The Last of Us Part II

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  1. Micunplug
    Jun 27, 2020
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The game was great if you look at it for what it is, visually gorgeous. Similar to the first one!
    I think myself and everyone else are very upset at the decision to kill a character we waited 7 years to play again. In the first 2 hours. Then force us to play a character we do not care about for most of the game?! Almost as much as Ellie     … Expand
  2. Imagineum
    Jun 27, 2020
    6
    - Improved on the visceral weighty combat of its predecessor while reducing the frequency of daft puzzle sections. Loved it.

    - Second best looking game this console generation - right behind Horizon Zero Dawn.

    - The game tells a message instead of a story. Heartbreaking is the word- in a multitude of ways.
  3. ScaleyManFish
    Jun 27, 2020
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. So this is my first review of a game but I feel I have a relatively unbiased opinion that I can share. I hope it helps someone. There are spoilers below but I have tried to be vague when possible to prevent ruining it for anyone who hasn't finished it and/or has not read into the internet anti-hype. I broke this into two sections: story & gameplay. Story: I want to say the ending is actually fine and I'm not as mad about it as I thought I would be. The story hinges on a cliche revenge arc with Ellie out to spill blood to reach a sense of closure. Half the game you play as Abby, the source of Ellie's anger. At first I was frustrated about this but it ended up being okay, I enjoyed seeing both sides of a story. As things progress you become angrier and angrier at certain characters and the writing attempts to fill you with confusing hate: "I hate Abby and I want her to die but now I'm starting to understand and feel for her. But she still deserves it." it's unorthodox which makes the player uncomfortable. That's intentional. You experience stories and letters that show the humanity of those you may (or may not) kill to progress the storyline. Again, this makes you feel conflicted and guilty (for some players) but in certain situations its a necessary evil for survival. That's the universe they've created, people do awful things on both sides. Upon completing the game you'll perhaps come to a lack of closure as many have. However, in my interpretation justice was served to a degree with the suffering and pain brought upon the antagonist (but is Abby an antagonist?). However you want to perceive it, it's done and that's what we received. All in all, the story is fine. It's not far from a cookie cutter revenge story without the revenge but at least it's different. Gameplay: It's beautiful, nearly flawless and I never caught any significant bugs except one instance where I fired a gun and the art from the flash stayed on the gun the rest of the level. Not game breaking but a little silly. That being said, it's realistic and there isn't a lot of variety. You do the same thing every single fight. Sneak around and slit everyone's throat or aggro them and let them come at you one at a time and kill them with melee weapons (ammo isn't exactly easy to come by and the AI behavior of human enemies is pretty predictable). Every time. Same thing. I got so frustrated I just started sprinting through battles to proceed. Combat against infected was more enjoyable. The behavior of the infected (especially stalkers) was much more diverse and enjoyable but it still got very repetitive over time. I truly wish I enjoyed the combat more.

    Considering the semi disappointing story (although not quite as weak as the internet made it seem) and the repetitive slave like combat (slave like in the sense you don't really have much freedom to experiment) but the beautiful imagery and recreation of these real places in the US, I'd give it a realistic 6 out of 10. It's a fine game, not great, won't ever play it again. Moving on with my life.    … Expand
  4. cbdealy
    Jun 29, 2020
    6
    I played the original TLOU back in 2015 or so, and I've been excited for the sequel for years. We pre-ordered it, and I don't think I've ever been so excited for a game in my life. The 2018 E3 presentation had me elated. I'm a lesbian, and Ellie felt like such a relatable character and in such a huge franchise, it just felt like this amazing gift.

    Now that I've finished it, I'm so    I played the original TLOU back in 2015 or so, and I've been excited for the sequel for years. We pre-ordered it, and I don't think I've ever been so excited for a game in my life. The 2018 E3 presentation had me elated. I'm a lesbian, and Ellie felt like such a relatable character and in such a huge franchise, it just felt like this amazing gift.

    Now that I've finished it, I'm so disappointed that I almost want to cry. I'm sure I will later.

    I'll keep this spoiler free. This is a 10/10 game in a lot of ways. I am blown away by basically every aspect of this game aside from a couple of things. But one of them is so important to me that I had to take off so many points from the total score.

