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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  1. Positive: 84,950 out of 161975
  2. Mixed: 8,550 out of 161975
  3. Negative: 68,475 out of 161975
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  1. Atom1cH0bgoblin
    Jun 19, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. They have absolutely butchered the character development so much that it goes backwards. They shove this SJW bull down your throats by making it what the non existent plot is all about, making the characters bland and bringing real life ' political correctness ' into the game. Then to top it all off, they try to get you to sympathise with the antagonist who killed off one of the best characters in modern gaming and ruin Ellie's character as well. Massive disappointment and is not worthy to be in the same series as the original game.… Expand
  2. Moshe215
    Jun 19, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. wonderful gameplay seriously is really beautiful and the soundtrack too but imagine being in a post-pandemic world and your priority is that the world knows that you are "like this", we all expected Joel to die and possibly Ellie too but not in such a stupid way as they have done it, in just 4 years enormous progress has been shown when in the first one barely saw any salvageable things from the modern world totally meaningless. A total example that most of the sequels are rubbish… Expand
  3. Andresito87
    Jun 19, 2020
    1
    Overrated game. The first game is better. Lots of hugs and boring story plot
  4. onicron
    Jun 19, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. CONTIENE SPOILERS............................................

    todos sabemos la verdad , de porque se arruino el Juego y tiene que ver con Joe ,su muerte .
    y un nuevo personaje. esto demuestra que un projecto maravilloso puede morir por solo una ideologia .
    bueno este le duele mas a sony que a mi , por mi parte no gastes un centavo !!    … Expand
  5. Dragonborn169
    Jun 19, 2020
    1
    Developers should listen to the opinion of the actual players instead of lgbt experts.
  6. Hamad05
    Jun 21, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I‘m so disappointed. I tried to avoid the leaks and I bought the game to review it by myself. My expectation was high but when I played the game it was one of the worst game experience ever. Killing Joel at the beginning was a bad idea. Great graphics and game-play but the story is so bad and I feel so disappointed. To be honest I will avoid all naughty dog future games and I will save my money because clearly they are taking another direction.… Expand
  7. PM_ghost77
    Jun 19, 2020
    1
    The most important part of a game is the history, is the one that invite you to complete a long game and enjoy the process, but in this case the story si so bad from the beginnig, that it ruined the whole experience, such a disappointment, when i heard the leak of the game i though "there is no way they would ruin the game like that! must be a mistake" i was mistaken
  8. madjid9387
    Jun 19, 2020
    1
    I expected more from NaughtyDog than that, the story of the game was not good...
  9. Axel_Levi
    Jun 19, 2020
    1
    Hello. :)
    This game is pure garbage.
    It has great graphics, but story and gameplay is from 2006. The first game was way much better, I mean a lot better.
    No word about that SJW agenda. I think they tried so hard about this game, but at the end they dind´t make it.
  10. 6mclaren
    Jun 19, 2020
    1
    two hours in and I don’t want to keep playing. I had such high hopes going in, avoided every spoiler and leak I could... but it wasn’t enough. They should have left the story as it was and ended it with the first game. It’s a shame. Everything is so unbelievably forced and I feel like the story really doesn’t go anywhere. Only reason I give it a 1 rather than a zero is because thetwo hours in and I don’t want to keep playing. I had such high hopes going in, avoided every spoiler and leak I could... but it wasn’t enough. They should have left the story as it was and ended it with the first game. It’s a shame. Everything is so unbelievably forced and I feel like the story really doesn’t go anywhere. Only reason I give it a 1 rather than a zero is because the mechanics are better. And that’s about the only good thing.… Expand
  11. g3gas
    Jun 20, 2020
    1
    Extremely disappointed. I can't believe it is this bad. I heard that the story is controversial but I decide to trust Naughtydog. The artwork is brilliant, but this is the worst game experience I have ever had.
  12. IvanGV23790
    Jun 19, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Joel no debía morir, vine a hacer mi descargo. Muy mala decisión eso empaña TODO lo bueno , en que estaban pensando? Y además de forzar el lesbianismo, que terrible que sean hipócritas y se unan a la moda, que sigue? Apoyar la pedofilia? La necrofilia?… Expand
  13. mp_ghost
    Jun 20, 2020
    1
    Worst game in history. An insult to all fans an players. How high the director was when he did this.
