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. shaot11539
    Jun 22, 2020
    3
    預告跟遊戲內容完全不一樣會不會太誇張阿，一直延期就為了改成這鳥樣子嗎，劇情到最後到底想表達甚麼?復仇是不好的事嗎?那一路上殺那麼多人到底是想怎樣?
  2. GuruRue607
    Jul 21, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. First off not a "BOT"

    Okay here is my review of TLOU2.

    Gameplay:
    Play's Similar to the first game with some new extended Options to it such as Jumping and crawling, Yet for me it feels sort of slippery and not as fluid as the first game.Also it is more a movie then it is a game which can be good or bad,In this case it was bad, I like Interactive games such as the Walking dead ones, But this game is really just like watching a long movie with very little gameplay.
    When it does Click back into gameplay the enemies do vary and can show some smarts, But I also seen many AI in my gameplay that were dumb.

    Graphics:Naughty Dog I will give props where due, This game is Beautiful,The world feels Alive, Colors can be both stunning and depressing"In a good way", The details in the faces are spot on with real life.

    Sound:
    Hit or miss for me, Some things sound good while others sound odd to me, Such as some of the voice acting, Most hit the marks with what lines they are given, And a few others sound like they phoned it in and wanted to walk away from the script.

    Story:
    This story is a mess, They take everything good from number one and ruin it with this one, I still like Ellie as I did in the first game, But Joel when he was Present he feels "Off", He does not seem like the same guy we grew to know from the first game, I do not mind the story moving forward, But this game seems like they Erased the first one and wanted to start over with new leads.
    It's a story about hate and revenge yet by the conclusion it is not even that, It leads up to nothing happening besides them all walking away!