    The first one I'll warn people about is that this is kind of a horror game at times, in ways that the first one was not. It's scary, stressful, and it took a huge toll on me both emotionally and even physically. (I had an upset stomach for several days and had to take a break after a particularly scary sequence.) This game is also a lot darker in general than the original. Actually both in terms of available light (tons of flashlight use here where it would otherwise be pitch black; this gave me a headache a couple of times and I had to take a break,) and thematically. I'm sensitive. Your milage may vary! I wouldn't take any points off for this alone.

    And now for the big disappointment: this wasn't the game I was expecting. It wasn't the game that I wanted. I wish they had used those phenomenal resources on a different story. What I was looking so forward to was a game about Ellie. Some kind of adventure that she goes on, twists and turns, grows as a person--just typical good story things. A revenge plot could have been fine, but I wanted a character focused game. Instead, this is a game about "the cycle of violence." The characters/plot were a vehicle to tell a story about the cycle of violence. This game is extremely violent. It's stressful. A lot of the time it's grueling. A lot of the time it felt like it was trying to teach me a lesson (that I'm not sure I needed to be taught.) It made me do all kinds of things that I didn't want to do. I thought it would be worth it to see the story through, but I'm not sure that it was. :( To me, the ending was not satisfying. I'm not even sure I like Ellie anymore. It all feels kind of pointless. Maybe that's making a good point about violence and revenge. But does that make for a fun game and a satisfying adventure story?

    Anyway, I do want to keep it spoiler free so there's a lot I can't say, but just know that if you loved the first game and are looking for a sequel that feels similar to that game... you might be disappointed. I almost feel like this game would be better for people who have not already played the first game. It's hard for me to judge the quality of this game because I'm just so disappointed. I spent $80 to get headaches, stomach aches, stress, and see one of my favorite video game characters of all time get sort of ruined.    … Expand
  5. h_becvvi
    Jun 27, 2020
    6
    I was so excited for this game (just like everybody else), but at the end i am just... disappointed. They took everythink that we loved at the first game ant threw it into a trashcan.

    The gameplay is great. AI is pretty intelligent and more dangerous and allies are actually helpful. Graphics are excellent, the amount of details are really impressive and animations are at the next    I was so excited for this game (just like everybody else), but at the end i am just... disappointed. They took everythink that we loved at the first game ant threw it into a trashcan.

    The gameplay is great. AI is pretty intelligent and more dangerous and allies are actually helpful.
    Graphics are excellent, the amount of details are really impressive and animations are at the next level.

    That whole think with custom difficulty and controls is pretty nice. And if you have some kind of health issues like blindness or so, you can still play it and i think that is good step forward not only for Naughty Dog, but for whole game industry.

    But at the other hand there is a story and story is a VERY big part of The last of us.
    From the beginning i thought it's not that bad even though the "golf part" (even it came earlier then every fan expected). But later they just made you do something in the cutscene and wanted you to feel guilty for this and later it just seemed like they're incriminating Ellie for what she did and they where putting this new character in front of her.
    We all know that Ellie isn't the only playable character (even though Neil said otherwise before the release), but the other character is completely new, and i think that we played as Abby (new character) for too long and that was unnecessary.

    i didn't bought this game because I wanted story of new good-bad character and little bit of angry Ellie, i bought this game because i wanted to see how Ellies and Joels relationship went after the events of the first game and how they continued in they journey and maybe some new characters, but not in the way they would throw a shadow over the main protagonist from first The last of us.
    I know that Neil wanted to do first game more like Joels story and the second game do more like Ellies story, but it come out as Ellies and Abbys story and as i said, it was unnecessary.

