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  1. Jun 26, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Although I haven't played the game yet, but judging from the playthrough on youtube, I think this game is not bad but not good either. I like where they're trying to go with the story with the whole revenge plot but it could've been a lot better than this. The first game ended with joel's lie to Ellie and Joel's action in the end. The second game is the consequences of Joel's action in the last game. Joel's death could've been done way better than it did. I think playing as Abby for 12 hours was so unnecessary. After what Abby did to Joel, they made Abby like one of the most hated video game character of all time. So no matter what she did in the story, nothing will ever change our mind on her. In the end Ellie goes head on with Abby, she then has flashes of Joel then decided to spare Abby after she bit her fingers, we don't like that. Then Ellie goes back home, she can't play the guitar then roll credits. Here's what I think about the ending. Ellie sparing Abby in the end was a huge mistake, then what was it all for, Ellie fought her way to this point for nothing. Although the game was trying to teach us a lesson, revenge never ends well for anyone, Ellie could've lived a happy life with Dina and JJ. But instead, she went on to hunt for Abby. After she went back home, Dina left her and now she's all alone. I kinda liked how it ended but hated it at the same time, so I have mixed feelings towards this game, it's good but it's so bad at the same time. The graphics, facial animation, dialogue was on point. Definitely stunning and one of the most beautiful graphics I've ever seen in a video game. But Uncharted 4 was a bit better. Attention to detail was amazing, and the references was fantastic. So in conclusion, this game was alright, could've been alot better, the story was not good and not bad it was whatever but it was a disappointment for alot of people, it did not exceed my expectations and many other fans but for me it was whatever. Expand
  2. Jun 26, 2020
    10
    Technical masterpiece. Naughty dog did the best game of generation. Exciting and deep story, that not gonna leave anyone indifferent.
  3. Jun 26, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. all guys who put 0-4 always speak SGW and toleration , but this guys don't buy is game and don't play is game
    Where SGW? "Ellie **** Dina" guys say , but he don't know Owen **** Ebby (Owen - boy , not gender)
    This game really good. Gameplay 10/10 graphics story 7/10. Story just norm-good
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  4. Jun 26, 2020
    10
    The word masterpiece does not even come close to describing the place The Last of Us Part 2 is likely to be forever in the history of video games. It's the consistent, ruthless, adult sequel to one of the best games ever. In addition to all the technical brilliance, it is above all the uncomfortable topics and intensive interpersonal relationships that make the game something that hasThe word masterpiece does not even come close to describing the place The Last of Us Part 2 is likely to be forever in the history of video games. It's the consistent, ruthless, adult sequel to one of the best games ever. In addition to all the technical brilliance, it is above all the uncomfortable topics and intensive interpersonal relationships that make the game something that has never been seen before. Appropriate intellectual maturity provided ... The game is a journey that I have never experienced in a game, film or book. I cried, laughed, swore and often just sat speechless in front of the TV. Naughty Dog proves a courage here that probably won't be seen anywhere else in the industry. Anyone who has anything like video games has to play The Last of Us. It has a masterfully written story about the value of friendship, love, hate and what revenge can do to a person. It will remain a milestone in storytelling in video games forever. Expand
  5. Jun 22, 2020
    0
    waste of 60 dollars this game blows. Terrible characters, terrible dialogue, terrible story.
  6. Jun 26, 2020
    0
    They absolutely ruined the story - boring old mechanics and terrible writing. Hiding behind a veil of "Everyone that hates it is a bigot" really brings to light the fact that these companies are using the LGBTQ community (That I am a part of) as their own personal shield to avoid any criticism.
  7. Jun 23, 2020
    10
    Me parece muy buen juego aunque por otras cosas que no tienen nada que ver con la historia del mismo lo estén mortificando
  8. Jun 26, 2020
    3
    Разочарование. Первая половина на твёрдые 9 баллов, но вторая настолько отвратительна, что хочется отрицательный балл поставить.
  9. Jun 26, 2020
    10
    Amazing story and engrossing gameplay. It manages to seem both cinematic and reminiscent of a great novel.
  10. Jun 26, 2020
    10
    This game is a wonderful heartbreaking chaotic experience that erupts you up and then suddenly drops you down within all kinds of emotional turmoils!

    I absolutely Love this game with the energy of a Million Stars! "The Last Of Us 2" will live in our history as one of the greatest artistic masterpieces in gaming design & story telling to have ever been created within our time as this
    This game is a wonderful heartbreaking chaotic experience that erupts you up and then suddenly drops you down within all kinds of emotional turmoils!

