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. CF_Flyer
    Jun 22, 2020
    10
    Alright well I feel as though someone needs to defend this game. I want to avoid spoilers, so I will do my best to talk about the game without mentioning any major plot points. This is a good game and there are a few reasons that I believe this to be true.

    For starters, this is the best looking game I have ever played on the PS4. This is one thing that everyone should agree on because    Alright well I feel as though someone needs to defend this game. I want to avoid spoilers, so I will do my best to talk about the game without mentioning any major plot points. This is a good game and there are a few reasons that I believe this to be true.

    For starters, this is the best looking game I have ever played on the PS4. This is one thing that everyone should agree on because the game truly does look incredible, especially the facial animations.
    The game play is fun. I enjoy the stealth game play from both the first game, and this one. Every single encounter feels intense and dangerous because resources are so scarce. This means that you must take every encounter seriously if you want to keep your supplies and stay alive. I will admit that the aiming is wonky and annoying to use, but after a bit of practice, I started to get used to it and I was able to enjoy the game play a bit more. While it definitely isn't perfect, and not the best of all time, I enjoyed the combat and encounters, and I can confidently say it is not the terrible and glitchy mess that people are saying it is.

    Now here is where the majority of the complaints come from in this game... the story. Before I go on about what I truly think of the story, I want to put a disclaimer on this; it was not at all what I expected. Within the first few hours of the game something major happens, and it is not going to make people happy. Throughout the story you are able to look at the experiences of two individuals, and by doing this, NaughtyDog was able to tell a rich and thorough story. They did not give a **** what people cared about, and they gave us a long and sad story. Very little of this game is happy, and that is a good thing. They made a real story that will be looked into long after the game is out. This story is controversial, and not everyone is going to like it. It is not happy, and it does not have a happy ending, but with full confidence I can say that this story felt real. There wasn't a hero who got everything that he/she wanted, and nobody won. I think NaughtyDog wanted to make a game in their own direction, and they did not care if people were happy with their choices, because in the end, they made a story that will be remembered for far longer that any other game that has ever been released.

    To close off, if you are thinking of buying this game, I would suggest you do. I am guessing the majority of bad reviews of this game are from people who saw the spoilers and hated the way the game turned out. However, when you play the game, you learn to appreciate the direction NaughtDog took. Just don't expect the game to go your way, because I can almost guarantee it will be hard to watch what happens throughout the story, but that was what NaughtyDog wanted.    … Expand
  2. JMEM
    Jun 22, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game has left me beyond disappointment. I'm sure I can speak for everyone when I say I loved the first TLOU. But this game makes me feel like it tried to tear down the characters and ruin the franchise. I don't know where to start with this god awful game. Like most people I absolutely hated how they treated Joel. One of the best characters i think i have ever seen in any type of media. He is portrayed as smart, experienced, and battle hardened survivor in he first game but in this game he completely goes against his character established in the last game. In the previous game he is shown to know and see all the traps and bad ideas thrown his way. Never trusting strangers and always keeping his guard up. In TLOU2 Joel goes against his character by trusting a stranger with his name and even going back to their home camp. These actions end up getting him killed by one of the worst developed characters in a video game, Abby. The way they treated Joel is downright disrespectful to TLOU fans all around. We have a full game with Joel just to see him die in a way we know he shouldn't have according to his character is more than upsetting. The game then sets you off on a journey of revenge where the game makes it almost seem like Ellie is losing her passion of getting revenge, which if the writing was consistent from the first game, we know that Ellie would have been dead-set on her revenge. Which is the biggest problem with this game. The terrible writing and character development. This story actively goes against the character development from the last game while building new characters extremely poorly. The lack of character building for the newly introduced characters was bluntly obvious. No one seem to care about the WLF characters besides getting revenge for Joel. They just felt like the nameless enemies from the previous games instead of people you understood and maybe even cared for. They were compelling in no way at all. This was extremely prevalent for the other main protagonist Abby, who from the extremely misleading advertising I was unaware of. But it turns out you play 10 hours (half of the game) playing as a character you hate. Since Joel was so beloved and you see him being brutally beaten to death by someone, you are naturally inclined to hate that person. Then the game makes you play half of the game as the character who shows no remorse for all the people she's killed including Joel and Jesse, there is no possible way that you will be able to feel any empathy towards this character. But this game tries so hard to make you feel pity and understand her, when it is impossible to feel pity after seeing what she has done. She is also portrayed as a very dislikable and morally questionable person throughout the 10 hours. This is a prime example of the trash writing put into this game. At the end of the game Ellie and Abby are having a final showdown when Ellie is close to finishing the job she set out to do at the very beginning of this game, but she stops drowning Abby after seeing a image of Joel in her head. This makes no sense as seeing Joel in her head is what triggered her to start the fight in the first place. This also goes back to how in the first game Joel and Ellie will do anything for each other, like when Ellie first killed someone to save Joel. The fact that Ellie let Joel's killer get away on purpose went against her character built up in the last game which loops back to one of this game's biggest problems. Not only that but seeing the sole purpose you played the game for (to get revenge for Joel and kill Abby) slips through your fingertips is more than disappointing and unsatisfying. This is by far one of the worst endings I've ever seen in any media. The only redeeming part of this story was the beautiful graphics and pretty good gameplay. Other than that I wished this game didn't exist. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS GAME. IT WILL DISAPPOINT YOU!

