The Last of Us Part II

 PlayStation 4
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5.8

Mixed or average reviews- based on 161975 Ratings

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  3. Negative: 68,475 out of 161975
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  1. Callogere
    Jun 21, 2020
    9
    El videojuego este tiene grandes gráficos y una banda sonora perfecta, osea en lo técnico es lo mejor de la generación en la historia hay algunos huecos argumentales pero son pocos y con poca relevancia, la inclusión es algo que no me molesto y no te tendría que importar para jugar a este videojuego para resumir el juego es bueno y que marcará una generación y divira a los fans
  2. BorisMoskin
    Jun 21, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Аааааа. Это шедевр!!!!! Графика. Сюжет. Гемплей. Однозначно игра года! Так обидно, что маленький рейтинг! Необоснованно занижены! Столько эмоций! Так показать героев, что даже начинаешь сопередивать тем, кто убил Джоэла. Шикарно! Обожаю!… Expand
  3. Felixxuko69
    Jun 21, 2020
    10
    Hasta ahora, lo jugado me parece una maravilla, tanto la jugabilidad como los gráficos. Un juego hecho con mucho mimo. La historia de momento muy buena también, cuando lo acabe veremos si cambio la calificación.
  4. NelsonBarahona7
    Jun 26, 2020
    10
    Yo es que me la paso muy bien jugando a este videojuego, me ha encantado. la gente que lo odia que vaya a llorar a la lloreria y deje a la gente que os gusta el juego, jugar en paz y tranquilo.
  5. Davey2345
    Jun 21, 2020
    10
    A brilliantly made game with fantastic gameplay, writing, directing, performances. Play it with an open mind and ignore these review bombs!
  6. Tony88
    Jun 23, 2020
    0
    This game was very disappointing. Story is trash. I want my money back. Don't care about this game at all. Sony do a better job double checking ND
  7. Jems189
    Jun 22, 2020
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. i think its a good ending because ellie gave joel's forgiveness to abby for his lie.i… Expand
  8. Purplenurple78
    Jun 22, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Im on the last chapter of the game and i still want abby to die a horrible death. Naughty dog has done a terrible job at making me not hate abby or her friends. You know you've failed at developing your new characters to be likeable when I shouted with joy at manny getting shot in the head by tommy and seeing his eye explode. I cheered tommy on when he had the upper hand on abby and screamed kill her several times. This is the most generic and tedious revenge story ever with the most obvious message. Yes mr neil druckmann we get it revenge and violence is bad mkay.… Expand
  9. Gigabyte99
    Jul 15, 2020
    0
    Don't make it common for game creators and studios to write the game story like this one...
  10. fatass
    Jun 22, 2020
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Game is focused on the progression of time.
    Game starts with Joel cleaning a guitar to give to Ellie. A metaphor. He's cleaning his past, it doesn't go away. Yet he tries the best that he can, he gives the guitar to Ellie. Time passes, when he gives it to Ellie, he tells her a joke:

    what's the downward of eating a clock? It's time consuming.

    All the game revolves around this. Spending time doing things we think might be important, wasting time because those action take us away time to do things we really like with people we love.
    Revenge is one of those time wasting actions.
    This point is carried till the very end of the game.

    A specific fact puts everything in motion. In the prologue, Joel is killed by Abby. That's where the game starts.
    We're put in Ellie's shoes seeking revenge. That's not a "bad scene", that's not "bad writing". That's the main plotline, that's what people miss about this (maybe because they didn't even play the game).

    So, we're in Ellie's shoes and we are going after the WLF, Washington Liberation Front, a rebel group. Most of the game we're her seeking revenge. The narration lasts for 3 days, with flashbacks from the very end of The Last of Us to the very start of The Last of Us Part II. There's also another point of view. Abby's point of view, the one who killed Joel. Narration, takes the same diegetic timing, three days and four years flashbacks.

