The Last of Us Part II

 PlayStation 4
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5.8

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  3. Negative: 68,475 out of 161975
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  1. ashton8504
    Jun 26, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Great Graphics, huge advancement in gameplay for video games (played it through).

    However, I cannot get over nor will I get over how BAD the storyline is.

    I loved these characters and Last Of Us 1 is my favorite game of all time and I am OK with Joel dying in part 2, but the death was NOT earned at all. There is no way possible Joel's or Tommy's character would have given up information like that to COMPLETE strangers they just met nor would a character like Abby just flip out like that after being saved from Joel. Just bad all around writing from a company that is known for great writing.

    This was not the game we wanted which is fine, but for god sakes it could have had at least interesting writing. Part 2 LACKS on every level the human aspect which made part 1 so good.

    The whole game feels forced, not sure what they were thinking when they decided to release this game but it sucks. It feels like Naughty Dog just said F**k you to their entire fanbase.

    Also, how this game was marketed was misleading as well.

    I am done with the Last of Us and not looking forward to the HBO show and I am done with Naughty Dog games in general.

    #JoelandEllieDeservedBetter    … Expand
  2. Gemini615
    Jun 20, 2020
    3
    This game is visually great but the story and all the politics that are shoveled down your throat is a huge turnoff and really ruined the game they should of just made a new ip instead of ruining TLOU and don’t even get me started on how the game ends makes me feel like I wasted my time in the end with no pay off
  3. alvarofst
    Jun 26, 2020
    3
    Almost 70% of the game is spent with a new character only to empathize with that character, but also the game with that character becomes very repetitive.
    The first was the best I played, but this 2 I regret I bought it out, this game is for about 30 dollars or less ... wait for the sales.
  4. lrm
    Jun 20, 2020
    3
    I was playing Death Stranding. Then I was playing Days Gone before this one.
    It feels like a terrible downgrade,
    Graphically the lightning is terrible in dark/interiors most of the time, robotic characters, facial expressions and movements, I keep seeing so many defects maybe because I was playing those 2 other games before and I was used to them. And lastly, the storyline, the whole    I was playing Death Stranding. Then I was playing Days Gone before this one.
    It feels like a terrible downgrade,
    Graphically the lightning is terrible in dark/interiors most of the time, robotic characters, facial expressions and movements, I keep seeing so many defects maybe because I was playing those 2 other games before and I was used to them.
    And lastly, the storyline, the whole idiotic ideologic/political stuff tossed into the game. You can clearly see it is constantly forced from the first scenes, it has nothing to do with the game's original universe. Everything is just too fluffy and boring to begin with.
    I'm back to Days Gone. I don't even know if I'm going to be back to finish this game.    … Expand
  5. Astrea
    Jun 20, 2020
    3
    Gameplay gets repetitive, story is dumpster fire. Play Days Gone instead of this 20 hour torture.
  6. lilyareyare
    Jun 20, 2020
    3
    If you're expecting a game similar to the first one, this is half it, the scenery? Astonishing. The voice acting? Really good. But then we start going downhill from there. The gameplay or what little there is of it lol, some say its gisnt, personally i didnt like it. But the worse of it? the plot, they manage to turn a masterpiece and possible best game of last decade into nothing, it isIf you're expecting a game similar to the first one, this is half it, the scenery? Astonishing. The voice acting? Really good. But then we start going downhill from there. The gameplay or what little there is of it lol, some say its gisnt, personally i didnt like it. But the worse of it? the plot, they manage to turn a masterpiece and possible best game of last decade into nothing, it is indeed addictive because you're constantly trying to get revenge, but for nothing, its all in vain, it doesnt give you any sense of accomplishment whatsoever, i think The Last of Us Part 2 would be better suited as a netflix series rather than a video game. Poor choices made by Neil.… Expand
  7. DARKBOY2199
    Jun 20, 2020
    3
    The gameplay is smooth and all but the story.. they just ruined it.. And of course they ruined it just for the sake of sjw lgpt pros and other butterflies like those. Making a great game doesnt involve making it the ultimate sh!tshow just to praise this kind of people.
  8. kryptics
    Jun 20, 2020
    3
    Now I've seen "news"
  9. Picardsucks
    Jun 20, 2020
    3
    Wtf were they thinking? The gameplay is good I’ll be fair but the story is awful
  10. 69_andry_69
    Jun 20, 2020
    3
    Игра ужасная, просто ужасная и все, ничего более, просто ужас. Я уже говорил что игра ужасная ?
  11. Ihatedapats
    Jun 21, 2020
    3
    I wanted to like it so much. The first game is one of my all time favorites. The wonderful mixture of gameplay and story really sucked you in and you became a part of the game. Not here. The focus is solely on story which would be fine if the story was good but it's not. It's so shallow and predictable it's like watching a really poor movie. What gameplay there is is repetitive and boring.I wanted to like it so much. The first game is one of my all time favorites. The wonderful mixture of gameplay and story really sucked you in and you became a part of the game. Not here. The focus is solely on story which would be fine if the story was good but it's not. It's so shallow and predictable it's like watching a really poor movie. What gameplay there is is repetitive and boring. Not a good experience and very disappointing.… Expand
  12. serpiente1919
    Jun 26, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I really can't describe how much of a joke this game turned out to be. Seven year wait with a lot of hype surrounding it. Everyone grew to love Joel and Ellie together, and their father/daughter relationship. Then after all these years you release it, the sequel to a truly great game. Within two hours Joel dies like a **** rat, nothing heroic, nothing smart, no sacrifice, just cold brutal ****

