The Last of Us Part II

 PlayStation 4
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5.8

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  1. Pedrodex
    Jun 24, 2020
    10
    Truly unique! One of the most intense experiences I´ve had with art ,because yes, this is a freaking piece of art. It makes you feel very angry and very happy, it warmly hugs you and then destroys you completly. Its one of those things that will take you some time to get over, and thats why its fantastic. And I cant help saying how happy I am about all the LGBT representivity and theTruly unique! One of the most intense experiences I´ve had with art ,because yes, this is a freaking piece of art. It makes you feel very angry and very happy, it warmly hugs you and then destroys you completly. Its one of those things that will take you some time to get over, and thats why its fantastic. And I cant help saying how happy I am about all the LGBT representivity and the important reflections that the game brings. Impactful.… Expand
  2. Gamelife
    Jun 24, 2020
    10
    This Game is a masterpiece, one of the best games I've played. The gameplay is awesome, the story is fair and really touching! Naughty Dog is an incredible studio. Don't be influenced by haters, judge by yourself and try to understand the moral involving the characters. Few games could demonstrate the variation between styles like TLOU 2. You should play this for sure!
  3. Chago__
    Jun 24, 2020
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This story is a simple revenge story, and I’m okay with it. I actually really enjoyed the story. The 2 things I didn’t enjoy at all were Joel’s death and playing as Abby for 10 hours or something. Abby’s part wasn’t boring, it was fun because of all the action, but I honestly could give 2 **** about her, I just don’t care about her story at all.… Expand
  4. posmis
    Jun 24, 2020
    10
    Игра слишком затянута, игру за Эбби надо было уменьшить. Но в целом игра отличная. Особенно понравился потрясающий сюжет.
  5. Akido26
    Jun 24, 2020
    3
    Many games work off their gameplay with story as secondary. The innovation in TLOU was its story, melding cinema-quality story-telling with bursts of engaging gameplay. So good, there are 4-hour edited "movies" of it. This game could have been good. They could have made Abby a villain and she would have been a 3-dimensional villain. But they played her as the protagonist and failed. IMany games work off their gameplay with story as secondary. The innovation in TLOU was its story, melding cinema-quality story-telling with bursts of engaging gameplay. So good, there are 4-hour edited "movies" of it. This game could have been good. They could have made Abby a villain and she would have been a 3-dimensional villain. But they played her as the protagonist and failed. I replayed the first, and showed the "movie" to my wife. I'm glad to have seen this trash once just enough to forget they never made a sequel to TLOU. Just like there is only The Matrix, Dexter only has 4 seasons, and Game of Thrones was abandoned mysteriously after season 5.… Expand
  6. SeanSolo
    Jun 24, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. My biggest gripe being Joel's death. It felt so undignified. He was acting all out of character, and his brother. I am not mad that he died bc it was bound to happen with him being that "mentor" character. But the way he died made no sense. Lets look back in the first game. It was established that Joel is a seasoned survivor that is not very trusting of new people. So much so as in running over a stranger who was calling for help in the streets bc he saw that it was a trap. He was very careful and cautious of basically everything.

    All of that was absent in this game. Him and Tommy just trusted Abby's group and told them their real names. No sense of caution, or carefulness even though they were all about that in the previous game. They made them stupid and killed Joel for no reason other than plot convenience. They needed him to die so Ellie can have a revenge plot. On top of it all, they had the audacity to make us play as Abby for half the game. Why would we want to play as her? She was so boring and uninteresting. We came for Ellie and Joel, not Abby. It's like when in Halo 5 you played as Locke for more than half the game when everyone wanted to play as Chief. I would've been fine with his death if we at least got to play Joel and didn't kill him so quickly. The trailers were so misleading, implying Joel would have a mush more import role in the story and selling a completely different tone than what was expected. And I know they wanted to "subvert expectations" but this was an example of a great concept but very poor execution and has The Last Jedi vibes.

