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. TheRafaelOctavi
    Jun 21, 2020
    1
    If you have a highly story-driven game, it does'nt matter how good your graphics are or how the gameplay stands on its own, you HAVE to deliver a good story. Let's talk about THE WITCHER III for example: Kind of clumky gameplay, but overwellmingly good story, so people don't actually mind the gameplay all that much. Unfortunately, this cannot be said about THE LAST OF US 2. What aIf you have a highly story-driven game, it does'nt matter how good your graphics are or how the gameplay stands on its own, you HAVE to deliver a good story. Let's talk about THE WITCHER III for example: Kind of clumky gameplay, but overwellmingly good story, so people don't actually mind the gameplay all that much. Unfortunately, this cannot be said about THE LAST OF US 2. What a disaster. Characters no longer act like normal human beings, it's like this game came out of a team that didn't even understand what made the first one such a great success. How low can Naughtydog go?… Expand
  2. Kenjovani
    Jun 21, 2020
    10
    What a gorgeous, sublime game with great graphics and combat. Story is also engrossing. Contender for gotg.
  3. Kinboy
    Jun 21, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Of the best playstation games, ls the best playstation games, bad reviews are just because Joel died and the ending was a bit bad, from there on it's great… Expand
  4. Ballistical1
    Jun 21, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Yeah, every single aspect of this game is forced. An agenda is forced down your throat and a terrible story is forced down your throat. So let me get this straight Joel saves Abby and the second she finds this out without hesitation kills him with Ellie watching???? Then Ellie vows to kill Abby and at the end leaves her family to kill Abby then when the time comes let’s it live??? The game ends with Ellie’s family gone, her not being able to play the guitar because Abby bit 2 fingers off her???? And that’s it that’s it???? This is the game that gets a 95 metacritic???… Expand
  5. Trinityinyang
    Jun 21, 2020
    0
    I played through the whole thing.

    Drop dead gorgeous graphics, animation, wonderful performances from Troy Baker and Ashley Johnson and wonderful cast who brings their A game. Gameplay is more refined and more options available. Story wise is a complete mess and treats it’s characters like garbage. The plot relies on shock values and its character make dumb decisions. You are then    I played through the whole thing.

    Drop dead gorgeous graphics, animation, wonderful performances from Troy Baker and Ashley Johnson and wonderful cast who brings their A game. Gameplay is more refined and more options available.

    Story wise is a complete mess and treats it’s characters like garbage. The plot relies on shock values and its character make dumb decisions. You are then saddled with the most boring and unsympathetic character ever in the 2nd act. It also concludes with no payoff. Looks good and plays good, but the story is a dealbreaker enough for me. Never playing again.    … Expand
  6. Atrike
    Jun 20, 2020
    0
    Every journalist who rated this game above 60 points is a corrupt jerk.....
  7. CallMeMartin
    Jun 21, 2020
    2
    Queer perspective review ahead:
    I'll be honest... I didn't much enjoy the first game, but with a more inclusive cast being revealed I was excited. I decided to try the game and show my support. This game is so hurtful that it has inspired me to make an account just so I can let ND know how badly they have messed up. First the pros: Beautiful music, gorgeous graphics, A+ acting
    Cons: Clunky    Queer perspective review ahead:
    I'll be honest... I didn't much enjoy the first game, but with a more inclusive cast being revealed I was excited. I decided to try the game and show my support. This game is so hurtful that it has inspired me to make an account just so I can let ND know how badly they have messed up. First the pros: Beautiful music, gorgeous graphics, A+ acting
    Cons: Clunky game play as bad as the first, boring scripted sneak sections, spammy attacking mechanics, characterizations, poorly thought out queer representation I don't know who at ND thought it was a good idea to reinforce the idea that trans people are aggressive and unstable?? By making said trans character playable and actively murder a beloved character??? For what, some cheap, half baked message about revenge? ND, you created a trans character in a massive AAA title... but you have done nothing but make people hate and resent her, doing great disservice to the trans community. You could have redeemed this character... but you've only stereotyped a large swath of the LBGTQ+ community. This character could have been a great ambassador to gamers all around... but you've fostered nothing but anger towards queer people by being pointlessly provocative.

