The Last of Us Part II

 PlayStation 4
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  1. dved
    Jun 23, 2020
    9
    We always expect the best from Naughty Dog and they delivered a lot: superb mechanics (with some small bugs on release, sure it will be fixed), beautiful graphics (one of the best of the generation), really fun gameplay (admittedly not too different from the first part).
    The only problem I see is that story-wise it's too ambitious, moving this game to art territory and ultimately falling    We always expect the best from Naughty Dog and they delivered a lot: superb mechanics (with some small bugs on release, sure it will be fixed), beautiful graphics (one of the best of the generation), really fun gameplay (admittedly not too different from the first part).
    The only problem I see is that story-wise it's too ambitious, moving this game to art territory and ultimately falling a bit short to communicate it's message to wide audience this game has.
    Nevertheless the story is brave and emotional, a must for lovers of story-centric games in general. Give this game a chance, you won't be sorry.    … Expand
  2. Legend3994
    Jun 23, 2020
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Everything outside of the plot and pacing is phenomenal. What ND was able to do with the PS4 hardware is very impressive and a ton of work.

    The gameplay is very good, controls great, level design fairly balanced.

    Where the game falls flat on it's face is provide a convincing plot. Essentially the game has you see all of the blow back of Joel basically exterminating the Firefly base. One of the surgeon's daughters is Abby, so from her perspective Joel is an awful person. She's hellbent on revenge which she obtains and experiences guilt. Over time both lead characters - Abby/Ellie - become aware of each other's perspective. The player gets to experience each first hand. Abby gradually grows and tries to make amends by helping Lev and pursue the Fireflies and help restore humanity/society.

    Based on what the game shows us with certainty, Ellie does not grow. After 2 years of living the good life on a farm, she effectively ends her marriage and goes on a weeks/months long quest to California to murder Abby. She finds that she's been emaciated as a slave and tortured for months. Abby still wants to leave it, but no - Ellie like a sociopath must kill. So many times I tried to walk away, and not initiate the final blow because it is so morally repulsive, but the game forces you to to end the game. She ultimately stops short of drowning Abby, but based on her return to the empty farm and leaving the farm, it's ambiguous about whether or not Ellie has grown at all as a person. Only from recent interviews do we see that she does. Had I not had that confirmation, I would have given this game a 6/10 because I have no interest in partaking in sociopathic murder porn. It's one thing to fight for survival or if the enemy doesn't give you a choice, but the game forces you to.

    Based on interviews, it's clear that they didn't make Ellie's PTSD a convincing enough excuse. Abby had PTSD too, but she grew. Also from the interviews - apparently until 18 months ago the ending was to kill Abby - whoever at ND changed that you saved the franchise, it would have been GoT all over again.    … Expand
  3. CharlesJonas18
    Jun 23, 2020
    10
    The best PS4 game That matters if the character belongs to the LGBT + community, everything is perfect, game mode, story, graphics, etc.
    One of the best naughty dog ​​jobs.
  4. guiltts
    Jun 23, 2020
    10
    Lindo , obra prima,
    com certeza será GOTY.

