The Last of Us Part II

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  1. RishiBaijal
    Jun 25, 2020
    0
    The game is terrible. They failed at this game and Neil Druckmann trolling people on Father's day is absolutely disgusting. I hope people see through this garbage. We hate the character of Abby and ND failed to make her a sympathetic character.
  2. N3TROW
    Jun 25, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Already on the start of the game you already see some action. the graphics are amazing and the sound design is just surreal the story is very good too. SPOILERS
    ellie says she can try to forgive joel and in the next day he gets killed by abby filled taken by vengeance because joel killed her father. Ellie sees joel last moments and gets mad obviously.
    She goes for a hunt for revenge almost loses her humanity on the hunt same as joel . Killing everyone who stands against her until she gets to abby to get her revenge. Abby gets filled with revenge again killing the people that are close to ellie. the game is a hunt for revenge from both sides. It has a sad ending showing that ellie lost her family and everything she had with dina by revenge Great game dunno why people are unliking it so much    … Expand
  3. Focalljett
    Jun 25, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Com certeza um dos melhores jogos já feitos,bom enrredo,otima jogabilidade uma história de redenção e nos mostra como a vingança pode ser ruim para as nossas vidas,nota 10… Expand
  4. Inquity22
    Jun 25, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Gameplay was fun, graphics were just amazing one of the driving reason to push me through the game. I was enjoying it until about the halfway point I see why did Joel in and what they were going for there but they lost me when they forced me to play as that hideous character Abby. Every second I spent playing as her I wanted her to just die, spent a lot of time just jumping her off cliffs. If they would've just pushed the Ellie revenge plot straight through they would've at least made a safe bet there that people would've been happy. Instead they try to make this curve ball bull crap that just leaves a sour taste in your mouth when you finish, and I even had a feeling that was gonna happen too. Extremely disappointed I don't know what naughty dog was thinking with the story... I'll definitely never fire this game up again I don't even want the plat they can keep it.… Expand
  5. Malt3185
    Jun 23, 2020
    10
    Didn’t really like it at first (after completing it), but it is safe to say that it grew on me real hard.
  6. Rachwith93
    Jun 25, 2020
    0
    Terrible game. Did not enjoy the characters. Wasn’t happy with gameplay. felt very boring. Can’t imagine going from the 1st game to this garbage. Please save your money and do not purchase this game you will regret it deeply. Art work was the only nice thing about this game and I’m sure there will be other better games with artwork just as nice. I can’t even write more about it.
  7. Alepx
    Jun 25, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The Rise of Skywalker of the video games, disappointing, full of agenda, nonsense script. Man.. Joel deserved so much better....… Expand
  8. xiggolthorp
    Jun 25, 2020
    9
    I was not planning on buying this game for a few reasons. I felt like the developers were pushing an agenda that was taking priority over storytelling/gameplay and a couple of key points in the game were spoiled for me. My wife bought it for me for Father's Day and I loved the first game so I figured why not give it a try. I spent over 30 hours completely engrossed in the story,I was not planning on buying this game for a few reasons. I felt like the developers were pushing an agenda that was taking priority over storytelling/gameplay and a couple of key points in the game were spoiled for me. My wife bought it for me for Father's Day and I loved the first game so I figured why not give it a try. I spent over 30 hours completely engrossed in the story, characters, and gameplay. In short, I loved it. There were a few lines of dialogue that turned me off or made me roll my eyes but the game itself is much more than that. There is plenty of enjoyment to be had from this game and I hope that others give it a chance. Even knowing key points about the ending, and feeling apprehensive about it as I played through, I never got to the point where I felt like it wasn't worth it to see things through. Two things keep me from giving the game a 10/10, one is a particular boss fight that is.... "stealth based?" which I did not have fun with. It was like hitting a brick wall as far as progress in the game. The other issue that I have is the play time/lack of replay value. While I enjoyed the game immensely I don't see much to do in a new game+ besides go through the story again which is something I might do years down the road but for now the case is just going to collect dust.

