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. azuregod102
    Jun 23, 2020
    1
    Broke the game within an hour of playing it to where i had to restart the app because my character got stuck in a rock, enemies watched DIna walk around and paid no mind to her, did you know her and ellie are lesbians? if not you will know within a minute of them talking for an hour about it
  2. CaliginousSky
    Jun 23, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Absolutely loved it. Though I must admit I wish Joel had much more of a heroic death, if it had to happen, and it wasn’t so near the beginning of the game. Initially I despised Abby for her actions and was even extremely annoyed that the player was forced to play as Abby for a very long portion of the game but towards the end I understood her actions and it was almost hard to paint her as a villain. I even held back at the end fight scene between Ellie and Abby because I didn’t want her to die! I can’t believe you made me grow to ALMOST like the woman that killed my Joel. Well played Naughty Dog, well played. I truly think you should go into this game uninfluenced by any posts you may have seen written about this game. I believe it is a masterpiece.… Expand
  3. Wotszzuuu
    Jun 23, 2020
    10
    Incredible gameplay, brilliant sound, fantastic AI. A perfect sequel for a perfect game Now everyone are critic
  4. Deimoz
    Jun 23, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. They should revive Joel. And specially Kill Abby nobody likes her she should be dead… Expand
  5. BarbeBlanchezZ
    Jun 23, 2020
    8
    Muy buen juego, diferente a lo que se esperaba, pero no deja de ser un juego excelente
  6. rdr89
    Jun 22, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. A masterpiece! This game has a perfect story and honored the charachters of the previous game!
    I love it! Need for Part III    … Expand
  7. villemildner
    Jun 23, 2020
    10
    The predecessor of this game did not necessarily need a sequel, but after playing part two, I can say that it lives up to the first game. Although Naughty Dog has gone for a somewhat different type of storytelling this time around, they’ve managed to once again make a masterpiece. The story is told through more than just dialogue between characters, with notes and other remains of theThe predecessor of this game did not necessarily need a sequel, but after playing part two, I can say that it lives up to the first game. Although Naughty Dog has gone for a somewhat different type of storytelling this time around, they’ve managed to once again make a masterpiece. The story is told through more than just dialogue between characters, with notes and other remains of the pre-outbreak world, and there is also much to learn about the post-outbreak world and the conflicts between different groups of survivors. I could go on for a while, but I’m writing this on my phone, and the website is not really working with me, , so to finish off this review I’m going to give Naughty Dog credit for their incredible attention to detail. Everything from graphics to physics in this game is amazing. The level designs of this game are also very good, allowing you to take different approaches to every fight. I really really like this game, and I think that it not only justifies the decision to make a second game, but it also gives the story a conclusion with meaning.… Expand
  8. Max_l
    Jun 23, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I waited 7 years to play this and that "creators" killed all charismatic people from the previous game and gave us no choice to decide whether to kill or not. **** this ****… Expand
  9. TheBattleMango
    Jun 23, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. So here is an honest review from someone who has actually played the game. This game is a massive disappointment for five reasons.

    1: It completely abandons the morally ambiguous theme of the first game. In the end of TLOU 1, Joel killed Fireflies for a completely selfish reason and doomed the lives of millions. There was no concept of good or bad in that game, Joel was not "good or bad" and whether you agreed with his decision came down to the player, blurring the line of what was right and wrong. Now in the sequel, Ellie AND Abby, who I'll talk about later, have the sense that they are right and what they did was "right" and they are completely morally justified in what they did and the player is supposed to agree and sympathize with both of them splitting the players decision. Either their both good, both bad or one is good and the other is bad. Abandoning such a massive concept that people loved the first game for is an embarrassment.

    2: it devalues the lie that Joel told Ellie in the first game. In this game that topic has a total of two cut scenes in the game dedicated to it despite it being the whole reason people wanted a sequel. Not only is it not focused on but it is also not the centerpiece of the game which brings me to number 2

    3: The game's centerpiece is revenge. This element is not focused on justly in any form of media in my opinion, and when it is, it is so predictable to guess what happens and in this game after Ellie massacre's hundreds of people, she decides the let the person who was responsible for Joel's death live making the whole journey throughout the game, including plot and character development, utterly pointless and the previous sentence stated brings me to reason 3

    4: Abby, the antagonist responsible for Joel's death, has very little connection to the first game despite the fact that she is the centerpiece of this game which even further devalues reason one. Her reason for being in this game is that Joel killed her father, the surgeon Joel stabbed in The Last of Us. Now wanting revenge for your father is a valid reason for being in a game, but when your father is a faceless,meaningless character in the overall plot of the first game, it makes the character that wants revenge even more meaningless. It's even more pointless since Ellie doesn't even kill Abby...in a revenge based plot...let that sink in...