    We then discover Abby avenges his father's dead killing Joel. And Ellie avenges Joel killing everyone Abby loved.
    Everything is cyclical. Revenge brings even more revenge. Death brings death.

    The Last of Us revolves around the impossibility to separate what's bad from what's good. Subjectivity and pragmatism has always been the main focus of the first game. In the end we're left with just question, was Joel right? He saved the only person he really cared about, but he left the rest of the world dying. They put the whole Abby's story to be certain that you could understand that all the people (and sigh dogs) you killed with Ellie (and you didn't care about, because they were just NPCs) were actually someone for someone else than you. That's the whole point of both games. Choiches. Consequences.
    In the first game we're left with Joel killing people to save the one he really loves. Someone kills him because of this. Was he right? He killed for a loved one. Was Abby right? She also killed for a loved one. The point is: everyone is right, everyone is wrong. They did what they did because they felt it was the right thing to do. It was not the same for other people.

    In the end after a year, we are almost in another world, but Ellie is restless and still wants to kill Abby. She finds her a few states far, in California, where she's been held captive and tortured for two whole months. Ellie tries to kill what's left of her again, but in the end she gives up.
    Abby was wrong keeping on with the revenge loop, killing Joel. Ellie makes the right decision. She's not like Abby, she can be better. Yet she wasted a lot of time trying to have justice, when it was just another revenge. In the end, there's no one for her anymore. But, at the same time she found herself again, breaking the cycle, not killing anyone. That's the point.

    In the first game we save Ellie, someone else dies.
    In both games we kill people, someone else life will be over.

    I too felt like **** seeing Joel dying. But that's the whole point of the game. We feel like **** That's what a character might have felt seeing someone who they cared for dying. The game aimed for that "feel like **** feeling", they wanted you to feel anger against Abby. But in the end it tries to explain that anyone can "feel like **** every one can feel anger. Abby too.
    In conclusion, you felt like **** That's good because you were supposed to feel like **** but you're supposed to understand that you're not the only one. And who's right being angry? Everyone. You are justified in your anger, so Abby was. At the same time, no one. Someone you loved died, someone who they loved died too. If you want a punishment in a dialectical meaning, you also get it. Both Ellie and Abby lost everyone they loved at the hands of the other one, except for one only person. In the end Abby is also captured and tortured, a semi-extradiegetic revenge always used in storywriting, where the revenge is not served in the main plot but it is by something in the same universe.

    Characters makes you feel in world full of people, as opposed to the first game. You're not the only one fighting this, you got supportive people all along the way. And this is the main difference from the first game. You have someone to fight for. You have someone who would fight for you.

