The Last of Us Part II

 PlayStation 4
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5.8

Mixed or average reviews- based on 161975 Ratings

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  1. GrandGaenyeon
    Jun 24, 2020
    10
    i think it's very good game for me, i know that story was little bit ****
    but i dont care because i really enjoy this game
  2. Gothic90
    Jun 24, 2020
    0
    If anything, this "non-game" should be a wake up call to how far removed mainstream critics are from the players.

    Cinematic experience on rail that is not fun might be okay for media contributor that only needs to go through this thing lightly once, but is that what ordinary players that don't have a philosophy degree want?
  3. Nelle
    Jun 24, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I'm a huge fan of the first game, this game was okay. I'm not disappointed that a beloved character died or that we got to play another character. I'm deeply disappointed about the story and pacing of this game. The story seemed all over the place a lot of plot holes and character's that didn't seem themselves, bored at times because of repetitive game play. All in all it was an okay game.… Expand
  4. CrundeGodz
    Jun 24, 2020
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Although I haven't played the game myself, I've watched a playthrough from start to finish. I can say the game is good, Not as good as the first game though.
    Really sucks that Joel had to die, but the story couldn't have its impact if he was either in a coma or captured Also, in my opinion, the parts with Abby went on a tad bit longer than I expected. Nevertheless a pretty solid sequel in my opinion    … Expand
  5. k4k4zu
    Jun 24, 2020
    9
    Grafik10/10
    Sound:10/10
    Gameplay8/10
    Story9/10

    Eins der besten Spiele die ich je gespielt habe.
  6. Lanycera
    Jun 24, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game doesn't deserve a 0, but neither does it deserve a 10 or the title of a 'masterpiece'. It really puts the legitimacy of media outlets even more into question.

    Here is my breakdown:

    Gameplay 5
    Graphics 9 (kudos to the art team!)
    Story 0
    Result: 4

    Let me say this first: TLOU didn't need a sequel. It just didn't. The story was concluded - yes, there were questions unanswered, but it was a satisfying end nevertheless.

    Now, if you decide to make a sequel despite that, there's going to be pressure to get it right. They didn't get it right.
    JOEL AND ELLIE made the first game so special, their relationship - now, we're shifting the focus entirely away from that, to characters we can't possibly care for and are bland to say the least. The relationship between Dina and Ellie is completely and utterly lacking chemistry, while Abbie is just a horribly written character and you are FORCED to play her.

    On a side note I want to mention that her physique is not attainable in a post-apocalyptic world with sparse resources. A woman cannot attain this body without steroids or an impeccable (high carbs, high protein) diet with an intensive daily weight lifting and cardio routine (twice a day, usually). It seems like it was important to ND, so I feel like it's equally important to criticise this character design choice which a lot of people don't seem to be happy with; understandingly so.

    KILLING JOEL in such a disgraceful manner after just two hours, to fuel a revenge plot line which eventually culminates in an underwhelming finale that should suggest to us that revenge is ultimately pointless...I'm sorry, that's just an uninspired premise. Considering Joel saved her right before, Naughty Dog gets caught up in their own narrative and morale they are trying to convey.
    Joel deserved better in many ways, and his trust is not easily earned in the first game; but for some reason he is giving it freely in TLOU2.

    IT COULD HAVE WORKED, don't get me wrong, but not the way it was executed.
    Maybe if you could've given us more moral choices, a way to save Joel and the end, and so on. Instead they're forcing this storyline on us.

    "REVERTING EXPECTATIONS" seems to be the motto, but not in a good way; combined with illogical writing (similar to Game of Thrones Season 8) and a way too depressing, hopeless and overly violent tone - failing to continue their legacy.

    NEIL DRUCKMANN'S ego himself is disturbing to me, failing to address criticism towards the game or the way he's handled his employees in an adult manner. He's been misleading the audience with trailers. He even put a card of himself into the game (100% brain, a villain). It's bizarre to say the least. I'm starting to think he wrote this game for himself and did it for the shock value, not the fans of the franchise.