    Conclusion:
    They had a chance to really make a mark with this game but they blew it really in every way, Not worth the price, If you can I say wait for a price cut or buy it used.    … Expand
  3. Sygenius
    Jun 22, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Fun game, but the story is **** how Abby killed lol brutally and dragged everyone into her own revenge and spare the Ellie 2 times... Well, you really need a better story writer naughty dog… Expand
  4. Victor417
    Jun 22, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Decent gameplay Storyline trash
    No online mode really “ the single player campaign is by far and away the most ambitious project Naughty Dog has ever undertaken” -ND
    Recommend?? If you got money sure why not but honestly i would rather just wait for price drop or borrow it cause looking back at this game in the future will just be another game that gets your attention for a while just for another game pulling the same cash grab tactic.
    Maybe one day game developers will be able to have the freedom and time to create a wonderful game that isnt selling us short from the beginning    … Expand
  5. Garcia0009
    Jun 22, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. NOBODY CARES ABBY NEIL...
    Please understand that your character is trash bro, all we wanted was Joel and Ellie.
    Just that...    … Expand
  6. DavidMedell
    Jun 22, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Bad History, the dead of Joel is stupid and at the end, is like nothing was worth it, only for a flashback you dont kill the person who kill Joel? So all the journey in the game is for nothing, so really this is not something to remember, the gameplay is good, but the history is ****… Expand
  7. Yungdikdong
    Jun 22, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Absolute garbage. I absolutely hate the new characters. Seems to me the game was made just to piss people off. I'll never buy/play a ND game ever again.… Expand
  8. DazzD
    Jun 22, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I would rather play as Ellie for the entire game. The fact that i have to play as Abby and fight against Ellie is so painful. There are multiple ways to understand Abby’s story but this for sure isn’t the right way. Many people are attached to Joel and Ellie than this new character! But the graphics are noice tho.… Expand
  9. TooSweetm3
    Jun 22, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The story with Ellie is awesome I was hyped as to go all John Wick on Joel’s killers and the gameplay/visuals are great as well but the switch half way through to Abby just takes you out of the game so much. You don’t want her to win and it’s so so hard to feel any sympathy for her at all as she just killed Joel (pretty much Ellie's dad) because Joel murder her father. And the ending wow... I mean cmon you could of at least gave Ellie her revenge she’s lost so much and I know there’s meant to be “no good or bad guys” just everyone sucks and but cmon man Joel died for nothing.… Expand
  10. ichern239
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    Even if we take into account that the technology of the game is of high quality, the plot, the message, and a sharp change of characters without justification are unacceptable for the story game
  11. Davsav30
    Jun 22, 2020
    3
    The graphics are amazing, the gameplay is very mediocre, and the story is downright horrible. NaughtyDog really let me down with this game. Do not waste your money on this dog feces of a game.
  12. ZeDaViCo
    Jun 22, 2020
    3
    When you mix ideologies and a success game you can ruin the story and lost all your fans that you made around 8 years, a example: this game, THE BEST EXAMPLE EVER.
  13. AmazinglyAwkwad
    Jun 22, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game is nowhere near deserving of anything above 5. I’ve chosen 3 because I think its bastardizes the series but would probably more aptly give it a 3.5, for two reasons:
    The game is a technical marvel and graphically is very impressive, the best ND looking game to date and one of the best looking games of this gen. The game also includes unlockable flashbacks with Joel and Ellie and these are what really give the extra .5 I would realistically give and also why the game is only a 3.5. If the whole game had more of Joel or Elie or introduced new characters that had such a deep and well thought out relationship as Joel or Ellie, Part 2 would’ve been fantastic. Unfortunately, beating Joel with a golf club 2 hours in dashes this. As soon as we take control of Abby, the one who murders Joel, the story becomes confusing and jumbled, with multiple flashbacks and jumpcuts and is very hard to follow. Abby herself is unlikeable and very hard to find any sympathy for. The other characters are forgettable and have no defining characteristics that make you want to find out more about them, apart from Dina, who makes sense because she’s Ellies partner.
    Ellie herself is less likeable, constantly hating on Joel and the majority of males to be honest, she’s simply an **** even to Dina but I immensly enjoyed the interactions she had with Dina and the small respite in the game with her and Dina living in the farmhouse was really cute and did go someway into exploring Ellie’s response to intimacy and romance.
    The ending, the point I will end this review on, is atrocious. The whole game is revolved around revenge, of course. Ellie tracks down Abby after getting seperated from her earier in the game, leaving Dina and Dina’s baby behind (obviously, not their baby, Dina was impregnated by another character earlier but then they broke up). Abby has been tortured and beat and is essentially being crucified, on death’s door. Ellie frees her and they both go to a nearby dock, to escape via boat. Ellie then threatens to kill Lev, a boy Abby has been travelling with, if Abby doesn’t fight her. This devolves into a fist fight (in a world where guns exist and Ellie actually has a few on her person and in a world where survival of the fittest dominates), where Ellie gets the upperhand but then let’s Abby leave with Lev, despite murdering her friends and 100’s of others and the whole point of tracking Abby was revenge for Joel. Ellie then comes back to the farmhouse to find Dina and the baby gone and tries to play guitar, only to find she can’t as she lost two fingers in the fight with Abby. One more cutscene plays, where Ellie says in a flashback at Jackson, the starting area, she can’t forgive Joel for saving her at the hospital, credits.
    Let’s hope and pray TLOU3 is never made or if it is, with Druckmann far away as possible. If he and the other management who made devs work 100+ hour weeks for this game leave, I wish ND the best on their next game, otherwise, people on the bottom of the ladder, get the hell out and don’t look back.    … Expand
  14. ZxJ
    Jun 22, 2020
    3
    The story is a absolute **** show. gameplay got very repetive after 6 hours, only reason this gets 3/10 is because the graphics and animations are so beatiful,
  15. minxxx
    Jun 22, 2020
    3
    forcing players to play a character just to implant an idea that villians has dark past that led to their personality being like this is an absolute great move, not for this game tho
  16. Thekenschwamm
    Jun 22, 2020
    3
    Game looks amazing, quality is fantastic (no bugs or glitches or something) but that´s are the only things the game has to offer for you if you enjoyed the last of us story.

    Story 3/10 - None lovable characters.
    Game-play - 5/10 Story killed the game-played for me.
    Graphics - 10/10 beautiful scenes.
  17. andrupax
    Jun 22, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. es increible recibir esto de la compañia que nos trajo a crash bandicoot, jax and daxter, uncharted, y por su puesto la parte 1 de este juego, nauthy antes eras chevere, una compañia que hasta le dedicaba post en "taringa" generando yo cringe pero no me importaba porque hacia unos juegasos, ahora hace esto? sin palabras, :'(… Expand
  18. nS0
    Jun 25, 2020
    3
    It' has superb graphic, animation, music and acting. Some great scenes capturing and film quality of cut scenes.

    Yet. It fails like game and story for me. And like story driven game, the ways of telling this mess of a story and manipulate the filliings of the players to the new characters is so... blatand and bad, that I feel this is the worst game from ND in this regard. And for me -    It' has superb graphic, animation, music and acting. Some great scenes capturing and film quality of cut scenes.

    Yet.
    It fails like game and story for me. And like story driven game, the ways of telling this mess of a story and manipulate the filliings of the players to the new characters is so... blatand and bad, that I feel this is the worst game from ND in this regard. And for me - this is a crime for the great build up characters and story in the previous game.