    Overall: The only good part of this game was the graphics and gameplay. But the story was complete and utter trash. Only play this game if you don't care about the story and just want some more TLOU gameplay, but even then I would recommend playing the original.    … Expand
  3. Heisenberg2099
    Jun 22, 2020
    10
    Just don't listen to bad reviews. They are just some retard and jealous Xbox fans who deliberately wants this game to be a failure. This game is stunning with great visuals and Gameplay. Go for it
  4. stbn
    Jun 22, 2020
    10
    This is the best video game and any type of media that I 've experienced. I understand if you did not like it, just don't put a review if you have not played.
  5. Galandwood
    Jun 22, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. You can always tell when the internet plans a review bomb, and honestly it's **** sad really. The entirety of LOU has 10k reviews... this has 60k in 3 days lol, so I don't put any stock into the internet troll jobs that are trying to tank this game.

    This game isn't a masterpiece, let's get that out of the way. It has an innate flaw built into the story in that it is attempting to build empathy and tell the story from both sides of the coin. In essence, Ellie isn't the protagonist, and Abby isn't the antagonist, these are two people born into a brutally violent world. Both are on the warpath, on quests of revenge after having things done to them that entirely destroy their family, and both are unique in they were powerless to stop it from happening. This game is best boiled down to a tale of two people on a quest of acceptance in finding peace with what the world has done to them, and to ultimately find empathy, and the story works incredibly well. My only real complaint with the story isn't the story itself, but rather the amount of time invested into having to play Abby. Literally half the game is from her perspective. I understand the need for symmetry in a story like this, but I would have preferred a longer more Ellie focused approach, 65/35, 70/30 would have been enough to get the point across I feel. The game play mechanics are smooth, polished, and well done, and the horror elements are there like always, specifically in the hotel/hospital sequences with Abby, those were terrifying, and RAT KING!!! HOLY MOLY!! WOW! As for the people whining about gay relationships etc., politics., I'm a Southern Conservative from Texas, registered Republican, and there was nothing in this game that I remotely considered in your face. The game handled it's messaging well, without being overtly in your face about it.

    Overall, the game is a solid 25 hours if you move through the story at a decent pace, and one that I greatly enjoyed. It's not perfect though as I've said. The Abby length of play reminded me of Metal Gear Solid: 2, thought not near to that extreme, and I wish we had more time with Ellie. I do admit though, I ended up liking Abby, felt her struggle/pain, and empathized with her the more time I spent with her, so the idea of telling the story from both angles worked well, though I do with it were a bit shorter.

