The Last of Us Part II

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  1. Profxavier888
    Jun 21, 2020
    9
    Amo el primer juego y amo esta segunda parte, bien es cierto que hay momentos un tanto tediosos, pero consigue enganchar y mantenerte en tensión. No juzguéis y disfrutarlo. La historia pese a lo que sucede es muy buena, y quien diga lo contrario es solo por rabia.
  2. Nantoka
    Jun 28, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The game is badly written. You can defend it as much as you want but at the end of the day it just is. Is a 0 out of 10 full with plot holes.
    I ll give you 3 examples in Just the first 90 minutes of a 30 hours game:

    Plot hole 1: Tommy and Joel giving out their names which they would never do. Druckman try to defend it by saying they let their guard down as 4 years have passed. This argument falls completely apart when you consider how caution Tommy was when Ellie and Joel arrives to him in the first game. Tommy by that point has been living for years in Jackson and even when his brother arrives he did not let his guard down until he recognize him.

    Plot hole 2: When you play as Abby in Seattle every one at the wolf army realizes shes gone after only one day. But at the begining of the game she had been traveling for weeks with aprox 6 People only to find Joel when she was already a part of a different organization than the fireflies (she was a wolf by then). So did the wolfs let abby and her friends go with supplies and ammo for weeks so she can find her daddy s killer when she was one of the best soldiers of the wolf organization and also that the wolf organization has a planned to strike at lev s Island with abby in front of the first line of attack?

    Plot hole 3: abby was saved by Joel but not a single second thoughts of the assasination that she was about to do when the person she was looking for has Just saved her life?

    Plot amor: Owen tells abby that when the others see the town of Jackson they will want to return as it was too big. So What does Neil Druckman do to solved this? He sent Joel directly to abby a few hours later.

    Bad writing at its finest! And yes. This is only 90 minutes in a 30 hours game.    … Expand
  3. NightSky
    Jun 28, 2020
    0
    What do you want to express to us? Feminism? Is it more noble to do this by demeaning men? Or is it to give Asians a worthless identity like a zombie appear at the roadside? You could have used more cleverness Way or a better plan to accomplish your purpose, but in the end you just only complete the destruction of your masterpiece,TLOU,which is the definitely not the reasons why playersWhat do you want to express to us? Feminism? Is it more noble to do this by demeaning men? Or is it to give Asians a worthless identity like a zombie appear at the roadside? You could have used more cleverness Way or a better plan to accomplish your purpose, but in the end you just only complete the destruction of your masterpiece,TLOU,which is the definitely not the reasons why players support the second generation
    But if this is what you want
    , Ruined your reputation, congratulations, you have achieved your goal perfectly and brilliantly    … Expand
  4. Liljoeysgym
    Jun 28, 2020
    10
    I’m not sure why I see so many bad reviews. This game was awesome start to finish. Great writing, great gameplay and thought it really added to the lore of the first game. What happened to Joel didn’t bother me. The flashbacks were a nice touch. Really the game was the perfect sequel and couldn’t ask for anything more.
  5. FlyingWing
    Jun 28, 2020
    2
    The graphic and game play is excellent.
    But the narrative and the story line is totally **** up.
    Every character in Part I is out of character in Part II
  6. David2102003
    Jun 28, 2020
    9
    Es un juego demaciado bueno como para darle 0 por qué hay personajes homo o por qué la historia no es buena la verdad el juego es muy bueno
  7. primehead101
    Jun 28, 2020
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Was there parts of the gameplay and story moments that made me want to not like this game? Yes. By the end though when the credits rolled, I felt completely different then I did half way through the game. Is it perfect? No. What it is though is a sequel that I am glad we got. I think it does a great job by the end, giving us the closure we needed for this story. For anyone who hates on this game, I see it as one of two things. Either they read the leaks and didn't bother to finish the game, or they just really didn't like it. Once the third act of the game gets going, it was hard to put the controller down. From gameplay to story moments it truly kept me into it right to the end. At first I thought this was a typically revenge story. It's so much more. By the end i started to grow attached to all the characters including Abby. At first I didn't care that much about Abby and her friends. By the end though when Abby ad Ellie's stories finally reconnect with each other, I felt for both characters. The ending I'll admit could have been a bit better but I am still very pleased with how it was handled. Overall I did end up liking my experience with this game.… Expand
  8. Fourchordchaos
    Jun 28, 2020
    8
    Among the best graphics and sound on the PS4. The AI might be worse than the last game. I don't know how many times I would be spotted and just duck into some weeds and the human enemy would give up pursuit (on hard difficulty). The theme of "violence begets violence" is far to preachy from a game and developer that gice you no choice but to kill hardea of enemies on the way to the endgame
  9. Darkmoon99
    Jun 28, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I originally wasn't going to get this right away because I like to wait for sales when I buy games but a friend got it and I tried playing it to see what the big deal was. Sadly, I have to agree with some of the other reviewers. This comes off more as a poorly written fan-fiction riddled with plot-holes and contrivances where they shoe-horned in culture-war issues to make a statement than a real attempt at an engaging and interesting story-line like the first one. I'm very disappointed since I actually enjoyed The Last of Us and this was presented as a continuation of Joel & Ellie's story. SPOILER: It isn't! They kill off Joel near the very beginning and replace him with a woke character to pander to the SJW crowd.