    I think everyone knew that Joel was going to die at some point in the game, but within 2 hours of a twenty some hour game, damn. And they have the **** audacity to have us play as the **** who shot his leg with a shotgun, tortured him for several hours and then ending his life infront of Ellie with a **** golf club to the skull. That right there should have been where I stopped playing.

    The slog fest that is the Abby(Joel killer) storyline lasts for 10+ hours, even if you rush it which you probably will do, since they **** ended Ellie's gameplay on a cliffhanger with Abby about to shoot her, after she has just came to kill Ellie. I can't even make this up, they force you to play Abby's storyline to make you humanize her, but all you can think about is Ellie and the **** cliffhanger. Like who in their right mind gives a flying **** about Abby after you see her beating the **** out of your favorite characters from the earlier game?

    I want to wrap this up, since it's actually way too much stuff to be said. Basically Ellie moves away to a farm with Dina and her baby, far away from everything. She is suffering from PTSD and nightmares about Joel dying. So she sets out to find and kill Abby, again. You find her tied up and dying, you are also dying. You fight, she bites off two of your fingers, you hold her under water to drown her, but you don't kill her. She drives off in a boat with her kid to join fireflies and attempt to have a good life.

    Ellie returns to the farm to find the house abandoned. Ellie sits down and plays on the guitar Joel gave her, it sounds like **** cause she misses to fingers, she puts it down, camera pans to window where we see Ellie walking into the horizon. Leaving the only thing she had after Joel died, music. She lost her **** girlfriend and Dina's kid, basically Ellie's kid, and **** Tabby is seemingly living her best life in a town of 200+ people. Roll credit. **** this game. DO NOT BUY IT    … Expand
  13. Leo07
    Jun 20, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Just finished the game and I really disliked it.
    Now gives us multiplayer- please.    … Expand
  14. ZoranSerbia
    Jun 20, 2020
    3
    I was mislead to buy this game... If I had know what they did... no way I would buy this!
    Amazing graphics, but the story... ? Making me play as evil Abby? I am disgusted! Shame on game creators! Shame on false marketing. GoT s08 once again... Shame. Shame. Shame.
  15. DoctorBaldy
    Jun 20, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. As a game this is above average. The game always gives the feeling that the world is inhabitant and the places visited feel "real". The story on the other hand always feels surreal, character making decisions they wouldn't have in the world of the previous one. The world has been in this state for 24 years. By now only those that have learned to survive, to be decisive and to be viscous, to be conserving and to be cautious are left, they are "the last of us".
    In this game Joel and Ellie have already found a place to call their home, where they do not have to cautious around everybody and can let their guard down, but they are still aware of the rest of the world and what it means to be out there as they have experienced it for most of their lives, yet they make decisions that even in their rage and blood lust seem more than out of place than ever before.
    This game has made the commitment to deconstruct Joel as much as possible and telling the player how awful he is or was, ignoring the end of the previous game telling us to decide for our selves.
    In this game Joel is not portrayed as father who cared about Ellie but as a father paranoid about what would happen to her if people found out about her immunity. In the first one Joel and Ellie chose to not talk about her "condition" and frankly were prob indifferent if people found out. There mindsets have changed just to give players the impression that Ellie is uncomfortable around Joel.
    This very much is the point i am most disappointed about and the reason i am unhappy about this game. Joel was a monster and nobody denied it, but that was what he needed to be to survive and at the end of the day he was a monster so Ellie could live, but naughty dog changed it from a Father doing anything to save his daughter to a lunatic that killed the last hope of humanity and is a bad father. The only line they delivered perfectly was when Joel was faced by Ellie and he said he would do it all over again.
    This score is for Joel.    … Expand
  16. estragacu
    Jun 20, 2020
    3
    I am really disappointed at Naughty dog.

