The Last of Us Part II

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  1. GrumpyStump
    Jun 19, 2020
    4
    The gameplay, visuals, acting, and music were all incredible. Naughty Dog did it again in these departments and even exceeded the first game in some of these regards. But the story, the keystone that carries the whole franchise on its back is absolutely horrid. The characters don’t act like themselves and all the relationships they’ve created in the first game are thrown out the window. IThe gameplay, visuals, acting, and music were all incredible. Naughty Dog did it again in these departments and even exceeded the first game in some of these regards. But the story, the keystone that carries the whole franchise on its back is absolutely horrid. The characters don’t act like themselves and all the relationships they’ve created in the first game are thrown out the window. I really wanted this to be a 10/10 but the story is dragging the project down to where it can’t be brought back to what made the first installment great. I feel the original story wasn't respected, and the small details and character moments that made that game great are sorely missed. A decent game to play, but hopefully forget.… Expand
  2. Merenthia
    Jun 19, 2020
    4
    11 hours in and I gave up. The game is very repetative and besides the flashbacks and the car scene there is nothing of interest here. A total waste of money. The insult to injury are the flashback which are the exact game I would like to play.
  3. Looperted
    Jun 19, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Back in 2013, I could not have been more hyped for the original game. At that point there was no game I had anticipated more. And when I played it, I absolutely loved it. The world building and storytelling was great, I developed such an attachment to Joel and Ellie. Seeing the initial conflict between them, with them eventually getting to be like daughter and son. To be honest, I almost cried when Joel fell and got impaled, as I thought he died. I loved the first game so much.