    CHORA CAIXISTA , CHORA CHYFANI
  5. RuinOurHope
    Jun 23, 2020
    0
    First thing , I am not a bot.
    I`m just another guy who is upset about this "10/10" sequel.This disgusting sequel is so ridiculous that makes me create this account to vent my anger as my first/only rating.
    As a TLOU player, I can`t accept this plot for Ellie and Joel.
  6. Meowpunch
    Jun 23, 2020
    10
    This is definitely most controversial game I've ever seen but it is also one of the greatest games I've ever met. The game gives me a totally brand new experience which any other medium cannot give. Some plot in this game may not make you comfortable and some gameplay may be unreasonable, but trust me, when you reach the end, it's all worth it. What you need to do is to block all negativeThis is definitely most controversial game I've ever seen but it is also one of the greatest games I've ever met. The game gives me a totally brand new experience which any other medium cannot give. Some plot in this game may not make you comfortable and some gameplay may be unreasonable, but trust me, when you reach the end, it's all worth it. What you need to do is to block all negative comments and settle down to feel and understand what the game wants to convey.… Expand
  7. CiphirSol
    Jun 23, 2020
    10
    This place is a cesspool, probably one of most disgusting slimy holes of the internet I've seen in some time. Bunch of crybabies doing crybaby things en masse. There must be a sweatshop full of sweaty nerds somewhere wringing their incompetent hands and/or feeling like they stuck it to Neil Druckmann personally and they're such good "hackers". Hahaha! Reveiw-bombing Metacritic doesn't doThis place is a cesspool, probably one of most disgusting slimy holes of the internet I've seen in some time. Bunch of crybabies doing crybaby things en masse. There must be a sweatshop full of sweaty nerds somewhere wringing their incompetent hands and/or feeling like they stuck it to Neil Druckmann personally and they're such good "hackers". Hahaha! Reveiw-bombing Metacritic doesn't do anything you babies; and what you've failed to realize is now the score is so ridiculously lopsided that nobody is going to take the user-score for any game seriously ever again! I gotta go, it smells like stale cheetos and mountain dew in here.… Expand
  8. Kimchee
    Jun 23, 2020
    1
    I was looking forward to this game being a huge State of Decay fan and watching a lot of TLOU 1 "lets plays" online. I heard about the leaks and did everything in my power to just ignore it since there isn't a lot of major releases other than Cyberpunk this year. I pre-ordered the game from Gamestop and promptly picked it up and started to play it. I will list my Pro's and Con's below inI was looking forward to this game being a huge State of Decay fan and watching a lot of TLOU 1 "lets plays" online. I heard about the leaks and did everything in my power to just ignore it since there isn't a lot of major releases other than Cyberpunk this year. I pre-ordered the game from Gamestop and promptly picked it up and started to play it. I will list my Pro's and Con's below in details however I will give a quick synopsis first. One word describes this game, Predictable. From all of Neil Druckmann's tweets and how Sony has been copy striking people it was pretty obvious from the get go that this game is not for us, its Neil Druckmann's love letter to social justice. Everything was so predictable from the start. As an Asian male I heard about all of this inclusiveness and how this game was going to be a progressive step forward however the game is full of white characters. From the get-go the game does everything possible to get you to hate Ellie and side with Abby. The problem is Ellie is a beloved character and Joel is the anti-hero every game franchise needs. Abby had no back story, we had no investment towards her, but in Druckmann's mind her character checked a check box so we should just throw away our love and alliances for Ellie for Abby, because social justice! Abby's character is bland, there is no development into her, and quite honestly I didn't want to play as her, I wanted to kill her. The Joel death scene was again typical. It was a social message to embarrass the white manly male character by a woman in the most demoralizing way as possible. The death scene just like the sex scene was done for one reason, for the shock value. It was unnecessary and uncomfortable. The sex scene was disgusting and basically a rape scene. The plot of the story didn't develop well and nowhere in the game was I invested on continuing to play. Every cutscene had its injection of politics and I felt like I was being talked down too, as if I was reading a Neil Druckmann tweet. My final observation from this game is that it is a tone deaf to what we the people really want in a game and Druckmann and company are just trolling us. This was one of the worst games I've played not just from a plot line but also the characters and game play. The game play was linear and boring. I felt like I was just grinding to get to the plot of the story only to have everything I love about the game to be destroyed by a cut scene. The biggest problem I have is the media call me a woman hating, homophobic, blah blah blah blah. I'm sick of being talked down to by people in the media. I hate this game because its a bad game with a horrible plot,. You can call me names or a Russian Bot but it doesn't erase the fact that this game is a tone deaf and brief look into our current social state. If 98% of the country doesn't submit to what the media tells us to do or love then we are ________phobes, _____ists, etc. I have a few female members in my COD clan and all we talked about today was how horrible this game was so its not just men, its a majority of us that think this game needs to be buried with E.T. To me, This game isn't canon and Joel and Ellie are still alive.

    Pros
    Good Graphics, nothing close to PC graphics but good for the platform
    Cool Uniforms and Clothing
    Voice acting is top notch!
    Ellie is still one of the best characters along with Joel!