    TLDR - was biased about the game, wife bought it for me, played it, enjoyed it, give me a reason to play new game +    … Expand
  9. santagria
    Jun 25, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. TLoU 2 was trying its best to recreate the success and brutality of Game Of Thrones, and even have a "red wedding moment", and instead - only succeeded in recreating the failure, and futility of Game Of Thrones, Season 8.
    The good: The stealth gameplay in TLoU 2 is a massive improvement over the first game. Feels more polished and evolved, like me sneaking around in Metal Gear Solid 5's open world. Its a shame, because this gameplay would suit a slightly more open-world survival/stealth game. Especially with how GOOD this game looks and animates and plays. I was often face-first into walls, trying to zoom in on small details, and reading old posters, menus. Looking around and exploring what was left of some persons old bedroom, or house. The VISUAL craft and design did a great job at world building...
    But lets move onto how the narrative starts to get in the way of this improved gameplay and world-building. TLoU 2 is constantly trying to drip-feed you narrative, from conversations you overhear from NPC's (which some were fine), to the hundreds of hand-written notes left on every preset dead body, in every house, or building... requiring you to stop and read to tell their mini-story in this post-apocalyptic America. This works fine if done sparingly, but this game inundates you with letter-after-letter, from some person who was about to die who decided to write a full page journal entry on whatever scrap-paper they could find; to even groups of people communicating together, by what seems like letter-only, who clearly lived in the same neighbourhood together. It ends up accomplishing the opposite, It goes from world-building, to immediately pulling you out of the game once the heavy-hand of the narrative makes itself too pronounced in the world around you. I was bored when Doom 3 did this over 15 years ago. This bleeds into the patrolling enemies talking out loud EVERY time you're within ear-shot, trying their hardest to make you feel guilty about the person you're about to kill. It becomes almost laughable after a certain point. The game is trying so hard to MAKE me feel a certain way, and never earns it. "Society is crumbling and people are turning on eachother" "one mans hero is anothers' villain". That nameless NPC you're about to stealth kill actually has a name, a dog, friends AND a girlfriend. It becomes over-saturated. This trope has been done to death in the zombie genre. It seems weird for it to become the LASER focused premise of the sequel. By the end of the game, I felt like I was being bludgeoned over the head by the writers at Naughty Dog . Yes, I got your point . Now where is the good part?

    The first game was a shorter, concise narrative, that built up to an emotional ending it EARNED. I understood everyone's perspective, and motivations, even Marlene and the Fireflies. But this sequel, TLoU 2, does not earn any of the emotions it's TRYING to get out of the player. The writing is inconsistent, changing the characters personality and motivations and having them make decisions that don't make sense.
    And with how progressive Naughty Dog seems to be politically, which is reflected even more in this sequel, has me questioning why they would build up one of the gaming industries only prominent LGBT protagonists like Ellie, a character that even the sexist "gamer-bros" fell in love with and rooted for. To go from successfully normalizing having a gay, female lead, and then simply destroy all that, destroy that character, just to re-tell the same old "revenge bad" story. Seems like a such a wasted opportunity to do much more from a progressive standpoint. And without getting too much into spoilers, lets just say that by the end of the game, Joel got it easy - Ellie's character is not only destroyed within the narrative of the game, she's also destroyed in fandom sense as well, her icon was taken down a notch. And if Naughty dog thinks "BUT THAT WAS THE POINT" my response is,
    "well, your point kinda sucks, and you missed a great opportunity to platform a gay character and raise them up to iconic status."
    To summarize, TLoU 2 is a technically impressive game, that suffers massively from its narrative in two ways - the narrative itself is unsatisfying and depressing, (again, reminding me of torture porn and futility of a movie like 2002's french film "Irreversible") and because the narrative is so stilted, the gameplay-loop also suffers from that compartmentalized story that jumps not just from character-to-character, but goes into flashbacks within flashbacks. It never really establishes a good flow.

    5/10    … Expand
  10. Salkam_zh
    Jun 25, 2020
    10
    Do not listen anyone. Just play.
