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. YoloTrades
    Jun 21, 2020
    1
    I waited so long for this game. I played the first game 3 times as an achievement hunter to get 100% completion. I finally completed this game and all I can say is dissapointment. From the dialogue to the garbage plot and story. This game is not worth the $60. I could care less about the LGBT narrative. The characters in this game aren't as compelling as they were in the first game. II waited so long for this game. I played the first game 3 times as an achievement hunter to get 100% completion. I finally completed this game and all I can say is dissapointment. From the dialogue to the garbage plot and story. This game is not worth the $60. I could care less about the LGBT narrative. The characters in this game aren't as compelling as they were in the first game. I don't care when people die. This game has no soul and is an empty shell of its former self… Expand
  2. Jimbobo
    Jun 21, 2020
    1
    Repetitive boring politically biased story. The trailers are legit lies with model swaps of Joel and they also bait you to think he’s in the game. The games bugs aren’t ironed out. And to finish it off the devs and some voice actors are just nasty people.
  3. HarryCane
    Jun 21, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. So.
    The games director inserted himself into a mocap sex scene with the new protagonist. Its his face digitised onto a random NPC's body. He's literally sleeping with his own creation.
    Ellie ends up taking care of a Child after her girlfriend sleeps with a random man of African descent. She accepts the affair and just raises a dead beat mans child, and this is portrayed as a positive.
    And of course Joel is murdered before Ellie and himself can reach any reconciliation with regards to his actions at the finale of the original game, no attempt is made at compelling writing he's killed as shock value.

    There is more to hate, but you shouldn't plsy the game to find out. I refunded it the next day. Don't feed the trolls who claim all criticism of Tlou2 is homophobic, fans welcomed the Left behind DLC with open arms despite it establishing Ellie as a lesbian this game is a train wreck, a power fantasy of a director who decided he wanted to use Tlou as a springboard for his own game instead of crafting a sequel. Naughty Dog didn't even pay the dev team during the final months of development.
    This game is a disgrace to the original and its core theme if Fatherhood.    … Expand
  4. Hazelynn
    Jun 21, 2020
    1
    Sooo.... abby was a guy right? I'm confused just like the people this game, gimme my refund
  5. Slayer_thegreat
    Oct 12, 2022
    1
    This game is technically competent but a narrative disaster. It was clear from the first trailer that the game was so impressed with itself for taking the loved character from the first game of Ellie and making her gay. This destroys every character or memory from the first game and should be avoided at all costs.
  6. Defport
    Jun 21, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Historia Mala no por la inclusión de género si no por que destrozaron a los personajes… Expand
  7. deboypas
    Jun 21, 2020
    1
    Visually, the game looks amazing. The gameplay is relatively similar to the first game. However, due to the story that does not make sense and is filled with tons of plot-holes, it makes this game one of the worst sequel to a video game. If you are a fan of this game for its characters, trust me dont buy it. You will regret it for sure 100%.
  8. DarthNayus
    Jun 21, 2020
    1
    Zero respect for the fans of the first game. This game was ruined in the first 2 hrs, completely trashed
  9. riada
    Jun 25, 2020
    1
    DO NOT BUY THIS GAME if you are a big fan of the first part of the game! Keep that ending and enjoy the memories! Everything that made this game special was ruined, the characters were destroyed completely. It feels like if the main task of the writer was to fill the plot with all the possible "problems" of our time in the course of their development over these 7 years: LGBT people,DO NOT BUY THIS GAME if you are a big fan of the first part of the game! Keep that ending and enjoy the memories! Everything that made this game special was ruined, the characters were destroyed completely. It feels like if the main task of the writer was to fill the plot with all the possible "problems" of our time in the course of their development over these 7 years: LGBT people, transgender people, emancipated and independent women .... ahhh! It is too much! Only being a lesbian doesn’t make the character an interesting person. I won’t be able to understand these characters, I don’t sympathize with them and I don’t care about their fate at all. But, the quality of the game design is on top - it is unconditional.… Expand
  10. Digtil
    Jun 21, 2020
    1
    The main character on here always was Tommy, not Ellie.