    (LASTLY, it's very sad to see negative voices being discredited by media and companies alike. We already saw that with the last Jedi, and now it's happening again with TLOU2. We are putting the money in your pockets. We should be allowed to love and hate a game. And maybe, just maybe, something could actually be learned from criticism.)    … Expand
  7. longmeatcat
    Jun 24, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game .... just fine! Joel was really sorry, and then .... I realized that this game is manipulating me. yes, yes (I cried). I continued to play with tears in my eyes. I wanted to kill everyone who was involved in his death. In short, buy this game if you want to cry… Expand
  8. LeanMs
    Jun 24, 2020
    10
    Jogo sensacional, um jogo que te abala psicológicamente, brutal, pesado,te envolve e te quebra. Elevou o nível dos jogos em um outro patamar.
  9. Madeofbees
    Jun 24, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I've been excited about Part 2 since the first game came out. I was quick to defend the game before it even came out, and I made sure to play the entire game before forming any opinions. And honestly? Disappointed is an understatement. The gameplay, the visuals, the soundtrack, were all amazing. The story on the other hand was needlessly miserable. It was hollow and empty, convoluted and contradictory. What I loved most about the first game was Joel and Ellie, and their love for each other. What I loved was the story about finding hope and love and family in dark times. The second game destroys everything the first game built up. Joel dies immediately, a decision so jarring and horrible that I had a hard time continuing to play afterwards. The only scenes with Joel and Ellie together are flashbacks. I think I may have been able to stomach the rest of the story, if not for several facts. For starters, more than half of the game is played as Joel's killer. The game tries to make you understand, to let you empathize, but I couldn't. We had an entire game to get to know and love Joel and Ellie. We watched Abby murder Joel, and then we're expected to fall in love with her later. It was hard. I couldn't do it. Another thing that I found to be lazy and unfortunate was the handling of character deaths in the story. Every single character who died did so in an abrupt and often times unnecessary way. In the first game, there was always something to foreshadow or warn of an impending death. The Last of Us Part 2 relies soley on shock factor. My third issue is with the way the characters were written. Often times I found it hard to recognize the characters. Tommy especially was contradictory in the most jarring way. In the first half of the game, he seemed like the Tommy we all knew and loved from the first game. But by the end he had a sudden change, contradicting his character from the beginning of the very same game! Fourthly, our biggest conflicts from the first game were given little to no attention in the second game and I found no closure. There are several scenes of Ellie questioning Joel's decision to save her at the hospital, and one scene of her discovering the truth. It was not enough, and it was all handled poorly. The ending of the game is brutal for no reason. There is no satisfaction. There is nothing to comfort you, or to make you feel like your time playing the game was spent well. It is hollow. It is lonely. It is needlessly miserable. My disappointment for the story of this game is heartbreaking. The first game was one that I found I could play over and over again. The second game is one I'm not sure that I can ever play again.… Expand
  10. Loveinun
    Jun 24, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Love this game and the graphics are really good and the landscape is really good as well and I love Abby story and Eli story… Expand
  11. Nachojv
    Jun 24, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The gameplay is amazing, the graphics are Amazing but ndog and druckman Kill the game.
    The deaths would be directed by a 5 year kid who doesnt play the precuel...
    In MY OPINION this game doesnt exist, there is only one tlou, I want my 70 € back.    … Expand
  12. Madus
    Jun 24, 2020
    0
    Good grafs, trash history, tlou1 still good. Plz remake tlou2 in respect for fans.
  13. Tack
    Jun 19, 2020
    1
    The game is a waste of time. The story feels out of place and no real progress
  14. alicethebest
    Jun 24, 2020
    0
    I've registered on MetaCritics ONLY to drop rate of this piece of **** **** SJW, **** this goddam crap. Go the **** away from our videogames. We pay for this - we choose what to see in games, not you, ****ing SJW retards.
  15. XBoogie
    Jun 24, 2020
    8
    Very disappointed by the shenanigans on this website to prevent existing/potential customers from leaving VALID feedback. It would not accept my score of 2 so now I changed it to 8 so it would post! These are NOT bots - real people love AND HATE this game. I found it to be a bore and I am floored by the self-destructive approach to telling this story. This was EASY money ND.
  16. Maioli
    Jun 24, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Since the release of the game a few days back, we see tons of people giving it some bad reviews only based on their superficial perception of it. Joel's death, Abby, a vengeance incomplete, and etcetera. But, as I said, is a superficial thing, of people who maybe didn't even play the game at all.