    9.0/10, really solid, fun, ambitious as hell game.    … Expand
  6. Code-881
    Jun 22, 2020
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. the last of us part II is a complex game in which the mechanics and graphics are good, the story and the development of the characters is not good, but not bad either, you should not get carried away by things that the history offers us, such as Joel's death, the sexual preferences of some characters, or the decision to make Abby transgender, is not a bad sequel but neither does he deserve all the hate he receives… Expand
  7. I_love_feets
    Jun 22, 2020
    6
    I really liked this game it felt very good but at the same time very bad I love all the new mechanics but I really do not like the new characters I feel that they do not fit well with the story Damn this game had too much potential but they just couldn't give it a good story And I know that the last of us is not a game that ends with a happy ending but I just felt that it was not theI really liked this game it felt very good but at the same time very bad I love all the new mechanics but I really do not like the new characters I feel that they do not fit well with the story Damn this game had too much potential but they just couldn't give it a good story And I know that the last of us is not a game that ends with a happy ending but I just felt that it was not the appropriate ending to the story Hell it just could have been a truly extraordinary game… Expand
  8. Bestkeptme
    Jun 22, 2020
    1
    Bro wtf why do I get to play 10 hrs with abby?????? I don’t get it.... also I feel cheated Joel and Ellie is the reason I got this game.....
  9. vwu13
    Jun 22, 2020
    3
    if this is a TV series or movie, I think it's fine, but for a game, you have to control a character who is give you strong negative feelings one second before then you have to control that character, no matter what happens next, this kind manipulate really disgusting.
  10. Rkardo
    Jun 22, 2020
    0
    I love the story, I really do, it's the best thing of the game, it really is.
  11. Mewnyx
    Jun 21, 2020
    0
    Terrible. Story was terrible. The characters were terrible. The only good thing was the visuals. Nothing like game devs shoving leftist bs down everyones throats.
  12. Dastob52
    Jun 22, 2020
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. La verdad me parece un juego bastante bueno, no una obra maestra pero es muy bueno, y eso se ve en la muerte de Joel (aunque se merecía una mejor muerte), porque si moría Dina simplemente íbamos a apoyar a Ellie en su viaje, pero con la muerte de Joel es distinto ya que el juego nos transmite esa rabia y tristeza que siente Ellie al verlo morir, y es por eso que es tan bueno, porque nos transmite las emociones que siente la protagonista, lo cual muy pocos juegos logran. Otro punto fuerte del juego es su jugabilidad, la cuál es muy similar al primer juego pero con algunos detalles como el botón para esquivar que lo hace todo más dinámico y rápido, también tiene personajes bastante buenos como Dina y jessie los cuales aunque son un poco esteriotipados , tienen sus puntos fuertes… Expand
  13. Helloth
    Jun 22, 2020
    1
    This game tries so hard to destroy traditional roles of all types. It’s in every cutscene and mission. I’m tired of the virtue signaling.
  14. joserenatoi
    Jun 22, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Beira a perfeição em gráficos e jogabilidade. Porém história vazia, mudam o foco a cada hr q passa, qrem dar enfase a Abby, uma assassina covarde, fazia parte de grupos de gurrilha, mostram 15 min dela e de seu pai, e acham q isso fara o jogador a crer em sua razão, e matar um ser humano daquela forma. Um mundo gigante sem zumbis, zumbis só coexistem praticamente em locais fechados e escuros. Acabaram com a franquia, com personagens magníficos para apostar em 12 q n dao 1 em carisma iu simpatia, acabaram com a Ellie, do nada a transformaram em assassina louca e do nada tbm a deixaram ser boa de novo. N sabeiam o q queriam, fizeram por fazer, correndo, estragaram tudo. N sei como a crítica elogia tamanha merda, e a historia vale mais q td, pq é metade de jogo só em cutscenes ou dialogos, e foi uma merda… Expand
  15. Andersonzezo
    Jun 22, 2020
    10
    The one of the BEST GAMES OF GENERATIONS!
  16. krugdenis
    Jun 21, 2020
    1
    Гоните Дракманна из студии, с позором, верните Хеннинг и Стрэли обратно. Я ждал эту игру с нетерпением несколько лет. Вот только теперь, смотреть на это, а тем более играть в это - нет уж, спасибо.
  17. SAMUELWALKERS
    Jun 22, 2020
    10
    very good game great gameplay very good story. don't mind these guys who give grades they are all box this game will give game of the year
  18. prettyswagvoker
    Jun 22, 2020
    0
    Лгбт субстанция , за которую я должен ещё 4 к отдать. Правда меня умиляет, что мы живём при капитализме и рыночек порешает ))))))))))))
  19. HoaVoLe
    Jun 22, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Boring Game. it's terribla story. Flop game.............................................
    Story 4/10
    Game-play - 6/10
    Graphics - 8/10    … Expand
  20. Rokuro338
    Jun 22, 2020
    10
    Es uno de los juegos que gráficamente deslumbra de principio a fin con una historia bien trabajada por donde se le mire, lastima que hay demasiados haters que solo hablan y comentan el juego sin siquiera saber la historia o el comienzo de la misma
  21. entiredonkey
    Jun 22, 2020
    0
    This is the worst game Naughty Dog has ever released. While it tries to continue in the footsteps of its incredible predecessor, it does drive extremely well-designed gameplay, and an eerie atmosphere expected in a post-apocalyptic world; however, it completely fails to entertain the player in a meaningful way. The story lacks proper depth and obviously panders to a fringe audience. ThisThis is the worst game Naughty Dog has ever released. While it tries to continue in the footsteps of its incredible predecessor, it does drive extremely well-designed gameplay, and an eerie atmosphere expected in a post-apocalyptic world; however, it completely fails to entertain the player in a meaningful way. The story lacks proper depth and obviously panders to a fringe audience. This "video game" was a political movie where you can control the characters from time to time. 0/10, I regret purchasing this game. If I could receive a refund, I would. Do not buy this game.… Expand
  22. Brandiyon
    Jun 22, 2020
    0
    Asco de historia no tiene sentido lo único que tiene bueno es su jugabilidad
  23. josephkarimi
    Jun 19, 2020
    10
    Graphic and gameplay is a solid 10/10
    Music is even an 11/10
    I cant tell you much about the story but it is an absolute must play.
    Don't listen to all pc and xbox fans
  24. Rhelle03
    Jun 22, 2020
    0
    Story - Meh
    Gameplay- double meh
    Joel's death - what in Santas candy stripping elves are you doing naughty dog