    ND Kill Joel and Tommy and Ellie forgive the murderer before killikg all his friends. Makes nonsense
  11. PudimHP
    Jun 21, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Jogo está com uma história péssima,além de matar o principal personagem e o que todos gostavam.… Expand
  12. Thannawit_Boyz
    Jun 21, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The story is suck. Why did producers thought destroying the most beloved character in the game history and forced us to play that mutation girl would make the greatest gaming experience ? And I think the producer wanted to emphasize about LGBT contents too too too much. Ok I don’t mind LGBT because many of my friends are LGBT too and we should admit their status, but it doesn’t mean you have to lick their balls like this.… Expand
  13. MitrZizz
    Jun 21, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Просто непонятный сюжет. Проходя игру задаёшься одним и тем же вопросом: "зачем"
    Зачем убили Джоела?
    Зачем мы играем за его убийцу,
    зачем эти десять часов наискучнейшего геймплея.    … Expand
  14. tloupt2Sucks
    Jun 22, 2020
    1
    This game was assassinated by a crack team of hollywood writers. Naughty Dog is about to collect insurance money on a 7 year-old. That's what this game feels like. They just cashed a check on the death of a treasured child, the people working in the writers room should be ashamed. The characters talk a lot more about their feeling in this game to the point that I feel like Im watch cheapThis game was assassinated by a crack team of hollywood writers. Naughty Dog is about to collect insurance money on a 7 year-old. That's what this game feels like. They just cashed a check on the death of a treasured child, the people working in the writers room should be ashamed. The characters talk a lot more about their feeling in this game to the point that I feel like Im watch cheap soap. Besides my disgust with the writers the game often feels incomplete vs the 1st game, artifacting, pixelation and broken textures all over. Not to mention the pervasive frame dipping. They tried to do too much with the system, the game is beautiful but if it doesn't run properly how are they releasing it. All these bought shills are another thing critics gave this game a 95, what a joke these critics should suck it up and get real jobs and pay for their games then they might have genuine input. Nauhty Dog did make the rope physics fun so that's why I gave it a one. The gameplay is a clone of the original but that's not a bad thing, I guess overall I just expected a lot more after 7 years.… Expand
  15. slobmine
    Jun 21, 2020
    1
    There is no need to teach morality to gamers even by ruining the contents and characters of Part 1 of the game.
    Because those gamers are moral enough in real life.
  16. Dontecla64
    Jun 21, 2020
    1
    I'm just so dissapointed dude... 7 years just for nice graphics and a horrible story
  17. Bobnknkn
    Jun 22, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This 1 score is only for those developers who worked hard to polish playability and artIstic designing, the story don’t respect characters and players at all, the director force plays to accept a viewpoint which is not even correct ! I just feel more and more disgusting as the story goes. I think he is a genius but with a hole of **** in his beautiful brain. Thank you for feeding **** to me.… Expand
  18. Terraria10of10
    Jun 22, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. 1/10, a game with no heart.
    On a scale of broken (0) to godly(10), it’s tough to even consider a 2.
    0 - Broken, unplayable. 1 - Anti-Immersive. Not broken. Compels me not to play. 2 - Non-immersive, nothing compels me to play. 3 - Non-immersive gameplay, Immersive concepts. 4 - On-Off Immersive - Interesting beats, not good enough to recommend.
    5 - Semi-Immersive - No buyer's remorse, but no replay-ability. 6 - Immersive Easy – Fun, no challenge. 'I am too overpowered'. 7 - Immersive Fun - Easily re-playable. ' I want to play more' 8 - Immersive Challenging - From Rouges to Souls, you know them when you see them. You care about your characters. These are done so well you start reflecting on the artists who made the game and appreciate their craft at every turn. 9 - Immersive Tough - Sekiro, it is the only game I hold in this regard.
    10 - Godly. It has not been made yet. “best game ever’
    I watched a full play through of this game.
    I was considering buying it at first, but I figured I would enjoy it more without wasting money on garbage. It is a cinematic game with a 'fetch' simulator, a jank guitar mini-game, and occasionally zombie shooting/stealth. 35% of the time is cut-scenes or like 10 out of 30 hours.