    Lastly, the ending sucked. Ellie should've killed Abby. It was established in the first game that Joel was the most important person in Ellie's life (she even said this). And for her to let Abby live and basically save her, it's like that wasn't present. I guess she forgot. I know they were going for a "revenge bad" theme but when you killed EVERY SINGLE person in Abby's group EXCEPT Abby herself felt so damn unsatisfying. What even was the point of this game? What did they spend 7 years on? Clunky mechanics and a half-made story?

    I didn't like this game. The graphics look OKAY at best but nothing really impressed me. The level design was poor and felt really handheld. How convenient as we walk through a ruined city that every single window is boarded up except the ONE window the game wants me to go in. Mechanics were almost the same as the first game but somehow felt more clunky. Most of the side characters are either boring, useless (looking at Dina), or both. Again, what did they spend 7 years on? I would've given this a 0/10 at first but after collecting my thoughts, I'd give it a 2/10 bc the game was at the very least able to run.    … Expand
  7. cheadlecanuck23
    Jun 24, 2020
    2
    save your money. IT will be 10 bucks in a couple of weeks. I cant believe that naughty dog has gone this woke way and destroyed what could of been an amazing franchise. Hopefully this is a wake up call to all the other studios thinking about making a game with pure wokeness
  8. GayDog
    Jun 24, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I'm gay or lesbian or whatever (you can probably tell by my name and trust me I'm not a troll or am I ?...) and I gotta say i did not like or enjoy this game at all it lacks gay men yes there are lesbians but lesbians are women how about us men, ha this game is sexist and racist maybe in part 3 make women and straight men extinct just leave us the bros the Gay bros
    hey brofist Gay Bro or step Bro and while you're at it why don't you get rid of the infected as well just turn the game into a life simulation or something like the sims but it's just a big expansion called gay living and with some gay living stuff pack as well
    anyway, you should set your priorities straight(what an irony)Neil because in the next game I don't wanna see no slack from you or otherwise you know what I'm gonna do I'm going to send a message to my LGBT group chat on Facebook! that your game has straight people ew how gross!! and a cohesive meaningful storyline and thus they're not going to be pleased and won't buy your stupid game and you will lose the minority and win THE MAJORITY!!!
    well, I guess you win then. okay    … Expand
  9. FCB-Wolf
    Jun 24, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. **ONLY READ IF YOU’VE FINISHED THE GAME**

    Having just completed the game yesterday I today made a Metacritic account just to express my feelings about this experience. I had huge anticipation for this game going into it with no knowledge of leaks or spoilers and I can say it starts out fantastic. Joel's death evoked emotion and was certainly a catalyst for me to want to keep playing, wanting justice for him and closure. (But it was completely out of character for Joel and Tommy to reveal their names and settlement so easily to a group of strangers) Exploring Seattle as Ellie was fun and felt nostalgic to the first game but this is where my praise for The Last Of Us II ends.

    They then throw you into the shoes of the one who brutally tortured and killed Joel and try to make you like or even care about this character and from here the pacing of the game also falls apart. Suddenly you get tons of pills and parts as Abby (I played on survivor so I was used to scarce supplies.) This made game play as Abby feel halfhearted as the sudden resource explosion rushes you down her skill paths and weapon upgrades. But here's the thing with playing as Abby: I DON'T CARE. It was disappointing to play such a huge portion of the game as a character I have no feelings for. I was always asking myself when can I get back to playing as Ellie or at least Tommy, someone that I actually care about. The further I played as Abby the more disdain I had for her. Holding light that maybe by the end of the game we'd get to see Ellie finally finish her. I hoped that Ellie would kill Abby cleanly and not torture her to show she's above that, but what we got instead was horrific.

    Making you actually attack and choke out Ellie was heartbreaking, that whole fight should have just been a cut-scene because I had no want in actually playing through its scripted sequences. After this the ante has just been upped: Abby has now also killed Tommy (at this point you see her shoot him in the head so have no idea that he'd survive) and Jesse.