    Graphics are great indeed, but for us that played the first game we know that the last of us is much more than that
  17. Chrisdxb87
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Sad and disappointed that this is the way you decided to take the game on. For me personally I so much enjoyed Joel & Ellies adventure and this made this the best game I ever played.

    You kill Joel and let someone spit on his dead body... thats nuts. I used to look forward to the cut scenes which were refreshing between all the killing. Now, playing LOU2 feels like my body is rejecting a long awaited transplant.

    Its technically a good game no question but the bit that made is special and memorable for me has been ripped out.    … Expand
  18. ArgyllMan
    Jun 20, 2020
    3
    I've been a long term fan of Naughty Dog, starting off with the first Uncharted game - I was absolutely hooked. Every single game since then, in my opinion has been fantastic.

    My viewpoint for this review is based on my "love" for the original. It was a truly beautiful, yet heart wrenching game that had so many nuanced motifs in almost every scene. The character development which had    I've been a long term fan of Naughty Dog, starting off with the first Uncharted game - I was absolutely hooked. Every single game since then, in my opinion has been fantastic.

    My viewpoint for this review is based on my "love" for the original. It was a truly beautiful, yet heart wrenching game that had so many nuanced motifs in almost every scene. The character development which had Joel (who just lost his daughter) and Ellie, who to begin with really did not like each other, develop that maternal bond. That is why the Last of Us was so successful, the story.

    I've not yet completed The Last of Us 2, however I've wasted £50 and around 15 hours of my life on it. Things that I will never get back.

    My only advice is; if the reason that you loved the first game so much is to do with the story, then this game is honestly a spit in the face. I'm at a loss for words...

    My only question is, why?    … Expand
  19. Andres3160
    Jun 20, 2020
    3
    Porque calificaron tiene negativas

    Cómo hay muchas dudas de porque tanto hate a TLOU2 aquí les dejo unas razones que he visto y para que no los engañen con que "lo odian por las lesbianas" (mucho texto y spoilers al final) - Neil Druckmann, el vice presidente del estudio, forzó a Amy Hennig que renunciara de ND por diferencias ideológicas. Ella fue la escritora de Uncharted 1-3 y se    Porque calificaron tiene negativas

    Cómo hay muchas dudas de porque tanto hate a TLOU2 aquí les dejo unas razones que he visto y para que no los engañen con que "lo odian por las lesbianas" (mucho texto y spoilers al final)

    - Neil Druckmann, el vice presidente del estudio, forzó a Amy Hennig que renunciara de ND por diferencias ideológicas. Ella fue la escritora de Uncharted 1-3 y se negaba a incluir cosas progres como lo vemos en Lost Legacy y el nuevo TLOU.

    - El también tomo consejo de Anita Sarkeesian, una conocida charlatana que quiere insertar su ideología en los videojuegos aunque no le guste el medio en realidad.

    - Personajes mujeres hechas feas por la idea de que diseñarlas con rasgos femeninos es "objetificacion" (gracias a Sarkeesian)

    - Naughty Dog abuso del sistema de copyright para tumbar cuentas de Twitter y Youtube que hablaran del juego aunque no incluyera videos. Comentarios son desactivados en Youtube y Twitter para evitar criticas.

    - La hipocresía de Sony al censurar juegos de terceros que incluyen desnudos parciales/fanservice pero dejan escenas sexuales explícitas en TLOU2

    - ND abuso de sus empleados al hacerlos trabajar horas extra y sin pagarles (no se si tiempo después si les pagaron) aún así lo retrasaron cuando el juego ya estaba completo y eso causo que se filtrara (supuestamente por un empleado molesto)

    - Druckmann se insertó como personaje en el juego para escupir el cadáver de Joel y tener sexo con uno de los protagonistas, además en un item donde dice tener 100 de cerebro (imagen)

    - En el juego es imposible disparar a objetos que tengan relación con la religión judía (si no me creen díganme y les paso un vídeo)

    - La historia es una basura, te hacen controlar a un personaje nuevo que mató a uno muy querido. El final es incongruente y anticlimatico.

