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  1. Jun 30, 2020
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Was okay with 16 hours of playing as Ellie and went along with the story that started to make sense within the last 5 hours and leaving you with a suspense scene, the game then interrupts the whole flow of the story and forces you to play as Abby. Okay sure I'll go along with it, after 2 hours of playing Abbys part I realised how repetitive and unrewarding the looting is.

    Playing as Ellie and unlocking most her skills tree was fine but to expect me to play a new character and having to start over with a new skill tree and having scavenge all over again to upgrade my weapons and skill is just painfully tedious and repetitive. I have been playing on hard so the ammo are scaled to 1-2 per find and scrap parts are as low as 2-10 (excluding safe openings).

    So...
    A) The game stops you at 16 hours and leave you with a suspense scene, then expects you to play as another character you clearly know you don't like.
    B) You start from the very beginning after the "drastic" event that happened as the new character, which made that "drastic" decision.
    C) You have scavenge and craft upgrades for the weapons and level the new characters skill tree all over again.

    In short, I did not continue after 2 hours of playing Abby's part of the game. I could not bring myself to through play through the rest of the game as it is tedious and repetitive and also I don't play unlikeable characters that clearly does not deserve playtime or a complete story from beginning to end. As for the rest of the story I guess I'll have to watch the rest of gameplay as I can't stand to play over the game's leveling and crafting mechanic.
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  2. Jul 7, 2020
    6
    audiovisual feast with a flawed story, unlikable characters, repetetive gameplay
  3. Jun 7, 2022
    6
    Пройдя игру в первую неделю релиза я был в восторге, однако перепройдя её недавно( ВНИКНУВ в сюжет) решил зайти и изменить оценку с 10 на 6
  4. Mar 9, 2021
    6
    This game just disappoints and makes me sad, considering that i loved the first game. There is so many things that don't make sense in the story context. But story apart it's still a good game with its gameplay and open environments.
  5. Jul 17, 2020
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. -Graphics: 10, nothing to say about the graphics, this is the best looking PS4 game.
    -Gameplay: 7, a little repetitive, nothing out of the ordinary compared to the first game.
    -Story: 4, this is where it gets worse. The game obviously wants you to think that revenge is bad and stuff, but you don't really UNDERSTAND the message, the game makes you feel it by throwing shocking, violent scenes that are made to disgust you. The motivation of the characters are sometimes really confusing, I don't get why Abby tortured Joel on purpose for seemingly no reason; she didn't have to do that. This is why I don't like Abby, even at the end of the game. The game wants you to hate her in the beginning, and then you have to forgive her and to see her as a "nice person". I think it's really hard to go through all of these emotions after a character TORTURED a beloved character from the first game, especially after hating her so much in the beginning. I get what they wanted to do but it's executed poorly, with a lot of (too many) plot holes to help the story.
    -Sounds and OST: 9, the musics are as good as the first game, and sounds are well done.
    -Characters: 3, I didn't really like all the secondary characters like Dina and Jesse, even though I felt something during Jesse's death, so that's good I guess. Lev and Yara are meh, I didn't care when Yara died, and if Lev were to die, I wouldn't care either. The worst ones are Abby's friends, mainly because I don't care about Abby's life and stuff. I just want them to die (I was even happy when Manny died), or I just don't care about them because I know they will die in the first place. And for the characters in the first game, I really don't think they are the same. Joel death in particular, was just really stupid. I get that after 4 years being at Jackson, he became more human, but I didn't see that before he gets killed. Flashbacks where he is actually nice come AFTER he died. Again, poorly executed.
    -Pacing: 3, I really didn't like playing as Abby. I actually didn't want to play as her, I just did it to see the ending and what happened in the theater. Also, Ellie's first day in Seattle is boring. I would've preferred to play as Abby 10 hours before Joel's death, because after she kills Joel what's even the point to make me appreciate her? I just didn't want to play as someone that killed someone I like, especially in a dumb situation like that.
    All of this makes an overral score of 6, which is in my opinion a fair score. I don't why you would put a perfect score if you played the first game, but I also don't get why you would score a 0 because Joel dies.
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  6. Jul 11, 2020