    The Last of Us 2 is a history of anger and frustration. Ellie's story about vengeance, is just a background for something a lot bigger: the human soul. When Joel die, initially you think that Ellie is just pissed and sad, and wants to kill every one who killed him, only because they killed him. But, I think that's not it. When you get to the ending, you actually see a cutscene showing exactly what Ellie and Joel talked in their last conversation, and that is why Ellie can't stand about his death.

    She was so mad at him because of what he did in the fireflies hospital, that she didn't want to talk with him anymore. But, in that conversation, she says that wants to forgive him for that are ready to try it. In the first chapters of the game, while she patrol Jackson with Dina, she says that will watch a movie with him and stuff, but, it was late for that.

    The frustration of treating the people you love the most poorly, and the anger of watching he die in you sight is what drives Ellie to Seattle. There, you, the player, meet Abby, and find out all about her will to do what she did, and of course, you see the regret that she carry over for doing so as she see her friends die one after the other, culminating in the lost of the most loved person for her, and in that point she is ready to kill Ellie, Tommy and Dina and get that over with, but, another wonderful character interrupts.

    Abby had lost so much until that point, that she is ready to give up everything in her soul for her vengeance, but Lev's shout saying "Abby!" is just enough for her to realize that if she do that, she will never be able to live with a clear mind again, and that is why she don't kill everyone, and go live her life and follow her dreams with the only person that she loves, that is left in her life.

    In that path, we go back to Ellie, and see the opposite. She can't live without getting her revenge, she is supposed to live happy with Dina and JJ, but nightmares and panic attacks with Joel's fate and the way she treated him on his last day simply don't leave her be. So, she follows Tommy's path and give up everything for vengeance, seeing Dina cry and not being able to stay in that dream.

    We walk with her in the beaches of Santa Barbara, California, to see a totally different nature in there, and the graphics once more, enchant us all. And in that beautiful place, we learn that terrible things are happening, and Ellie kills a lot of people that she doesn't even know why are there or what they are doing there, just to find Abby, who they've captured. And when she does find her, she sees that Abby is almost lost. Is skinny and weak, and was left there to die, but in the moment that she frees her, Abby runs towards Lev to save him too.

    That point she almost give up on the vengeance journey because she know that Lev needs Abby, and if she killed her, he was going to live alone, and most likely die... Another person who doesn't need to die, dying? Ellie can't stand that anymore, she, Abby, even you as a player, are completely tired of that story, and that sight, so she was going to let them go, but another sight of Joel dead, make her even put a knife close to Lev's throat to make Abby fight her.

    And after that long, and angry, and tired fight, Ellie don't kill Abby, but get close enough to realize what Abby did realize months before her, that doing so will make her lose everything about his soul, and noticing that she already lost everything for that vengeance: the man who was her father in that chaotic world, a friend who was dear to her, a woman who she loved and a child who she loved, and most importantly: lost herself.

    As I said in the beginning of this, The Last of Us Part II story, is about anger and frustration, and that this the feeling we are left when we finish the game and see Ellie walking away from the farm alone and without actually having a porpouse. She lost so much for revenge, that her life doesn't have a meaning anymore, and that was the main reason she was pissed with Joel. In her head, if she died on the Hospital for a cure, her life would have a meaning, and she was going to be free of that cruel world.

