The Last of Us Part II

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  1. Novicion
    Jun 22, 2020
    2
    those positive review are just paid reviews, but these people still tryhard to make this game become GOTY

    the only good thing from this game is the atmosphere looking
    the game story is nonsense, far from the first instalment
    they ruined the character development
    so much political rights

    the story is just like a person making their own the walking dead story
  2. black8621
    Jun 26, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. 我給的這2分是給這遊戲的美術和遊戲性，如果可以將劇情、美術和遊戲性分開評比，我一定給這劇情負分(我原本是評0分的，但是網頁不給過，我只好不停地往上調分)。
    那口吐在喬爾身上的口水就像是吐在玩過一代的玩家臉上一樣。
    一個人的價值觀要扭曲的什麼程度才能做出這種東西???    … Expand
  3. masterjoemomma
    Jun 22, 2020
    2
    The only reason I didnt give it a 0 was because the graphics and gameplay is good. But this game is a disaster from what made the first game so loved. They took a beloved franchise and put in a bunch of propaganda and had to twist the story around to make it work. They kill off one of the best characters of the first game within the first few hours, then they send you on a revenge missionThe only reason I didnt give it a 0 was because the graphics and gameplay is good. But this game is a disaster from what made the first game so loved. They took a beloved franchise and put in a bunch of propaganda and had to twist the story around to make it work. They kill off one of the best characters of the first game within the first few hours, then they send you on a revenge mission to kill that character. To make this story work they made Joel seem like a complete idiot, putting him a situation that he would of never been in under normal circumstances. Then they make you hate this character so much that they force you to play as her/him, so stupid. I mean they had so many chances to make a good story but they bring in someone stupid into the studio, im looking at you Neil and Anita, in order to put in your stupid propaganda you had to ruin a good story. You both knew that if you made a new game and tried to sell this crap no one would buy it. The only way for both of you to make money for this is to destroy a beloved series. Plus look at it this way, no one cares that Ellie is a lesbian, she was in the first game and I thought it was fine. What is so bad is you force your agenda on a story that makes no since. A story full of so many plot holes but hey it makes your stupid politicians happy so hey you win. You destroyed Ellie and Joel, but hey you got Abby which also sucks. Also they way you all censored reviews you didnt like is another win. BOO… Expand
  4. P3P3
    Jun 22, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. lo arruinaron todo la historia es lo principal sin eso él juego no tiene sentido… Expand
  5. Tiago6669
    Jun 22, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Estão fazendo uma clara propaganda progressista e estou dando essa nota proeu amigo sonysta Diego ficar puto… Expand
  6. Frambuu
    Jun 22, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Matan al prota al principio luego te hacen jugar con la tipa que lo mató no tiene buena trama el gameplay estuvo bien pienso que hubiera estado mejor darle una muerte digna a Joel, se paso todo el juego anterior diciéndole a ellie que no confiara en nadie y el pendejo se va y mete a un grupo de personas que no conoce da sus datos y lo cagan a trompadas tuvieron la oportunidad de matar a ellie ahí mismo pero no pq simplemente el juego tenía que seguir en mi opinión otra historia hubiese estado mejor pero bueno… Expand
  7. Mopp_94
    Jun 22, 2020
    2
    I give this a 2 only for its marginal improvements in gameplay over the first. If you're buying this game for its story, dont. Druckman singlehandedly ruined this franchise and its beloved characters for his own petty revenge plot ****
  8. Lockdownwarrior
    Jun 22, 2020
    2
    Good gameplay features such as combat and graphics, but for a story based game the story makes absolutly no sense and is weak.
  9. ORi23
    Jun 22, 2020
    2
    Beautiful graphics waste on broken story and boring characters, that Naughty dog studio we known and love is gone now.
  10. Kekulus
    Jun 23, 2020
    2
    Horrible story. In fact there was no story. Just some mediocre writer trying to push his agenda. Don't bother playing this trash.
  11. terence7720
    Jun 22, 2020
    2
    The story is garbage. It’s a look inside the deeply disturbed mind of people like neil druckmann, do yourself a favor and skip this game, play the last of us part one instead.
  12. ZarkerBR
    Jun 23, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Conseguiram destruir todas as expectativas que os jogadores criaram durante 7 anos com menos de 1h de jogo. Muito triste isso. A decisão de matar o personagem mais querido da forma mais besta/ridícula possível com o agravante de você passar o jogo inteiro, matando todo mundo que cruza o seu caminho, para no final perdoar a mulher e deixar pra lá, faz com que tudo até ali não tenha sentido e deixa uma sensação de vazio. Experiencia desapontadora, infelizmente.… Expand
  13. Cardysengy
    Jun 23, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. El motor grafico del juego es una buena experiencia junto con las mecánicas conocidas de la entrega anterior, sin embargo el hilo de la historia y la necesidad de controversia junto con casi 10 horas de juego con el personaje de abby como protagonista no solo hacen a este aburrido por una forzada historia.
    La muerte de Joel, es el punto de partida, no es una mala decision sin embargo el jugar con abby como protagonista con el intento de empatizar con esta, hace perder totalmente la esencia del juego por el que 7 años se espero. Ademas tiene muchos bugs.    … Expand
  14. CtrlAltDely
    Jun 26, 2020
    2
    After playing this game, i am sad i didnt stop playing after the first one. The way Naughty dog handles certain aspect is really really untastfull. As if that isnt bad, their interaction on social media towards critiscism is even worse. Come on guys, its not the end of the world if someone dissagreess.

