The Last of Us Part II

 PlayStation 4
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5.8

Mixed or average reviews- based on 161975 Ratings

User score distribution:
  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. DayRider
    Jun 19, 2020
    5
    I live in New Zealand. After playing through the game I simply can not understand how this game received a 95/100 meta score.
    Positives:
    -Game play -Graphics -Top Tier Animation -Cut scenes and voice acting Negatives: -Characters -Character development (It's non existent) -Plot -The ending The writing destroys this game. The writer Neil Druckman say this game is about hate    I live in New Zealand. After playing through the game I simply can not understand how this game received a 95/100 meta score.
    Positives:
    -Game play
    -Graphics
    -Top Tier Animation
    -Cut scenes and voice acting

    Negatives:
    -Characters
    -Character development (It's non existent)
    -Plot
    -The ending

    The writing destroys this game. The writer Neil Druckman say this game is about hate and revenge, however, you never get revenge. You're left with a game which is anticlimactic.    … Expand
  2. Vendare
    Jun 19, 2020
    1
    A true example of how you shouldn't trust "critic" reviews. At least the gameplay saves it from absolutely imploding on itself.
  3. q-gin
    Mar 23, 2022
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game is very old gameplay mechanics, seems to play to the first assassin's creed is not a 2020's game.

    Ugly animation, ugly fight combat, boring stealth section crafting is the same of the first game ..........

    La cosa peggiore che anche in questo capitolo, non si può uccidere a fine avventura la cattiva, ovvero Ellie.    … Expand
  4. Frank9871
    Jun 19, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Just one reason, wtf, Joel?died? and what are they **** doing? In my opinion, maybe Joel will be died before I play this party, but I just can't accept him being killed by a golf club. ****… Expand
  5. dawpar5
    Jun 19, 2020
    0
    From being a **** sequel, through **** plot up to buying/biased reviews and sony's censoring hipocrisy as a two perfect cherries on top... There's not a single good thing to talk about, just a total failure.
  6. JohnL6
    Jun 19, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The reason for this low score is not only due to the game doing nothing special, being underwhelming and generally uninteresting. The game does everything it can to ruin your favorite character from the last game and put you in an angered, frustrated frame of mind. I barely played through it. The story made it feel even more like a chore. Frustrating, agenda filled story,lack of an improvement in gameplay, and awfully poor writing.… Expand
  7. FranchuteKikito
    Jul 15, 2020
    0
    I know many would find wrong of me to put a 0 in a game with soo many good things going for it, like the graphics, the gameplay, the scenery is great too, but when I judge a game I do it in the basis of my general enjoyment of it, I don't really care if it has some glitches or drop some frames here and there, if I feel great about a game I care for non of those other things. This is notI know many would find wrong of me to put a 0 in a game with soo many good things going for it, like the graphics, the gameplay, the scenery is great too, but when I judge a game I do it in the basis of my general enjoyment of it, I don't really care if it has some glitches or drop some frames here and there, if I feel great about a game I care for non of those other things. This is not one of those times, I hated playing this, when I was done playing all I wanted was my money and my time back, completely regret the experience and I cant recommend this to anyone, if fact I would go as far as to say that if you love the first one, like I do, do not play this game.… Expand
  8. Vinsininounet
    Jun 19, 2020
    0
    Awful story, cringe characters. Such a shame compared to the previous games...
  9. Narutotratamal
    Jun 19, 2020
    0
    Lo mismo de simpres lleno de bug... La. Misma historia del 1... Mal..3 años de retazo
  10. Timmytheos
    Jun 19, 2020
    3
    This just makes me sad.
    I don't have anything against the ideas they had, but it's just so poorly written, without a care for who these Characters are. The writing is just a burning pile of Neil druckmans.
  11. telephoton
    Jun 19, 2020
    0
    Neil Druckmann completely ruined this series. Should've kept the original writers instead of firing 75% of the studio after the story was almost completely finished and replacing it with his own.
  12. Mohashow
    Jun 19, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I saw the leaks and thank god it saved me a 60$ Thanks naughty dog for this **** game… Expand
  13. WalterCool
    Jun 23, 2020
    1
    First game was OK, but at this second game they included too many SJW propaganda.

    As gamers, I love a good story building, accepting the character, understanding the main character. I don't felt this game do that. Too unrealistic. I won't recommend this game, rejects me too much. There are no good history, but rather violence everywhere against the character who is built too close to    First game was OK, but at this second game they included too many SJW propaganda.

    As gamers, I love a good story building, accepting the character, understanding the main character. I don't felt this game do that. Too unrealistic.

    I won't recommend this game, rejects me too much. There are no good history, but rather violence everywhere against the character who is built too close to radical feminist ideal.

    Won't give 0, as graphics and audio are great, but history is very important at those games, and they failed so badly on that.    … Expand
  14. LuftRauser
    Jun 19, 2020
    0

    This is the equivalent of the 2020 year problems put and described as entertaining game, such a dumb way to waste your money
  15. HawkwindV
    Jun 19, 2020
    1
    I din't say a spoiler but the only thing i can say is disappointing. well 60 dollars to the trash
  16. ShadowrunFanati
    Jun 19, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Hugely dissapointing story, takes much beloved characters and ruins them.

