felt like Naughtydog put their own twist in it. Ellie’s one true fear is ending up alone. And her leaving Dina on the farm is pretty stupid, Ellie feels like she has no other choice. She can’t sleep, she can’t eat, she being constantly reminded and haunted by Seattle, and she feels like it’s going to effect JJ. In her mind, the only way to get everything back to normal is killing Abby. Rationally, the play knows that it won’t help anything, but Ellie isn’t being rational. She’s been traumatized and plagued with terrible thoughts. The one thing she could possibly do to stop it is kill Abby. At the end she doesn’t, which a lot of people are also upset about, but I really liked it. She thinks of Joel. She thinks of the years she hardly spoke to him after finding out the truth about the fireflies. She thinks o the big he before his death when they were finally going to start trying to better their relationship. She thinks of her decision to try to forgive him. But I think she also thinks of everything Joel has done. He hurt her. He basically killed all of the fireflies. So I think she understand Abby in that moment. They are one in the same. She was essentially trying to avenge her father’s death, just like Ellie was. So she let her go. And she ends up alone. And she loses the one thing that still connected her to Joel. Playing guitar. I think it’s perfectly tragic. With all the time and effort she spend trying to avenge him, she lost him. No one really deserved what happened to them, but that’s the whole point. This game left be emotionally broken for a really long time after I finished my first play through, but I feel a lot of what people are criticizing about the game was done very intentionally. So I’m probably biased, but I really liked the game, and I hope this community gets to a point where we can all have meaningful discussions without the hate. Because the game isn’t perfect, but I don’t think it deserves what’s happening to it.… Expand
  6. RyuK1440
    Jul 19, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Este juego es el mejor va a ser goty este 2020 la gente que lo critica sabe mas de pelar mandarinas que de una buena narrativa este juego es frío es cruel no una historia echa para los fans… Expand
  7. Jorchis10
    Jul 19, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The game play is very good, but the story is very bad, and the end is not raw, dramatic, or surprise, just bad.
    And underestimated Ellie's character, it was the worst.    … Expand
  8. TiagoBSMHorta
    Jul 19, 2020
    8
    I was delighted by those graphics and soundtrack, the story is very emotional and, although in some parts I wish they changed the orders of cutscenes to show more interection between both protagonists (Abby and Ellie), I think it was a good game, not excelent, but it was worth the hard work of developers...
  9. Killer_moamen1
    Jul 19, 2020
    9
    Story is 6/10 but all in all this is amazing gameplay is fun, exploring is fun, everything is fun except story
  10. SnailMan
    Jul 19, 2020
    10
    Смелые решения разработчиков, шедевр, каких очень мало!
  11. dabbingbeauty
    Jul 19, 2020
    10
    Simply my favourite game. 10/10 for me. Fell in love with the game. I love how to game writers made me feel like I was in the shoes of Ellie. I found it extremely fun playing this entire game and exploring everything. Would I replay the game? Yes in a heartbeat!
  12. Dilaverdad
    Jul 19, 2020
    10
    Best game I have ever play, seriously its amazing! The history, the playability, the details, the characters...it’s just massive!
  13. TonguePunch3
    Jul 19, 2020
    10
    This game totally worked for me. The story is exciting and just adding the dodging and crawl mechanics were enough to change the gameplay completely and make it very exciting and immersive. I love the last of us 1 and the second one was just as good if not better! It’s a gut-wrenching story but pretty great once you get over “yunno”.
  14. midshelfgaming
    Jul 19, 2020
    8
    Plot is great the first half, I couldn't care about the 2nd half, but the gameplay was solid the entire way through. Revenge is kinda overdone but it still did a good job.
  15. Cami_Castillo
    Jul 19, 2020
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I really enjoyed the game. It has beautiful graphics and the playing controls are smooth.
    The storyline it's really good but it has it's flaw's, there's a lot of the story that tend to depend on the imagination of the player and their own perspective and that's a great thing but it can also be bad.