    But for TLOU2, man am I disappointed. The world and detail in the game is great, the facial animations are top tier. The graphics aren't quite as impressive for the time as they were for the first one, but they're still good. However, the trailers and ads for the game were so misleading. They made it look like Joel would play a big part in the story with how often they showed him. But nope, killed off by an angry buff woman with a golf club. The writing and story is just HORRIBLE. And why do we need sex scenes? They add nothing in this game. In the original DLC when Ellie realized she was lesbian, whatever I don't care. They just harped on it a bit much. This entire game is "Subvert your expectations" and its awful. I don't want to spoil the ending, despite how terrible it is. Let's just say the ending will only piss you off more.    … Expand
  4. Tateee95
    Jun 22, 2020
    4
    The game is perfectly a ten in everything but the history and how the ruined the main characters that was so cruel . I wait for 7 years for nothing.
  5. Rairix
    Jun 23, 2020
    4
    How much money can a company give out to shill for reviews? Probably about half the cost of this game. You can give a game a great cast, with a hard hitting story that is made to make us feel bad, but when your game play is boring and outdated, and most of the sad stuff is just watching abuse against females and LGBT people it's not good. The sex scene was not needed, especially with howHow much money can a company give out to shill for reviews? Probably about half the cost of this game. You can give a game a great cast, with a hard hitting story that is made to make us feel bad, but when your game play is boring and outdated, and most of the sad stuff is just watching abuse against females and LGBT people it's not good. The sex scene was not needed, especially with how Sony has been cracking down on censorship for any game from Japan that has lewd things in it. Why did we need to see a scene of someone getting taken from behind with nudity? Why wasn't that censored Sony? Not to mention it's unsafe sex. Not talking about a condom, it's anal with no prep or lube. It doesn't work that way people.
    When the game play is walking/sneaking between point a and b and then watch some cut scenes, maybe kill someone it gets stale quick. Which is what this game is.
    Swinging from ropes isn't something new to boast about, pitfall and DK have been doing it for over 30 years. The killing in this game is pretty much what you've seen in other killing games for the past 10 years as well. The only new thing this game really brings is the trans character, who was mocapped by someone not matching the body type at all, and is **** on for most of the game and even dead named.
    They tried for so many brownie points for their game and it just fails in all of those categories. It's almost like they used a dart board to figure out what buzzwords they wanted to use in the game to make it appeal to as many young people as possible, but in doing so made a pretty meh game at the end of the day.
    Finally let's also not forget about they bait and switching their trailers and ads for the game, by replacing a very important character from the ads with some other guy we care way less about in the game.
    This game doesn't deserve praise. It sure as hell doesn't deserve those bought 10s. It's a middle of the barrel game that tarnishes how good the first one was. Oh also enjoy like maybe 70 zombies for the entire game about zombies    … Expand
  6. Karmatrom03
    Jun 19, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I preordered in 2019 got canceled in feb 2020 & preordered again in may 2020 only to canceled again in the 17th of june ...why ? Because game supposes to be released worldwide in the 19th!! I got spoiled 2 days before by checking videos on YouTube from people who got the game early & its not their fault its the company.… Expand
  7. HonestMako
    Jun 20, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I'm going to put 4 only because of the game play and graphics, those 6 point literally get destroyed by a disgusting story. I will start talking about game play, the combat and interacting with the world are really good, really feels like being there but the looting and constant walking only to add more to the game time is really lame. The graphics are beautiful, not much to say and finally the story, killing the most important character in the franchise in 2 hours of game play is pretty stupid. Joel was one of the most likable and relevant character in the entire gaming community, he was loved by a lot of people, and he gets killed by an unreal unknown woman, yes unreal because you just can't grow those muscles in a apocalypse and its not the only thing about Abby, the developers even want us to play the most hated character in the game for half of the game. Absolute bull***t. Not to mention how annoying and boring were most of the scenes about her story. And the finale, Ellie becomes insane and doesn't even kill Abby. Feels like the developers hate Joel and Ellie. If there is going to be a part 3 (doubt it) i heavily hope it will have the spirit of the first game.… Expand
  8. dlbin7
    Jun 22, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Bad story, bad narrative, if they want to destroy something, then they succeeded. The ending of the hero should not be like this, and the so-called revenge is not to kill all the unrelated people and then forgive your enemies.… Expand
  9. ErasedVolota
    Jun 19, 2020
    4
    This game is amazing technically Music Gameplay Graphics Atmosphere amazing feels like TLOU
    but it all goes downhill in the storytelling aspect not enough backstory for newer characters and a lot of the characters don't seem to act like they usually do
    Playing the game felt foreign didn't seem like I was following the cast I know and love But what do I know I'm just some dude that plays    This game is amazing technically Music Gameplay Graphics Atmosphere amazing feels like TLOU
    but it all goes downhill in the storytelling aspect not enough backstory for newer characters and a lot of the characters don't seem to act like they usually do
    Playing the game felt foreign didn't seem like I was following the cast I know and love
    But what do I know I'm just some dude that plays video games    … Expand
  10. TheNoodleMan
    Jul 13, 2020
    4
    Awful, a total waste of time. It's Game of Thrones Season 8 and The Last Jedi all wrapped up into one. I played from beginning to end and it was a complete slog and boring at that.

    The story is a pale shadow of the original, which truly was a masterpiece, and if not for the leaks they would have palmed off this garbage as a proper sequel. But it isn't, the mechanics are practically    Awful, a total waste of time. It's Game of Thrones Season 8 and The Last Jedi all wrapped up into one. I played from beginning to end and it was a complete slog and boring at that.

    The story is a pale shadow of the original, which truly was a masterpiece, and if not for the leaks they would have palmed off this garbage as a proper sequel.

    But it isn't, the mechanics are practically ancient, the level design is so smoothbrain that it's painfully obvious that having fun was absolutely the last priority for the developers, and the writing is on par with a Twilight movie. The dodge and jump mechanics are also laughably bad and add nothing to the experience.

    I could write an entire essay on how stupid the story and characters are but suffice to say everything you've heard is true. Everyone is awful, nothing is hopeful, and it comes off as a shallow and preachy diatribe. You will be bored to tears playing this and frustrated to the point of facepalming yourself into another dimension. Everything bad you've heard about this game is 100% accurate.

    This was a vanity project for Neil Druckmann and it turns out he isn't half as clever as he thinks he is. If you want a game with a good story and gameplay play Star Wars Fallen Order or even minesweeper. Avoid this game like zombie brain fungus.