    Gameplay is okayish, more of the same from the first game. second part of the story    After playing this game, i am sad i didnt stop playing after the first one. The way Naughty dog handles certain aspect is really really untastfull. As if that isnt bad, their interaction on social media towards critiscism is even worse. Come on guys, its not the end of the world if someone dissagreess.

    Gameplay is okayish, more of the same from the first game. second part of the story is very badly paced. Sadly the way the story and characters are handled prevents me from giving it a higher score.    … Expand
  15. Eyael
    Jun 26, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The last of us 2 wasn't good and dont buy it safe your time. Also false adveritising Joel when he barely is in the game, you play as a dumb charachter for 10 hours straight that killed Joel to get sympathy, but you can't do that overall bad game writing. Sorry to the rest of the crew that worked on the game… Expand
  16. douash
    Jun 22, 2020
    2
    tl;dr great design and gameplay combined with the most awful story

    The game itself refines gameplay of first game which is great. Graphics are pretty much beautiful in most cases. With such beautiful appearance this game gives you the most awful way to continue story of the first game. To enjoy the game you have to get ready to go through the awful amount of cringe and logically    tl;dr great design and gameplay combined with the most awful story

    The game itself refines gameplay of first game which is great.
    Graphics are pretty much beautiful in most cases.
    With such beautiful appearance this game gives you the most awful way to continue story of the first game.
    To enjoy the game you have to get ready to go through the awful amount of cringe and logically faulty story.

    The main problem of the whole story is that it shifts from zombie apocalypses to soap opera with zombie apocalypses in background.
    Dialogues and character interactions are cringe and stupid.
    For the most part it feels like low quality fanfiction.
    Putting aside progressive talking points being brought each time, character interactions often feel forced.

    Another problem is introduction of secondary hero, who is actually just psychopathic murderer.
    The problem with that is that we're forced to be empathetic to it, despite knowing little to nothing about it.
    Background is expanded later on with flashbacks, but it is already too late as you hate such awful character for a long time as you hunt it down while playing as Ellie.

    Despite Ellie being more cringe due to bad writing, it is at least somewhat enjoyable to watch her going on rampage.

    Summary: play this game on youtube, or buy with discount later on. It doesn't deserve full price    … Expand
  17. RectusErectus
    Jun 22, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I have no idea what Druckmann has against Joel but he needs to figure his problem out. Joel did not deserve to die in the way he Did. I'm not against the idea of Joel dying but it is not necessary to have it so violent. He is the loved protagonist from the past game and to have him killed in such a way is terrible. Also to have Ellie not kill Abby in the end is it terrible ending. After having Ellie kill all of these people just to get revenge and not get it is the worst kind of ending. It's like Thanos did all of his atrocities to get the stones and in the end not snap because he didnt feel like it. I loved TLOU 1 and that game is one of my favorites when it comes to the lore of the world and the zombie virus. I hope that the story ends here so Druckmann cant ruin another franchise even more.… Expand
  18. Remnever
    Jun 22, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. First and foremost I must acknowledge the beautiful graphics and smoothness of gameplay, its as close to perfect as I've seen in any video game. The animations, sound, and world building is second to none. That's where the positives end for me. The plot completely drags beloved characters through the mud for no reason whatsoever. Its all hopelessly nihilistic. None of the characters overcome any struggle at all. Ellie ends up losing EVERYTHING shes built. Loses her father figure, Lover and child, all the way down to losing the ability to play the guitar. Congratulations naughty dog, you've succeeded in creating the most masochistic story ever told.