    The way they putted the story really broke my heart and i know that Neil can do better...    … Expand
  6. Jma3res
    Jun 27, 2020
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The game starts bad and it's boring and sucks until you kill Nora. Once you kill her, it becomes better and better until they decided to make the game longer without reason after Dina become mother. After that, it's the same, all its the same and it's just get boring, you want it to finish it. The game by itself it's good but as a sequel of TLOU2 it's sucks and the way many situations and characters are introduced are too sucks. Life is Strange is way better in this part.… Expand
  7. Wall-Ethan
    Jun 27, 2020
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The game is beautiful on the technical side. Stunning visuals, some atmospheric audio, decent gameplay mechanics, a mesmerising world to explore, the likes.
    But the story...
    Oh boy the story.
    At first i was totally on board, but they tried to fit way too much exposition and side story into an already long game.    … Expand
  8. jdake11
    Jun 27, 2020
    6
    Pretty Disappointed

    As beautiful a canvas as you could ever want. Still love the gameplay and mechanics. It's just a flawed, headscratching story with flat and poorly developed characters. The characters we knew and loved are abused and worse by Naughty Dog and the fans are slapped in the face repeatedly. The first game was a lot to live up to and, well: "they made a sequel; it wasn't as good."
  9. TheJello
    Jun 27, 2020
    6
    Im going to be as fair as possible, semi spoiler-ish. This game was BEYOND beautiful in the way of graphics, actually a masterpiece 100%. The story has some moments that almost push you to an emotional response that coulda made this a positive review. All in all had the game been more about relations and the complexity behind such relationships they woulda succeeded on yet another masterIm going to be as fair as possible, semi spoiler-ish. This game was BEYOND beautiful in the way of graphics, actually a masterpiece 100%. The story has some moments that almost push you to an emotional response that coulda made this a positive review. All in all had the game been more about relations and the complexity behind such relationships they woulda succeeded on yet another master class game. The part that makes this half bad however is the stuff that ignores humans and our complexity and decides to focus heavily on human decisions. While decisions are a part of human complexity, and even something worth dwelling on they decide that the focus will be on decisions that affect themselves(such as someone preferring to be a boy, or individual sexuality) the reason this eats the games strong narrative is that those are personal decisions and don't make anyone harbor care for an individual. For an example, instead of trying to make people feel bad for someone not being excepted for being gay you should just focus on the decisions they made to make them seem cast out, like cutting hair or getting a tattoo that makes the city hate you... i digress. Basically TLOU succeeded so well because we weren't intentionally focused on joel selfishly choosing to having feelings he found a replacement for his daughter in ellie thus saving her at the end in a decision that you come to believe was morally wrong but understandable. This game is different and i just wish it showed more complexity not personal agendas.… Expand
  10. withnoname
    Jun 27, 2020
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. First 50% of the game is amazing. The rest of the 50% left a bad taste in my mouth and made no sense. Completely destroys the Joel and Ellie character building from the first one.… Expand
  11. metaconnor
    Jun 27, 2020
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The good: stunning graphics, loved reading Ellie's journal, every scene with the guitar, all the infected art design, the new infected types, and the Joel and Ellie flashbacks, which developed their relationship beautifully.

    The mediocre: the stealth levels and scavenging got super repetitive, Seattle got stale, and Abby's friends were pretty superficially characterized. They could have done more to make the game dynamic. Environmental puzzles that are more than finding an open window. Zombie dogs. Making the wolves more competent. More vehicle mechanics and levels.

    The bad: Killing off Joel at the beginning after I invested so much in his character made the game so much worse than it could have been. The heart of the first game was the bond between Joel and Ellie and any story that put that at the core of the game would be better. Make Jackson under attack; exile Joel; have scientists show up looking for a cure. Anything with them, because Abby's story never rivaled the emotional stakes of Joel and Ellie's. The game expects you to identify with her and I just never did. Second, the supporting characters are almost all underdeveloped (Isaac, Jessie, Maria, Tommy, Dina). Third, the ending is terrible. Introducing a new purely sadistic group at the end was lazy and Ellie not taking revenge on Abby was totally inconsistent with her character.

    All together, still enjoyed this game and couldn't put it down because of how much I cared about the fate of Ellie. If there was a solid story it could have been great.    … Expand
  12. mikerise91
    Jun 27, 2020
    6
    The first game was 9/10 for me - mostly due to an amazing story and storytelling. The gameplay was nearly perfect for that purpose and graphics were stunning on the PS3.

    The second one is easily 6/10 and hardly 7/10 for me. The reason is not because I didn't like the story, but because of their storytelling in this one. For me the same story but told differently would have had better    The first game was 9/10 for me - mostly due to an amazing story and storytelling. The gameplay was nearly perfect for that purpose and graphics were stunning on the PS3.