    Cons
    The trailers lied and manipulated us. I bought this game because I saw Joel grabbing Ellie and thought this would be the continuation of their story.
    All the Joel footage is just flashback its a bait and switch
    Same ole gameplay as the original TLOU its just a pebranded dot version essentially
    Terrible plot line
    Lack of character investment
    Lack of character back story
    Lack of character maturation
    Destroyed any replayability of TLOU 1 by destroying the characters
    Too much social politics inserted
    Being talked down to in cut scenes
    Being forced to like Abby by being forced to play with her and the plot trying to set Ellie up into situations that force us to not like her; even though its totally against Ellie's character.
    Forcing an 8-month pregnant woman to patrol
    Joel's death scene was an obvious social statement and made to embarrass one of the best male characters in gaming
    The sex scene was disturbing and more like a rape scene and the sex scene had no build up or backstory. Its just two people meet and within minutes they are having sex even though this man has a family.
    The Lesbian couple was touted on Twitter and the media yet are a secondary throw away character in this game
    Abby is over powered and we are forced to play with her even though we all hate her.
    The unnecessary destruction of Ellie in the end is disgusting and was again just done for shock value and to boost up Abby
    The jump function is useless
    Lack of minority characters, all the main characters are white
    Game is too linear should have been open world
    40% of the game is walking    … Expand
  9. Nsalp
    Jun 23, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game is an absolute failure I was really hoping for it to be more about the struggles Joel and Ellie would go through especially with Ellie learning the truth about what Joel did but no instead the game is supposed to be about a whole different characters vengeance upon one of the most beloved characters of all time just what a waste… Expand
  10. ranciando
    Jun 23, 2020
    10
    NO HAGAN CASO DE LAS EVALUACIONES NEGATIVAS. Una obra maestra espectacular! Gráficos avanzados de última generación, increíble jugabilidad, notable narración y trama. Vale absolutamente la pena jugarlo. Está a la altura de su antecesora. La recomiendo de todas maneras!
  11. Emacam10
    Jun 23, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Una de las características más importantes de The Last of Us 1 fue la historia, es lo que realmente me cautivo... La segunda parte la arruinaron.
    Personajes que ni siquiera son relevantes, ni siquiera te marcan. Esperé 7 años para esto.    … Expand
  12. Mudkip0405
    Jun 23, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Badly written. Joel is dumbed down, his death is too early and not satisfying, we then spend 10-15 hours playing as his murderer. Tommy also does a complete 180 at the end. Before leaving seattle he said "shes gonna have to live is that okay" he was content leaving seattle so long as ellies safe, then after a timeskip he comes to ellies house, starts insulting her and guilts her into going after abby, so she leaves her wife and son to go on a suicide mission, and doesnt even kill abby. The game ends with Ellie having lost everything, and I mean EVERYTHING and for nothing. Shes all alone now. She deserved better and so did joel… Expand
  13. Heravis
    Jun 23, 2020
    0
    + 10 за саундтрек, графику, геймплей
    - 10 за сюжет
    И того в общей сумме 0/10
  14. Whante
    Jun 22, 2020
    5
    On en parle des gonflements des notes de la presse asiatique ? ( et certainement européenne et américaine ).
    Alors que dire à part que je suis énormément déçu. Niveau gameplay... la même chose tlou..
    Le jeu est scripté comme pas possible.
    Graphiquement, le jeu est très beau ! Et la bo
  15. Qwerty90
    Jun 23, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The Last of Us 2. First of all, I would like to warn you that my comment has spoilers (obviously). Second, I used Google Translate to convert my text to English. Therefore, perhaps the literal meaning may be altered. During the course of history, a monotonous gameplay is perceived and unattractive to the players. Unfortunately this applies in the story too, through Ellie's "revenge" which seems to have totally changed her personality. In fact, ALL the characters in the first game are not really them. Ellie often in the game seems to have bipolarity (nothing against those who have), like for example: before going out with Jess to go after Tommy, Ellie said she would do anything to rescue him, but a few minutes go by. the same character sets aside Tommy's rescue to "kill" Abby. In addition to Joel, a man who spent more than twenty years in this apocalyptic world, learning not to trust anyone, was killed in a ridiculous way, simply for believing in a stranger (Abby) who was running away from several infected. I don't care if Joel died, the important thing was to kill the character in a dignified way. The worst part is that the game forces you to play with Joel's killer, they could launch Abby's gameplay in a future DLC, so it didn't force the player to control her. This culminated in a horrible ending, after killing several people does Ellie think that not killing Abby would end the cycle of revenge? After everything she went through, including the death of Jesse / Joel, the loss of both fingers, among others. The game could have the option of the player himself to choose what to do, it would be better.… Expand
  16. Nogeko
    Jun 22, 2020
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Me parece horrible que mucho odien el juego porque muestre la relación homosexual de eli, o porque mata a joel, entiendo un poco el punto de que no les guste la historia de ABBY, pero no es mala ni nada, todos en el mundo de the las of us son una mierda de gente, es logico que no termine todo bien para la protagonista, y el final me pareció de lo mejor, eli rompió el ciclo de venganza, y termino perdiendo todo lo que amaba por seguir su venganza ciega, no le pongo un 10 simplemente porque le falto un poquito de carácter a abby, pero solo un poquito… Expand
  17. Plkyz
    Jun 23, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. After 7 years from the masterpiece that was The Last of Us, we get the sequel to a very loved game. It would seem impossible to think of this game flopping due to everything established in the first game and the excitement of the news of a sequel. But somehow it was worse than I could ever imagine.