    As far as the specifics of the story, I dont really want to get into that. The one issue I will bring up with the ending though is how in the hell does a beautiful flashback of Joel make Ellie want to STOP drowning Abby? Wouldn't that thought make her want to finish the job EVEN MORE?? What an absolute joke. Its really starting to feel like if there is a severe emotional reaction caused by a shocking scene with dramatic music behind it, the shills will just keep coming back for more. These writers fail to understand there needs to be so much more to a story to have an audience fall in love with the characters in this world. None of these characters are humanized at all or realistic in the slightest... We get to watch multiple "tasteful" sex scenes (according to the critics) which in reality are more of softcore porn.. Let me get this straight.. two 18 year old girls still obviously struggling with the notion of their homosexuality have a mature, intense sexual experience (while smoking weed)? Have the writers forgotten what it was like to be that young... Absolutely absurd writing, top to bottom, Im not even gonna touch on the abomination that is Abby. If we have any hope of maintaining good story telling in this medium we have to stop buying this trash.    … Expand
  19. Juanchito
    Jun 22, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Si bien el juego comienza de la mejor manera, la mejor banda sonora entre otras cosas con Joel dedicándole una canción a Ellie, hasta aquí todo bien una banda sonoro y buen argumento para continuar está hermosa historia destruida.

    Ahora viene lo malo, estamos hablando de una escena donde Joel muere. "el hombre que sobrevivió la apocalipsis 20 años", el hombre que desconfia en los propios suyos, el hombre que mato a medio mundo para sobrevivir cae en una trampa estúpida? Rodeado de gente armada, "Tomy al igual que Joel, ex luciérnaga, mató a decenas de personas, comparte información "soy Tommy y el es Joel" esto está asquerosamente forzado.

    A ver, el guionista se fumo algo antes de escribir esto?, Manejar a la antagonista, el mismo tiempo que manejamos a Ellie, es una idea forzosamente obligada a hacer que manejemos al personaje que mato al protagonista, luego obligándonos a entender a este personaje repugnante nos quieren obligar a empatizar con ella, los fans del primer juego, jamás empatizariamos, Hablemos del final, Neil juega con tus sentimientos y te recuerda más a Joel, vuelven los sentimientos de venganza lo cual volvemos a tomar ese odio masivo contra Abby, seguimos adelante abandonamos todo para toparse con que, Ellie está a punto de matar a Abby , está la perdona y deja que se vaya, después de matar a todos, Neil te deja vacío y no te satisface con la venganza, ES UN JURGO DE VENGANZA, SIN VENGANZA, es increíble cómo el progresismo actual y la inclusión destruya un franquicia así.    … Expand
  20. ntngel1
    Jun 23, 2020
    2
    This game is disappointment of the year for me.

    Story and characters: Neil Druckmann wanted to tell a story about violence and revenge. But what the hell. Okay, you're killing some characters. But where is nice replacement for them. New characeters in The Last of Us 2 are really boring. Abby is really boring, that was really painful to play second part of game because it's so boring.    This game is disappointment of the year for me.

    Story and characters:
    Neil Druckmann wanted to tell a story about violence and revenge. But what the hell. Okay, you're killing some characters. But where is nice replacement for them. New characeters in The Last of Us 2 are really boring. Abby is really boring, that was really painful to play second part of game because it's so boring. This story could fit in 10 hours, but for some reason it stretched up to 25-30 hours.

    Gameplay:
    A few new mechanics in combat, but after 10 hours it becomes boring to play this game. Fight with people, fight with infected, fight with people, fight with some boss. You're keeping doing it over and over again.
    Exploring some areas after few hours becomes really ridiculous. If you find a safe than you need to find a note that contains code. And the note is located right next to the safe. Often notes contain just a code, but rarely it's a little puzzle like some date you need to find out. A lot of boring notes. It's so ridiculous to see that everybody right before death has written its own note describing life, situation that was going on there and kinda like that.