    Do not listen anyone. Just play
    Do not listen anyone. Just play
  11. Berozgar
    Jun 25, 2020
    10
    Good game decent graphic kicked ass loved Abby addition to the cast of playing
  12. Warson7
    Jun 25, 2020
    0
    Gave it 4 for the gameplay and visuals, story wise its one of the most fustrating and disappointing games ever made, I hate the story. Sad to see that this is the sequel to one of the best games ever made.
  13. FulhamBroadway
    Jun 25, 2020
    0
    Thanks Naughty Dog for promoting homo s***. Is that le*bian propaganda necessary? Stick your gender propaganda up your f*ing a**. You destroyed a great first part. Fuming.
  14. Jvhoho4
    Jun 25, 2020
    5
    The game as part 2 does'nt work. They deconstructed the main character, to give space for an not original unrevenge script. We would only like a cohesive story with the two parts, but Naughty dog's crew just only followed the flow of Game of Thrones in **** in the history like they wanted. Gameplay, sounds and graphics is amazing. 5/10 is a great note to a history write with lazy in a hurry.
  15. TucAZ1
    Jun 25, 2020
    5
    Graphics? Unmatched. Music? What I expect, great. Story and character development? Not good (but I do like MOST of the new characters except for the extent of some of their developments). Looking at this from a writer’s perspective in terms of craft, this story feels like a hot mess. Almost nothing is earned. I got the game because I wanted to see how ND handles a story like this (I hadGraphics? Unmatched. Music? What I expect, great. Story and character development? Not good (but I do like MOST of the new characters except for the extent of some of their developments). Looking at this from a writer’s perspective in terms of craft, this story feels like a hot mess. Almost nothing is earned. I got the game because I wanted to see how ND handles a story like this (I had seen the spoilers but decided to give it a chance anyway because I love harsh stories). The only thing this game does right is making the player empathize with Ellie because we are pissed with her— but even from Abby’s perspective, it isn’t justified enough. I love writing imperfect, flawed characters, but this story, it was too prescriptive in terms of theme and the emotions it was trying to covey and that is where it falls short. Yeah I love the cruel world of TLOU universe but there are tedious ways to approach those themes and then there are ways not to; this game was just negligent and crude.… Expand
  16. GetRektByGooby
    Jun 25, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I hate this sequel! I thougt they would give a great story for Joel and Ellie instead giving them a bad ending, even Joel was killed, by a golf club! Don't waste your money guys, just watch streamers on youtube and see how they disappointed about this game… Expand
  17. XERICKO
    Jun 25, 2020
    10
    Te hacen odiar tanto a Abby y te obligan a jugar como ella para q sientas pena y al final te quitan tu venganza .. muy mal final
  18. tgwetgew
    Jun 25, 2020
    0
    the game is very boring and stupid . The first last of us is beautiful game but this game is piss of **** very uninteresting characters , story is ****ty, i dont recommend this game
  19. EuCesarSou
    Jun 25, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. (BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE TEXT)(Texto em PT-BR)Eu sou um fanboy de TLOU1,e vamos ser francos,mesmo se não tivesse vazados os spoilers antes do lançamento,todos nós não descartavam a chace de Joel morrer no TLOU2,pois o personagem estava velho e forçar ele na historia,ia acabar saturando. Sim,claro,a morte de um personagem tão forte e importante para os fãs,morrer dessa forma foi muito triste e desapontante,mas isso não aluna todos os acertos da Naughty Dog em TLOU2,para mim o jogo conseguiu satisfazer todas a minhas expectativas em questão de gameplay.(agora que começa a doer meu coração)
    Ver o Joel falar o seu nome para completos estranho é algo inimaginável para quem jogou TLOU1,pois no primeiro jogo Joel era um cara que se visse alguém um pouco estranho na sua frente,já eliminava a ameaça,botava a segurança das pessoas que ele ama em primeiro lugar. E o jogo obriga ao fã á jogar com assassina de Joel por 9,10 horas seguidas,sei que a ideia era que a gente entendesse o lado dela, mas diferente de Ellie e Joel,Abby não sente o mínimo de remorso com ninguém,matando até pessoas próximas que faziam parte da WLF,isso sem dúvida dificulta ao jogador criar um laço com a personagem.