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I have very mixed feelings about the game. I don't think it's as good as critics say but also not as terrible as most people who played it say. First of all the game design, graphics, controls and customization is amazing. The attention to detail is unlike anything we've ever seen in a ps exclusive. Ellie's arc was great overall, with deep development and a good ending. The only problem i have with the ending is that i think it's unrealistic how Ellie's decides that she should give up on avenging Joel when she drowns Abby instead of when she cut her open and heard her scream. Abby's is pretty bad tho. The reason why she killed Joel is bc he killed her father. That is understandable, she went through a lot of pain for him but the big problem is that Abby's dad was the real bad guy. He only died bc he took Ellie away. Ellie was like Joel's daughter and after losing Sarah, it's only understandable why he would react that way. By that, she made Ellie feel the same way as she did, thus creating a cycle of hatred and yet, Abby wonders why Ellie comes after her to kill her. Abby would even kill Dina and Ellie's friends even tho they didn't do anything. Abby's friends were responsible for Joel's death so unlike Abby, Ellie definitely had a reason to kill them. In short, Ellie's development was great, Abby's was terrible bc it feels like avenging bad people for 10 hours. Expand
  7. Jun 27, 2020
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It could be a Great game, but ND ruined everything by feminism and White man hating Expand
  8. Jun 26, 2020
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Positive’s Best Moments Game Is The Gameplay IS Better Then The First One Of My Favourites Joel & Ellie Relationship Flashbacks Side Characters Tommy Dina Jessie Are Great
    Word Design Is Phenomenal Now For The Negatives For This Game
    The Storytelling Is All Over Place The Treatment Of Joel’s Death Is Forced Poorly Executed & You Play As Abby after Killing Off One Of My Favourites Joel & Jessie I Don’t Hate Her But At Same time I Don’t Want To Play As Her The Ending Sucks Ellie Lets Abby Go This Is The Biggest Disappointments in Video Game History for me
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  9. Jun 24, 2020
    6
    Story is garbage,gameplay medicore,graphics are amazing and dialogue is great. Ending is completly garbage and the main protagonist is a **** hit or miss. Whole game feels like druckman's attempt at creating a "masterpeace" but turned out to be a garbage fanfic.
  10. Dec 2, 2020
    6
    This game is one big drama. Characters are to suffer in every moment of their life's. There is nothing positive about this world. The game tries to force you to share the drama, but after a moment you just stop caring. There is no contrast, almost no happy moments. Technically thr game is great. Visuals are great, but the game is exhausting and negative.
  11. Jun 20, 2020
    6
    Graphics are insane greatness awaits with last of us part 2 mind blowing adventure loved from beginning to end 10/10 5/5 **** if it didn’t have the strong sjw and feminists **** in it js.
  12. Jun 29, 2020
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The Last of Us 2 is a game that does a good job at improving the gameplay and visuals over its predecesor...but it's narrative brings it down to a poorly executed pretentious product...that underestimates the intelligence of its audience and is (seemingly) not aware of its own hipocrisssy. Just to give a perspective, the balance between narrative and gameplay in this game can be divided like this: 30% pure combat gameplay, 30% exploration and basic gameplay, and 40% narrative driven sequences. So, having that much narrative makes this game rely a bit too much in its story to move things forward. You feel like you wanna see what happens next, and in that sense the narrative sequences become kind of a reward for the player. Given this, is very hard to judge the game as a whole without the story. And it's a shame that the story in itself suffers from the pretentious intentios behind it. There are pacing issues, there are plotholes, there are badly hidden plot devices and stuff that may (an will) pull you out of the experience. It's hard to get into details without spoiling the game but let me say that you have 2 main protagonists, and the intention of the creators to give a message that is stronger than their skills to build a believable story around it. You have main characters treated like plot devices, you have circumstances that are way too fortuituos to be real, many forced situations just to serve the writers intentions behind them. In most cases it just doesn't work well enough to make it believable. There's a 2nd character that you'll be forced to use for half the game, and they try so hard to make her appealing that it also can put you off the experience. But the worst thing is the epilogue...a forced, hilariously long and convoluted epilogue that does more to lessen the overall ecperience than enrich it. The ending must be one of the pointless things I have ever played and watched in my life. It leaves you empty, and wondering what was the point of even doing this game. To me is not a bad game/experience, but is for sure not a good one. Is just a "meh". Maybe it's worst for those who loved the first one and it's characters. On a final note, just say that there are many subliminal and also on your face messages that will remind you of that so called "secret agenda" form Neil Druckman, and it also can pull you off the experience. From religious statements, to forcing certain type of characters, to making all white males die or be useless or dumb, and a long list that I felt does not add to this review. To me is an experience to have just if you get the game in a very good sale. Expand
  13. Jun 23, 2020
    6
    they finally **** the bed with this one, the game starts with being one of the best moment I have experienced in gaming, and then it starts going downhill until you finally either break the controller or break the desk
  14. Jun 26, 2020
    6
    Pros:

    + best graphic on PS4 + great visuals, good sounds and music + good voice acting and cinematics + pretty good gameplay mechanics + very good pre-order editions and bonuses Cons: - really bad story - boring and unlikable characters - so many dead people, but you don’t care that they are dead - repetable Seattle locations - game itself is very long, it should be 15 hours max for this
    Pros:

    + best graphic on PS4
    + great visuals, good sounds and music
    + good voice acting and cinematics
    + pretty good gameplay mechanics
    + very good pre-order editions and bonuses

    Cons: - really bad story
    - boring and unlikable characters
    - so many dead people, but you don’t care that they are dead
    - repetable Seattle locations
    - game itself is very long, it should be 15 hours max for this story
    - main plot
    - behavior of Ellie
    - LGBT and Gender Propaganda (so many asiats, lesbians, strong females and transgender kid)
    - I hate Abby and her muscles
    - No Multiplayer and lack of replaybility
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  15. Jun 26, 2020
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. 전작에 대한 존중이 1도 없는 정신분열적인 라스트 오브 어스2는 자기의 개똥철학을 억지로 넣으면 어떻게 스토리가 개박살나는지 알 수 있는 교과서적인 게임이다. 라오어는 7년간 많은 발전을 이루었다. 특히 압도적인 비쥬얼이 인상적이며 호스를 이용한 상호작용은 얼마나 많은 개발자가 갈려나갔는지 알 수 있다. 죽어나가는 적의 사지가 절단되는 등 디테일에 굉장한 공을 들였다. 전작1이 진부한 주제임에도 플스3 최후의 명작이라고 칭송받는 이유는 조엘과 앨리의 유사부녀 관계를 통한 뛰어난 스토리 빌드업과 연출 때문이었다. 그만큼 라오어에서 스토리는 이 게임의 전부라고해도 과언이 아니다. 그런데 그 스토리가 붕괴되었다. 낡은 조엘를 무참하게 짖밟고, 전혀 납득할 수 없는 애비라는 캐릭이 나와 개발자의 개똥철학을 유저에게 가르치기 위해 게임이 진행되다 보니 게임에 몰입이 안된다. 또한 일본 삼류만화 마냥 계속 과거로 돌아가 구구절절한 사연을 풀어 놓는 난잡한 이야기 구성은 최악이었다.
    난 라오어1이 명작이라 생각하지 않는다. 해볼만한 수작이라 생각하며 아직도 라오어가 그렇게 고평가 받는 이유를 납득못하고 있다. 이런 나임에도 불과하고 이 게임이 최악이라고 느끼는데 라오어 팬들이 느낄 분노와 증오는 정말 클 것으로 생각된다. 다른건 다 좋은데 스토리가 정말 구리다.
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  16. Jun 19, 2020
    6
    Positives : Gameplay - Graphics (X2) - Cutscenes - Acting - i guess soundtrack ? ( didn't feel anything special)
    Negatives : STORY ( story with all capital letters, yes ) - unlikable characters - unnecessarily long
    Note : 0 point reviews are trolls but this game surly has it own flaws...
  17. Sep 13, 2020
    6
    I've been playing and I just stopped after a few hours (less than 10 hours) because I found it to be uninteresting and not all that fun. I didn't feel engaged and interested like the first part. I don't particularly care where they take the story as long as it isn't boring. Which this is.

    I can usually overlook a boring story if the gameplay is fun. But this is a little shallow. There
    I've been playing and I just stopped after a few hours (less than 10 hours) because I found it to be uninteresting and not all that fun. I didn't feel engaged and interested like the first part. I don't particularly care where they take the story as long as it isn't boring. Which this is.

    I can usually overlook a boring story if the gameplay is fun. But this is a little shallow. There really isn't much to the combat or gameplay compared to similar games. Ghost of Tsushima was so much more engaging even though the story wasn't outstanding.

    The only thing going for this game is the stunning visuals and sometimes atmosphere. I guess its something to do and look at if you're bored?
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  18. Jun 27, 2020
    6
    Part II nails a number of things that make most games great. The controls feel incredibly tight and fluid. The presentation is remarkable, and will likely end up being the best of this console generation. The voice acting and motion capture is top-notch, as we've come to expect from Naughty Dog over the past decade. Yet despite all of this, I can never see myself replaying it. In fact, IPart II nails a number of things that make most games great. The controls feel incredibly tight and fluid. The presentation is remarkable, and will likely end up being the best of this console generation. The voice acting and motion capture is top-notch, as we've come to expect from Naughty Dog over the past decade. Yet despite all of this, I can never see myself replaying it. In fact, I would struggle to recommend this game to anyone; especially not fans of the original game.