    I understand that this game divides opinions personally I Think that the player has to be consumed by all kind of emotions and Bravo you nailed to cause a void in my heart.    … Expand
  16. FormlessGenie
    Jul 19, 2020
    10
    Amazing game through n’ through from the sound design to the gameplay I’ve never experienced something as harrowing and brilliant as this game
  17. Aaron12
    Jul 19, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I really liked it, sure I wasn’t a fan of joke dying, but I understand why it happened and saw it was made perfectly… Expand
  18. thekillerwind
    Mar 29, 2023
    7
    Well, to begin with the positives, I must say that the game play is enjoyable, the craft system is good, the charterers are OK, and the story is bad. There were parts of the game that were very beautiful and sweet and made you feel connected to the savage world, but some parts of it were so awful that even though I still play the game today, I will skip this cuteness in an effort to try toWell, to begin with the positives, I must say that the game play is enjoyable, the craft system is good, the charterers are OK, and the story is bad. There were parts of the game that were very beautiful and sweet and made you feel connected to the savage world, but some parts of it were so awful that even though I still play the game today, I will skip this cuteness in an effort to try to enjoy it. I will ultimately suggest this game for its gameplay, but not for its plot.… Expand
  19. Distrakshen0705
    Jul 19, 2020
    10
    Game of the year
  20. Dean31
    Jul 19, 2020
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Me and my partner have just finished TLOU2 what a game! It was a roller coaster of emotions all the way through. The soundtrack is epic the way the game looks is truly beautiful and the story was intense, we loved it more than the first one to us this felt more real and at times we loved and hated both characters for wh,at they did, at one point we even discussed if Joel was the villain! . Seriously though what a game and experience however we decided on 9/10 because at some bits we felt grabbing resources out of drawers and off the sides was a little to much this time around and slightly took away from the flow of things, for us anways, but it more than made up for it in other areas.… Expand
  21. VeaPepo
    Jul 19, 2020
    10
    Tremendos gráficos, las mejores animaciones de la generación, gameplay muy pulido, gran doblaje, buen soundtrack, historia emotiva con momentos memorables, acción, suspenso. Un juego redondo.
  22. Jeypss
    Jul 19, 2020
    10
    El juego es, EN MI OPINIÓN, una total obra maestra, no solo por su jugabilidad de primera calidad, excelentes mecánicas, ambientes e inmemorables momentos de tensión. Desde mi punto de vista logra transmitir un mensaje importante haciendo uso no solo de la narrativa, sino también de diversos elementos semióticos y un uso excelente de planos para dar simbolismo a cada situación del juego,El juego es, EN MI OPINIÓN, una total obra maestra, no solo por su jugabilidad de primera calidad, excelentes mecánicas, ambientes e inmemorables momentos de tensión. Desde mi punto de vista logra transmitir un mensaje importante haciendo uso no solo de la narrativa, sino también de diversos elementos semióticos y un uso excelente de planos para dar simbolismo a cada situación del juego, haciendo que simpatices con ambos personajes y veas el por qué de sus acciones. El juego no te pide que ames a los personajes, solo te quiere mostrar las consecuencias que traen consigo las acciones que llevan a cabo, las razones, estén justificadas o no te llevan a pensar y reflexionar en el mundo que rodea a los personajes, mostrándote que en cada cosa mala hay algo bueno y en cada cosa buena hay algo malo.… Expand
  23. Edududu
    Jul 19, 2020
    10
    O game e bom, e com um ótimo roteiro, mas e aquilo não e possível agradar crianças.
  24. Javilico
    Jul 19, 2020
    1
    El claro ejemplo de cuando se te sube la fama a la cabeza... tlou fue un juego que no tenia mucha espectativa de ser un buen juego, y nos conquisto, ahora neil decidio meter un genero cinematografico con The Walking Dead (que el se considera fan) y salio este desastre... mucho motor grafico y poca historia... mal hecha, incosistente con respecto a lo que vimos en tlou y encima jugar laEl claro ejemplo de cuando se te sube la fama a la cabeza... tlou fue un juego que no tenia mucha espectativa de ser un buen juego, y nos conquisto, ahora neil decidio meter un genero cinematografico con The Walking Dead (que el se considera fan) y salio este desastre... mucho motor grafico y poca historia... mal hecha, incosistente con respecto a lo que vimos en tlou y encima jugar la historia de la villana (para que?) sinceramente, que neil vaya buscando otro curro, al menos nos quedara uncharted ;)… Expand
  25. juliojosh1
    Jul 19, 2020
    10
    A maior e mais impactante experiência que alguém pode ter com um video-game, tanto a narrativa, quanto a mecânica são impecáveis, uma experiência única para qualquer jogador com o mínimo de moral, inteligência e discernimento para saber diferenciar o real do ficcional e ter empatia como ser humano.