    Visuals: 8/10

    Sound: 9/10

    Gameplay: 5/10

    Story: 4/10    … Expand
  11. Loquendorv
    Jun 20, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. La historia es un desastre es muy forzada y la muerte de joel muy rapida y sin sentido… Expand
  12. mting
    Jun 21, 2020
    4
    story 1, this part has got a very high rate from media, but in fact its really a ****
    graphic 7, there are many details, but it's not better than Uncharted 4
    music 4
    gameplay 4, it's almost same as 1, no big improving and playing the guitar is boring
    Such a long wait is not worth it :(
  13. Midasitm
    Jun 20, 2020
    4
    Oh boy, they tell us about a revenge story that it doesn't consume at all. You can read a good amount of specialized reviews and all talks about the masterpiece of gameplay and storytelling, the gameplay, world design, ambient and more details that the game has are good but the story it´s something that rumbles into a bad end.

    The IGN Japan got it right "uninteresting new characters    Oh boy, they tell us about a revenge story that it doesn't consume at all. You can read a good amount of specialized reviews and all talks about the masterpiece of gameplay and storytelling, the gameplay, world design, ambient and more details that the game has are good but the story it´s something that rumbles into a bad end.

    The IGN Japan got it right "uninteresting new characters burden the story, making Ellie's journey feel conventional and not nearly as captivating as the original."    … Expand
  14. TLOU2CANCEL
    Jun 19, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. VERDICT [4/10] I never expected I'd write a negative review about a game from Naughty Dog. I never expected that I have to write this around 3 AM from where I am because this is too much. First, great visuals, animations, sound, music, environment, design, as always Naughty Dog pushing the game's engine to reach the fullest potential of the PS4's capabilities (Not pro). * HUGE SPOILERS AHEAD*

    Straight to the point on why I'm giving it 1/10 for the story. (TLOU1 was good because of the writing, not much on the gameplay.) They really tried to mix things up, like how it usually happens in the 'good' movies or films, books or shows. I am in for it and I was already anticipating Joel's death even then when the very first teaser for this game came out. In this sequel, you're going to play as Ellie and Abby. Both characters are going to be involved in revenge (although Abby did it first right away). You'll be able to play as Abby for the next half of the game. Naughty Dog wants you to build empathy for a character that killed your main character. It's a really good concept but it's beyond ignorance as to what they're really trying to achieve here. Antagonist Main Character? Sure you can give me that, Playing as the antagonist because you'll have to accept her "revenge" to your protagonist and empathize with her? No. Big no. Building up empathy for the "antagonist" is like building up empathy for ignorants/murderers allowing your citizens to die from the real world pandemic/police brutality.

    For Joel and Ellie:

    Joel got killed in the very first 2hrs of the game (IDK how long, prob even less than 2hrs). Basically, the story was already being set up as a revenge plot. Joel is the key to the revenge plot (forgive me, I love Joel as a character, He and Ellie were the reasons why TLOU1 was great). Now, Ellie was ready for that, and even Tommy was. Let's face it, the game was pulling an LGBTQ card right from the beginning (I'm being sensitive, hear me out). I don't care any of that, Ellie can always be who/how she wants to be (Same goes for everyone out there who's LGBTQ). Shouldn't have taken the political route. What else were they pulling in the game? SJW. (Yes, you've read this from other reviews already). Well, guess what, for 20+ hrs you'll be playing a massacre, killing every single one of the enemies who're Washington Liberation Front except for one character that killed Joel because why would you, right? Why would you kill someone who killed your father-like figure right? That's wrong, killing is bad but only after you've killed like 100 of them and letting go the one you played to kill for the whole game. I guess that's ethical and merciful.

    No, you do not set up a revenge plot and not giving it to the end. What's the whole Joel death thing for? (and those you killed with all the graphic/gore?) "He just died because it's life, just kind of like how reality works." It's basically what Naughty Dog is trying to teach us here. The lesson is to kill everyone and only to realize that it's not right and so Ellie let go of Abby.