    In many ways, the Last of Us Part II falls into the same mistakes that made The Last Jedi reviled by most fans of that franchise. In an attempt to be subversive, Naughty Dog loses sight of what made the first game so universally loved by critics AND fans. In an attempt to be poignant, they just come off seeming pretentious.

    To make matters worse, the latter half of the game amounts to what is essentially an aimless side-quest, with the only motivation to push through coming from the promise of a pay-off in the finale which never comes.

    Part II is a visually stunning game, but when the glitter wears off, all we're left with is a story for masochists who enjoy being taught a lesson they already know.
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  19. Jun 22, 2020
    6
    Gameplay awesome Story : Boring and leaves feeling unfulfilled As well as being badly paste
  20. Jun 19, 2020
    6
    Mira el juego tiene muy buena jugabilidad y es gráficamente hermoso pero la historia es una pieza fundamental en el juego y la verdad es bastante sosa y mala
  21. Jun 21, 2020
    6
    Graphics 10/10 Amazing!!
    Gameplay 5/10 Gameplay slightly better than PART1
    AI friend 8/10 Intelligent Buddy AI
    Story 3/10 No reasonability with Joel and Ellie
    Sound and Music 8/10
  22. Jun 27, 2020
    6
    O jogo tem uma boa jogabilidade um bom gráfico mas sinceramente não atendeu as minhas expectativas, de certo modo que me decepcionou muito
  23. Jun 21, 2020
    6
    the story felt pretentious, almost as if it didnt want to be a game but rather a movie. I get that games are another medium for art, however, I feel they should take advantage of that medium. tlou2 doesnt do a great job of that. it reaorts to cheap tricks to get you fell good or bad for characters all for shock value. there is no real potency in the game and now a day after beating it andthe story felt pretentious, almost as if it didnt want to be a game but rather a movie. I get that games are another medium for art, however, I feel they should take advantage of that medium. tlou2 doesnt do a great job of that. it reaorts to cheap tricks to get you fell good or bad for characters all for shock value. there is no real potency in the game and now a day after beating it and digesting my experience , I can say the game doesnt stay with you and you will forget about it shortly. uneventful and disappointing Expand
  24. Jun 21, 2020
    6
    If I’m being brutally honest I was expecting a great story to go along with the amazing gameplay but unfortunately the story is a bit of a mess
  25. Jun 21, 2020
    6
    Graphics-10
    Gamplay-6
    Storytelling-0
    And this game is all about story so it will come up to 0