    I don't understand why game companies feel the need to virtue-signal their "wokeness" to people whom a vast majority of won't buy the game anyway. Why do this? Why not just make the games that a majority of gamers actually want to play? Catering to a select (and noisy) minority who rarely if ever buy your product is a very poor way to run a business and a great way to drive away those of us who buy games because we enjoy escaping from reality for a while to have fun. We don't want our entertainment to be a part of that which is constantly shoving the culture-war in our faces. STOP IT!! We are not your congregation or looking to be converted to/from your religion! In any case, I'm barely giving this a 2 out of ten and that is solely for the graphics quality being pretty good, but graphics can't carry a crap story that won't let you escape the damned culture-war that is tearing this country apart.    … Expand
  10. TheGameGrinder
    Jun 28, 2020
    10
    TLoU is one of my all-time favorite games, and 2 had a lot to live up and delivered in stride. An absolute incredible experience crafted with the utmost care. 10 out of 10 will play again. Thank you Naughty Dog!
  11. akibimisinus
    Jun 24, 2020
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. An incredible game in all aspects, the story somewhat cliché but with plot twist at the right time and to the point it is forgiven since it is human nature, I would have loved that they introduced new items and the mechanics of creating knives were preserved I hope the multiplayer arrives soon
    I put 9 because where if I really did not like it is in the use of the models of the characters, it seems that you kill the same enemy 10 times or more    … Expand
  12. Thermal9
    Jun 28, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The game was horrible. The game starts out very nice and for about two hours it feels like the game we wanted, but then they kill Joel off while Ellie watches. Now we have a revenge game which seems like it's going to go great right? Wrong. So Ellie hunts down these people that killed Joel but when we think we are going to finally fight this new character who is called Abby who was the one who killed Joel the screen goes black. Now we are forced to play as Abby for the same days we just played as Ellie just with a different perspective. So now the player is playing the character they hate for killing Joel for 10 hours which is about the same gameplay time played as Ellie. Sounds great right? No it isn't. Abby's gameplay is supposed to make us theplayer feel something for her character but how can we when she killed Joel? Anyways skipping ahead to when the screen went black with Ellie, Abby is ready to kill Tommy and Ellie but not before killing a new character called Jesse. Now you the player is forced to attack and hopefully kill Ellie who we were playing as? What? Oh yeah! So you fight Ellie as Abby and Abby gets the best of Ellie. Okay. So Ellie and friends return home and now Ellie is living a happy life with Dine a new character and her baby who Dine gave birth to Jesse's child? Who is Jesse? A new character Abby killed off. I know just listen it gets worse. So now Tommy show's up on this Farm Ellie, Dine, and their son are living on after he was shot by Abby during the meet up of Ellie and Abby. He is **** up from that which makes him a whole new Tommy. Tommy tells Ellie he has heard from traders that their is a woman traveling up the coast. So now Tommy wants Ellie to go to finally kill this Abby but Ellie has a family now so she can't go. Ends up she decided to go and try kill Abby again. Yes I said again. So Ellie gets to the end of the game but decides to leave her alive after you fight her??? Ellie returns home after this fight with Abby where she lost two fingers to Abby during the fight to an empty farm house. Dine leaves her with their son and she can't play the guitar anymore due to the fingers lost. Their are some nice flashbacks in this game but that's it. The combat is great and it's very satisfying to kill every enemy. The music and graphics are on point but could use a bit of a fix but the story is all over the place. 4 or 5 out of 10. Not a fun game makes's you feel like you did nothing but play a gsme about nothing.… Expand
  13. MissDolly02
    Jun 28, 2020
    2
    I loved every Uncharted game and I had even more love for the first Last of Us. So far Naughty Dog had never let me down and trust me I wanted this to be good too. Even if it probably wouldn't be as good as the first game, I was hoping I'd still love it. I did see the leaks and I wasn't sold on the story, I was always afraid for Joel since they announced the game, but I was hoping theyI loved every Uncharted game and I had even more love for the first Last of Us. So far Naughty Dog had never let me down and trust me I wanted this to be good too. Even if it probably wouldn't be as good as the first game, I was hoping I'd still love it. I did see the leaks and I wasn't sold on the story, I was always afraid for Joel since they announced the game, but I was hoping they wouldn't go that predictable route and if it had to happen it would have been done in a way the character deserved.