    The second one is easily 6/10 and hardly 7/10 for me.

    The reason is not because I didn't like the story, but because of their storytelling in this one. For me the same story but told differently would have had better impact. For the purpose of no spoilers won't go in details, but in the second half I had hard time caring for the story there because of the events in the first half.

    The other main issue for me was the ending. I understand the message they want us to get there and that is fine. BUT I think with this game and the way it plays - the player deserves a choice at the end and different ending for it. After all we are different people and we react differently to the events in the game. The choice how to end it should be ours at least once. We were robbed of that in the first game but it didn't matter, because it was fitting for the way the story was told there. Here would've had better impact due to the separation of the game into two big chuncks.    … Expand
  13. Joosta
    Jun 28, 2020
    6
    Not a best game but not a worst game. Solid 6/10.
    Graphics 10/10
    Gamplay 6/10 (not change tlou gamplay)
    Story 5/10 (Weak motivation and too long story)

    Many controversial ideas that do not work.
  14. DonPelayio
    Jun 28, 2020
    6
    Buena jugabilidad, excelentes graficos y sonido. Primera parte de la historia entretiene pero los errores en la narrativa en la 2da parte hacen que se pierda interes en el juego. Echando abperder toda emocion en la historia. Es un juego que al terminarlo uno no sabe si ganas o pierdes
  15. Classy
    Jul 18, 2020
    6
    not bad gameplay, Crazy good graphics (the best)....Don't get me started at the story :p
  16. DenisKorolev
    Jun 28, 2020
    6
    Great technically, but weak at story and gameplay. Can't believe someone calls it "a game of the year"
  17. Foxlol2567
    Jun 28, 2020
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The gameplay and graphics are really nice but the story is terrible...Killing Joe like that then killing everyone that was there except the person who killed Joe..Then that's not even the worst part the ending it's terrible..it deserves a 6 just for the gameplay and graphics.… Expand
  18. Pizdabol
    Jun 28, 2020
    6
    Игра получилась атмосферным дополнением к пред части THE last of us 1
  19. AverageAtomx
    Jun 28, 2020
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. In my opinion i think this game its graphically so precious and you see the love with which its made but the story its so so fcking terrible.
    First Joel dies ok but whit a golf stick are you serious? In my opinion i think Joel can dies by a shoot protecting Ellie or something more honorable for this character who only wanted to save a little girl. Second how dare they maje you play with the assasin of Joel and not a little bit time no no approximately 10 fcking hours man so extended and forced. The game its good graphically the game surpassed that anteccesor but in story In history it doesn't even come to a little part of TLOU PART 1. Even doom eternal has more history than TLOU PART 2.    … Expand
  20. Chefsito
    Aug 15, 2020
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. El juego parecía increíble por lo que era fácil decepcionarnos. La falsa publicidad en los trailers haciéndonos creer que Joel nos ayudaría en el viaje, funciono bien, todos estábamos hypeados, y con razón. El juego es un 10 de 10 en gráficos, sonidos, paisajes y todo lo estético, pero en la historia es literalmente un 5 por debajo casi llegando al 0, los personajes son buenos pero se sienten vacíos y que duran tan poco en la historia que solo tienen 15 minutos de gloria antes de que los maten de un tiro en la cabeza o lo muerda un chasqueador. En mi opinión el juego termina cuando dejamos de usar a Ellie y empezamos con el trasfondo de Abby, y ni hablar de cuando tuvimos que usarla para pelear contra ELLIE, casi matandola y con la triste e inesperada muerte de Jesse, el cual le agarre mucho cariño, en ese momento solté el mando y me negué a seguir jugando.