    And I can't more dissagrie with this madness of 10/10 reviews. Game with so badly telled story (specially for story driven game) can't be really 10/10. If you damn like it - cool for you, but seeing no flaws is blindness.

    Last - there is very offending way of swaying the players perspective, hiding and missleading moments in the cutscenes... just to push some agenda of the narative.
    Famose for me - is the pregnancy of Mel - which is absolutly no visible when they capture Joel and is like in the sevent month when was killed (not to mention the madness of woman in such pregnancy level to go on a combat mission AND shoot, jump, hide and sprint)...

    Also the main message of the game is quite contradicting with what the director was speaking for the game. In any way - I don't agree on personal level - because what you can take from the game is... Revenge is -- Good. And I don't think should be that way.
    Abby is the quintessense of this. She finish her revenge plot, redeem for her crime and live happy ever after... No burden or else.
    Yes, it send Ellie on her dark and grim quest, but not achieving revenge - make Ellies life missarable - and not compleating her cicle actually was looking way worse...

    Ok. I finish here, because I can write and write with hours on any moment of the story in this game that is so so bad...

    (sigh) So dissapointed    … Expand
  19. RoboticSapien
    Jun 22, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Critics gave the game good reviews so they wouldn't get blacklisted by Sony and denied review copies. The game itself is gorgeous, and gameplay has been slightly improved over the first game. All the idiots claiming haters hate their favorite game because of the gay representation don't seem to understand that their favorite game can still **** suck. The whole point of playing a video game is to have fun and experience emotion. When the ONLY emotions I feel are hate and sadness, you **** up. Critics claiming that you feel a rush of emotions every step of the way mean that every hour you play you get filled with more hate and rage. The game has decent storytelling until a character you met literally **** 10 minutes ago bashes in the head of your favorite character with a gold club. I feel Joel needed to die in this game and feel the consequences of what he did in the first game, but to make a useless ass npc who has one line of dialogue in the first game this super important guy who just so happens to have a daughter that joins the apocalypse version of the mafia is really lame and lazy writing. Naughty dog could have done so many different things with Joel's death, but they chose to kill him like a SIDE CHARACTER. He dies in the first goddamn HOUR. Don't even get me started about the pacing. Ellie goes on a basic ass revenge plot story where she kills all of Abby's friends, and I mean ALL of them. You then play as Abby for a whole ass 16 hours or so, a character you just met and only feel hatred towards, and it makes the player want to stop playing immediately. I had a good time sitting and **** around for a good half an hour just throwing Abby off a cliff. If I have more fun doing that than playing the actual game we have some serious problems. We then see all of these characters who we JUST killed get character development when playing as Abby. I don't give a **** either way as they are already dead and giving them character development now is pointless and a waste of time. The game constantly tries to make the player feel like an **** when what happens is forced and can't be controlled. Like, a dog will roll up on you and your forced to kill it, no matter what. The owner then comes back and starts sobbing at the sight of his dead dog and it makes you feel bad. FOR WHAT? I didn't want to kill the dog, but the game forced me to and then made ME feel like the **** It constantly nags at the player about what the story is forcing me to do, and I have no control over any outcome. The only feeling of satisfaction I had when playing is when Ellie put that **** Abby's head in the water, only to LET HER GOOOOO. WHAT. Abby tortured and bashed in the head of Ellie's FATHER FIGURE, and she lets her go. Lazy ass writing and a lame way to set up a third game. Ellie lost everything, INCLUDING HER ABILITY TO PLAY THE GUITAR. The only thing she has left of Joel is that guitar, and she can't play it anymore because Abby was hungry during their fight and bit off her fingers. Joel would have killed Abby in a heartbeat if the roles were reversed, so don't tell me JoEl WoUlDn'T wAnT hEr To dO tHaT, because HE WOULD. I also felt Joel was out of character in this game, as he literally walked into a room with one exit with like 7 armed strangers, then told them his name. Tommy also told ARMED STRANGERS where they LIVE. IN A ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE. The only redeeming quality story-wise is the flashbacks with Ellie and Joel. Those parts made me feel true emotion. I get that some people enjoy the game, and that's fine, but you don't have to lie and say the story and characters were on par with god himself.