    The tragedy that sets the whole story into motion is also a great betrayal of beloved characters on the part of Naughty Dog. The problem with this scene is not that Joel dies but the manner of how he dies and possibly when this takes place in the story. Joel in the TLoU was always cautious and hardly trusting of anyone. Joel even drove into a stranger on the road pretending he was injured because he knew what they were planning from prior experience of doing the same thing. Knowing the danger of people, Joel and Tommy decide to risk their lives to save a stranger with infected storming in to then tell Abby where they live and what their real names are without finding the motives of this stranger first? With the rising pressure of the infected, they decide to flee to the friends of Abby who are hiding in there neck of the woods and probably shouldn't even be there with no cause for concern with what that could mean. Not to mention the game just started and just before you even get your feet wet into the game Joel dies to a nobody in such a dry way just for shock value. This whole scene felt so forced and ingenuine of their characters that I didn't want to keep watching after this all played out.

    The second half of the game was very boring as I couldn't care less for Abby or any of Abby's friends. ND forces you to play as Abby just so they can impress upon you that Abby was justified with the actions that unfolded throughout the game. I never bought into this idea and never will. Also, don't get me started with the unbearable sex scene that came out of nowhere.

    What seemed to be the ending(s) of the game which I thought ever time it faded to black was more disturbing than what they did to Joel. Between the ideology being shoved down our throats the whole game to the cycle of revenge never taking place which was broken as Ellie let her go, I realized this game was a giant waste of my time.

