The Last of Us Part II

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  1. Nero12345543210
    Jun 26, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. the game is terrible, its much worse then the Original.
    almost all the leaks before release were correct yet there were people going around saying that none of the leaks were true.
    the story is written AND structured poorly.

    if your gonna kill a major character you need to do it correctly, if ND had done it halfway through it would have been better. They also needed build Abbys backstory and motivations on why she would want to kill Joel BEFORE not AFTER. because of this ALL of Abby's gameplay sections are boring/unmotivating

    the ending is extremely unsatisfying since Abby wasn't killed or at the minimum injured severely only Ellie (who lost the last thing that connected her to Joel, being able to play Guitar).

    the entire message of the game is "revenge cycle is bad" but this game doesn't do that troupe any justice at all. there's significantly better stories/anime/games out there with this exact plot point that do it better then TLoU2.

    DON'T BUY.
    WATCH THE CUTSCENES/RENT    … Expand
  2. Wolkand
    Jun 26, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Every technical aspect is superb: graphics, sound design, level design, voice acting, game-play, but everything is ruined by a sub-par story and poor narrative choices. Nobody wants to play as Abby for over half of the game!… Expand
  3. deathcab4booty
    Jun 26, 2020
    10
    This game is beautiful and anyone who could possibly rate it lower than a 7 needs therapy
  4. Sette
    Jun 26, 2020
    9
    Great Game! Naughty really showed what a great kind of Developers they are. U can love the Storytwists or you can hate them but for me this game is unique and my GOTY 2020.
    I have always empathized with the characters and have always been able to put myself in them well.
  5. greuto
    Jun 19, 2020
    10
    Perfect game. A model to be followed. The whole game represents what we have as state-of-the-art in the industry. Just perfect.
  6. adfernvndez
    Jun 26, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game undoubtedly came into my hands and I had all the expectations set and then they were not in vain, I leave with a taste in my mouth that no other game had ever left me, it is already my favorite game and I dare say that for My taste is catapulted above its predecessor, I do not intend to try to feel like a critic like all the internet trolls who say that history is rubbish but if I share that this game caused me different feelings, even those found, from the fact of the human nature to seek justice (revenge) in the face of a traumatizing fact that is lived, up to the compassion, forgiveness and repentance generated by the fact of being able to take revenge by your own hand and not being able to do it because your conscience tells you that it is not the right thing. I think that's what the story is about or at least that transmitted to me, I am happy and because you did not ask here is my brief opinion of this that more than a game is a great experience.… Expand
  7. rosedark
    Jun 26, 2020
    5
    Я считаю, что разработчики меня обманули!! Игра в самом начале бессовестно лешила меня интереса наблюдать за персонажами. Это надо быть совсем идиотом так поступить с игроками!! 5 баллов игре ставлю только из уважения к дизайнерам.Смотря на трейлер игры - все должно было быть иначе! Это примерно тоже самое - когда в фильме Бетмен - бетмена там нету!Я считаю, что разработчики меня обманули!! Игра в самом начале бессовестно лешила меня интереса наблюдать за персонажами. Это надо быть совсем идиотом так поступить с игроками!! 5 баллов игре ставлю только из уважения к дизайнерам.Смотря на трейлер игры - все должно было быть иначе! Это примерно тоже самое - когда в фильме Бетмен - бетмена там нету!
  8. fartbubble
    Jun 26, 2020
    0
    post your review with a decent score, go back and edit your score to what you see fit.
  9. Subject87
    Jun 26, 2020
    9
    A dark, depressing game that will not be for everyone, but is purely character focused and makes you appreciate that there's 2 sides to every coin. There's some pacing issues but the story is great, and the gameplay feels fresh and fun, as well as some of the best graphics on console right now
  10. Cristianxqb
    Jun 26, 2020
    0
    Esta historia no hace honor a su antecesora, es una pena, por que el primer juego me dejó impactado, esta segunda parte tiene serias contradicciones en su trama , Ellie dice una cosa y hace otra , no es congruente con todo su accionar y sus sentimientos durante la trama, es muy plana en su personalidad, nada que ver con el juego anterior. Y que paso con la historia central ? no que ellaEsta historia no hace honor a su antecesora, es una pena, por que el primer juego me dejó impactado, esta segunda parte tiene serias contradicciones en su trama , Ellie dice una cosa y hace otra , no es congruente con todo su accionar y sus sentimientos durante la trama, es muy plana en su personalidad, nada que ver con el juego anterior. Y que paso con la historia central ? no que ella iba a salvar al mundo ? Parece que esta historia la escribió un pasante .La historia central tenía para hacer al épico , pero por meter sus ideas de lo políticamente correcto dejaron de hacer arte , y se metieron en otro campo , un campo por el cual están pagando las consecuencias .… Expand
  11. StrongSpy479
    Jun 26, 2020
    10
    The Best Game ever made...All the way from South-Africa...The Game also got me crying like a baby but simply the best
  12. Crookeddeath
    Jun 26, 2020
    2
    So I don't leave reviews for anything pretty much, but this game has me so conflicted. Gut feeling is that I enjoyed it, but when I finished and new game plus was an option, I knew immediately I wouldn't want to play through the story again.