    Indo pro final do game,Ellie abandona sua namorada,seu filho adotivo e sua casa para finalmente vingar a morte de Joel, e acabar com seus pesadelos. Quando Ellie está prestes a matar Abby,ela tem flashbacks do rosto de Joel ensanguentado e machucado,e depois de passar essa imagem na cabeça de Ellie,ela perdoa Abby.....MAS O QUÊ??? ISSO DEVERIA MOTIVAR A MATAR A PESSOA QUE ASSASSINOU O SEU PAI. Abby não fala nem um ''obrigada'',ela foge para proteger o Lev mas com toda certeza do mundo,quando ela estiver uma chance e recuperada,vai acabar com a raça da Ellie.
    Entre poucos erros mas erros enormes,á um mar de acertos. Para mim,como já disse antes, o jogo está perfeito,amei com todo o coração.    … Expand
  20. Djura22
    Jun 25, 2020
    2
    Let me preface this by saying I was a MASSIVE fan of the first game, it is dark, beautiful and wonderfully designed.
    Much of the design remains, and the graphics are indeed stunning. The story however is pure unadulterated trash, is incredibly disturbing (not in a creepy intentional way ala Bloodborne) and the character development is atrocious. The disparity between the professional    Let me preface this by saying I was a MASSIVE fan of the first game, it is dark, beautiful and wonderfully designed.
    Much of the design remains, and the graphics are indeed stunning. The story however is pure unadulterated trash, is incredibly disturbing (not in a creepy intentional way ala Bloodborne) and the character development is atrocious. The disparity between the professional critics and average consumer is also disturbing, how does this happen?    … Expand
  21. Guill
    Jun 25, 2020
    0
    Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaas se tiraron un gran juego !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  22. Napolleon
    Jun 21, 2020
    0
    Go woke. Go broke. Tlou2 is trash. No improvements to the original game. Weak story. LGBTQ being forced diversify onto us. The next TLOU will be BLM focused since that’s the new outrage for the year
  23. Redriot47
    Jun 25, 2020
    2
    Just been done with the game and got to say it's way worse then I thought. It's disappointing to be honest as they try to feed you an unwanted story by making you play as Abby after and before she kills Joel.
    The Gameplay and Graphics are good but the AI is stupid as hell. The enemies don't even response to your Allies. Dina crawls right beside them and they pretend they don't have eyes    Just been done with the game and got to say it's way worse then I thought. It's disappointing to be honest as they try to feed you an unwanted story by making you play as Abby after and before she kills Joel.
    The Gameplay and Graphics are good but the AI is stupid as hell. The enemies don't even response to your Allies. Dina crawls right beside them and they pretend they don't have eyes and it's laughable. I understand most games now provide an Ally so the gameplay is not as boaring or so that it doesn't get lonely but dude. Put in the extra effort to polish it and make the AI to detect your Allies as well.
    The starting of the game where we first get to see the settlement was so good . If they really wanted they could have gone in a different way and tell us a heartwarming lovable story but they had to be disrespectful to its fans and put in their **** agenda and make it worse.
    If you are a new comer you will enjoy the game but for the fans of the previous it just fuels us with harate and ending the game with saying violence is bad after Ellie killing thousands of innocent people .
    The game might as be named The End of us and not the last of Us.
    I have a huge games collection but I particularly shared this game from a friend because I have no wish to help the developers for being disrespectful. You don't make us Love a piece of work and then destroy it for your **** agenda. Might as well make a new IP for it.