    Now I already knew Joel's death was gonna be brutal, I knew Abby's motive, I knew we had to play as Abby, I knew we were had to fight Ellie. In spite of knowing this, I still had this hope, that they would do it in a way that would be good.

    After I started playing it I hated to find out Joel was being killed so early on in the game, it feels so rushed, like they couldn't wait to get rid of him. They made him fall for a trap which isn't like him, made him die at the hands of a group of cowards who were all in favor of Abby torturing him in a disgusting way, and even have someone spit on him... I felt angry like they wanted, but more at ND for choosing this path than anything else. The next part is the part I did enjoy, there are amazing details in the game, and some very suspenseful moments, jump scares. All good, until, you have to switch to Abby.
    A very unlikeable character which they try to make you sympathize with, her dad saves a zebra, what a good guy right? Then he rationalizes killing a child, without her given consent, for an experiment to maybe make a vaccine. A vaccine that is very overrated cause if a bloater gets you, a clicker rips out your throat, or a runner smashes your brains in, what good did the vaccination do?
    Abby said if it was her she would want him to do the operation, but her dad never said he would, because a real loving father wouldn't kill his precious daughter, he would take her and run, and you know it.
    Like Joel did with Ellie. So he went to get Ellie and Abby's dad threatened him, he got shot and died. Just like almost all of the fireflies, yet Abby seems to somehow know a guy named Joel Miller did it, hunts him down for years with a group who, again, apparently agree Joel deserves the most horrific death... This whole plot is ridiculous and poorly written.

    Not only do I not agree with Abby and I don't feel bad for her cause I already know what she did, it's bad writing to have her do something so disgusting to our favourite character and afterwards try to get me to sympathize. Not gonna happen, especially with a very short flashback. Then we are stuck playing as her for hours, she is so unlikable, they try to convince you how good she is by saving Lev and Yara. She even betrays and kills her own people, people she knew! For these 2 kids she just met. How is that not "worse" then what Joel did? He travelled the country with Ellie and built a relationship with her, he killed people he didn't know to save her. it's just so hypocritical to me.

    After all that mess you have to fight Ellie, It felt awful, I didn't want to do it, I only hated Abby more.
    Ellie is left with PTSD and goes after Abby once again, but not before you have to go back to playing that horrible character once more.
    After all the trouble she goes through, and losing 2 fingers, out of nowhere Ellie decides to not go through with it. it makes absolutely no sense to me that she would go all this way and for some reason can forgive Abby for what she did out of hate to someond she dearly loved, even tho she couldn't forgive Joel for something he did out of love.