    Joel is laying low and yet goes around telling everyone who he is....where was his carefulness from the first game? He just stopped caring it seems. There was a million ways to have his name known that didnt involve him telling everyone who he js.

    And Ellie....the ending is abysmal. They took two much beloved characters and took a steaming dump on them.    … Expand
  17. devilscorner
    Jun 19, 2020
    1
    The positive reviewers like to act like they are making good points when arguing why Joel was meant to die. One can argue that Joel deserves to die in order for the plot to move, he was never established as a morally good character and he made a selfish decision which condemned the human race. Some people are angry Joel died and MOST of us are angry about how he died. My take on this wouldThe positive reviewers like to act like they are making good points when arguing why Joel was meant to die. One can argue that Joel deserves to die in order for the plot to move, he was never established as a morally good character and he made a selfish decision which condemned the human race. Some people are angry Joel died and MOST of us are angry about how he died. My take on this would be much different if we were introduced to Abby long before she brutally murders Joel. They set them self up with an insurmountable task of creating empathy for Abby. And they didn't even try, we got a ten minute scene where she saves a Zebra with her father then they reveal Abby is the person who convinced them Ellie should be murdered to save humanity. If the writers are trying to make the player empathize with Abby why would they establish her as the one who condemned Ellie which inevitably led to Joel killing her father?

    Later on in the story we are introduced to Lev who saves Abbys life. This prompts Abby to betray the wolves to save Lev. This decision of Abbys feels like a fruitless attempt by the writers to establish Abby as a morally good character in order to gain empathy from the audience. They're trying to define Abby as selfless contrary to her making numerous selfish decisions. It's hard to say anything for certain about Abby's character because every other decision is conflicting. One moment she is selfless the next she is selfish. When it comes to condemning Ellie her morals are for the good of the many but when it comes to saving Lev her morals are for the good of the few. She gets very angry when she finds out Ellie has killed her friends yet she's already betrayed these friends and was prepared to leave these friends behind to help Lev.

    The story overall is nonsensical and revolves around and characters literally abandoning and losing everything in a fruitless quest for revenge. Both Abby and Ellie quite literally sacrificed everything over avenging the deaths of two people in a world where everyone has lost someone. Death and violence is around almost every corner of this world. Yet for whatever reason these two people are so special our characters travel thousands of miles killing hundreds to enact their revenge. Even after watching the bond which is formed between Joel and Ellie in the first game I have a hard time believing that Joel's death was enough to bring on this murderous rampage. Especially after Joel and Ellie’s rough relationship has been established.

    This world isn't the same world we were put into in the first game. There is no hope in this world, there is only violence and sadness. The violence is so over the top that by the end of the game I was completely numb to it all. The game heavily relies on shock value that was brought about through overly violent and grotesque actions perpetrated towards beloved characters which was so overly used it left me feeling nothing when the game came to it's final conclusion and this mattered the most. At no point were we given any sort of relief or loving character development which gave us respite from the sadness and violence of this world previously. In the first game Ellie provided 90% of this relief from the awful world we were witnessing. But she is now a shadow of her former self, despite spending her years safe and sheltered in a settlement with electricity she has completely lost the spark we saw in the first game. The conclusion of the game is hollow, hundreds die in this needless revenge plot and one singular person being saved who the player has established no empathy for is supposed to bring meaning to all the meaningless violence.    … Expand
  18. Pr0j3ct97
    Jun 19, 2020
    2
    Everything about this games story is so bad that it shadows any positive things about this game. Plot is absolutely disappointing.
  19. DJN5383
    Jun 19, 2020
    0
    Garbage game. Typical revenge plot that is executed horribly. It’s also filled with woke nonsense. Do yourself a favor and save your money for Ghosts of Tsushima.
  20. A_C_J
    Jun 21, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. **** game..
    Игра гавно .
    Scheis Spiel
    Spiel ohne gameplay, häsliche Hauptharaktere, einfach eine entäuschung.
    игра обсолютно не о чём, не идёт ни в какае сравнение с первой частью, однозначно не покупать,
    ни за какие деньги.    … Expand
  21. Paulicio
    Jun 19, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I was very disappointed, the story is terrible and they do not give the development to the characters as it should be, and the fact of playing with the most hated character in the middle of the game and that in the end what you expected so much does not happen seems horrible to me I am going to have a bad taste in my mouth I do not recommend them