    That concludes my TED Talk.    … Expand
  20. Antonella24
    Jun 22, 2020
    3
    The problem comes from the fact that, in this installment, there is no evolution of the characters, so the players do not understand the ending, it is not consistent with the whole process. The problem comes from the fact that the nodes that link the story are excuses to show scenes of a sexual nature that contribute very little to the story. Continuity is forced with continuous returns toThe problem comes from the fact that, in this installment, there is no evolution of the characters, so the players do not understand the ending, it is not consistent with the whole process. The problem comes from the fact that the nodes that link the story are excuses to show scenes of a sexual nature that contribute very little to the story. Continuity is forced with continuous returns to the past. Nothing looks organic and of course there are the false expectations that the trailers gave us.
    In conclusion: they promised us something that did not happen after seven years, that without leaks could have been even more, that it looks empty, without purpose and unjustified.    … Expand
  21. yanjie_su
    Jun 26, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game is totally bull **** so here I am to add another 3/10 score review to this game. Some say that most of who have given the low score are those who not even played the game, and I'm one of those. I don't need to play, why should I, because this game only the story matters. It all started with Joel's death, it made me feel like that I was being fooled by ND. In the 2017 game announced trailer and the 2019 Joel trailer, all revealed that Joel would fight along side with Ellie, though Ellie did want to avenge for something but I could never guess for Joel's death. But finally the story turned out to be completely up side down from what I had expected. I'm not blaming Joel's death, maybe he did have his reason to "die", but I'm really really angry about how my feeling is being manipulate by ND's misleading trailers, it makes us totally fools, it looks like we have been betrayed. So don't believe IGN's or GamingBolt's 10/10 masterpiece bull **** they just forget about one thing, that people's emotion really matters. Even though the story did have its logic for its cruel world settings, but we should always keep in mind that those games are just entertaining products, they should bring about fun, and not pain, if those well saying reviewers really want to review a game for the players, I recommend that they keep that in mind too. Beside Joel's death, I can't image that ND even want your to experience Joel's murderer--Abby's life with your own hands. Oh, gods, what the hell are they thinking about? After they have made the game as real as possible, and finally they just ask you to believe that this is just a game, and you shouldn't take side between Ellie and Abby the two characters, how can even that possible. I just doubt that how many people can really take that, seems like we have been fooled by ND once again. Now return to Joel's death, just like the game director Neil Druckmann have said, people die in some way, it's true, but what he lies is that he never think about how Joel's brutal way of death can hurt people's feelings, did he really think about how people can even go back to the first game after they have experienced Joel's brutal ending, did he really think about that kind of story will really serve ND's interests? I doubt that. But all this things just happens here today, there is no doubt that ND have totally failed the entire fan-base's expectation, maybe it's the studio's arrogance make them stray. So I can't say that I still love them after all this, I'm grade that I haven't play the game yet, because I can't. Now I'm still thinking about whether I should delete the first game on my ps4 pro, I just don't want to see it...… Expand
  22. Neil-Cuckmann
    Jun 22, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Beautiful graphics aren't everything, the story is garbage, and that's a fact. When a game, that build its name on storytelling hires a 16y old kid from Tumblr to write a script, this is how it looks like. I wanted another great story with character development and constructed plot, I got 2 adult women acting like angry teenagers chasing each other for 25h. As you look at the game, it is strong, animations feel realistic and intense, but these great moments cant hide the fact that the second part had a lot more potential, sad they wasted it.
    Positives: Great visuals (the fact that it runs on PS4, incredible), game mechanics, various new settings, intense-looking and emotional scripted sections...
    Negatives: Looting sections felt numb, not many interesting interactions, story, character development, unlogical choices or actions of characters,...    … Expand
  23. TM_Bones
    Jun 22, 2020
    3
    Looks good, plays fine but has no respect for anyone that played the first one
  24. Mila-vet
    Jun 22, 2020
    3
    I'm a woman, I'm bisexual, and you (if you're that kind of **** could perfectly call me a sjw by my philosophy of life.
    I am aware that there are people who left a bad rating because, in their deception, they think that this game attracts an evil lgtb / sjw agenda. If you're one of those people, I just want you to know that it says more about your own insecurities than anything else. But    I'm a woman, I'm bisexual, and you (if you're that kind of **** could perfectly call me a sjw by my philosophy of life.