    pds: la escena de Joel con Ellie en el museo es hermosa, R.I.P Joel.    … Expand
  21. SlavchikDM
    Jun 28, 2020
    6
    Техническая часть игры:
    Техническая часть игры выполнена на все сто -так, как игру делала студия, славящаяся проработкой деталей. Но не смотря на это ,в игре встречаются некие несуразицы, например заскриптовано падающий в метре от игрока снег.
    Графика в игре на хорошем уровне, который может позволить консоль PS4 и её прокаченая версия PS4 PRO. О мелких частицах уровня RDR2 можно забыть.    Техническая часть игры:
    Техническая часть игры выполнена на все сто -так, как игру делала студия, славящаяся проработкой деталей. Но не смотря на это ,в игре встречаются некие несуразицы, например заскриптовано падающий в метре от игрока снег.
    Графика в игре на хорошем уровне, который может позволить консоль PS4 и её прокаченая версия PS4 PRO. О мелких частицах уровня RDR2 можно забыть. Но в целом игра выглядит здорово.
    Геймлей:
    Не смотря на то, что игру делали 6 лет, в плане геймплея игра претерпела минимальные изменения, по сравнению с первой частью. Стелс остался без изменений. Собаки добавляют некую сложность, которая абсолютно не изменяет основную фабулу игрового процесса. Также появились новые филеры : перебрасывание черз балки проводов и заплывы по небольшим водоёмам с периодическим погружением под воду. Да, забыл упомянуть, в игре есть улучшения для оружия, но оно не приносят новых эмоции или и нового игрового опыта. Складывается такое ощущение,что данную механику добавиили просто так, чтобы было и не более того.
    Саундтрек:
    В игре музыки на порядок меньше, чем в первой части. Единственное радуют периодические песни под гитару от Элли, которые лишь глубже погружают в атмосферу затянувшегося пост-апокалипсиса.
    Сюжет:
    Вся линия с Элли проработана на высоком уровне. Дракман отлично развивает историю отношений Элли и Джоила. Но когда в сюжет врывается Эбби, сразу понимаешь, что человек, прописавший её, плохо выполнил свою работу. Из-за того, что Дракман решил добавить этого персонажа в сюжете появляются дыры и неувязочки. Главный врач из первой части, по совместительству отец Эбби, вдруг резко меняет цвет кожи, с чёрного на белый. Также абсолютно непонятно почему Эбби, услышав имя Джоил резко бросается на него, не зная наверняка, тот ли это Джоил. Причём как я понял, кроме имени, фамилии и примерного места проживания наша антагонистка ничего больше не знала.
    Следующая проблема игры это неграмотно расставленные эмоциональные акценты. Финальная битва смотрится абсолютно лишней. Если бы авторы предложили игроку выбор: убивать или не убивать Эбби игра вызвала бы намного больше эмоций. Также осознание и прощение у Элли происходит очень резко и внезапно.
    Основная идея автора ясна, но её реализация оставляет желать лучшего. Именно из-за этого игра от меня получает среднюю оценку. Naughty Dog создали великолепную атмосферу пост-апокалипсиса, но крайне халтурно проработали главную мысль и второго главного персонажа. Почему друзья Эбби так преданы ей? Что их так сильно связывает? Почему группировка Псы, убивающая каждого встречного странника, должна вызывать сочувствие у игрока? Эти вопросы к сожалению остаются без ответа.    … Expand
  22. Noctiluca
    Jun 28, 2020
    6
    Forget about the leaks, SJWs, anti-SJWs, deceptive marketing and all the noise that surrounds a big part of this game's criticism. The bulk of it's problems are it's lack of focus, poor pacing and, ultimately, a poor consideration of what made the original story and the characters not perfect, but great and relatable.

    This game has a lot of good qualities. From it's impressive visuals,    Forget about the leaks, SJWs, anti-SJWs, deceptive marketing and all the noise that surrounds a big part of this game's criticism. The bulk of it's problems are it's lack of focus, poor pacing and, ultimately, a poor consideration of what made the original story and the characters not perfect, but great and relatable.

    This game has a lot of good qualities. From it's impressive visuals, sound fidelity, visceral combat (on high difficulties), highly detailed vast environments and some really tense moments, The Last of Us Part II significantly improves almost every technical aspect of the original, making the artists the real stars of this show.

    However, these qualities aren't enough to carry a broken, messy story, as the game tries to undo notions about some of it's characters, and spends a lot of time brushing through themes that were already best presented in the first game, while also bringing new themes every now and again without time for proper reflection.