  26. Def-from-miami
    Jul 19, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Indepth review of the last of us 2, tdlr at the bottom. The last of us part 2 is one of the unique games I've ever played. I am a massive fan of the first game, and I have played it several times until the second game was released. I spent countless hours before the games release watching videos about theories and speculations in the 2nd game, but my experience was completely different from what I had imagined. The performances from the actors were phenomenal, and the raw violence of every person Ellie murdered felt uncomfortable and animalistic. Ellie's journey of vengeance is eye candy for a psychology nerd like me, and Ellie’s troubled relationship with Joel showcased throughout the story made her revenge a Tale more intriguing. At the climax of the game, when Ellie was choking Abby, the Deuteragonist/antagonist of the story, was an emotional moment that personally affected me. Ellie's external hate towards Abby foiled with my internal hatred, as I try to forgive myself from the damage done by my depression. The game ultimately told a tale of forgiveness, and the cycle of revenge continues until one must break the chain, which often feels unsatisfied but necessary. Abby could have learned to forgive Joel, but her selfishness and failure for acceptance led to the degeneration of her social relationships and her physical body. Ellie was capable of forgiving people for their actions, as she forgave Joel for lying to her about the fireflies, and Abby, who killed her surrogate father out of blind retribution. Playing as Abby in the latter half of the story was difficult as first, as I had grown to despise her for murdering Joel, and later Jesse at the theater. But, I softened up for Abby as she protected Lev and Yara, as they were outclassed by the seraphites because Lev’s internal conflict with his gender identity, and his longing to become a brave soldier. Abby abandoned the WLF to protect Lev and becomes like a mother to him. I began to feel empathy for both characters, as they had motivations to protect others and survive. No one is good or bad in the last of us, instead, a million shades of gray. Joel slaughtered firefly doctors, and soldiers do save Ellie, who grew onto him as his daughter. Abby, who initially battled in a purposeless war with the seraphites, abandoned her old life to protect a young boy. Ellie, who despised Joel after lying to her, and a woman who took away that chance to make amends with her father, eventually learned to forgive them. Ellie is still like her younger self; she is capable of forgiveness, a non-emotion-existent in this world. Tdlr:
    The last of us part 2 left me feeling empty, saddened, but hopeful and bliss, as Ellie now can try to rebuild her life and make amends with her past. There are some minor flaws with pacing and that one sex scene, but the game left me wondering what happens after the credits? The relationships between characters felt real and emotional, and the story of revenge masquerades a tale of forgiveness.    … Expand
  27. ThigsSinistro
    Jul 19, 2020
    9
    jogo bem feito, jogo bonito, jogo formoso.
    Este game é totalmente ao contrário do que esperávamos pelos trailers, não pela gameplay mas sim pela história, personagens principais bem desenvolvidos os secundários tbm óbvio alguns nem tanto mas nem tudo é perfeito, mas este game tem um desfecho que muitos não vão gostar, mas era de se esperar pela história e desenvolvimento das tramas    jogo bem feito, jogo bonito, jogo formoso.
    Este game é totalmente ao contrário do que esperávamos pelos trailers, não pela gameplay mas sim pela história, personagens principais bem desenvolvidos os secundários tbm óbvio alguns nem tanto mas nem tudo é perfeito, mas este game tem um desfecho que muitos não vão gostar, mas era de se esperar pela história e desenvolvimento das tramas apresentadas. Notan9, não dou 10 pq dez é somente nosso Deus, obrigado a quem leu, tmj     … Expand
  28. iigorlavrador
    Jul 19, 2020
    10
    Fantastic game. Gameplay, graphics, sound, all at the highest level of quality. But the best part of the game is the story, the best I've ever played.
  29. Tomiramirez09
    Jul 19, 2020
    9
    Es un muy buen juego, ya sea por su jugabilidad, sus coleccionables y hasta sus gráficos, pero a veces he visto en la historia que hay escenas forzadas, por esta razón le pongo 9, ya que tiene casi todos sus aspectos buenos, pero lo único que hizo un poco mal fueron algunas partes del guión
  30. Jordanistan
    Jul 19, 2020
    10
    Heart wrenching story that left me feeling introspective. Everything I loved about the first game but bigger and better.
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#2 Best PS4 Game of 2020
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Metascore
93

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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