    I came away from the game just feeling sad. Not because of the heavy handed guilt trip that is put on you by forcing you to kill characters and    So I don't leave reviews for anything pretty much, but this game has me so conflicted. Gut feeling is that I enjoyed it, but when I finished and new game plus was an option, I knew immediately I wouldn't want to play through the story again.

    I came away from the game just feeling sad. Not because of the heavy handed guilt trip that is put on you by forcing you to kill characters and then trying to make you feel bad, but because it doesn't really make sense. All of this pain and anguish for what? To torture characters and motivate me? Motivation is pointless when a couple of hours later the game works overtime to destory that motivation and just make you confused and leaves you just wanting to leave the situation. I don't think this story is putting across what they thought it would. I just felt extremely let down by the reactions characters have when just before the cut scene we were murdering dozens of people and animals. Maybe an action game where you are required to kill isn't the place to force shame onto the player for playing the game.

    The other parts of the game are great. It is one of the most beautiful games I've ever seen and the acting in most of the game is fantastic. The story just ruins the overall experience and the legacy of the first game and destroys any desire that I would have to play through it again. I wish they would have done things differently. I really do.

    Overall it made me sad and made me disinterested in any further Last of us titles. The investment that I had in that world and the characters is gone.    … Expand
  13. Spartacus115
    Jun 22, 2020
    9
    The game's not perfect but it is an amazing experience, The last 2 hours really solidifies but the story asked to say about vengeance And the consequences of such actions, The game play is also a big improvement from the 1st
  14. Mayrioska
    Jun 26, 2020
    10
    Story line ... the best story lines i was played ever . Graphicks and game play was good. I realy like enemy , they smart and dont give time to rest.
  15. Ahmedabbas135
    Jun 25, 2020
    1
    Very bad game to play half of the game by stupid abby.


    Really disappointed
  16. Metacriticsuc
    Jun 26, 2020
    0
    Legitimate garbage mate. The story is not coherent with the messages of the last game and why it was important to think on your actions. In this you you just chase down an antagonist and then decide not to kill “her” anyways because ReVeNge BAd.
  17. jackji
    Jun 26, 2020
    10
    The story is actually quite amazing. It is a deep look into the meaningless and seeking in a post-apocalypse world. Almost every character's motivation and action revolve around this theme.
  18. ENRICO1983
    Jun 26, 2020
    10
    The Last Of Us Part 2 may not be for everyone, but it is definitely for me. It is controversial, but if you are willing to be open minded in the direction of the game you will have one hell of an experience.
  19. Bobito81
    Jun 23, 2020
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. If u can get pass the story,its a great game..Gameplay is good,,graphics is a 10..So it's up to the person to decide on the story..Be open minded and u will love this game...… Expand
  20. XxtreborobertxX
    Jun 26, 2020
    9
    I really liked this game. Some pasing issues but overall a really good story. This is a brutal story that will leave you empty at the end of it. People are very harsh in their judgement in my opinion. I think that people let their expectations ruin the experience. But to each their own.
  21. prrp
    Jun 26, 2020
    10
    the last of us 2 is a beautiful, harrowing story about revenge and the cycle of vengeance, as well as the pain and loss that people experience in going through such a thing. it's absolutely beautiful in the same way that something like apocalypse now is, the image of people stripped bare and left with absolutely nothing because of the lengths they will go to in order to satisfy theirthe last of us 2 is a beautiful, harrowing story about revenge and the cycle of vengeance, as well as the pain and loss that people experience in going through such a thing. it's absolutely beautiful in the same way that something like apocalypse now is, the image of people stripped bare and left with absolutely nothing because of the lengths they will go to in order to satisfy their obsession. I can't say much more other than it hurt me and left me feeling empty in a way I haven't felt in a long time, and I say that in the best way I can.… Expand
  22. Zplayer
    Jun 26, 2020
    10
    Brilliant story, brilliant graphics, brilliant gameplay, this game is a masterpiece, a risky game, not made to please fans, Naughty Dog made risky choices brilliantly, but obviously, not for everyone, it's almost PERFECT, but is not perfect, is a 10 rate game. The simply fact that you end with tears in eyes, made his a must play.
  23. Hamedkaz
    Jun 20, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Buy it play it and enjoy it and the point is dont read the reviews and just buy it… Expand
  24. yousesshomaru
    Jun 26, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Why? Why kill Joel like that....