    I absolutely Love this game with the energy of a Million Stars! "The Last Of Us 2" will live in our history as one of the greatest artistic masterpieces in gaming design & story telling to have ever been created within our time as this species. We are very fortunate to have had this experience!!
    This game has so much to teach us about how unbelievably misguided and lost we are/can be, and then at the same time how fine-tuned our senses are for the incredible yearning to love and be loved. Which is "one of" the most powerful "elements if you will" for our survival and longevity as Human Beings.

    The Last Of Us 2 is much more than "just a game" to me... It's a 3-D digital-reality that tries to imitate Reality... but one can clearly feel an almost out of body experience while being immersed in its world. As if the game is invoking something more... pushing outward or drawing inward from a 5th dimension a.k.a "Hypercube" ripping into the fabric of our Reality.
    It brilliantly succeeds in "not imitating" but rather "Emulating" a probable but terrifying "what if?" future of Reality!

    Thank You to everyone at "Naughty Dog" for your beautiful minds and talented skill-set as game/entertainment creators I applaud your craftsmanship.
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  11. Jun 25, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I really enjoyed the first part of the game where you played as Ellie, at first I didn't buy this game at launch because I read what everyone had said and I decided to make my own opinion about it firsthand. Anyway, I really did enjoy the first half of this game playing as Ellie, but being forced to play as this despicable pos Abbie made me grimace throughout the entire experience. You can see everytime the developers have tried to turn Ellie into the villain and expect you to sympathise with this new character that killed Joel. I would rate a 0 but that would be unfair to the technical aspect of the game and the visuals. None the less a 1 is still generous for the story. Expand
  12. Jun 25, 2020
    10
    The best game since Metal Gear Solid 4. Beautiful story telling, music, & gameplay. Will go down as one of the best games ever made.
  13. Jun 21, 2020
    10
    Shut up and take my money. I love that game. This game makes you think a lot.
  14. Jun 25, 2020
    9
    TLOF2 вышла действительно хорошо игрой не смотря на контекст, но все таки 1 часть действительно неповторимый шедевр.
  15. Jun 25, 2020
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. After having finished it I can say that it is a great game at all levels (gameplay, graphics, mechanics, sound and, YES, history too), but I admit that personally I prefer the story of the first one. The story of this second part is more complex in what you want to transmit and how it is transmitted, but the one in the first one seemed more interesting and original to me. The objective of the story of this second part is, basically, that we also feel empathy for Addy, since what Joel did is unforgivable (everyone knows what I am talking about) and sooner or later he would suffer the repercussions of it. Joel was my favorite character from the first game, but it would be illogical to say that he was a good person for everything he had done in his past, just like Abby, but it is obvious that she had more justifications for doing everything she did in this second part. Precisely, that is one of the messages of the game: it may be that in this world there are no good people or heroes. I guess this second part was not well received by everyone because I think they hoped that Joel would redeem himself in some way for having probably condemned all of humanity by leaving her without the cure of everything that is happening and that was practically impossible, since that not even Ellie did not know if she was going to forgive him or not (although that is clarified in the end). I hope that this game later will be valued for what it really is: a great game.

    The story is crude on purpose, it is a tense and complex game that, more than a simple simple story, tries to leave messages. The most relevant thing is to understand the ending and few people I've read have understood it: leaving Abby alive in the ending, that fact marks that Ellie forgave Joel.

    It is not an easy and simple story that shows epicity for its own sake or to please the players, this is seen by the lack of fan service, since it was not developed to satisfy the requests or the tastes of one or the majority. Brave on the part of Naughty Dog.
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  16. Jun 25, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I'm devastated. I loved the TLoU 1 with its flaws. It was not a perfect game, with its clunky gameplay, over dependence on the square button, but the plot and storytelling were outstanding. It became one of those games that left us thinking about the true potential of games and how we could come to care about Joel and Ellie and their bond.

    TLoU2...wow. Damn. Beyond shocked, saddened, angry and now simply disappointed.

    What were they thinking?

    Some games are hard and brutal but if they have an engaging story line with continued character development, gamers fall in love with that game. NONE of that happens here!

    After all the false advertising (btw, how is that not libellous??? Isn't it the same as snake oil??), so, yes, after the false advertising, you go excited to continue to play your favourite two characters, whose story was the reason you looked past the clunky gameplay and all that excessive square button smashing... and then you end up being teased those same characters, and then you see that their relationship has become strained, then you are given control of some random character who ends up being saved from the infected by guess who, your favourite characters from the pervious game...strange but ok. Because this was very moronic and out of character from Joel... anyway, the game is a game, let's continue... But then you are shocked when Joel and Tommy give up their names and location without any provocation! Not only out of character, this is an insult to the intelligence of the players who know this would not have been their own reaction based on the first game. The water in Jackson is definitely not healthy if its dumbing down everyone to this level.