    Naughty Dog and Neil Druckman in a amazing way, show us that characters in a fictional scenario most tied to reality are not immortal, and are not superhuman. They feel, they panic, they cry, and most importantly, they die, on the outside (Joel) and on the Inside (Ellie). And that is why this game is a 10, or a 100, or a 1000, whatever. That is why the game is almost perfect, because, we can't say that it is perfect, as I said the story of the game itself, show us that is impossible to be perfect.    … Expand
  17. denserdenso
    Jun 21, 2020
    10
    Just amazed of how sour an apocalyptic reality could be, everything was amazing.
    A huge emotional impact.
  18. Brayan_829
    Jun 24, 2020
    0
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  19. Elaxy
    Jun 22, 2020
    0
    People waited for this game for so long and we expected something better than this... I feel disappointed by how the story was told... and how they got rid of such lovable characters like what in the world were the directors of the game thinking? this was so sad they basically ruined a well known game.
  20. cj_lei
    Jun 24, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The Last of Us Part II is a truly fantastic game being given 1/10s by two kinds of people: people who are who attached to what they *wanted* the game to be and people who haven't played the game at all. This is "Part II" and not a sequel in the truest sense - it's a continuation of all of the themes and plot points and ideas that came out of the end of the first game. Yes, Joel dying made perfect sense after what he did. It was always likely and it was absolutely given its due weight.

    -Ellie sets off on the warpath, but as you proceed through her section of the game, you find out more about her increasingly complicated relationship and eventual falling out with Joel after she found out what happened in Salt Lake City, adding a complicated layer to her motives for going after Abby. What's she really after? What's going on in her head?

    -You spend the first half of the game hating Abby... until you get to her part of the game, learn about her background, and spend three days with her that are written as a parallel to Joel's arc in the first game. 90% of the people who are complaining about her fall into the latter group mentioned at the top - people who haven't played the game at all.