    For an example, there's a lot of story and gameplay time used at an attempt to redundantly show and equalize "both sides of a coin" – which is not a complicated or new concept, especially after the winter and ending section of the first game – while forgetting the player is already, understandably, biased towards the side they spent the most time connecting to. This concept is made clear pretty soon, but the creators think it's necessary for you to see a whole lot more of it, all while drawing some less effective, fanfiction-like parallels to reinforce what's already obvious and control some of the damage they did themselves. Not to mention, without getting into spoilers, that the main catch of the ending only gets to develop throughout 9-10 hours or so of this twenty plus hours long game, making most of what's been played seem even more unnecessary for the overall resolution, even more if you think that characters had plenty of time to reflect on what they're about to do.

    By watching and reading interviews, it definitely seems like Naughty Dog wrote big chunks of this story long after starting development, without a solid backbone to base their decisions on, flip-flopping time and time again about what the core of the game is. Characters only seem to have clear-cut intentions and ideas when writers consider it necessary to deflect criticism about character actions. Otherwise, their motivations are an open-ended world of complex possibilities where you fill the gaps the writers left open.

    In short, this sequel will stick with you long after you finish it, but probably because it leaves you wondering what it could have been if writers didn't recklessly place most of their bets in it's eye-rolling shortcomings.    … Expand
  23. KoldanSt
    Jun 28, 2020
    6
    Misleading marketing, lots of plot holes and "convinient" situations which follows along 2013 gameplay that accompany good graphics and animations. Pretty mediocre and bad marketing practices overall.
  24. e3l01
    Jun 28, 2020
    6
    Buena jugabilidad, buen sistema de mejoras y gráficos buenos, pero con una mala historia muy forzada, politicamente corrrecto, es un juego decente pero decepciona.
    Es como una peli con buenos actores pero mala historia.
  25. jgalleg0090
    Jun 28, 2020
    6
    I'm choosing to try and not put spoilers in for those of you who want to know if you should get it or not and read some reviews, i don't see how people are saying it's twice as long as the first, because it's not very long at all, and I checked all over for stuff. I didn't read the spoilers before hand, the leaks, but it's kinda obvious where they were going, and one part I'm okay with,I'm choosing to try and not put spoilers in for those of you who want to know if you should get it or not and read some reviews, i don't see how people are saying it's twice as long as the first, because it's not very long at all, and I checked all over for stuff. I didn't read the spoilers before hand, the leaks, but it's kinda obvious where they were going, and one part I'm okay with, the other part I'm not, cause it was boring. I see where they were wanting to go, but to me, that part was boring, and I just hurried through to get back to the good stuff, which then when I did and was ready for something big to happen and to really start the game it was over. It stunningly looks good, one of the best games I've seen, and plays really good, didn't have many glitches, went through the walls a few times, but over all really good, it's the story that sucks, which the sucky parts is half the game. I do like that Mel is voiced by Ashly Burch, she always does a great job. I myself, took vacation to play this game, and I feel like it was a waste, not worth the full $60.00 price. The first game was by far better than this one, and while I recommend playing it, it's not gonna be as good as I was hoping, to me definitely one of the biggest let downs of this year.… Expand
  26. gizzbar
    Jul 15, 2020
    6
    сюжет не очень, концовка не очень. ну так сойдет в общем
  27. reveiwbetermeta
    Jun 28, 2020
    6
    How is meta critic ranking this game? I don't know but the rating seems way off. I would never give it a 94, are you kidding me? The storyline is awful! It doesn't make sense especially the ending. Joel dies way too fast in the story and the whole plot is exactly the same as the previous game itself. One thing I can say that is good is the graphics and artistry that Naughty Dog did butHow is meta critic ranking this game? I don't know but the rating seems way off. I would never give it a 94, are you kidding me? The storyline is awful! It doesn't make sense especially the ending. Joel dies way too fast in the story and the whole plot is exactly the same as the previous game itself. One thing I can say that is good is the graphics and artistry that Naughty Dog did but other than that I don't see the appeal to finish this game. From the lies that they published to the actual gameplay itself does not really satisfy me as a gamer. The plot and this random character you get to play as (Abby) has no place in last of us and now you get to see her in the second one? What? Sorry for the rant and the spoilers but the game doesn't live to its expectations. I mean realistically game or movie series don't usually follow up well with the original storyline but this one is astonishingly bad. Why the fudge are we playing as Abby and how can meta critic and other recognizable gaming review sites rank it this high? This just baffles me. With all this negativity there are some good features about this game though. One of them being exposing the LGBT community into video games, but it seems like this game used it as a marketing strategy. Another thing is that it obsesses a lot of emotional and real life situation that many experienced in real life and this really attracted me from the start. My final thing is that the physics and controlling the character is pretty accurate and exciting. Combat is fun and it didn't change and I salute them for that. Overall this game has more cons than pros and a game like this that changed my perspective of gaming really let me down. I hope anyone reading this feels the same or if you don't thats fine. I am glad there are some people enjoying this game but I am not one of those people unfortunately. Why couldn't we play as Joel till his death or his brother Tommy? I'll leave it at that. Thanks.… Expand
  28. mermaidmotelz
    Jun 28, 2020
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The game is not bad, the problem is how they handled the story. Everyone keeps saying that we’re mad because Joel is dead but it’s actually the WAY he died that’s annoying. The gameplay is good but some parts are really boring and the only new characters i liked were Yara and Lev (Dina and Jesse were okay but Yara and Lev were more interesting).
    I don’t hate the game but i don’t love it either. The ending was just kinda meh. Why did Ellie have to kill all those people to just forgive Abby? It was very unsatisfying to see Ellie all alone without Dina, JJ and two of her fingers.    … Expand
  29. Mercury47
    Jun 28, 2020
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Judt finished it and honestly I enjoyed the gameplay and the breathtaking graphics and the world they built is phenomenal but after sometime the gameplay get really repetitive and a bit boring. The story is the worst part of the game. The characters are uninspiring and the way they killed off Joel was done poorly. Half of the game you play as Ellie and the other half as Abby and I hate that I have to play as Abby it gets really boring after sometime and felt more like a dlc and disconnected from the actual story. They try so hard to get you to care about this character and other character that are just bland and it just doesn't work. And the ending was put a nail in the coffin. Ellie killed like 1000 people to get to Abby and when she had the chance to do it all of a sudden she has a change of heart. The theme is just a generic revenge story and you learn in the end revenge is bad. This one was a disappointment story wise… Expand
  30. bluebeerie
    Jul 22, 2020
    6
    PROS: Beautiful setting, amazing graphics, amazing sound design and soundtrack, good character design. Well done LGBTQ+ representation.