    The only good things I can take away from the game are the amazing graphics, superb voice acting, and the flashbacks to Joel and Ellie that looking back now should have been the entire game.    … Expand
  18. Cahmizs
    Jun 23, 2020
    10
    This game got me so many times!
    Story is so good bro, everything, graphics, scenes, everything perfect. Nothing wrong with this amazing piece.
  19. MoroccanGeneral
    Jun 23, 2020
    0
    getting a refund,boring buggy , id say amiga games are better than this pile of s h i t
  20. Scrivenerian
    Jun 23, 2020
    0
    Gets one point for technical proficiency and one for polish. The rest is worthless. The gameplay is the same rudimentary stealth back-stab-athon you played in 2013 with a handful of superficial new mechanics (dodge! jump!) tacked on. The world is detailed, but drab, a consequence of the setting, sure, but still tedious. The new characters are unlikeable, if not immediately hateful, and theGets one point for technical proficiency and one for polish. The rest is worthless. The gameplay is the same rudimentary stealth back-stab-athon you played in 2013 with a handful of superficial new mechanics (dodge! jump!) tacked on. The world is detailed, but drab, a consequence of the setting, sure, but still tedious. The new characters are unlikeable, if not immediately hateful, and the old characters are changed for the worse and abused to no good purpose. The story pretends moral depth and substance, but is only crude, cruel, and self-contradicting. Skip this game. Play anything else. You'll be a better, happier person for it.… Expand
  21. Keell
    Jun 23, 2020
    10
    Tbh I’d give this game an 8 or 9 outta 10. But you got people giving it 1’s who haven’t even played it.
  22. AlexisLS03
    Jun 23, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Most people criticize the game without substantiated arguments, for being inclusive (criticizing that Ellie is from the LGBT community in this game, when actually, since part 1 in the dlc Ellie shows her preferences and tbh I do not see anything wrong with the fact of having a wide variety of people with different characteristics, backgrounds or beliefs) or arguing that it is a bad story just because Joel does not have an epic death and is not a protagonist as in the first game (it is true that we would all have liked to have another story with Joel being a hero), but really that's the best of the game, it's a master piece with a real and raw story attached to what can happen in such a world as the one in the game, where anyone can die in any way, the game even give us other perspectives of several important events in the first game, also has an amazing quality of the graphics and scenarios, an amazing gameplay and as always take care of even the smallest detail and features, delving into the world where the game takes place, very good soundrack, in my opinion its a very good game… Expand
  23. giumpo
    Jun 23, 2020
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Most of the criticisms from other users are given by the fact that after Joel's death there is not an important evolution of the characters, which is also partly true, but I found this new chapter very engaging I guess also thanks to the beautiful soundtrack.… Expand
  24. a_schu
    Jun 23, 2020
    1
    Yeah, good graphics, gameplay Bla Bla Bla. But the storyline is awful and you broke my heart Naughty Dog. Did I wait 7 years for this? Horrible!! Forget about part 3 or whatsoever.
  25. korosensei91
    Jun 21, 2020
    10
    just wow! played it through in one bit. thank you naughty dog! I went through all kinds of emotions and I got what you are telling with this game. even if people don't like the story, I think we can all agree that the game is BEAUTIFUL. I mean really from a game's perspective, the graphics, the gameplay, the music... wow! naughty dog did it again!
  26. Kirshara
    Jun 23, 2020
    9
    A flawed but deeply emotional and touching game. What it lacks in cohesion it makes up for in heart. Could have easily been the greatest game of all time but seemed to stumble under the weight of its ham-fisted political messaging. TLoU is, in my mind, the greatest game of all time and I so wanted this one to top it. It was not to be so. Perhaps my biggest complaint is Joel. To beA flawed but deeply emotional and touching game. What it lacks in cohesion it makes up for in heart. Could have easily been the greatest game of all time but seemed to stumble under the weight of its ham-fisted political messaging. TLoU is, in my mind, the greatest game of all time and I so wanted this one to top it. It was not to be so. Perhaps my biggest complaint is Joel. To be unceremoniously dispatched may have. in the view of some, been the right choice for the story but... instead it come of as an attempt to get him out of the way. He deserved better and so did the fans. I love this game but it is not near the same level as the first one..… Expand
  27. mrCh3p
    Jun 23, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Good game on technical level. Few bugs here and there.

    But the campaign man, I feel betrayed. The narrative feels a complete mess. And again you are forced to play with a character that just appears, with no empathy to her at all just to build that "emphaty"? Really?

    Don't waste your money pleas e unless is used. You can't allow a game of this narrative quality to be normalized.    … Expand
  28. Hazine
    Jun 23, 2020
    10
    Absolute masterpiece, I really liked the game! Great story, visuals and gameplay.
  29. Simahan
    Jun 20, 2020
    0
    Honestly speaking, this is not a bad GAME. The gameplay seems pretty good and there are awesome moments here and there while you crawl your way forward. But, as a STORY, it really sucks. It feels more like social and PC propaganda than a charming game and it seems characters just totally lost their humanity here. And when you get the whole picture and you find out the plot is an overHonestly speaking, this is not a bad GAME. The gameplay seems pretty good and there are awesome moments here and there while you crawl your way forward. But, as a STORY, it really sucks. It feels more like social and PC propaganda than a charming game and it seems characters just totally lost their humanity here. And when you get the whole picture and you find out the plot is an over dramatical mess with sad moments almost every 10 minutes... i dont know. Part of the greatest from the first one was the way how the game show you little moments of happyness in paralell with the appocalypse around, how you can let pass and take every wrong decitiom Joel made cause he portrait us well in regards of any survival situation. But here they are just pitch black people just cause.

    In the end, this is a lackluster, watered down version from the first one in terms of narrative and i cant recommend you to buy it if you are a hardcore fan, cause the characters and their ways can turn you off in a couple of hours. Ellie seems an offbrand version of herself... i kid you not.    … Expand
  30. TheRealMarcyyy
    Jun 23, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The gameplay first off is vastly improved, there's new mechanics that allow for better combat, stealth, etc. Graphics is out of this world and the soundtrack is truly amazing. And the overall theme of this game makes the first one seem like a Disney movie. Character development is key in this game too.… 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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Critic score distribution:
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  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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