  14. Citizenmane
    Jun 19, 2020
    1
    Ugh. The visuals are about the only thing this game offers. The story writers must have phoned in this game, or been replaced since it ends up being less a fun sequel to a great game, and more a 10 hour long commercial for whatever agendas they want to push.

    I'm hoping this is the last of the series after playing this mess.
  15. Wollinger
    Jun 19, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Developers completely change the way the main character thinks, kills him and blame the internet for being sexist. Not our fault, the gamers, that they tried to bribe their way into different groups. Gamers loved the first game, all types of gamers there was no need to try to be PC on something that was was not wrong.… Expand
  16. aceman00
    Jun 19, 2020
    1
    A game with probably some of the best visuals I’ve ever seen, but a garbage story, lack of gameplay mechanics variety, unlikeable characters, and honestly just feels like a major step back in the franchise. I would say this is nothing more than a big budget fan fic.
  17. mike483
    Jun 19, 2020
    1
    Good graphics/programming but a terrible and boring story...NaughtyDog ruined a good thing they had going with the first game. On top of the terrible story and character development, NaughtyDog saturated the game with a SJW political agenda, warping characters and the overall feel from the original game so much that it becomes unrecognizable. If your going to bring a political agenda intoGood graphics/programming but a terrible and boring story...NaughtyDog ruined a good thing they had going with the first game. On top of the terrible story and character development, NaughtyDog saturated the game with a SJW political agenda, warping characters and the overall feel from the original game so much that it becomes unrecognizable. If your going to bring a political agenda into a video game at least do it in a brand new franchise instead of ruining an existing one. A SJW theme in a videogames/movies is not bad in itself, it's when you completely change an existing franchise so much to the point it becomes unrecognizable. Since this game is packed with LGBTQI characters, most of these bad reviews shouldn't be misconstrued as hatred of LGBTQI people. The bad reviews are mostly because of the terrible story/character development and less so the fact NaughtyDog completely changed the feel and direction the franchise had with the first game.… Expand
  18. Casualez
    Jun 19, 2020
    1
    The story is a complete kick to the nuts by the developers. I have no words.
  19. bsxv9
    Jun 19, 2020
    1
    I had this game on pre-order for 2 years. The first game is one of my favourite games of all time. THIS IS NOT THE LAST OF US. It plays like a last of us fan fiction, by someone who was trying to ruin every character in the game.
  20. snazzybacon4521
    Jun 19, 2020
    1
    too many plots hole in the story, the story is blank and depressing. Character deconstructed throughout the story. No meaningful ending.
  21. orig4mi
    Jun 26, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It pulls the "You killed a pregnant woman!" twist THREE TIMES. What the **** is this writing? The main character of the first game is completely dismantled and re-written as a garbage person, they made up a contrived way to kill him off, then you play as his murderer. The cast of this game is completely forgettable, dies fast and 10 hours later the game reminds you of them once so you can feel bad that you killed them. Its a completely unstructured mess that deserves all the hate and it did not understand why the first game resonated with so many people. I still think of the characters from the first game from time to time, the second, I care not one bit what kind of people they were, they die fast and the characters just move on.… Expand
  22. luigireis
    Jun 19, 2020
    1
    They have completely lost their sense of what is important in history. They decided to pay the ideological toll.
  23. NeonorangeX
    Jun 19, 2020
    1
    Generic, bland, boring. The story has gone in directions that will sour many people's opinion of the game. It's laughable to what happened to this. Everything built up in the previous title squandered.