    This idiocy led to the IMMEDIATE HATRED for Abby because of THE TWIST at the 2hr mark. OK OK OK, Ellie now wants revenge and then we have the first 12 hrs of the game where we go through several parts of Seattle and... find that wherever we reach, most of the people are already dead or not helping us in any way. As a result, you feel for 12 HOURS THAT NO PROGRESS IS MADE by you as the player.

    What is more frustrating than your favourite character arc being killed off and turned into a cookie cutter revenge plot? A revenge plot where you feel no sadness for all your friends being killed around you, where you never seem to kill or get anyone to spill the beans on Abby's whereabouts, and where you FEEL LIKE NOTHING IS GETTING DONE AT ALL.

    This is the worst thing a game dev. can ever do. DON'T MAKE GAMERS FEEL THEY ARE WASTING THEIR TIME FOR 12 of the first 14 hrs.

    But then the devs did worse, they force you to play as the killer of your favourite character. What is wrong with you devs??? You end up speed running through until you reach Tommy and Ellie, when you are happy to see Abby (the character under your control) die repeatedly as you shout enthusiastically for her death with the controller down.

    ANGER for the devs is all you are left with.

    You don't get the satisfaction at any point, even at the end of the game when you have gone through literally thousands of dead bodies to reach Abby, however poor her state, you want her dead, and the devs DENY you even that small satisfaction.

    You are left feeling that the "experience" thought up by the devs is quite brutal, some might argue as being artistic, that's questionable, because unlike art, this actually serves a purpose... making you suffer for your love of the original game.

    This is a big middle finger to the gaming community from start to finish

    You loved Joel? Let's make him dumb as a rock and beat his head in with a golf club!
    You liked Ellie's wit and humour? Let's make her into an a-hole chokes up at the last minute, does not avenge Joel's death and is left without even her guitar playing fingers, and yes, her girlfriend left her with their baby.
    Oh, you started to hate Joel's killer? How about we make you play as her for 12 F***ing hours as we try to humanise her and build empathy for her situation because otherwise us dev aren't breaking any new ground (which, in any case they weren't).

    NO ONE LIKES ABBY'S CHARACTER BECAUSE SHE KILLED JOEL. Don't make us play as her. Give us a choice. None of her friends are memorable, hell, I can't even remember their names. Everyone in the game is an a-hole except for maybe Jessie, who gets what he deserves for being a nice guy, bullet from Abby in the face.

    Devs and Sony should understand one important f***ing thing.

    Gamers don't forget this.

    You may break even, or even make a **** ton of money off this game, but it is because of the reputation they had built up from the last game.

    Now we know who these devs are. We know they've lost it and don't care about fans, because unlike a movie in which things simply happen and you watch, here you are forced to speed run through half the game and make ****ty non-choices.

    Gamers will stay away from next project because we will remember these burnt bridges.
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  17. Jun 25, 2020
    10
    I don't get the review bombing of this game. If you talk to anyone who has actually played it from start to finish, they will tell you how good it is. Some people might not like how they killed some fan favorite characters, but that's the world the last of us is in, and is all about. If your entire issue with the game is the fact that Ellie is gay, then you have bigger problems my friend.I don't get the review bombing of this game. If you talk to anyone who has actually played it from start to finish, they will tell you how good it is. Some people might not like how they killed some fan favorite characters, but that's the world the last of us is in, and is all about. If your entire issue with the game is the fact that Ellie is gay, then you have bigger problems my friend. Also, her sexual orientation wasn't forced at all, even throughout the first game it was made clear. If your a fan of the first game I highly recommend. Expand
  18. Jun 25, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Before I get into the game, I want to say that I couldn’t care less about any of the “politics” injected into the game. Yes, there is LGBT aspects to the game. I personally don’t agree with leftist ideology on homosexuality, so I tried to concentrate just on the story, environments and gameplay. With that being said, let’s get into The Last of Us Part 2. Gameplay - Similar to the first game, which isn’t a bad thing. You’re encouraged to explore the environment to scavenge for supplies which are hard to come by as they should be. Gun play feels fluid and responsive but isn’t too easy at the same time. When your character is under stress, your aim will shake more versus when you aren’t spotted. You’re now able to use high grass to hide from enemies as well as crawl under cars and other objects to hide. The AI is also much improved and will work together to find and kill you; nowhere is safe as they will literally check everywhere. My gameplay score is a solid 9/10. Graphics - 10/10 everything looks incredible, moving on...