    Fantastic story! Great ending! Way to just steal people's money for selling a plot we all thought how it was going down. Great job Neil Druckmann, I feel like you and your team just want to end Naughty Dog's reign as part of the SIE. No wonder why it had to be released before PS5. Good job on the paid reviews as well.    … Expand
  15. koZu2324
    Jun 19, 2020
    4
    A technical masterpiece for the PS4 that is unfortunately ruined by poor mechanics and awful story telling.
  16. rsent
    Jun 19, 2020
    4
    Terrible game. The graphics are great, the gameplay is not much better than TLOU but it's story sucks.
  17. KeyserSoze_
    Jun 19, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The story here is awful. Gameplay is very much the same as it was in TLOU. Which is fine. To be honest, no one loved the first one because of the gameplay, it was the story. The game works. It looks amazing, no bugs or glitches. Great work as far as making the game. Now the story is trash. The TLDR: Joel dies. And not in some sacrificing for the power of love type of way. Just beat in the head with a golf club. Ellie and friends go for revenge. They all make stupid decisions and die. You play as Abby and beat the crap out of Ellie and her girlfriend. As Ellie you save Abby and get beat up again. You get 2 fingers bitten off and your relationship with your girl is destroyed. You go through all of this, just to let Abby live. WTF. At least have the balls to follow though at this point. Ellie goes the whole game murdering people and animals left and right, just to not kill the bad guy. And yes I consider Abby the bad guy. I don't have any sympathy for her. Blame it on the storytelling. And if you think this is what people wanted or this is what we deserve you need to take a long look in the mirror.… Expand
  18. Bushi35
    Jun 27, 2020
    4
    Le doy un suspenso por la pésima estructura de la historia, y por la malísima resolución de la misma,... Te hace sentir incómodamente mal, y la moraleja que quiere ofrecer es más que una obviedad,... Ahora pretenden dar lecciones!! Además un tipo de lección que cualquier persona entiende desde bien temprana edad!! El 4 es por lo visual, lo mejor visto hasta la fecha, nada lo iguala, y porLe doy un suspenso por la pésima estructura de la historia, y por la malísima resolución de la misma,... Te hace sentir incómodamente mal, y la moraleja que quiere ofrecer es más que una obviedad,... Ahora pretenden dar lecciones!! Además un tipo de lección que cualquier persona entiende desde bien temprana edad!! El 4 es por lo visual, lo mejor visto hasta la fecha, nada lo iguala, y por la maravillosa jugabilidad!… Expand
  19. Bleeps88
    Jun 25, 2020
    4
    Gameplay is classic, and the visuals are stunning. Unfortunately the poor story pacing and awkward timeline of events pulls all emotion from the story and leaves much to be desired.
  20. paulleyyy
    Jun 20, 2020
    4
    I didn't hate this game. Visually this is a masterpiece, but like a lot of people have already pointed out, the story is a let down and is pushing the wrong agenda. And the game-play is dull. You are basically watching a movie with quick-time events.
  21. amak86
    May 28, 2021
    4
    it kills me to see Naughty Dog deconstruct its franchise/characters in such a violent and pointless narrative, all for (in my opinion) the purpose of shock factor and expressing a very generic message of revenge. I normally don't leave bad reviews, but I'm making an exception in this case, as i feel the need to voice my displeasure. I can't with good conscious support this game, and thisit kills me to see Naughty Dog deconstruct its franchise/characters in such a violent and pointless narrative, all for (in my opinion) the purpose of shock factor and expressing a very generic message of revenge. I normally don't leave bad reviews, but I'm making an exception in this case, as i feel the need to voice my displeasure. I can't with good conscious support this game, and this coming from a fan who loved the first part.… Expand
  22. NaxoDeZ
    Jun 20, 2020
    4
    Para empezar pierde todo de lo que se trataba el 1 paso de un survival zombie a ser una serie de netflix, tiene buenos graficos y escenarios estupendos pero lo que falto para atraerme fue la historia no se compara en nada a la entrega anterior aparte de que las cinematicas duran mucho mas y se vuelve aburrido al igual que escenas innecesarias y para nada una jugabilidad innovadora.
  23. SirOSG
    Jun 19, 2020
    4
    This is an amazing movie. But the gameplay is very much a chore. I personally hate how they portrayed many of the reoccurring characters that I fell in love with, but that is more of a subjective feeling I have about the game. Seriously the gameplay is horrible and I find myself being very bored in combat.
  24. ricardofraga
    Jun 19, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Regular, It looks Like an Remaster Of TLOU on ps4!
    Many many bugs, forced History and the Lore of main characters Was Destroyed    … Expand
  25. synmn
    Jun 20, 2020
    4
    Amazing Graphics and Animations. Love the LGBT inclusion and diversity of characters.
    Gameplay is stale, pretty much carbon copy of its 7yo predecessor
    Story relies on shock value over all else New characters are not likable, or just feel off to me, I just didn't care about what happened to them Pacing is slow and tedious, it took effort to slog through surface level puzzles/traps and    Amazing Graphics and Animations. Love the LGBT inclusion and diversity of characters.
    Gameplay is stale, pretty much carbon copy of its 7yo predecessor
    Story relies on shock value over all else
    New characters are not likable, or just feel off to me, I just didn't care about what happened to them
    Pacing is slow and tedious, it took effort to slog through surface level puzzles/traps and general lack of interesting things to do just to make it to the next story point.
    Companion AI is frustrating
    Dissapointing overal.    … Expand
  26. nvourlio
    Jun 19, 2020
    4
    I remember back in PS3 days TLoU came and we had a gorgeous looking game with a great story line and characters to connect to. Emotional and endearing. On the other hand we have TLoU2; After playing several hours I came to the conclusion that the world is stunning, the graphics are awesome and the dark mood is there bu that's all there is to it.. I felt that Joel and Ellie were the polarI remember back in PS3 days TLoU came and we had a gorgeous looking game with a great story line and characters to connect to. Emotional and endearing. On the other hand we have TLoU2; After playing several hours I came to the conclusion that the world is stunning, the graphics are awesome and the dark mood is there bu that's all there is to it.. I felt that Joel and Ellie were the polar opposite compared to the first part, dumb decisions (from Joels part mainly, becoming so trusting to others) and many more that ruined the feeling from me. I think that ND took a risk by getting in a different perspective for the story that didn't work out at least for me.… Expand
  27. smalls22703
    Jun 19, 2020
    4
    I tried to give it a chance. Loved the first game, but this just fails to live up to that game. It’s not bad as a 0, but the perfect war scores given by game websites is crazy.
  28. Famelo
    Jun 19, 2020
    4
    Out of respect to the developers of this game who went through hell to get this game out there, I'll give this game a 4/10. Graphics, acting, sound effects, music, it's all top notch. So kudos to the technical team. Now, everything else is a mess.