    Anyways I didn't enjoy the experience.    … Expand
  24. vito1189
    Jun 25, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Os meteis el mariconeo y la inclusividad por el ano,estoy de buenismo y tonterias hasta los huevos burrrp… Expand
  25. juliusmena23
    Jun 22, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I'm highly enjoying this game. I understand why people are upset or frustrated the way naughty dog chose to take the story. I actually praise naughty because they are the only company to have the balls to make a controversial game like this. I'm currently SPOILER WARNING 13 hours in and at the part of the game where you play as abby and see why she took revenge on Joel many people might not remember at the end of part 1 when Joel saves ellie the doctor that stood up to joel was actually abbys dad and he was loved in there community highly which you could probably understand why she did it. I think it takes the story even further when you see her perspective. people do not understand that this world is dark curel and depressing. this game is a lot more than what people are saying. the game had a really bad launch and was trashed by the media without knowing the whole story including youtube influencers who use this game as way to get views by making videos on the game while they said they aren't buying the game it doesn't make sense. If you have an itch to play this game play it… Expand
  26. thiagoperez
    Jun 25, 2020
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Este juego me pareció un muy buen juego, con asombrosas mecánicas en el gameplay y un inteligencia artificial excelente y la mejor que vi en cualquier videojuego, gráficos preciosos con rostros de personajes que parecen reales, y unas físicas que te hacen sentir cada golpe, navajazo o tiro. La historia me pareció bastante buena, tuve un problema con la segunda mitad del juego ya que controlamos a abby, y no me entusiasmó mucho porque sentí que se alargó demasiado su historia. Tampoco me gusto mucho el final ya que sentí que al menos Ellie o Abby debieron morir, para demostrar que la venganza solo lleva a cosas malas y letales. La muerte de Joel no me pareció mala ya que le da la motivación a la historia y la fuente de los deseos de venganza tanto de Ellie como de el propio jugador y demuestra que aunque sea Joel, en ese mundo cualquiera puede morir y de una manera muy rápida y sin honor, porque es así, nadie es invencible.
    pd: para los que se quejan de porque Abby va a puños, quiero que recuerden que en el primer juego Joel también iba a puños, pero por ser un personaje que no les agrada, critican cualquier cosa.    … Expand
  27. Gnorwtignidaer
    Jun 20, 2020
    3
    Graphics and sfx are great, but that isn't enough to save this game.
    I came into this ready for a good story.
    I can't tell you how disappointed I am with this.
    On top of that, people are being harassed for not smiling and saying "this is great!". Sorry druckmann, the majority of us aren't for sale.
  28. GamesRfun4sure
    Jun 25, 2020
    0
    Season eight of Game of Thrones: the game.

    I waited so long for this and had such high hopes, only to find they had ruined a winning formula. All you had to do is maintain the standard of storytelling and everyone would have been happy. Instead we got a game that glorifies in violence for no point, relationships between cardboard cut out characters that are shallow and meaningless. I    Season eight of Game of Thrones: the game.

    I waited so long for this and had such high hopes, only to find they had ruined a winning formula. All you had to do is maintain the standard of storytelling and everyone would have been happy. Instead we got a game that glorifies in violence for no point, relationships between cardboard cut out characters that are shallow and meaningless. I have read fanfic that was better than this steaming coil of a sequel.

    I don't understand how ”professional” reviewers are praising it. Do they actually play the games they review or just accept the briefcase full of cash?    … Expand
  29. MemeVarVeteran
    Jun 25, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Зачем так портить персонажей и создавать настолько идиотский сюжет!?… Expand
  30. W3RSUCKS
    Jun 25, 2020
    0
    Its sad that people had to wait 7 years just to receive this trash story that just **** on its predecessor.
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  2. Mixed: 8 out of 121
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  1. GameMAG
    Sep 13, 2020
    90
    The Last of Us Part II is the high point of the PlayStation 4. The plot is controversial, but the game is the incredibly addictive adventure of Ellie, from which it is impossible to pull away from the opening and to the very end.
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  2. PLAY! Zine
    Sep 5, 2020
    93
    Not everyone is going to enjoy the motives of The Last of Us Part II. But if you try and manage to accept the subliminal and not so subtle messages as a fact that the world has gone awry and that people have the need to have somewhere or someone to belong to as their own way out, then... You will witness the boundaries of gaming expand. You will witness a true masterpiece.
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  3. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Sep 3, 2020
    75
    If you loved the original for its great characters and well-paced story – stay away from this game. However, if you’re aching to sink into the depths of depression, or just want to cut some throats and burn some zombies – Part II will deliver. [Issue#247, p.72]
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