    I get that Ellie felt conflicted, that she felt bad about resenting Joel, being cold to him, because of how much it hurt when she lost him and saw him like that. I get that she probably was angry at herself aswell... but it doesn't take away how empty the ending is. She has no one left, everything good in her life is ruined, destroyed. She can't even play guitar anymore, her last connection to Joel, and leaves behind his guitar. This game was designed to make you feel horrible, which is not why I play games...

    Not to mention that Joel & Ellie = The heart of The Last of Us, it's what made the first game amazing. How the wounded man learned to love again, even tho he didn't want to, he didn't want to open up, he didn't want to get attached to Ellie, it was too painful for him because of what he lost and she reminded him of that. But she melted his heart, and Ellie found something in Joel she never seemed to have had before.

    The trailers also made us think that Joel was gonna be alot more involved in the game, by flat out lying and tricking us with using an older image of Joel in scenes that turned out to just be flashbacks of Joel before the events in this game take place, and it was all on purpose just to deceive and make the player feel bad.
    Sadly, you officially, and massively, disappointed me and other fans, for the first time...    … Expand
  14. ASeizureSalad
    Jun 28, 2020
    10
    A remarkable and grim journey that leaves the player questioning actions and looking at the consequences of those actions. Beautiful graphics with a wonderful cast.
  15. reivaj200
    Jun 28, 2020
    9
    Amazing!
  16. JFurmage
    Jun 28, 2020
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I honestly enjoyed the sequel as much as the first one. Naughty Dog didn’t play it safe when writing the storyline. Yeah it was upsetting that Joel was killed and I wasn’t a fan of Abby through much of the game even while playing her. And yeah I might have let her die a time or ten when I didn’t have to, but it made me feel a little better. I watched as Abby tried to redeem herself by helping Yara and Lev. And I watched as Ellie became darker in her quest for revenge. The last fight between Ellie and Abby is downright brutal. In my opinion, Abby was the winner in the end. Abby and Lev leave the resort together while Ellie finds she she no home to go back to. The only reason I left a point off is because Naughty Dog should have put in a cut scene when Ellie successfully releases the first runner at the Resort to wreak havoc on the Rattlers. You can hear the screams, groans and gun shots, but it would have been better if you could have watched it all. I sincerely hope that Naughty Dog makes a part 3. If they do, I hope they don’t try to play it safe to try to appease some of the fans. By the way, anyone that thinks the whole lesbian and transgender business should have been left out of the game...grow up. You have no problem with characters getting hung, gutted, burned or riddled with bullets, but anything having to do with LGBT and you get squeamish. That says more about you then the game itself. Just except the fact that your a bigot and move on with your life. You should just play it safe and stick with nintendo games.… Expand
  17. Daftyler
    Jun 23, 2020
    10
    Great game, ignore the idiots. If you can use your brain for 0.1 seconds and empathize with the situations, you'll enjoy the game.
  18. GabrleI
    Jun 28, 2020
    1
    This game has really good graphics, and really amazing attention to detail, kudos to the team who did it, but the story..., its so full of holes, and so unsatisfying that it hurts, Also when i was playing it, it was really full of bugs, i really belive that if the game was played only with ellie and had a slightly better ending it would be an easy 9/10 or better, this game was ruinedThis game has really good graphics, and really amazing attention to detail, kudos to the team who did it, but the story..., its so full of holes, and so unsatisfying that it hurts, Also when i was playing it, it was really full of bugs, i really belive that if the game was played only with ellie and had a slightly better ending it would be an easy 9/10 or better, this game was ruined potential. and i'm really sad because of it.… Expand
  19. Almawash
    Jun 28, 2020
    10
    Such a great game and a great sequel of the franchise . I highly recommend it!
  20. jrsax7
    Jun 28, 2020
    8
    A technical masterpiece, but the story doesn't reach the heights of Part 1.
  21. Danielsjack
    Jun 28, 2020
    10
    Ахуительная игра. Wonderful game, a wonderful pathway, great thanks
  22. Tokerzo
    Jun 28, 2020
    10
    Excelente juego! No mejor que el primero, pero no esta mal... Me dolio la muerte de joel, pero es algo que aunque ya me esperaba que pasara, no me lo imagine de esa forma
  23. Elly9527
    Jun 28, 2020
    0
    I will never buy games from new dog.Trash story,disrespect the old fans.and Abby sucks!!!
  24. Fattiger
    Jun 22, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Great gameplay, awesome graphic and good music. With terrible story telling skills. I rate it 2 since Ellie lost 2 fingers for nothing.… Expand
  25. Alexao83
    Jun 28, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. El mejor juego de la generación, una obra de arte.
    Jugabilidad, gráficos, historia, escenarios y personajes. Aplausos Naughty Dog. 10/10    … Expand
  26. 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.
  27. Jschafer5316
    Jun 28, 2020
    1
    If you want to play a game that is disappointing, this is the game for you. Super woke, but at what cost?
  28. talha900
    Jun 28, 2020
    10
    This game is amazing it wows and surprises you, feeling so many emotions. Its a cinematic masterpiece with outstanding graphics. Its a must play. It doesnt deserve the 0s thats it getting. I simply love the game
  29. Lost-Sock
    Jun 28, 2020
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I don't want to get too in depth so I'll list a few pros and cons then explain a little why I gave 6/10