    I don’t wanna rate it until I see too many up voting this **** game yesterday (over 20000, you know, all reviews in GTA 5, including PS3 PS4 XBOX 360 XBOX ONE PC, there are only 20000 in total in all these years, and TLOU2 is only 3 days or some). Please don’t do it anymore.
  26. Aug 2, 2020
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The Last Of Us is my favorite game ever with TLoZ: BoTW. The original TLoU is a masterpiece, and I'm really sad to see how Naughty Dog has ruined it. I'm not gonna review this game because it's already done for many people. I just come to say that this is not the game that they have been selling us during years. It's like if in the new God of War, someone kills Kratos and then Santa Monica forces us to play with his killer.
    TLoU Part II is an offense to all the fans of the first game. They forced us to empathize with someone we don't care about. They have been selling us the trip of Ellie, Ellie in the cover, all the trailers about Ellie, EVERYTHING about Ellie, and at the moment of truth, they force us to play with Joel's killer, and, the worst of everything, after some hellish hours that we all play obliged, they forced us to destroy Ellie, to try to kill her, playing with Abbie. It's the cruelest and most disgusting way I've ever seen to laugh in the face of the fans. I'm sorry ND, but you have broken the masterpiece you did 7 years ago.
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  27. Aug 4, 2020
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This is a very technically sound game. Runs great, feels great, looks great. Voice acting top notch, action is there, etc etc. Which unlike a lot of people, I cant make myself give this a 0-3 rating. Its just not that. However, that is where it ends. I absolutely hated the story. Abby is just not a good character no matter how you twist it. She sucks. I have zero interest in a part with involving her. I played the first game once and beat it, enjoyed it, and was happy to see a part two. Man, what a 360 though. Unfortunate the writers decided to take this route, but is what it is. Expand
  28. Apr 22, 2022
    6
    Начну с не очень хорошего. Итак The Last of Us: Part II невероятно устаревшая игра! Да, да именно так, это невероятно устаревшая геймплейно игра! Вообще это касается всех последних игр Naughty Dog, в той же Uncharted 4 догадались геймплей обновить хотя бы кошкой, в Last of Us 2 даже этого не завезли. Геймплейно это всё та же игра 2013 года.
    Выглядит она просто великолепно, ни чем не
    Начну с не очень хорошего. Итак The Last of Us: Part II невероятно устаревшая игра! Да, да именно так, это невероятно устаревшая геймплейно игра! Вообще это касается всех последних игр Naughty Dog, в той же Uncharted 4 догадались геймплей обновить хотя бы кошкой, в Last of Us 2 даже этого не завезли. Геймплейно это всё та же игра 2013 года.
    Выглядит она просто великолепно, ни чем не уступая по красоте Uncharted 4. Оптимизация просто не реальная, ни одного лага, ни одного провисания фпс, ни одной мыльной текстуры лично я не заметил. И это при том, что играл я на фатке, ну шумит конечно, но это частности.
    Озвучка, лицевая анимация, моё почтение и при всём при том игра чувствуется очень устаревшей. Ни одной новой игровой механики лично я не заметил, а ведь 7 лет прошло!
    Самая большая ошибка поставивших низкие оценки, это ошибка в понимании ими названия игры. Многие видят её как The Last of Us 2, это категорически не правильно! Название игры The Last of Us: Part 2, подчеркиваю Часть 2. То есть это никакой не сиквел, это всего лишь вторая серия и не больше. И если это понять всё встанет на свои места.
    О сюжете скажу только то, что он говно!
    Всё основано на мести Элли и сраной Эбби, при том ни та не другая друг другу так и не отомстили!
    Далее спойлеры!
    Ещё меня просто выбесило, что 2/3 прохождения мы играем за это бесполое существо, без каких либо вторичных половых признаков, по имени Эбби! Она является дочкой того самого "доктора Менгеле" который убивал десятки невинных людей и чуть не убил Элли в поисках славы и вакцины в оригинальной игре. Эта тварь Эбби убила нашего любимого Джоэла, поубивала практически всех наших друзей, предала свой народ! И авторы хотят, чтобы я за неё играл? Чтоб я ей сопереживал? НЕЕЕТ!!! Удовольствие мне доставляло лишь сбрасывать её с какой нибудь скалы! При том нам не дали этой твари даже отомстить! Обалдеть! Так насрать в душу поклонникам первой части, это надо уметь!
    Теперь о ЛГБТ. На мой взгляд в игре отношения Элли и Дины напоминают вымышленные отношения в группе "Тату", и мне совершенно не мешали.
    А вот отношение к женщинам вообще, в игре ужасное. Издеваются над беременными, при том женская половина в игре ужасно не красивая. Особенно....Эбби. Когда показали сексуальную сцену с её участием, было стойкое впечатление, что совокупляются два гея.
    Вообще, на мой взгляд, кажется, что изначально эта Эбби задумывалась как мужской персонаж. И вот если бы это было так игра бы выстрелила.
    Резюмирую. Имеется очень красивая, но устаревшая игра. Из за этого кажущаяся слишком затянутой. Все переживания оригинала смыты в унитаз, да здравствует эмансипация и бесконечное блуждание...
    Да, в игре есть неплохой босс, один, но есть!
    Если бы не было The Last of Us в 2013 году, оценка была бы 9 или 10. Это как заставить поклонников Star Wars 77 - 83 годов возлюбить трилогию от Disney!
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  29. Jun 23, 2020
    6
    The graphics, environment, music, and sound were very nice.
    The gameplay was repetitive and boring.
    The story is a fail and the game drags for too long.
    It is not worthy of 9's and 10's that it is getting. It is a 6-7/10 at best.
    Original Last of Us is still the best and the best Naughty Dog game. It is a damn shame this game turned out the way it did. Biggest disappointment of 2020 games.
  30. Jul 5, 2020
    6
    The last of us part 2 is a good game with breaking all the rules. It is not a bad thing in fact its good that a big company let that happen. But in that case we need a very very good ending which sadly this game didn't have.
    When I ended the last of us 1 I bended for that game and the last of us 1 was a masterpiece for me.
    But in the end of the last of us part 2 only thing what I did was
    The last of us part 2 is a good game with breaking all the rules. It is not a bad thing in fact its good that a big company let that happen. But in that case we need a very very good ending which sadly this game didn't have.
    When I ended the last of us 1 I bended for that game and the last of us 1 was a masterpiece for me.
    But in the end of the last of us part 2 only thing what I did was to be silent
    I didn't know what should l say about this game because the game wasn't bad at all its a good game and by the way it wasn't a masterpiece and the end of the game disappointed me
    If you don't care about what the last of us 1 was you should play this game but if you really loved part 1 l thing its better you don't play part 2
    Last but not least I want to say if the last of us 1 didn't exist this game didn't sell 4 million dollars
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Metascore
93

Universal acclaim - based on 121 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Negative: 0 out of 121
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  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]