    -I'm tempted to give the game a 9/10 because I don't quite think it sticks the landing. The reasons for Ellie apparently forgiving and moving on from Joel (and not killing Abby) are kind of muddled - it's presented as though the flashbacks to her time with Joel make her change her mind, but it's not really clear why she remembers the particular moments she does at the moments she does. Why go all the way to Santa Barbara only *then* to decide to forgive Joel while her hands are around Abby's neck? It almost works, but I don't think it quite does.    … Expand
  21. jcmansor
    Jun 24, 2020
    10
    Incredible game from start to finish. Every aspect of the game has been improved upon from the original to create what I believe is the best game ever made.
  22. ajbc28
    Jun 24, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Huge fan of the first game and sad to say that this game does not deliver. This game **** on the relationship of Joel and ellie, joel gets killed in the first 2 hours and then we play as abby the one who killed him for 10 hours and naughty dog expects us to sympathize with her i'm sorrg but i can't force myself to like her. The leaks were worse than i thought the ending is **** cause ellie just lets abby live. But there are a few good moments in the game especially the flashbacks i loved the flashbacks and idk why the writing here is so bad because neil wrote this and the first one. That's my opinion people can have their own opinion and if you liked the game then good for you. Me personally i just do not like this game and to me last of us ended on the first one.… Expand
  23. Raddatz
    Jun 24, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Imperdoável a morte de Joel e desnecessária. De resto, um jogo perfeito. Parabéns… Expand
  24. Norbi0801
    Jun 24, 2020
    0
    I'm just dissapointed. This game caused me worst feeling I can imagine. I can't handle that, they wasted so perfect story, characters and made them so dumb and brutal killers.
  25. Magnetictooth
    Jun 20, 2020
    1
    Garbage, I cant believe they desecrated the story of the first game like this.
  26. Miggy25perez
    Jun 24, 2020
    0
    Huge disapointment. Look up reviews on youtube just to see why the story is horrible. It ruins the whole game even though their is really good things about the game. Example: gameplay, graphics, music, immersive. But sadly, in a game like the last of us, story is the most important factor. And naughty dog sadly failed us. I am truely hurt naughty dog. I came into this game wanting to loveHuge disapointment. Look up reviews on youtube just to see why the story is horrible. It ruins the whole game even though their is really good things about the game. Example: gameplay, graphics, music, immersive. But sadly, in a game like the last of us, story is the most important factor. And naughty dog sadly failed us. I am truely hurt naughty dog. I came into this game wanting to love it. I was a die-hard fan of this series. Now I don't even want a part 3 cause I honestly can't see how you could fix this series without deleting a lot of what happened. (By the way, I passed this game with 29 hours and 14 mins of gameplay) P.S when I talk about the story I mean the OVERALL story. Not the dramatic moments that people complain about if you know what I mean… Expand
  27. R1pleyValentine
    Jun 20, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Amazing! Masterpiece! All aspects of the game are worthy of praise. The story is magnificent. The characters, memorable.… Expand
  28. Fluffytheturtle
    Jun 24, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Good gameplay
    God Awful story
    Since this is a Last of Us sequel was expecting AT LEAST a decent story    … Expand
  29. Nopedhard
    Jun 24, 2020
    0
    The gameplay doesnt improve. The AI is stupid af, their route never change, even on higher difficulties which is amazing. Oh and the story doesnt pick it up or elevate it. Its boring, lazy, uninspired, and full of plotholes.
  30. TangelaMania
    Jun 24, 2020
    3
    As much as this game is technically pretty and polished, the poor storyline and badly written characters ruins the general experience. You see, I don't care if you're gay, Japanese, Chinese, trans, or whatever... The thing is, this just shouldn't be the point of The Last Of Us. The first game was a apocalyptic world about a man who lost his daughter and found in Ellie his reason forAs much as this game is technically pretty and polished, the poor storyline and badly written characters ruins the general experience. You see, I don't care if you're gay, Japanese, Chinese, trans, or whatever... The thing is, this just shouldn't be the point of The Last Of Us. The first game was a apocalyptic world about a man who lost his daughter and found in Ellie his reason for continuing to live how a decent man. Was essentially the touching relationship between a father and a daughter, something basically nonexistent in games in general. A game with this this kind of plot and interaction has nothing do with politic ideals, sexual agenda, a new male-girl that we are forced to play or a cliché cycle of revenge already used in thousands of games and movies. But then Neil Druckmann choose put aside the the greatest strength of this franchise - the relationship between Ellie and Joel - to bring all of those LGBT+ progressists things and a nihilistic plot, just to "subverting expectations". It's simply frustrating. In the end, everything feels forced and overly depressive. Now I just want to erase that second part from my memory and pretend it never exists.… Expand
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#2 Best PS4 Game of 2020
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#3 Most Shared PS4 Game of 2020

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Universal acclaim - based on 121 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 113 out of 121
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 121
  3. Negative: 0 out of 121
  1. GameMAG
    Sep 13, 2020
    90
    The Last of Us Part II is the high point of the PlayStation 4. The plot is controversial, but the game is the incredibly addictive adventure of Ellie, from which it is impossible to pull away from the opening and to the very end.
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  2. PLAY! Zine
    Sep 5, 2020
    93
    Not everyone is going to enjoy the motives of The Last of Us Part II. But if you try and manage to accept the subliminal and not so subtle messages as a fact that the world has gone awry and that people have the need to have somewhere or someone to belong to as their own way out, then... You will witness the boundaries of gaming expand. You will witness a true masterpiece.
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  3. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Sep 3, 2020
    75
    If you loved the original for its great characters and well-paced story – stay away from this game. However, if you’re aching to sink into the depths of depression, or just want to cut some throats and burn some zombies – Part II will deliver. [Issue#247, p.72]
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