    OKAY *Takes breath* Can I finally play as Ellie now? Yes, but let's just skip the whole journey south to California, throw in some generic baddies at the end (Rattlers) and wow we're here as Ellie in our long awaited confrontation with Abby. Finally is this the moment I've been waiting for and slogging through all the previous Abby game play to get to? Would this be the redeeming factor to this game and the final closure needed? No. Ellie let's Abby go after everything. But before that happens they tease you with letting you stab a knife into Abby and then begin to drown her. I wanted to give Abby a clean death but as the knife was lost at this point in the fight, drowning will have to do but nope the script takes over and Ellie let's her out of the water at the last moment. Wow...

    A better ending would have been to finish the drowning and then have Ellie bury Abby with a makeshift cross rather than just leaving her body. That would have been justified and a good closure to the game. Lev is plenty capable of surviving without Abby and this would leave it open for DLC or the next game as Lev waking up and finding Abby's grave but not remembering what happened.

    I guess I can take solace that the prisoners did say Abby was bit, so if that's true she'll die soon enough but is that proper closure? Not for me. Sorry.    … Expand
  10. Aces423
    Jun 20, 2020
    2
    If you have played the first game and liked it, then most likely you will hate this one. If by chance you have never played part 1 then you might love this game. The story of this game is absolutely garbage. One of the worse games I ever played. Just wow.
  11. Agroo
    Jun 24, 2020
    10
    Increible! pero mejoren su situaciones laborales ahora! o si no me arrepentire
  12. Epicgamer65
    Jun 24, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Awful story extremely disrespectful to fans who have waited 7 years extreamly slow and boring gameplay not only do they have joal murdered in a **** way about 3 hours into the game but they then make you play 60% of the game as the character that killed him and then at the end ellie just let's her go… Expand
  13. O_O9
    Jun 24, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. GamePlay : lo mejor de su generación ,muy bonita música ,gráficos increíbles repito lo mejor de su generación.

    Argumento : Mataron a joel como un perro no obligaron a jugar con un personaje plano .. una venganza digna de Stevenuniverse ,solucionado con el poder del perdón..    … Expand
  14. Sw0_0p_
    Jun 24, 2020
    10
    So far I am only a few hours in and have not been disappointed. 1,000% heart broken by what Abby did. Had to take a break and accept what happened. I finished part 1 four times and I'm really enjoying the depth Naughty Dog has added to the story. I read a good amount of the reviews and you can tell not every person posting touched the game. I believe this game is with the times and is aSo far I am only a few hours in and have not been disappointed. 1,000% heart broken by what Abby did. Had to take a break and accept what happened. I finished part 1 four times and I'm really enjoying the depth Naughty Dog has added to the story. I read a good amount of the reviews and you can tell not every person posting touched the game. I believe this game is with the times and is a good representation of human connections today.… Expand
  15. Genao
    Jun 24, 2020
    3
    Graphics: 10/10
    Story 2/10
    Characters: 4/10
    Gameplay : 7/10

    Total disrespect to the last name.
  16. Richx95
    Jun 24, 2020
    10
    Me parece repugnante que tanto ignorante, por no saber apreciar en si la obra y solo sentarse en que muere un personaje importante, no puedan valorar con lógica y darle la valoración que se merece
  17. Debsunny
    Jun 24, 2020
    10
    Truly a masterpiece from Naughty Dog! A deeply satisfying conclusion to Ellie's story, accompanied by some of the most amazing gameplay ever in a PS4 game and incredibly polished graphics.
  18. Writersblock86
    Jun 24, 2020
    8
    I would give it a ten if it had multiplayer. The single player mode is outstanding though, and is quite a bit longer than the first game
  19. 324
    Jun 24, 2020
    10
    Cool game. Cool story. Great respect for the developers.
    You get a lot of emotions from the game. Excellent technical performance. Incredible battle animations, blood physics and facial expressions. Well-designed locations and the atmosphere of the post-apocalyptic world.
  20. hilario27
    Jun 24, 2020
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. An excellent game, when I started playing and see Joel deaths and don't accept it but then I continue the story and I like it, maybe this is not better than the first the last of us but the game is too good.… Expand
  21. Shierfall
    Jun 24, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Great graphics and ok gameplay but does not live up to the standard of the first game. The story starts off exceptional but progressively gets worse, this is mostly due to randomly placed characters who really serve no purpose. As a standalone game, I would rate it higher but since it is a follow-up game to "the last of us" it truly is disappointing from a narrative perspective.… Expand
  22. maestro1488
    Jun 24, 2020
    8
    the game is not as bad as it was rated but not better than 1 part hjerjejee
  23. wareldz
    Jun 24, 2020
    6
    gameplay 7/10 graphic 10/10 music 8/10 storywriting 1/10, this should be a guide about how to ruin a franchise forever.
  24. anonymous7109
    Jun 24, 2020
    10
    Technical aspects are a 10/10. One of the best graphics of this generation. The story is about revenge and different perspectives. It a dark and heavy game that happens in a harsh world, this themes of this game are made for you to reflect not to escape from the real world.. One last thing for the haters this is The Last of Us.. not The Last of Ellie and Joel.
  25. Lonitx
    Jun 24, 2020
    4
    Hard to believe this has the same writers as Part 1