    Level design - again, 10/10. I really loved post apocalyptic Seattle and California, everything looked great and was fun to explore. Alright, here we go...STORY. Story - So, I can understand why so many people are so upset about the story and at certain points, I was really not liking it, but hear me out. I’ll sum up the story as quickly as I can and I’m only going to focus on the main points. The game starts off in Jackson, where the first game ends. Joel and Tommey go out on a patrol and end up running into a stranger running from a hoard of infected. They save this stranger and end up with this strangers group. Joel and Tommey reveal their names to them and then we learn that Joel was the whole reason they were there, to kill him. So this stranger (her name is Abby) kills Joel with a golf club and Ellie ends up coming in as it’s happening. After this Ellie sets out to get revenge. Ellie makes her way to Seattle and ends up killing all of Abby’s friends, but not Abby. We then play another 6 hours as Abby and they reveal that Abby’s father is the surgeon that was going to operate on Ellie to develop a vaccine. They go into more backstory on her relationships with different people but none of it is very relevant or very interesting (I had almost no interest in this part of the game, it’s pretty boring). Ellie and Abby end up fighting, Abby wins, and then she leaves saying “don’t ever let me see you again.” Ellie ends up back with her lover, Dina, (she’s a pretty pointless character). But, Ellie can’t live with the fact that she didn’t avenge Joel and that Abby got away. So Ellie sets back out to get revenge and kill Abby. She finds Abby in California who had gotten captured by another faction called the Rattlers. She kills all the Rattlers and finds Abby nearly dead hanging by her wrists from a pole on a beach right outside the Rattlers main camp. They fight, but this time Ellie wins. Right before she’s about to kill Abby she lets her go and says “get the **** out of here.” Abby leaves and Ellie returns home to find her lover, Dina, has left her. The End. The obvious message being, forgive and forget. When you seek vengeance, you lose everything in the process, and at the end of the day, it wasn’t going to bring Joel back. Obviously I’ve left a lot of backstory out as there are many flashbacks that dive deeper into both characters (Ellie’s and Abby’s) stories, but that’d be way too much to explain. Overall, I didn’t hate the game and I didn’t love it. It left me feeling very empty and unfulfilled in the end, but maybe that’s how I should feel, maybe that’s the art of it, that selfish vengeance will only leave you feeling empty. Story - 4/10

    5/10
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  19. Jun 25, 2020
    1
    gameplay and graphics are good but the story and characters .... its trash/garbage ! abby character is terrible game force you to play half of the game as that freak on steroid ! female like that would NEVER have exist in word like that no food people eating other people and she looks more buff then Kraots WTF ?!!!! Jole is NOBODY in this game Druckmann spit on him literally andgameplay and graphics are good but the story and characters .... its trash/garbage ! abby character is terrible game force you to play half of the game as that freak on steroid ! female like that would NEVER have exist in word like that no food people eating other people and she looks more buff then Kraots WTF ?!!!! Jole is NOBODY in this game Druckmann spit on him literally and figuratively ! he hate Joel thats why he murder him that way ! lgbtq and sj psycho propaganda ! lazy writing like bigot sandwiches or who are you ? guess ! WTF ! Halley Gross one of the writers say in an interview "the thing that Neal care about is honoring Ellie and Joel specifically and their journey together" lies after lies and false advertising ! the ending is even more terrible ! but NOTHING is more disturbing than abby sex scene.... beyond disgusting ! 7 years for NOTHING ! Expand
  20. Jun 25, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I really hoped that this would not be a banal continuation about Ellie and Joel, who go to some safe place and simultaneously strengthen their relationship again. And how glad I am that the sequel takes a completely different idea for the concept and more deepens me much more as a player in the game world than part 1 did. The second part has the concept of a cycle of revenge, which we will study immediately from two sides of the conflict. I really liked that the first half of the game, we go through revenge, and the second half of the path of redemption. The gameplay has become much deeper and more interesting, and the study of locations has become much more fun. The atmosphere has become much darker and no longer has a division into white and black, which can be seen in 1 part. The Last of Us Part II is the most beautiful game I have ever seen. I like that there are much more moments similar in atmosphere to Resident Evil. The gameplay in the hospital for Abby is definitely one of my favorite moments in the game. As in the first part, I am pleased that I was not given a choice at the end. I'm glad for Ellie that she was able to let go of her revenge and off cycle of pain. And I'm definitely happy for Leo and Abby, who, I hope, will find Fireflies and happiness. Expand
  21. Jun 25, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. guys i really can't understand all this bad reviews, i've loved the story but even more the storytelling.
    For me is a great idea to make you play as the "villain" and i know how mutch the community loved Joel as character, but if you pay attention to the construction of the plot you will understand why the game got this resolution.
    In conclusion you can have your opinion about the story but you really can't say this is a bad written plot with bad written characters
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  22. Jun 25, 2020
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I really did like the game i just did not like joel dieing the way he did i understand why she did it but if tommy wouldn't have said joels name they wouldn't have known that it was him and joel and tommy wouldnt have there grind down so damn much like that and the ending was sad but over all i loved the game. Expand
  23. Jun 25, 2020
    10
    I don't see problems about story. I like previous part, and this. Yes previous have better story, but about this. This is new story, and story not bad.
  24. Jun 25, 2020
    5
    Gameplay was fine, it didn't feel much different than the previous entry.
    Story was all over the place and honestly just made me miss the first game. No new memorable Characters except Dina and Jeremy. Abby was unsympathetic and i didn't feel bad for her crew. The ending left me feeling like something was missing and i just wish we got to see tommy more. Overall its the weakest Naughty Dog
    Gameplay was fine, it didn't feel much different than the previous entry.
    Story was all over the place and honestly just made me miss the first game. No new memorable Characters except Dina and Jeremy. Abby was unsympathetic and i didn't feel bad for her crew. The ending left me feeling like something was missing and i just wish we got to see tommy more. Overall its the weakest Naughty Dog game by far, but thats a very high bar so I'll let it slide.