    One of the worst sequels of all time..a terribly written and directed narrative, some of the most incompentent work ever i’ve ever played.    … Expand
  25. walbitar
    Jun 26, 2020
    0
    Sorry. I could not give this game anything else. This has to be the most boring movie like experience i have ever witnessed. The pacing is GOD AWFUL the characters are bland, flat and one dimensional. The story has an extremely bad and unsatisfying conclusion. The 4 rating is only for the visuals. I could not connect with the characters in any way. Disappointed. The gameplay has 0Sorry. I could not give this game anything else. This has to be the most boring movie like experience i have ever witnessed. The pacing is GOD AWFUL the characters are bland, flat and one dimensional. The story has an extremely bad and unsatisfying conclusion. The 4 rating is only for the visuals. I could not connect with the characters in any way. Disappointed. The gameplay has 0 improvements too. Boring.… Expand
  26. sarcasm83
    Jun 26, 2020
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The 8/10 isn't swayed by anyone elses score or the overall rating. (For comparison I rated Last of Us part 1 as a 9/10.)... I think it's not okay to rate a game 10/10 just to try and raise the overall score because others rate it 0/10 to sabotage. Two wrongs don't make a right.

    So here we go: I fully admit that this game is a very long, very emotional rollercoaster.
    It will not be for everyone, that much is very certain. There were events in the game's story I didn't like. But all of the story feels like something I can believe. The people in it are, just like in the first one, very authentic feeling people. They aren't perfect, or absolutes. They don't always have the same mindsets, as their moods can change, they don't have perfect lines that feel scripted. It flows very similar to life.

    So when many say that the characters act untrue to themselves; well... I never felt like there was one specific way the characters acted in the first one either. Even Joel went (in the first one) from "I don't care why you are being transported" to offering guitar lessons. But in this one, people are absolutely shaped by the events of the last one.. and the events of this one.

    Hell, on some bad days I can be a complete douche and act on mood and emotion, while most days I make my decisions based on reason. Same with these characters. That's why the writing holds up very well to the first one. I would have hated the characters to be reduced to "stereotypes of Joel and Ellie from the first one" a whole lot more.

    If at any point you stop playing when it hits you with the lows (like the anger you WILL feel if you're invested at all) you will end up loathing the game. Early in the game I had to stop and.. recover overnight to keep going. Later on in the game I thought I was at the ending and felt very put off and didn't want to keep going right then. But I opened my mind again, let the rest of the story come around and... it did wrap up more satisfyingly. NOT in a perfectly traditional ending though. It's ... anything but a complete answer. Or completely satisfying. But I think it left me with just as much food for thought than the first one. After all, I hated the ending of the first one right after it had happened. But the more I thought about it, the more I found beauty in it. In the plot going for something that's not a "given" cliché that every story should have done, but a very human ending instead.