    Characters/Story
    When people play games they want relate to the main character. That’s why I enjoy RPGs so much, the more you can customize your character the better. You want to be friends or enemies with different NPCs - cool; it's fun when you're making your character in the image that you desire. It’s fun to raid others, but it sucks when you get ganked. It’s fun to be selfish, but when someone else is it can become a problem for you quick. Likewise, when a developer’s character is selfish it will depend on how much you relate to them to either side with them or be put off by them. The less they are like you or your ideal protagonist, the more you don't want to be around them.
    Ellie is not like-able. One of the first scenes is Ellie waking up to some guy knocking on her door who is “not upset man" that Ellie was hooking up with the girl he just broke up last week (yeah, he does get the little ‘man’ micro-aggression in there, just… supreme dialogue). Then she gets mad at him for pretending to not be cool with it. She then walks to her new GF, Dina, who is passive aggressive towards Ellie for 'interrupting' her.
    Instead of using the initial pieces of dialogue for exposition to the world, they use it to set up this drama character dynamic which is … weird to say the least, but more importantly, usually not why I play games. Drama is a supplemental, it’s good if you can pull it off, but make me care about the world and the characters in it before trying to make me care about their personal (non-zombie survivor) problems.
    Anyway, then Ellie and her GF smoke weed and have some CG foreplay (just why? like c’mon), before the same guy from before comes in and gets mad at them for smoking weed and not being on patrol. Joel is missing.
    So as a gamer... I'm sitting here thinking... you're supposed to be patrolling and protecting these people, but you’re getting high and about to have sex while Joel is getting kidnapped.

    This is the point where I hit anti-immersion. I start to think, why would you intentionally craft a story where the character is messing around while the other is getting set-up to be killed. Like the hero wants to get high and have sex, not patrol the city, because that’s how the hero is. For example, later in the game Ellie’s GF Dina is pregnant, and they were just smoking weed. Like fair, Dina maybe didn’t know she pregnant, but the writers know. So why write in a pregnant woman smoking weed?
    And guess what... then Joel gets killed like a punk. Some loser just clobbers him with like a golf club. Like if you want more story, here it is - she seeks revenge and doesn’t get it. They got rid of one of the protagonists, I feel like the natural place would be to dive deeper into the relationship they have and the hardships of survival, but its stops right there at the beginning, not even 10% of the way into the game, feels like developers are rick rolling me at this point
    Pacing –35% of game is cut scenes and I’m here to game, not watch a movie. After getting dragged through a scene, you then have the luxury of going on these hour long ‘fetch’/ ‘fake puzzles’
    Gameplay/Enemies - Nothing for like an hour, then a short cluster, for a couple minutes then back to the dull ‘grind.’ They should at least be peppered in, they are only there to make you feel like you ‘did something’ before getting to the next cut-scene. Controllers, combat, and platforming are plain status quo which is not good enough.
    Quality – It is smooth and it looks good. When you have the budget, there is no reason not to. It is on par with modern games, but it is not cutting edge.
    Conclusion –Buy Terraria, you won’t be disappointed.    … Expand
  19. KonradGruner
    Jun 22, 2020
    1
    Typically I would award a point for each property a game has, graphics are good, that's a point added and so on.
    Graphics = 1 point added (Good quality)
    Game play = 0 points added (dull) Continued Interest = 0 points added (dull) Character development = 0 points added (didn't care for the character) Replay value = 0 points added (No replay value) Game depth = 0 points added    Typically I would award a point for each property a game has, graphics are good, that's a point added and so on.
    Graphics = 1 point added (Good quality)
    Game play = 0 points added (dull)
    Continued Interest = 0 points added (dull)
    Character development = 0 points added (didn't care for the character)
    Replay value = 0 points added (No replay value)
    Game depth = 0 points added (infantile wish gratification)
    Story overall = 0 points added (failed to make me care)
    Overall Value = 0 points added (bad game, yet expensive)
    Difficulty = 0 points added (no skill required)
    Delivered on hype promise = 0 points (This is crap after such a long wait and hyping)
    The critics' reviews make them seem untrustworthy. Forbes had a good article about how the reviews were delayed an manipulated to permit the maximum pre-selling of the game, but it looks as though most of the sales will come that way.