    The pacing is horrendous. At some points you want cutscenes to end because the conversations and characters actions are so bad, and you want to    Out of respect to the developers of this game who went through hell to get this game out there, I'll give this game a 4/10. Graphics, acting, sound effects, music, it's all top notch. So kudos to the technical team. Now, everything else is a mess.

    The pacing is horrendous. At some points you want cutscenes to end because the conversations and characters actions are so bad, and you want to get back to the gameplay, which actually drags for too long too. You are into this repetitiveness mess for the entire game.

    They obviously traded character development for shock value. Characters are as smart as the person who writes the lines for them. The violence and gore are over the top, and non of te characters learned anything from the things going on in this world. Characters felt like they were just put in there in order for Ellie to get her revenge.

    The ending is also the most unrealistic thing I've seen. For a game aiming to teach you something out of the reality of it's own world, the ending makes absolutely no sense. And that's what this game is, a nonsensical tale about nonsensical character doing a lot of nonsensical stuff in the most vicious way possible.    … Expand
  29. SamBh
    Jul 20, 2020
    4
    Amazing graphics and animations, Improved gameplay/combat from the previous game, but Garbage-tier Story writing and new characters that ruin it all.

    Save yourself $60 for ghost of Tsushima or something else.
  30. Eduardow0
    Jun 20, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. A única palavra que tenho pra descrever é : desapontado.
    Enredo totalmente forçado e sem sentido, onde matam um personagem experiente em sobrevivēncia de uma forma pátetica e boba, como se nao bastasse sua vingança não existiu.
    Voces cuspiram na cara dos fãs de TLOU.    … Expand
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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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