    Animations: nothing to say, it is awesome. So smooth and realistic.
    Graphics: nothing to say, it is awesome too. Even after graphics downgrade, this game is beautiful. Especially cutscenes.
    Music: nothing is remembered. A lot of simple ambients.    … Expand
  21. Garciaeliezer94
    Jun 22, 2020
    2
    Great gameplay just like the first game but story is everything for this type of game in my opinion it was poorly made and because of that it was it’s biggest downfall that made me want to refund it.
  22. xdpgunslinger
    Jun 22, 2020
    2
    TLOU was one of my favorite games of all time , it ranked for me as one of the best cinematic game play experiences that blended simple game mechanics with compelling storytelling. A Step up from the Quantic Dreams experiences. I was hoping TLOU Part 2 would dethrone RDR2 for me as my current favorite piece of game storytelling.
    Unfortunately it was not to be , whilst the game play is    TLOU was one of my favorite games of all time , it ranked for me as one of the best cinematic game play experiences that blended simple game mechanics with compelling storytelling. A Step up from the Quantic Dreams experiences. I was hoping TLOU Part 2 would dethrone RDR2 for me as my current favorite piece of game storytelling.
    Unfortunately it was not to be , whilst the game play is passable it somehow felt more clunky for me than the first one , however I don't really rate these games on the game play as its more about the story and experience, the gameplay just has to be passable to not be boring, unfortunately this game somehow takes the formula of the first game and makes it really boring.

    with the story , without giving any spoilers, this to me comes across as a classic case of bad writing where the writers had an idea of all the scenes they wanted and just wrote the story around that , rather than focusing on story first.

    all other criticisms aside I dont care if the game is political or wants to push a message , so long as it does so through telling a compelling story with compelling characters.

    this game has neither compelling story or characters and they somehow managed to make the old characters boring and aside from physical appearance, they seem to bear no resemblance to their previous iterations.

    I wanted to hold off on reviewing this game until I had played it as I thought many of what we are hearing about it on both sides is propaganda. Unfortunately now that I have played it I can say for me its just a boring game with a poorly thought out story that seems more concerned with chaining a bunch of set pieces together than telling a story.

    Full disclosure , I couldn't finish this game , it was too boring , I ended up watching videos and streams to see the end , and its not often I give up on a game.

    unfortunately there is no resolution or real growth for the characters and you get to the end and feel like nothing has really happened.

    such a shame , Naughty Dog are one of the best studios out there for this type of thing, but Kudos to the artistic integrity to make the game they wanted and to stick by their vision.

    I don't like the fans dictating to artists what their art should be . That's the artists prerogative, but I think the dialogue needs to be open , I didn't like this game, but I respect this is the game they wanted to make. Maybe their next game will be more down my alley.    … Expand
  23. CrocBain
    Jun 27, 2020
    2
    Without spoiling anything this game was quite a disappointment, I made the mistake of trusting Neil and Naughty Dog and I got burned. This game just takes everything from the first game and destroys it.

    This game really is not anything like I thought it would be and in fact it is completely the opposite of what I thought it would be. I'm just quite speechless. Let me tell you what my    Without spoiling anything this game was quite a disappointment, I made the mistake of trusting Neil and Naughty Dog and I got burned. This game just takes everything from the first game and destroys it.

    This game really is not anything like I thought it would be and in fact it is completely the opposite of what I thought it would be. I'm just quite speechless.

    Let me tell you what my experience consisted of:

    Initially when they introduced Joel again talking to Tommy: This is awesome! I'm right at home again!

    When they forced me to play a character I didn't have any desire to play: Why do I have to play her, I hope it's not for long.

    The entire spot that kicks off the game: This sucks but I'm sure it'll make it a better story.

    The Entirety of Seattle: THIS IS AWESOME

    The second half of the game: This is terrible, just 10 more hours of it? That sounds like a grind so I'm just going to look up the ending.

    My time on YouTube: This ending is terrible.

    My opinion on this game is to steer clear, the gameplay is good but they'll get you invested just to pull you away right at the climax of the story and force you to do stuff that really just takes you out of the experience and immersion to the point that you just google how it ends to get it over with.