    Don't buy this game now, wait a month and it will be 90% off, which is all it should cost delivering on one of ten value points.
    The artists did a good job though    … Expand
  20. Robertoto
    Jun 21, 2020
    1
    Bored as hell, it doesn't feel like the 1st, don't know what were they thinking. I only give 1 cause the graphics.
  21. Pinkrtoncrl
    Jun 21, 2020
    1
    Expected the game to Take off where tlou1 ended. However the story took another turn.. instead of a good story I got a lot of painfully obvious moral cookies. The fourth wall is also constantly torn down when immersion breaks due to sometimes sloppy coding but mostly gaps in story-telling. I liked the graphics, couldn’t expect more rly. Wasn’t worth the money and I wish I spent it onExpected the game to Take off where tlou1 ended. However the story took another turn.. instead of a good story I got a lot of painfully obvious moral cookies. The fourth wall is also constantly torn down when immersion breaks due to sometimes sloppy coding but mostly gaps in story-telling. I liked the graphics, couldn’t expect more rly. Wasn’t worth the money and I wish I spent it on something else. Could as well have watched a play through… Expand
  22. Guiga10
    Jun 21, 2020
    1
    For me no matter if the graphics are good, they literally destroyed the game story.

    I tried to give it a chance but it was a no go.
  23. GaryGames814
    Jun 21, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Ever since the first TLOF I knew what was going to happen to Joel after all the crazy things he did, I just didn’t think it was gonna happen the way it did, pathetic... I played the first 2 and half hours of this game and I just don’t feel like playing it anymore, the game doesn’t feel the same anymore and it overall just made me feel like **** I hated that these two **** were **** and smoking dope while Joel was getting his ass kicked; (sometimes things like these happen in real life, one does not have control over the actions of others)... but why making these two scenes happen at the same time? If anything it’s Ellie’s fault for Joel’s death, but this is just my point of view.… Expand
  24. Perrochi
    Jun 21, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. No hubo caso que me gustara el juego, definitivamente page me cae como patada en los huevos.… Expand
  25. rampagecookie7
    Jun 26, 2020
    1
    So many years of waiting, and they did a totally different story most people expected, in a way that it's unlogical and doesn't even give you any closure. It's really messed up how they were able to destroy my favorite characters like that. It's like Joel is totally different from Part I, and same goes with Ellie. Just doesn't make any sense...
  26. Zerot1997
    Jun 21, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. História és una merda por completo!
    Gráficos és belo
    Jogabilidade umas maravilha.
    Jogo Lacracion! Neil DruckMan acabou com todo o contexto de jogo do 1!
    Esse jogo não tem nem pé e nem cabeça.    … Expand
  27. WeskerGO
    Jun 21, 2020
    1
    1 point gives to the amazing graphic, -9 points give to the terrible story. This game makes me feel sick after I beat it, really really uncomfortable. I don’t think that should be what games are made for. A game made for total political propaganda. This time Naughty Dog has really disappointed us as gamers, they not only provided this mess to us, but also sadly destroyed the first TLOUS,1 point gives to the amazing graphic, -9 points give to the terrible story. This game makes me feel sick after I beat it, really really uncomfortable. I don’t think that should be what games are made for. A game made for total political propaganda. This time Naughty Dog has really disappointed us as gamers, they not only provided this mess to us, but also sadly destroyed the first TLOUS, so that’s what you get... 1 point. Really really disappointing! A total trash!… Expand
  28. Stifminor
    Jul 2, 2020
    1
    Try to create a twist to stand out but in the wrong way. Story arranging is terrible
  29. barcelonarov
    Jun 21, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The game is just to long so its makes it seem very repetitive.. and the story line was great but the ending was not what should have happened.. the whole game was about getting abby killed and she ends up alive... whats up with that?… Expand
  30. Th3_Cronics
    Jun 21, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Tratan de forzar el "apoyo" a la comunidad Lgbt, buena jugabilidad, buenos gráficos, mala historia nada que ver con la parte 1… Expand
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#2 Best PS4 Game of 2020
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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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