    Level design changes a bit from the first game, as gameplay does. It's built in a more vertical way, and the world is biggerUnfortunatelly nomorespace i canttalk more about characters+gameplay+leveldesign bcse talkd toomuch sorry    … Expand
  11. tom07
    Jun 22, 2020
    10
    Absolutely fantastic!
    Engrossing story. Well developed characters. Visually stunning. Brutal and upsetting. I am at an age now where playing games is a luxury, due to pressures of time and life in general, so I am chosing them carefully as I am struggling to carve time again once I put the controller down. This game sucked me in and spit me out in pieces.
    Entertainment at its finest.
  12. hoarwhite
    Jun 22, 2020
    10
    this game spend my 23 hours and 3 days to think , i dont think this is a bad game, gamer need time to think , my personal score is 8.
  13. Brdc
    Jun 26, 2020
    10
    This game is incredible. The narrative choices are definitely bold and divisive but this is what makes this game so unique and memorable.
  14. Bobbie_young
    Jun 25, 2020
    0
    Was haben die mit dem Spiel gemacht. Kann doch nicht sein das Die so ein schönes Spiel wie das erste Teil im zweiten Teil so verhauen
  15. michiknowsbest
    Jun 26, 2020
    10
    Its a great Game and dont believe the foolish "zero" Reviews.
    One of the best console Games out there.
  16. VZTBC
    Jul 1, 2020
    10
    Bigots complaining about SJW issues which are frankly non-existent. The story has been wonderfully woven in from the previous version although it is shocking. The story telling itself is also good. The game is definitely amazing although it is a bit damaging and disturbing.
    Please watch Girlfriend reviews on You tube and you ll know what i mean. Been thinking about this story for a week    Bigots complaining about SJW issues which are frankly non-existent. The story has been wonderfully woven in from the previous version although it is shocking. The story telling itself is also good. The game is definitely amazing although it is a bit damaging and disturbing.
    Please watch Girlfriend reviews on You tube and you ll know what i mean. Been thinking about this story for a week now. I loved it.    … Expand
  17. Sebasmurok
    Jun 22, 2020
    10
    The best game of the generation so far, the rest of the critics are so nonsense, is ridiculous how the people are reacting to the game in the wrong aspect, THE LAST OF US PART II THE BEST GAME EVER HATERS!
  18. luisymas0
    Jun 22, 2020
    10
    Sin duda es un juego mucho más complejo y elaborado que no es para todo público, que aportan bastante siempre y cuando hayas jugado la primera parte.
    Es uno de los juego que más emociones me ha dado y decir que a nivel de historia inferior a su primera entrega pues es respetable debido a que no hay mucha evolución de los personajes, sin embargo las distintas formas en las que    Sin duda es un juego mucho más complejo y elaborado que no es para todo público, que aportan bastante siempre y cuando hayas jugado la primera parte.
    Es uno de los juego que más emociones me ha dado y decir que a nivel de historia inferior a su primera entrega pues es respetable debido a que no hay mucha evolución de los personajes, sin embargo las distintas formas en las que experimentas las consecuencias de la venganza es indiscutiblemente maravilloso, realmente te hace sentir culpable de los actos que has cometido, haciéndote sentir una basura en algunos momentos, y debo admitir que llegaron partes del juego que me dieron ganas de no agarrar el control porque simplemente no quería ver una "supuesta" muerte más.
    Aparte de algunos errores técnicos casi indetectables o como que uno que otro bug muy rara vez, es un juego muy completo y pulido, y si, quizá el final fue un poco esperado al principio de verlo, pero después de analizarlo no fue como otros finales de la típica venganza en la que se le perdona la vida al enemigo simplemente porque eso "no nos haría una mejor persona que el", si no que en este caso le perdona la vida porque por ese instante ellie se logra perdonar la muerte de joel, lo que finalmente la libera de sus pesadillas, pero a un costo enorme, perdiendo todo lo que alguna vez tuvo, es decir, le perdonó la vida porque ella lo necesitaba, más no porque era lo "correcto".
    En resumen un gran juego con una historia muy buena y fuera de lo común en videojuegos (almenos de la forma en la que está contada) y que sin duda sabe hacerte ver la cruda realidad de la vida.
    Muy recomendable si están dispuestos a una historia mucho más compleja y madura, pero si estas acostumbrado a que todo sea color de rosas u odias todo lo que sea que no es como quieres, pues mejor no lo juegues o lo veas, porque una crítica sin haberlo jugado es la más grande estupidez que alguien puede hacerle a un videojuego.    … Expand
  19. ciano1000
    Jun 22, 2020
    10
    The amount of review bombing coming in from bigots who haven't played the game are disgusting, the depth in all facets of this game is astounding, difficult to play through? Yes, because our beloved characters really do get kicked from all sides here, people expecting everything to have a happy ending really need to grow up a little. It's fine to have a differing opinion but objectivelyThe amount of review bombing coming in from bigots who haven't played the game are disgusting, the depth in all facets of this game is astounding, difficult to play through? Yes, because our beloved characters really do get kicked from all sides here, people expecting everything to have a happy ending really need to grow up a little. It's fine to have a differing opinion but objectively this game does not deserve an inch of the abuse it has been receiving… Expand