    Pros
    - fantastic graphics - excellent music and sound design - better level design than 1
    - slightly better companion AI than 1 Cons - woeful enemy AI
    - Clunky outdated controls and animations - 6-10 hours too long - cheap storytelling, boring revenge plot, poorly fleshed out characters
    - feels like it could have been a PS3 game gameplay wise - tacky manipulation tactics made for you to feel empathy yet none of the characters warranted it. All in all I was hugely disappointed with the game, I finished it today and I'll be trading it in later on. The story is terrible, I honestly think one of the clickers could have come up with something better than this generic trope riddled monstrosity. I didn't care about Ellie OR Abby, just two bits of crap with different coloured glitter. The gameplay was mind numbingly dull, 10 minutes of gameplay followed by either an overly long cutscene, or an hour of going round and round a larger map finding crap to craft neccesary things with. Take away the wandering around all over picking up bits of scissors and the game itself would be around 7 hours I bet. The awful doom music everytime you got into a combat scenario got so annoying too, as did the silly noise whenever someone was close to spotting you (seriously it's relentless even when you're in cover) The combat mechanics were better than TLOU1 but not much, it felt very last gen, as did the gunplay which is Uncharted 1 levels of awful. It's not a bad game by any stretch, but neither is it the 10/10 masterpiece so many sycophantic pseudo-intellectual reviewers paint it as with their pompous waffles. It's a decent enough stealth game at times with a garbage story, awful writing, horrible characters and gameplay from the last gen. The only thing it really excels at is the graphics, sound design and voice acting. The rest of the game is simply mediocre truth be told. Would I recommend it? Only a deep sale, it's not worth more than £15, luckily I'll get most of my money back in trade - I feel for players that bought it digitally.    … Expand
  30. JohnPaul25
    Jun 28, 2020
    7
    In my opinion, the story's decent. It may not live up to the hype, but still I think the story is pretty solid. Definitely worth it to play until the end even though the ending is not what we expected. But i still think that the Naughty Dogs could've done a better job on the story and turn it into a masterpiece. Sure, the story and ending are actually acceptable for me but when millions ofIn my opinion, the story's decent. It may not live up to the hype, but still I think the story is pretty solid. Definitely worth it to play until the end even though the ending is not what we expected. But i still think that the Naughty Dogs could've done a better job on the story and turn it into a masterpiece. Sure, the story and ending are actually acceptable for me but when millions of people are actually kinda pissed, you know you have done a poor job on picturing the story for them. And I'm referring to the people that actually played the game instead of watching some cutscenes only. And what's wrong with those that gave score on first day? too much time on their hands?
    Regarding the gameplay, I'm sure it's safe to say that it's superb compared to games out there. I was completely amazed by how dynamic the animation was but still the AI could've been better.    … Expand
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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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  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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