    I suppose most of you have played Uncharted? Just imagine, for years you are waiting on the next chapter of Nathan Drake's story, finally it comes out, you buy it day 1 only to realise that you play as Cameraman Jeff's son for 10 hours straight... Who the **** cares, if they wanna do some expanded universe **** like Lost legacy that's    Hard to believe this has the same writers as Part 1

    I suppose most of you have played Uncharted? Just imagine, for years you are waiting on the next chapter of Nathan Drake's story, finally it comes out, you buy it day 1 only to realise that you play as Cameraman Jeff's son for 10 hours straight...
    Who the **** cares, if they wanna do some expanded universe **** like Lost legacy that's great, Chloe is on the box, you expect to play as her, fine.
    What Part 2 does is straight up lie to the customer.
    the writing is some forced unnatural bull****, for a franchise that was all about story, no amount of good graphics or gameplay can make up for it.    … Expand
  26. FeckThatGame
    Jun 24, 2020
    0
    We waited 7 years to get some Agenda thrown at us. The characters dont act at all like in the first game, not because they grown as a character but because the story wants them to. This game is the worst stuff I played in the last five years.
  27. Drazux
    Jun 24, 2020
    10
    Really good game! Loved every second of it! Story was interesting. Cast was amazing
  28. Daveeed
    Jun 24, 2020
    2
    Naughty dog for the sake of being edgy, has lost a lot of fans of the Last of us. Abby was just the worst character. Instead of making a satisfying tale of revenge we got a complicated and boring plot about an eye for an eye and last minute change of hearts.
  29. sonsan
    Jun 24, 2020
    5
    The story is incredibly predictable aside from an insulting ending that sends the opposite message from what the story means to convey. It feels like an amateur attempt at "being different" just for the sake of surprising the audience. By the end, you'll feel as though you wasted your time and all was for nothing. It's not a 0 due to everything else of the game being of superb quality, butThe story is incredibly predictable aside from an insulting ending that sends the opposite message from what the story means to convey. It feels like an amateur attempt at "being different" just for the sake of surprising the audience. By the end, you'll feel as though you wasted your time and all was for nothing. It's not a 0 due to everything else of the game being of superb quality, but it's by no means a 10 -- or even an 8 -- with a story like that.

    Ditch Neil Druckmann before you even consider a Part 3, ND.    … Expand
  30. iammayhem
    Jun 24, 2020
    10
    TLOU 2 is a game that you need to play with some empathy. They didn't give us the game we wanted, we didn't have the plot we thought we would had, but the message they sent is strong and also really important nowadays. The story is not poor like some people say, the story is really well writen and the characters are amazing, it's just not what the fans where hoping for and it's sad thatTLOU 2 is a game that you need to play with some empathy. They didn't give us the game we wanted, we didn't have the plot we thought we would had, but the message they sent is strong and also really important nowadays. The story is not poor like some people say, the story is really well writen and the characters are amazing, it's just not what the fans where hoping for and it's sad that just because they don't have it they call the game bad. It's not, it's a great game full of emotion and with a really good message. The work behind TLOU 2 is big, they deserve better.… Expand
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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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