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  25. Jun 25, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Kill Joel and play Abby after. Will never support NG games. From the greatest to the worst. Expand
  26. Jun 22, 2020
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The last of us is a loose game in history development, not bad at some point, but in Soundtrack, graphics, jugability and details is a 10/10
    - In history and characters a 6 and 7
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  27. Jun 25, 2020
    7
    As a huge fan of the first game, I feel extremely disappointed in this sequel. I loved the graphics, the combat, the performances, the inclusivity, but the reason I spent 60$ right off the bat was for the story. And the story was told awfully. Neil Druckmann has to recognize, someday, that he handled the story horribly. I understand he wanted to tell another relevant story but he failed atAs a huge fan of the first game, I feel extremely disappointed in this sequel. I loved the graphics, the combat, the performances, the inclusivity, but the reason I spent 60$ right off the bat was for the story. And the story was told awfully. Neil Druckmann has to recognize, someday, that he handled the story horribly. I understand he wanted to tell another relevant story but he failed at executing it. He failed the fans ( if he really cares about us ). I am done with this franchise as long as this guy is running the show at Naughty Dog. Expand
  28. Jun 25, 2020
    10
    The internet hatewagon really jumped the shark with this one. TLOU2 is a compelling, emotionally-driven story that is interesting throughout, and the gameplay trumps TLOU1 in every sense. The world is so unbelievably detailed — every building looks lived in, every scrawled note looks authentically handwritten, every character and faction has a story. If you enjoyed TLOU, please do not letThe internet hatewagon really jumped the shark with this one. TLOU2 is a compelling, emotionally-driven story that is interesting throughout, and the gameplay trumps TLOU1 in every sense. The world is so unbelievably detailed — every building looks lived in, every scrawled note looks authentically handwritten, every character and faction has a story. If you enjoyed TLOU, please do not let the mob dissuade you from giving this game a shot. It’s phenomenal and I think it would be received better by fans if they hadn’t worked themselves into a lather in advance over the leaks. The plot absolutely works in context. Don’t go spoil yourself — dive in and enjoy one of Naughty Dog’s finest hours. Expand
  29. Jun 25, 2020
    2
    Pretty graphics but thats pretty much it. The game is an insult to story telling in general.
    Uninteresting characters? check.
    Plot holes? check. Dumb character decisions for the sake of making the story fit a narrative? check. Beaten over the head over and over again with the cliché narrative "vengeance is bad"? check. Insultingly badly written male characters to the point that im
    Pretty graphics but thats pretty much it. The game is an insult to story telling in general.
    Uninteresting characters? check.
    Plot holes? check.
    Dumb character decisions for the sake of making the story fit a narrative? check.
    Beaten over the head over and over again with the cliché narrative "vengeance is bad"? check.
    Insultingly badly written male characters to the point that im asking myself if this game is feminist propaganda? check.

    The gameplay is fine, but it didnt innovate anything from the first game so i wont give it any points for that, its basically more of the same but they removed the puzzles.

    Just stay away from this piece of **** game.
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  30. Jun 25, 2020
    0
    Very bad game,Very bad story,Very bad end... don't buy! Seriously.This is like pretty ****
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  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]