    5: So Ellie has found out the truth about the Fireflies and she's hunted Abby down and didn't do anything. So as an audience you'd think that'd be the end right. Wrong, because us as an audience never found closure. After this 20 hour game, that wastes our time on a revenge plot so pointless and uninteresting the vaccine still never gets made. We never get out "the end". Our period at the end of the sentence. At the end, we even find out that some Fireflies are still alive. You know what that means? That's right, we get sequel baited!! Isn't that great?....

    It's really pushing it calling this game, The Last of Us 2, when the main element from the first game is not focused on, when the antagonist is not connected to the main element of the first game making me getting interested in her void and pointless and only leads me to hating her more so when she has an entire 50% of the game dedicated to her since you play as her in the second half, and the main character of The Last of Us 1 dies in the first 2 hours of playtime, and when the centerpiece that was expected is replaced with a predictable, easy to guess plot,with practically no surprises. This game holds no emotional weight that was present in the first game and when it does hold emotional weight it isn't related to the first game, or I am desensitized into even caring since the only two cases where there is emotional weight is: one of the only characters I care about dies before he gets any meaningful screen time or the emotional presence is related to a new character that I don't care about because I haven't had time to get to know them and their character arcs are either bleak or not present. This game is not a sequel, and to anyone who says,"But it has good game-play/graphics". That is completely irrelevant since this is a story based game, and if the story sucks, it makes the entire game meaningless in terms of its reason for even existing in the first place.    … Expand
  10. Then_Response11
    Jun 23, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game is a cuck out of ten. Wasn't expecting such cuckiness. It looks like a cuck. It plays like a cuck. It's not a masterpiece. It's a cuck. It's not any random cuck. It's a naughty dog cuck. Not a cuck from the old dogs. A cuck from the new improved cucks. The new dogs. The new cucks.