  24. putaskarachan
    Jun 19, 2020
    1
    the game is absolutely awful and filled with SJW propaganda
    don't buy it, you will regret it
  25. VodkaSmasher25
    Jun 25, 2020
    1
    I wish that the inclusion of a **** of modern politics issues and related things that make absolutely no sense forced into a ficticious world was my biggest problem. The game arguably has incredible graphics and gameplay mechanics, but for a storytelling oriented game, its story was a far cry from the masterpiece the first one established. Neil Druckmann resorted WAY too much on shockI wish that the inclusion of a **** of modern politics issues and related things that make absolutely no sense forced into a ficticious world was my biggest problem. The game arguably has incredible graphics and gameplay mechanics, but for a storytelling oriented game, its story was a far cry from the masterpiece the first one established. Neil Druckmann resorted WAY too much on shock factor, and explicitly took transgressive and disrespectful conducts towards the first game's older fans. Well, Neil, if you have such disregard for your older fans, there you are! Hope you don't mind the giant backlash from us, then.… Expand
  26. Mubarakxz
    Jun 28, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Poor story I’m really angry … Expand
  27. Nerossu
    Jun 19, 2020
    1
    You know how they say someone with the personality of a 3 but the looks of a 10 is still a 3? I feel like that's a pretty good analogy for this game. It looks amazing, but the story is awful. It just goes to show you can't add gay characters to a game and then just deflect all the criticism you get as "anti-sjw."
  28. joethetimelrod
    Jun 20, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Graphically the game just isn't much more impressive than Last of Us Remastered, focusing on mood lighting to make up for the seven year old PS4 hardware to cover up its very clear cracks, while still utterly paling in comparison to Red Dead Redemption 2. Gameplay likewise is barely different from the first game, with minimal additions to how it's played (a very crappy dedicated jump button is a perfect symbol of this). Stages feel a bit more linear believe it or not, and no moment even approaches scary or even particularly tense.
    Both of these disappointments, however, could've been made up for if it weren't for Naughty Dog's worst story yet. Where Last of Us 1 was a nuanced character driven plot about a father rekindling his humanity, and a child growing into a hardened survivor, Last of Us 2 took a much more generic "revenge is bad" route. Joel is unceremoniously murdered after falling for a trick that he himself would've come up with during his early days as a raider, with Niel Druckmann's self insert immediately spitting on his still warm corpse as Ellie watches. Anything related to the core plot (Ellie as the cure and how or if she can survive this) are immediately pushed beyond the backburner in lieu of petty politics and soulless relationship drama. New bland characters that nobody would ever care about flood into the mix, filling the story with drivel as you shoot increasingly repetitive zombies and cultists. The game chooses to mix things up with clumsy flashbacks (including flashbacks within flashbacks; absolutely shameless), putting the player in control of Abby, the now infamous she-hulk who murdered Joel in her own act of petty revenge. The rest of the game focuses on Ellie losing everyone and everything she has left just to kill Abby, with even Joel's iconic lie at the end of TLOU1 getting brushed off and forgotten quickly. And when Ellie does finally catch up to Abby, after killing swaths of people, relationships, and infected, and losing her precious guitar-playing fingers in the process, she decides that Abby's life isn't worth the price she already overpaid for, leaves her alive, and goes home to find out that karen took the kids. I'm not kidding, after learning this valuable lesson, her girlfriend leaves with their kid, never to be seen again. The story ends with Ellie ditching the last thing she has, Joel's guitar, because literally watching not Niel Druckmann spitting on his caved in head wasn't enough.
    If the gameplay were better, or the graphics were prettier, or if story wasn't such a huge focus in every Naughty Dog game since Jak 3, I probably wouldn't care. But you don't play ND games for the gameplay. You play them to watch how events unfold. Niel Druckmann didn't drop the ball here. He stabbed the ball with a penknife, ruining the game for everyone, and then attempted to bribe commentators into saying he made an excellent play.
    But at least the music was good. One full point there.
    Do not buy this trash. It's worth nobody's time.    … Expand
  29. Zettimaster
    Jun 19, 2020
    1
    unfortunately they managed to kill the game completely. Everything was a complete mess, huge script holes, forced relationships between characters and very hasty deaths, an ending that makes you want to hit the joystick on the wall. They missed the opportunity to make the game one of the best of the new generation, but they blew it, a shame. the metacritic score can be 95, but make no mistake.
  30. JakFrost75
    Jun 19, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I'm still so mad about this I understand it is a good game I admit the gameplay and graphics are amazing but God damn I can't say I like the fact they die... It's just hard seeing Joel die in like the first 2 hours man , I can see that in the long run it wss a vengance story , and it makes it more "realistic" but couldn't they have dóne THE story different ? I don't know instead of the human route , probably a more creepy zombie route were they learn the truth about how it came to be ??… Expand
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Metascore
93

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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