    I am aware that there are people who left a bad rating because, in their deception, they think that this game attracts an evil lgtb / sjw agenda. If you're one of those people, I just want you to know that it says more about your own insecurities than anything else. But there is an agenda in this game or a "trend" as you can call it. And it's about going against happy or comforting endings, trying to be edgy and artistic, saying "this is real life, sometimes it sucks." You can recognize that trend in other contemporary entertainment pieces like Game of Thrones. And I'm so tired of it. Just a pointless crash factor behind it. And the people defending this story are just trying to salvage the fact that this game has unprecedented levels of representation, but that doesn't change the fact that this is a bad story.    … Expand
  25. Syuan
    Jul 8, 2020
    3
    if somehow the lord gave me a second chance at that moment , I would not buy it again !!!
  26. RideTheExpress
    Jun 26, 2020
    3
    As a fan of the original and of the opinion it's a masterpiece, I'm so deeply sad this game is so woefully poor in comparison. Being a sequel you can't take it just on its own terms, you have to grade it taking into consideration the rich history, and importance it has in gamer's lives. The story is horrendously flawed. It starts off a note that feels like the last of us but as its 20-25As a fan of the original and of the opinion it's a masterpiece, I'm so deeply sad this game is so woefully poor in comparison. Being a sequel you can't take it just on its own terms, you have to grade it taking into consideration the rich history, and importance it has in gamer's lives. The story is horrendously flawed. It starts off a note that feels like the last of us but as its 20-25 hour story progresses on, it becomes something far uglier. A disgracefully misplaced story stacked on top of illogical plot holes and stupidly contradicting character development meant it was one of the most frustrating games I've ever played. The gameplay was good, much the same as the first one and the game looks gorgeous from top to bottom. However it is the creative equivalent to Tommy Wiseau getting to direct the sequel to Citizen Kane. At least in that scenario I could laugh, whereas in this one I just want to cry. Naughty Dog, you should be ashamed of yourselves.… Expand
  27. Mrpptoucher
    Jun 22, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I waited with high hopes for a part two and got excited when it was announced. The gameplay was just disappointing and not as captivating as the first one. I’m trans myself and sometimes I boast how proud I am to be, but not once during this godforsaken game did they stop shoving propaganda down my mouth. I love it when games put in diversity but this game seemed to be centered around it. I hope the developers understand that our genders are not something that should be used as a selling point in games. I know my name sounds like I’m some internet troll, but I beg you to please take my opinion and improve your next game with it. I do appreciate that you are thinking of the lgbt community though.… Expand
  28. ISMASANZ
    Jun 22, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Pésima historia, Joel se merecía algo mejor, una venganza que no se concretó de la nada, 7 años es mucho tiempo para que nos den esto... Es algo que solo jugarían una vez y nunca más. Malísimo desarrollo de la historia :(… Expand
  29. JL_metacritic
    Jul 8, 2020
    3
    This is an excellent game from the technical perspective, with awesome gameplay, graphics and soundtrack. But for a game of this caliber, expectations are for storytelling, not just for the technical achievements. The story is dark and crude and takes bold decisions that fall flat in the end and this is why I give it the score it deserves. I cannot criticize the directions it takes, ratherThis is an excellent game from the technical perspective, with awesome gameplay, graphics and soundtrack. But for a game of this caliber, expectations are for storytelling, not just for the technical achievements. The story is dark and crude and takes bold decisions that fall flat in the end and this is why I give it the score it deserves. I cannot criticize the directions it takes, rather the execution and a certain sense of disrespect for some characters that deserved way better. Hope this review helps players get the general idea of what this game is. If you are looking for a survival horror game that challenges you in the gameplay department and not caring at all of the story, this is a game you may enjoy. If you are someone that prefers storytelling over gameplay, chances are you wont enjoy this game as I did.… Expand
  30. Robhiengler
    Jun 22, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. *** BESTEST GAME EVAR! .............-NOT ***

    The good:
    Some gorgeous graphics, especially the wilderness scenes

    The bad:
    1. Horrendous rape scene starring Neil Druckmann and a transitioning female, looked like he was playing out some sexual power fantasy trip - definitely no affirmative consent given.
    2. Utterly linear ‘on rails’ game
    3. Mediocre ‘revenge’ plot
    4. Gameplay is really derivative, jump and climb adds nothing new
    5. Complete lack of environmental puzzles
    6. Terrible character design and development
    7. Poor dialogue
    8. Some of the biggest plot holes and events that entirely destroy the internal logic of the game.

    So if you’re looking for a nice looking game, that doesn’t allow you choices and character assassinates and butchers one of the most interested vg characters in the most pathetic way possible and is essentially a tedious monotonous snuff gore film - then this one’s for you

    Story 1/10 - Monotonous and internally inconsistent
    Game-play - 2/10 Repetitive sneak kill repeat
    Graphics - 8/10 beautiful scenes.
    Replayability - 0/10
    Overall 3/10 on the round up

    Luckily I could get a refund    … Expand
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#2 Best PS4 Game of 2020
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#1 Most Discussed 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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