    - Cualquier crítica hacia el juego es tachado de homofobia o machismo

    - ND usó un cover de una canción por una youtuber sin darle crédito en uno de sus trailers    … Expand
  20. Kells_ExE
    Jun 20, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The Gameplay is great but the story is awful and generic "oh you killed Joel i must track down everyone one at a time and go through a lot of situations just to kill a single person" it's like farcry 5 for example you gotta kill them off one at a time and the false advertising oh man, they really tried their best too make it look like Dina died and we were playing with Joel trying too avenge Dina… Expand
  21. Sreka
    Jun 20, 2020
    3
    they just killed this game with the storyline everything else I like the graphics the gameplay but the story is just so bad I'm so so disappointed
  22. GolfPro
    Jun 20, 2020
    3
    A complete disregard of everything the first game built up. Sad day for naughty dog.
  23. Cyraxxx
    Jun 20, 2020
    3
    Imagine waiting 7 years for this, the story is absolute trash. Some people might be upset about the agenda they're pushing, but for me this is just bad writing. There are plenty of female, minority, or gay characters that I love in other games. Overall, this game fails to deliver a real ending/coherent story and felt more like filler rather than a proper sequel.
  24. lord-ruin
    Jun 25, 2020
    3
    This game is pointless and worthless
    it **** on the characters people loved from the first game destroying them and demonizing them
    the gameplay is nothing new simulating clicker genitalia and gore that would make god of war shudder doesnt make it better the puzzles havent been improved or innovated on in anyway the zombies are underused there is little to no narrative purpose for    This game is pointless and worthless
    it **** on the characters people loved from the first game destroying them and demonizing them

    the gameplay is nothing new simulating clicker genitalia and gore that would make god of war shudder doesnt make it better the puzzles havent been improved or innovated on in anyway

    the zombies are underused there is little to no narrative purpose for them and they arent explored in depth at all

    almost none of the characters are likable they are either pretentious dickbags or demonized versions of characters you loved made more stupid and blood thirsty

    not to mention you play as a character no one was going to like and to top it off you dont get to even kill her like wtf i wont even mention the stupid seraphite side quest

    but according to the shill media i am a bigot transphobe virgin homophobe and incel    … Expand
  25. PlaygroundLove
    Jun 20, 2020
    3
    Graphics are not enough to create a great videogame, and here we have the proof.
    They treated the story with so little respect, a spit in the face of all the real fans.
    It was better to make a remake of the first, for sure.
  26. BirdSwerve
    Jun 20, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Besides the story telling being so horrifyingly God awful and completely spit on the first game, graphics and landscapes and design was beautiful. Other than that, I felt bored completing the game and what a disappointing ending.… Expand
  27. Zerogam3
    Jun 20, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Enredo fraco e preguiçoso, todo um desenvolvimento em vão pra uma conclusão decepcionante… Expand
  28. 3DHONDA
    Jun 20, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The Game lacks any major development of characters and story just drags out. You think you are about to move on from missions but No you are not even half way through i felt utter boredom doing these and had to really force myself to continue. Normally with so much time invested in any game 6hrs plus i enjoy the story and characters i am with but this is soul destroying i feel like just switching off and watching paint dry TBH it is so depressing fams have anticipated this game for years since the last game and have been rewarded with this dross very disappointing from ND.… Expand
  29. SRNEOX
    Jun 20, 2020
    3
    Parece un novela juvenil cunado lo que prometieron fue más acción y más escenas míticas y dislike por matar a Joel
  30. hindba
    Jun 26, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. To start I want to say clearly that this is NOT a review that targets naughty dog or other **** they are saying. if it was just harassment, I wouldn't write that many words into it and only say *** this game. But, it is my personal and sincere opinion on this game. First of all, I want to say that as a big fan of TLOU1, this sequel is a missed opportunity. it is clear purpose was NOT to make the player enjoys a game. it was clearly made to shove SJW ideology into our mouth.

    people on the other side says that everyone who rates it low is homophobic. here I defend myself and all the others by saying that this is not what makes us HATE the game. if their idea was normal inside to context, I will say it's ok. but an entire game that focuses so much on the character's sexuality in a dangerous world were deaths are around every corner is ****.

    More importantly, killing Joel in the most disrespectful way then force us to try to empathy the killer is just pure stupid. Don't get me wrong, I tried my best to give it a try. I truly tried to look through Abby eyes. but however i see it. i think she is just pure evil. trying to make her less evil by her being nice to dogs and trans kids haven't worked as they thought it will work. she and all her gangs are just unlikeable at all. I didn't care for anyone of them as much as I cared for Joel and Ellie. Then, he just kills Joel and makes Ellie lose everything in her life for a stupid typical un-complete revenge story.

    One more note, in so much dangerous world, how can a 13 years kids think about his sexuality so much and believe that he needs to transform into a boy ?????? aggggh just make it believable that all I ask.

    to be fair, the graphics and the gameplay was so damn good, no other game will beat that level of details. I don't think it is a 4.5 game at all. but, as a response to nail when he has given us a big finger by killing our most beloved character and spitting on it and destroying Ellie's character. I will give him this review as a return. The gaming industry depends on the player's opinion, so if he doesn't care about his audience, then he deserves what he gets.    … Expand
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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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