    CONS: Story is weak at times and arranged in a confusing manner, game drags on for too long (feels like its ending several times, but continues), splitting Ellie and Abby POV straight down the middle of the game makes the story less of a unit and more    PROS: Beautiful setting, amazing graphics, amazing sound design and soundtrack, good character design. Well done LGBTQ+ representation.

    CONS: Story is weak at times and arranged in a confusing manner, game drags on for too long (feels like its ending several times, but continues), splitting Ellie and Abby POV straight down the middle of the game makes the story less of a unit and more choppy, takes away excitement.

    I have extremely mixed feelings about this game. I did not enjoy the story (partially the things mentioned above, partially dislike of writing decisions), which is what drags this game down for me. I loved the technical things, like the gameplay, the bosses, atmospheric settings etc, but it's not enough to save a story-driven game. Having bonded so much to Ellie and Joel's relationship, I found it hard to be engaged for Abby's part of the game despite that's what the game wants us to do. I UNDERSTAND the game and the ending, my opinion comes down to personal preference.

    My favourite thing about TLOU 2 was the relationship between Ellie and Dina, which made the experience much more enjoyable than it otherwise would have been. I am a bi woman, so I appreciated a game of this size going all in with a wlw relationship. Ellie's flashbacks were wonderful and very touching.

    I went in blind with this game, TLOU is my favourite game of all time and I have anticipated this for so long. I avoided all leaks, having only seen official trailers and gameplay footage. Unfortunately I ended up quite disappointed, but I still think the game is worth playing through. It is a technical/visual masterpiece, but unfortunately not as a whole including the story, in my opinion.    … Expand
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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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