    This game was horrendous save yourself the trouble and watch it on youtube
  25. QQEQQ
    Jun 22, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. lol the writing is cancer. the leaks were real. people, dont buy this game. dont buy this game. dont buy this game. dont buy this game. dont buy this game. dont buy this game. dont buy this game.… Expand
  26. DmitryV
    Jun 22, 2020
    1
    Игра на тройку. Все хорошо но сюжет это пиздец... Это ребята пиздец , злые лесбиянки мать их .. я рот ебал, я столько ждал игру.. вот что значит когда простой сценарист становиться во главе всей студии... Они там так намудрили, игра полный провал.. Конечно спасибо за полный провал серии..Игра на тройку. Все хорошо но сюжет это пиздец... Это ребята пиздец , злые лесбиянки мать их .. я рот ебал, я столько ждал игру.. вот что значит когда простой сценарист становиться во главе всей студии... Они там так намудрили, игра полный провал.. Конечно спасибо за полный провал серии..
  27. Salheb
    Jun 22, 2020
    10
    Game of the year. Not everyone are humanly prepared for this masterpiece, there is too much denial and too much hate in people to acknowledge the story of the game.
  28. beeforbacon
    Jun 22, 2020
    1
    Awful characters. Awful story. You literally don't feel anything the whole game because the characters are the worst of all time. Gave 1 point for the decent graphics. Gameplay boring and ps3-era. Naughty Dog does not innovate in this title. Long, boring, awful characters, awful writing.
  29. Sirdavidthe1st
    Jun 22, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I avoided spoilers for so long so when I picked up the last of 2 I could not wait to play this game. Yes the gameplay is fantastic and I was completely impressed with it, but what ruins this game is the story. The story is just so awful with the way it treats its characters. Within the first hour of my play through I had to witness one of my favorite characters get brutally slaughtered, right then and there I was ready to take the disc out of my PlayStation and throw the disc out my window. But I gave it a second chance and again I was impressed by visuals and gameplay but the story is what holds it back. Then the unthinkable happens and the game switches over to the most hated video game character of all time and that is Abby this part of the game I just kept killing her on purpose over and over again Until I reached the worst ending of all video game History!!!! I could not believe THATS how this game ends. Such a waste of money and the sad part is I can’t even get a refund. I don’t get how anyone can support naughty dog beyond this point not only they treat their employees like **** but they also treated one of their most beloved game like **** save your money and don’t support this evil studio.… Expand
  30. slave14
    Jun 22, 2020
    0
    Played Last of us 2. Wasted my time.
    Dont buy. Plz dont buy.. what a garbage.dcc
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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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