    If you're a cuck, you'll love this cuck. So, don't buy this game. Don't be a cuck.    … Expand
  11. rubiksmoose
    Jun 23, 2020
    10
    I'm rating this low purely as a test and putting filler in here to meet character limits.
  12. johnny224
    Jun 23, 2020
    0
    If you're asking yourself how a giant company like Naughty Dog, beloved by so many gamers worldwide, can screw up so bad, "The Last of Us Part II" is the answer. You'll buy this game and think "it can't be that bad, it's Naughty Dog"... And then it is. Let's just hope they can comeback strong after this one, it's gonna be a tough time.
  13. nik060105
    Jun 19, 2020
    10
    Awesome game, beautiful graphics, awesome gameplay, amazing AI. What about story? It's great, why you people rate this game so low? What you didn't like in story.?
  14. fade1314
    Jun 23, 2020
    0
    If you love the story in TLOU 1, don't bother buying part 2, save your money for other games.
    The character development is complete disaster.
  15. Talbis
    Jun 23, 2020
    4
    The Last of Us Part II is the one and only proof that Naughty Dog is nothing without the guidance of Amy Hennig. They should go back to making kids games, maybe Jak and Daxter or something would be much closer to what they can do nowadays...
  16. Nubbs2016
    Jun 23, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. While heavily controversial, tlou2 is just as good as the first posing another great moral decision and watching both Ellie’s plight, along with an arrogant and brutal girl named Abby, go through her own journey. In my opinion this is a game of parallels and advocating peace. We have Abby and Ellie, who are mirrors of each other, and the serephites and wolves, who are fighting a war that the cause of has been long lost. Even abbys ending mirrors Joel and Ellie’s From pt1… Expand
  17. fita23brs
    Jun 23, 2020
    10
    So, You kill 100-150 people as Ellie, just to get to the end, and you are forced to decide not to kill Abby, because... and I kid you not, "killing people is wrong"? I mean, you'd think, hey a writer can't be this stupid. Sadly, you'd be wrong.
  18. Takeonme
    Jun 21, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game is incredible, it manages to transmit various emotions in such an intense way. It is a game that shows you in a real way, what it is like to lose your humanity and sanity, and how revenge can bring bad things to both parties. It takes maturity to understand how complex it is. Naughty dog ​​did a great job.… Expand
  19. meepmaster9000
    Jun 23, 2020
    10
    Let's be honest! If you look at the trailer, you already know that everyone going for 0/10 is a troll hating this game not for its content. That being said tho, ND changes the game with this one. What they do here is actually a very hard pill to swallow. I never remember feeling many emotions in a game in my life. Last if us 2 is a masterpiece and even if you are not ok with the decisionsLet's be honest! If you look at the trailer, you already know that everyone going for 0/10 is a troll hating this game not for its content. That being said tho, ND changes the game with this one. What they do here is actually a very hard pill to swallow. I never remember feeling many emotions in a game in my life. Last if us 2 is a masterpiece and even if you are not ok with the decisions they made, you can not deny the effect, that it has on you. There is one scene in this game, which is my favorite scene in any game, movie or anything like it ever. So thankyou ND… Expand
  20. spiderbruh
    Jun 23, 2020
    5
    Pros - Graphics
    - Voice acting
    - Motion acting - Character design Cons
    - Anticlimactic character deaths
    - Suffers from a phenomenal bad story - Ending is anti climatic and ruins the entire plot of the game
  21. bgraftz
    Jun 23, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game felt like a lifeless cash grab off the back of tlou 1, not only does the injected social justice feel forced but the storyline feels lazily written, rushed and out of order, not to mention the game forces you to play as the antagonist for half of the game and expects you to sympathize with ‘her’ through pathetic attempts to show ‘she’ is a decent human being when in actuality ‘she’ felt lifeless to play as and I couldn’t help but feel to put the controller down and stop playing. The ending to the game was was also a disappointment and overall just confusing as Ellie decides to let Abby go but mercilessly kills innocent people throughout the game to get to that point, I'm not sure if this was meant to show character development but it didn't come off as realistic or believable at all. Some of the plot makes no sense to me and felt like paper over the cracks during moments such as when Mel was assigned duty despite being heavily pregnant but was still involved with battles and somehow climbing ropes. There was a total lack of character development and the game did not give the player a chance to even grow close to any of the characters and to be honest not many of them were even likable. This game was not only ruined by the SJW, forced progressive hammer but lacked serious plot development and in all felt disappointing and a waste of a good opportunity, i feel bad for the teams of the game that weren’t involved with the plot as the game itself is stunning and the environments were fun to explore.
    I'm glad the user reviews are highlighting this game's huge flaws and if anything shows that critic reviews are worthless as they only seem to rate the identity politics of the game, and not the game itself.    … Expand
  22. Faithfullfaun
    Jun 23, 2020
    10
    people are just review bombing without even playing it
    I played it and the first one and love them
  23. Tyrael2020
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    El juego fuerza una agenda políticamente correcta que resulta innecesaria y solo vuelve al videojuego una excusa para señalar que se apoya la comunidad lgtbi, arruinan todo lo logrado con el primer Last of us
  24. PinoyShinobi
    Jun 23, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I liked that we got to play as Ellie one more time and continue her story. I don't like how Joel died, I don't like that we had to play as Abby for as long as we did, I did not care for Abby, I hate that we did not get to get revenge at the end. Ellie went out for revenge and for what? To let Abby go and to lose her girl and adopted child? Joel dying wasn't the issue, it was how he died. Sure you could make an argument that Joel has softened in his older age but the Joel from the first part wouldn't have trusted those strangers so easily.

    They could have told the same story and honoured the first game better than they did. At one point I was like "There's no way they're going to make me also kill Ellie as Abby!?".

    To summarise, I'm happy to have played as Ellie one more time, I just feel like it was not executed the best. The game is beautiful nevertheless but storytelling wise, it could have been better.    … Expand
  25. Faithlol
    Jun 20, 2020
    2
    Let me start with this statement to get it out of the way. I’m a huge fan of Naughty Dog. Uncharted was amazing and it literally changed me, crash bandicoot was my jam for years, and TLOU1 was a game that made me cry.

    This game is riding on the fame of it’s predecessor and fails to deliver on many aspects. It’s atmosphere is spot on, and the graphics are state of the art (especially on    Let me start with this statement to get it out of the way. I’m a huge fan of Naughty Dog. Uncharted was amazing and it literally changed me, crash bandicoot was my jam for years, and TLOU1 was a game that made me cry.