    This is such a stain on the franchise, a real damn shame as it was my very favorite franchise ever.    … Expand
  24. Iscorm
    Jun 23, 2020
    2
    As much as the first is a masterpiece, the second opus is a scriptural disaster sprinkled with a touch of ideological propaganda and morality biased by the progressiveness of our world. It’s not a focal point of the story, but even putting it aside, the story isn’t intriguing at all and the ending is catastrophic.
    Those who have not played it yet and who have enjoyed the 1, I advise you to    As much as the first is a masterpiece, the second opus is a scriptural disaster sprinkled with a touch of ideological propaganda and morality biased by the progressiveness of our world. It’s not a focal point of the story, but even putting it aside, the story isn’t intriguing at all and the ending is catastrophic.
    Those who have not played it yet and who have enjoyed the 1, I advise you to not play that one to keep a good memory of The Last of Us for the rest of your life.    … Expand
  25. Hollywood24
    Jun 22, 2020
    2
    I love the gameplay not gonna lie but the storyline is very disappointed .. I understand what they were trying to do but it could have been done so much better they should make a remake of the storyline
  26. DimaBrown
    Jun 27, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I'm very disappointed! You killed Joel, you killed Ellie as character and you killed the story!… Expand
  27. ChrisWild1
    Jun 22, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. A largely underwhelming game. After the original I was expecting a lot more. The lack of story for Joel was very disappointing, also feel like Ellie was minimized a bit too much… Expand
  28. DrugsRFunTryEm
    Jun 22, 2020
    2
    Gameplay and graphics are marred by heavy-handed Intersectional plot-devices. It is a far departure from what the original was, where I didn't feel like I was being bludgeoned by any overt messages. If you absolutely ignore the plot and dialogue there is some decent gameplay to be had.
  29. terrific_kid
    Jun 22, 2020
    2
    no spoilers. this is a real review. The original game may be the greatest game of all time. I'm giving last of us 2 a 2 star review due to excellent graphics and world building. I'm not a toxic male - I didn't experience anything threatening in the last of us 2 content - although I think this game still follows a lot of sexist narrative tropes. Ok disclaimer over:

    The game is painful the    no spoilers. this is a real review. The original game may be the greatest game of all time. I'm giving last of us 2 a 2 star review due to excellent graphics and world building. I'm not a toxic male - I didn't experience anything threatening in the last of us 2 content - although I think this game still follows a lot of sexist narrative tropes. Ok disclaimer over:

    The game is painful the play. I got the game day one and didn't believe how the reviews could be so bad, however the story is incredibly blase, if existent at all. It get's worse as you go, I've wanted to put the game down many times because it's so boring, but I wanted to see how the story ends.

    That major reviewers are giving this game 10/10 is such a farce. This is like what happened with bioware mass effect andromeda/anthem.

    LOS2 is truly bad. It's boring at best, and literally painful to play. too bad! RIP naughty dog.    … Expand
  30. Bothric
    Jun 25, 2020
    2
    1 Point for Graphics as that is expected for a game in 2020
    1 Point for sound and music.
    0 for game play, same as before but a little bit better
    0 for story, straight out sucks.

    FYI people can review games without spending the their hard earned money on crap. Thank for Twitch and the streams that make the sacrifice so we can don't have to spend our money. Back to playing TLOU 1
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  2. Mixed: 8 out of 121
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  1. GameMAG
    Sep 13, 2020
    90
    The Last of Us Part II is the high point of the PlayStation 4. The plot is controversial, but the game is the incredibly addictive adventure of Ellie, from which it is impossible to pull away from the opening and to the very end.
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  2. PLAY! Zine
    Sep 5, 2020
    93
    Not everyone is going to enjoy the motives of The Last of Us Part II. But if you try and manage to accept the subliminal and not so subtle messages as a fact that the world has gone awry and that people have the need to have somewhere or someone to belong to as their own way out, then... You will witness the boundaries of gaming expand. You will witness a true masterpiece.
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  3. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Sep 3, 2020
    75
    If you loved the original for its great characters and well-paced story – stay away from this game. However, if you’re aching to sink into the depths of depression, or just want to cut some throats and burn some zombies – Part II will deliver. [Issue#247, p.72]
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