  20. georgesoo
    Jun 26, 2020
    10
    The best story narrative driven game I’ve played ever. A unique game through and through. Neil Druckmann and the ND Team hit this one out of the park.
  21. Slayer_365
    Jun 22, 2020
    10
    Me pareció un juego excelente, las malas críticas son gente que ni siquiera lo jugó
  22. ironjode
    Jul 9, 2020
    1
    this games sucks donkey balls, you want to kill your own character after less than half the game. Maybe cyberpunk will be better. truthfully i only went through about half of the game
  23. JTFricker
    Jun 22, 2020
    9
    I have put approx 25-30 hours into this game and can say without a doubt, the negative reviews are either from those who bought into the leaks or went out of their way to find something to hate. The characters are well written and each has their own motivations. The narrative is driven forward in organic and impactful ways. The gameplay has improved upon what was existing and added in newI have put approx 25-30 hours into this game and can say without a doubt, the negative reviews are either from those who bought into the leaks or went out of their way to find something to hate. The characters are well written and each has their own motivations. The narrative is driven forward in organic and impactful ways. The gameplay has improved upon what was existing and added in new options for combat. When I booted up the game for the first time I like many others was on the lookout for virtue signalling and after all the hours I have put into the game I can safely say they appear in either very minor capacities or not at all. TLOU 2 is a fantastic continuation of the first game and touches on the adage 'an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind'. Only negative I can speak to is the cutscenes feel long at times and now that I'm on the final stretch of gameplay I'm anxious to see it resolved.… Expand
  24. Friendofabby
    Jun 22, 2020
    10
    Tired of the hate and review bombing - this game is as good as the reviews say it is. These fools either are homophobic or can't get over that their views are hypocritical. There is very little separating the actions of any of these characters. Don't buy the hate and miss out on something incredibly ambitious and special.
  25. xXhunterXx116
    Jun 22, 2020
    10
    This game is very complex mixed with a lot of emotions. I have never felt this way about a game ever. It's a game you need to play
  26. kostile
    Jun 22, 2020
    10
    Tlou2 is a very strong emotionally driven game with indepth detail of the characters story. No punches are held back when it comes to shock value that happens in a split second and raw emotion portrayed at its finest and darkest.
  27. DinaSousa
    Jun 22, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Killing Joel wasnt the right thing to do, and Druckman decides the best way to end the scene is doggystyle sex and then spit on Joel? Wow, such innovative storytelling. Avoid at all costs.… Expand
  28. Rassim
    Jun 22, 2020
    10
    Всю игру разработчики второй части убивали первую часть . Такой процесс разрушения приятных воспоминаний .
  29. PunchJonny
    Jun 23, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Ok gameplay, not a great story. Made Joel look like a total moron, killed him, then made to play 20 hours of the murder of Joel. Btw, am I stuck on stupid or was this game marketed as another Ellie and Joel adventure.… Expand
  30. OMKM
    Jun 23, 2020
    0
    Compared to the first part, where everything looked harmonious and tasteful, the second part is a complete bottom!
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#2 Best PS4 Game of 2020
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Universal acclaim - based on 121 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 113 out of 121
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 121
  3. Negative: 0 out of 121
  1. GameMAG
    Sep 13, 2020
    90
    The Last of Us Part II is the high point of the PlayStation 4. The plot is controversial, but the game is the incredibly addictive adventure of Ellie, from which it is impossible to pull away from the opening and to the very end.
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  2. PLAY! Zine
    Sep 5, 2020
    93
    Not everyone is going to enjoy the motives of The Last of Us Part II. But if you try and manage to accept the subliminal and not so subtle messages as a fact that the world has gone awry and that people have the need to have somewhere or someone to belong to as their own way out, then... You will witness the boundaries of gaming expand. You will witness a true masterpiece.
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  3. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Sep 3, 2020
    75
    If you loved the original for its great characters and well-paced story – stay away from this game. However, if you’re aching to sink into the depths of depression, or just want to cut some throats and burn some zombies – Part II will deliver. [Issue#247, p.72]
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