    Estaba muy decepcionado, la historia es terrible y no dan el desarrollo a los personajes como debería ser, y el hecho de jugar con el personaje más odiado en el medio del juego y que al final lo que esperabas tanto no sucede me parece horrible voy a tener mal sabor de boca no los recomiendo    … Expand
  22. FoxJoy
    Jun 25, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This is so terrible feeling. You rape my soul Neil. What did you do, What for? You wanted the players to feel hate? you got it. And now I don't want you working on 3-rd LoU because after this "game" you have no right to be in LoU3 developers team. It's like a bad dream and I want to wake up.… Expand
  23. sananemos
    Jul 14, 2020
    1
    This game is a disgrace to the previous installation. Disgusting narrative!
  24. Nicobrav
    Jun 19, 2020
    1
    The last of US Part 2 is trash, there's nothing wrong with killing a main character but this is not the way to do it. The history was about Joel and Ellie, but on this game... You play as ellie and trash. Save the money for a better game... This is a vengeance game without vengeance... 1/10 for the visuals.
  25. Player33
    Jun 20, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The problem with this game is that Naughty Dog tries catering towards the LGBTQ community and abandoning it's core values and fans that made this first part so great. I will start with the good aspects. The graphics are unmatched, the best the PS4 has to offer. The AI, the choreography are top notch. The gameplay is very enjoyable. For these aspects I will give it a 4/10. Sadly TLOU2 is a story based game which means it needs a good story for it to succeed. Unfortunately this is where the game loses it's 6 points.
    SPOILERS INCOMING:
    The game starts up just fine, revealing new characters and trying to make them familiar to us.One of those new characters is a transexual woman called Abby. The character development for this character is quite bad. It is a character we know nothing about and once you reach the middle of the game, this character kills Joel because he killed his father in the first part. Thus gamers would expect that we will hunt this Abby down to take revenge for Joel. Instead of this, we get to play as the killer of Joel( Joel the beloved character to the fans that had build a strong bond with because of the first game.) trying to kill the other beloved character for all fans, Ellie. In other words Naughty Dog **** all over the feelings that were developed by fans via the first game, the groundworks that made TLOU 1 one of the most loved games ever. And this happens because for some strange reason the company/developers think that it is a good idea to get a favorable view by the LGBTQ minorities and completely ignore their base fans that made Naughty Dog the company it is today. All in all this game had the chance to become the best Playstation game ever, but some vain ideologies made it into the greatest disaster of the current generation. It's a shame.    … Expand
  26. redicent
    Jun 19, 2020
    0
    You used political correctness to manipulate reviewers. Metacritic put this game on the same level with the gods and goddesses of the gaming history like "Skyrim, Mario Odyssey, Breath of The Wild etc.". You made people waste their money with this reviews where people potentially don't even enjot the game after the second hour because they were such a fan of the first one. That was theYou used political correctness to manipulate reviewers. Metacritic put this game on the same level with the gods and goddesses of the gaming history like "Skyrim, Mario Odyssey, Breath of The Wild etc.". You made people waste their money with this reviews where people potentially don't even enjot the game after the second hour because they were such a fan of the first one. That was the first mistake.

    You Neil, didn't know jack **** about Joel and depicted him as a shy dadlike character who would'a save a random stranger/follow her and just announce himself in a place full of strangers. I cannot compare this story choice to GOT Season 8 or Star Wars Last Jedi **** show BECAUSE they have a lot of hours of content so maybe that can be justifiable as directors losing consistency over a long shot. This is the second game of the franchise. Who do you think you are to change pace of the story in such if this is 10th season of some Walking Dead like show? This is the second mistake.

    Finally you pushed a political agenda in your game for every inch of an hour. People just want to play their game. They do not want to relate to poorly written characters who just happens to not be cis gender. They just want to play their game because they like the series so much. You could have written literally anything else and it would be worth our while. and you treat your devs who sweat 12 hours a day like robots that third and fourth mistake. I was handed 100 cards full of mistake I just don't have patients to go on.
    … Expand
  27. sonia_strumm
    Jun 19, 2020
    0
    this game butchers everything the first game was about. the story is highly illogical and makes no sense by the end. do not waste your money
  28. RaZi3L
    Jun 19, 2020
    0
    How can I put this? not sure but here goes. First game was a masterpiece story that evolved with characters we came to love throughout game, feeling genuine emotions when Ellie was in danger As a fatherly figure trying to protect her it gave us beautiful experience. On other hand we have this abomination totally degrading to its first part yes game play and graphics are on higher level butHow can I put this? not sure but here goes. First game was a masterpiece story that evolved with characters we came to love throughout game, feeling genuine emotions when Ellie was in danger As a fatherly figure trying to protect her it gave us beautiful experience. On other hand we have this abomination totally degrading to its first part yes game play and graphics are on higher level but story is utterly disgusting no one should put himself/herself to sit though this hot garbage and ruin experiences they received from the first part.… Expand
  29. GalvusGalvoid
    Jun 19, 2020
    0
    The story is just wrong, the characters wouldn't do what they do. They could do this type of story if it didn't have characters with already established personalities, from the first game, that wouldn't do these things.
  30. SHIOTTA
    Jun 26, 2020
    3
    Gave myself a good chance to try and enjoy myself when playing this game. Played through twice and still just can't get into the story and the new characters. Game looks great, but the story just sucks.
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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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