    This game is riding on the fame of it’s predecessor and fails to deliver on many aspects. It’s atmosphere is spot on, and the graphics are state of the art (especially on the old PS4), but the writing/story is a train wreck.

    I can’t say much because I don’t like spoiling but whoever wrote this game doesn’t understand some basic story writing aspects that all the great writers for books/movies always follow. There isn’t an arc, a point of maturity, it’s a hollow husk that borrows the name of the previous game only in letters.

    Shame because this could have been a good game. I’ve sold my copy and warned my friends.    … Expand
  26. Monkeyrage122
    Jun 23, 2020
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I get why this game is getting hate. I don’t think it is deserved (except for the parts where you play as Abby). I personally liked the game, the thing that felt off was the tonal shift. It happened so suddenly that it caught me off guard. One second you are a agile badass killing clickers left and right, then the next you are a refrigerator playing fetch with a dog. The ending wasn’t something that I expected to be so hollow. I was left with an unfulfilled feeling in the pit of my stomach. It felt like my 20+ hours of gameplay amounted to nothing, but after a while it made since( even though it was pretty stupid). My take on the ending was that Ellie wanted to end the cycle of violence by not killing Abby(which was stupid). Anyways Ellie ended the violence by mowing down hordes of people only to not kill the person who killed her father figure and her best friend. The person who stripped Ellie of almost everything/one she had know. Even upon Ellie’s return to her home, she is stripped of her family and 2 fingers. All in all the revenge Plot didn’t really work for a game like the last of us. I applaud Neil and his team at Naughty dog for creating a unique experience in tlou2 but it is impossible to follow up a masterpiece. I still loved playing this game I just think that they needed someone on staff to think of pacing and placing, because it was a bit of a mess.… Expand
  27. sponyx
    Jun 23, 2020
    0
    this game is putrid garbage. i had to make an account to help spread the word
  28. shen_ous
    Jun 23, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Отвратительная концовка игры. Отвратительный персонаж Эбби. Навязанные сексуальные контакты как за Элли так и за Эбби, так мало того что они вам навязаны, так эти персонажи еще и не вызывают никакой симпатий к ним, ты даже отказать им не можешь. Зачем добавлять в игру навязанный секс? Не нужна в играх ебля бесконтрольная игроком.
    Волосатые подмышки Дины? Вы серьёзно? Зато у страшной и уродливой Эбби все норм. Мерзость.
    Слитый Джоэл. ГЕРОЙ ПЕРВОЙ ЧАСТИ ИГРЫ. Чувак который выживал туеву тучу лет сливается так легко ? Не в какой-то перестрелке, а избитый до смерти клюшкой. Вы что серьёзно? Так слить Джоэла?
    Зачем нам дали играть за Эбби? Нахрена черт возьми!? Эта баба убила Джоэла, и вы даете играть за эту мерзость ? Серьёзно? Какая бы у нее не была причина для убийства Джоэла, какая бы она добрая не была в душе, она убила моего любимого героя первой части, я не смогу ее понять никак, после такого я желаю ей только скорейшей смерти, я не хочу играть за нее.
    Элли всю игру идет за Эбби, убивает сотки людей, гибнет Джесси, Томми получает инвалидность, Элли теряет два пальца и Дина от нее уходит. И что в итоге? ОНА ОТПУСКАЕТ И ПРОЩАЕТ ЭББИ, она прощает за убийство Джоэла, прощает за убийство Джесси, ей плевать на Томми. Почему она не убила Эбби? ПОЧЕМУ? Почему не дали выбор простить или убить? Вы называете это хорошей игрой? Мне жаль что эта игра вообще увидела свет. Дракман, пожалуйста не делай игры больше, уйди на покой. Эта игра омерзительна и отвратительна.    … Expand
  29. Sideshowbob
    Jun 23, 2020
    9
    This is my first metacritic review because I just can not stand the BS written about this amazing game! Everyone who enjoyed the first part... Give it a fair try and you won't be disappointed. Its different but this is a good change!
  30. Rjscr
    Jun 23, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Para ser un juego triple A. En los cuales se han invertido millones. Que se tiene un equipo tecnico ,dinero y tiempo es decepcionante. #Shedeadintheend… Expand
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  1. Positive: 113 out of 121
  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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