    If you adopt a mindset by an event in the game (or pre-determinately hate the game after seeing the leaks for example) and won't stay open to any further storytelling, close your mind from giving the game any more chances, that's it; Your mind IS made. You've decided. I encourage going on, as though we aren't used to games making us feel outraged, disgusted and sad ON PURPOSE, you ARE supposed to be feeling those feelings. There-in lies the beauty of what the game does.

    You insisting on the other person being the bad guy is EXACTLY what the characters are feeling. They do not want to hear or know the other persons reasons. They will not entertain the idea that the other person was just like them, on their revenge. But the game's plot asks us to do so, forcing us to play as the person we do not want to identify with at first. We don't want to hear Abby out, give her any room, hear her reasons. "F her"...
    But if we do hear it out, there's a moment in the game where Ellie has actually done more bad to her, than the supposed "villain of the game" has done to her.

    In the end, they will both find some forgiveness in them... but their revenges cost both of them a whole lot more than they would have lost if they had just let it go. But they couldn't. It wasn't an option and they needed closure.

    "If I ever were to lose you, I'd surely lose myself" they sang. Ellie did lose herself for a long while. For Joel losing Ellie's was the only thing he had feared in the past 25 years and while he selfishly decided on not losing her, to a potential vaccine, he did end up "losing her" in trust... but was about to maybe be forgiven. If he hadn't perished before it, because of the actions that he took to people in the first one. People, who also had their loved ones they would do anything for.

    It's a fantastic set of 2 games that made me think a whole lot about human psychology and mental health when faced with trauma. Not many post-apocalyptic stories touch on what such events would do to a mind.

    The polish, worldbuilding, acting is all top notch.

    The reasons I rate it lower than the first one, aren't really so much in the plot, but pacing.
    The first one felt a lot tighter as a storytelling package. Idk how the many pieces of this one would have been re-arranged better, but at times if felt disjointed. Especially when "starting again" as Abby after going so far with Ellie. The content that's there works though, but might've benefitted from taking turns between the two or.. idk. No deal breaker for me though.    … Expand
  27. Meta-Dracul
    Jun 23, 2020
    0
    I wanted to fair, I really did but after everything they did. The story and characters aren’t good, typically I would say that doesn’t matter as much as you play a video game for the game play but for a story driven game it’s a different; well story. Credit where it’s due the graphics are good but I was one who never much cared for graphics, I don’t exactly play my GameCube for it’sI wanted to fair, I really did but after everything they did. The story and characters aren’t good, typically I would say that doesn’t matter as much as you play a video game for the game play but for a story driven game it’s a different; well story. Credit where it’s due the graphics are good but I was one who never much cared for graphics, I don’t exactly play my GameCube for it’s graphics. Still even after the bad story, unlikable characters, and political themes (that last seems to be getting into everything nowadays) I was going to give this a 3/10, however the producers of this game did a few things, some of which was illegal. They struck down and copyrighted multiple Youtubers not for showing leaked game play, footage, or images but for merely talking about it. Call people names and accusing them of being horrible things for merely disagreeing with you is already crossing the line but this? Like I said I wanted to fair but after showing us that they wouldn’t be fair, well my score speaks for itself. If I can leave you with one piece of advice it would be this, treat the fans of your IP well because without them you’re nothing more but a fading memory.… Expand
  28. Kiris95
    Jun 26, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. So much tears...fantastic experience, the whole game was simply amazing and the end...It left that annoying bitter taste, but if there had been a different ending, it wouldn't have been equally beautiful.
    The game was designed to make us feel guilty...and this is the perfect ending, a sad, bitter ending. A realistic ending under what is the vision of humanity.

    My expectations have been completely met. I am happy to have played this adventure and would recommend it to anyone who wants to experience something fantastic    … Expand
  29. wafflesforsorry
    Jun 26, 2020
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Not a Sony fanboy. I accepted, monotony, inclusion and Joel’s dead, are some things to forget. But narratively this game is a 10, the symbolism, philosophy, feelings are wonderful. People who said the game is **** are super superficial.… Expand
  30. Razerzord
    Jun 22, 2020
    8
    Juegazooo, una historia increíble, tal vez no sea lo que esperaba, pero no me decepcionó para nada
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Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 113 out of 121
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  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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