    Seriously... shame on you, ND.    … Expand
  8. Frosty10
    Jun 21, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The Last or us part 2 is an amazing game with great story telling, graphics, gameplay, soundtrack. Not everyone will like this game and I can see and understand why, it’s way different from the first one but I also feel like people don’t give it a chance and they don’t even play it, they just hear the leaks. There is so much more to this game and the reason people hate on it is because of Joel’s death which yes was extremely sad but it doesn’t make the game bad. The game isn’t supposed to be a happy game it’s supposed to be a sad and unsettling game and it’s really good at making you feel that. You can feel and see the pain in Ellie as you go through Seattle looking for Abby and the rest of the WLF. Yes Abby is a **** but besides that I have no complaints about this game, and even though it was wrong you can’t blame Abby to much because as much as I love Joel and was sad to see him go the way he did he did kill her father and hurt the rest of the world to save Ellie so Abby feels that pain too. Anyways the improvement on everything in this game from the first one is amazing. Just because Joel died the way he died doesn’t mean the game is bad! 10/10! An emotional Masterpiece!… Expand
  9. Hectoruwu
    Jun 21, 2020
    6
    It has good grafics with a impressive attention to the detail and a very good gameplay, but the story is bad, very bad. It feels like all the characters need to be part of the LGBT+ community, and the only thing that they apport to the game story is that.
  10. BlackKnight3500
    Jun 21, 2020
    3
    I can't say anything that hasn't been said already, but I can't help but put my thoughts here.
    This game looks incredible, obviously, but that doesn't matter to me very much, nice graphics are enjoyable but don't really add much else than awe value.
    Gameplay is alright, though it does get tedious as the game progresses. Of course, the thing everyone cares about in a Last of Us sequel is    I can't say anything that hasn't been said already, but I can't help but put my thoughts here.
    This game looks incredible, obviously, but that doesn't matter to me very much, nice graphics are enjoyable but don't really add much else than awe value.
    Gameplay is alright, though it does get tedious as the game progresses. Of course, the thing everyone cares about in a Last of Us sequel is the story. It's the only reason everyone fondly remembers the original.
    Where to start? Perhaps the crux of the problem is the character development, or lack thereof. Joel in particular is embarrassingly bad. Gone is the rugged and experienced survivor of Part 1, replaced by a trusting idiot. A man who survived in the apocalypse for decades decides to tell an entire group of armed strangers his name right after he learns he is being hunted. I would say more, but there isn't much else, as Joel dies a mere two hours into the game.
    His death is meaningless, rushed, and disrespectful to the character and the fans. To make such a beloved character die like a dog by a character introduced just moments ago is absurd. To make his death have no impact other than a lazy writing plot device to make Ellie hunt down Abby is insulting. To make him die this way so early in the game doesn't even give the player time to grieve for this icon of gaming.
    What makes the whole thing worse are the flashbacks with Joel sprinkled throughout the game, some of the only well-written segments of the whole thing. However, a dampener on the experience is the slight inconvenience that Joel is dead, and none of these things matter.
    Why couldn't these experiences have been the main game? Why did they go for such an overused revenge story?
    And at the end, to cap off the horrible writing, Ellie decides to basically abandon her loved ones to pursue Abby. After fighting and slaughtering hundreds, after everything Ellie has done, and as Ellie has the opportunity to kill Abby at last...she has a flashback of Joel playing the guitar, which prompts Ellie to let Abby go.
    This makes no sense. Joel was not a pacifistic person, far from it. Were the writers going for the "He wouldn't be happy with this" approach? What Joel wouldn't be happy with already happened. He wouldn't have wanted Ellie to abandon Dina, which she did, and he probably wouldn't have wanted Ellie to kill hundreds in the pursuit of revenge, which she also already did, but he would have no such qualms about killing Abby herself. Why would you abandon your goal after going so far?
    Wouldn't a flashback of Joel make Ellie more angry and make her want to kill Joel's murderer more? In what world does it sedate her anger?
    As Abby rides away, Ellie makes it back to the hideout that she and her loved ones had made their base to find it abandoned with no indication of where they went. Ellie tries to play the guitar left behind but finds herself unable to do so due to two of her fingers bitten off by Abby. The game ends, with Ellie left without her lover, without her friends, without her father figure, Joel, unable to even play the guitar, which Joel taught her to play, without anywhere to go, and without her revenge that the whole game was leading up too, meaning a large portion of the game was simply a waste of time.
    You could say it was all for nothing.    … Expand
  11. dorout
    Jun 21, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Pros: Art, graphics, feel
    Cons: story, plot, characters (pretty much the core of the game)

    Overall, I take issue with almost the entirety of TLOU2 apart from general graphics. TLOU1 is essentially heavy on the story and character development side whereas TLOU2, I felt no connection and as for the story I still don't know what is going on. You jump around way too much due to a ridiculous amount of plot holes.

    They, naughty dog, decided to kill off Joel within 2 hours of initial game play and replaced the iconic and legendary character with another male. Woman? I honestly have no idea what Abby is. I sincerely don't and that is a huge problem. It's gender should not be subjective. It needs to be clearly defined because gamers are following THEIR story. I will assume Abby is a dude since his muscles are double the size of mine.

    Apart from Ellie and Abby, how do you follow the characters? There are so many.

    The sex scene between Abby and Owen, which I get is for a curb ball, should not be in a game. It was incredibly and horrifically cringe beyond contestation. I don't enjoy watching two gay men go at it. I don't. There should have been a warning - in fact a trigger warning - about the inevitable gay cut scene. My god I am going to jolt awake in my nightmares because of that scene. I wish I could unsee it.

    That's as far as I have gotten and I haven't turned the game on since. A little over 2 hours in. I am done. My refund is underway. How the F did naughty dog stray so far away from greatness? I mean it sincerely. TLOU1 exceeded all of my expectation and I had high expectations. TLOU2 is a disgusting joke to say the least. I am actually furious that I wasted my time.    … Expand
  12. ForFrodo
    Jun 21, 2020
    2
    Narratively speaking.. it's utter **** an abysmal mess that feels like a liver shot to those who played the first game. The graphics are very good though, combat is still the same from the first game. But the story is god damn terrible it just makes me upset. Upset, disappointed and angry with Naughty Dog and myself for waiting 7 long years for this game to come out. I'm holding onto hopeNarratively speaking.. it's utter **** an abysmal mess that feels like a liver shot to those who played the first game. The graphics are very good though, combat is still the same from the first game. But the story is god damn terrible it just makes me upset. Upset, disappointed and angry with Naughty Dog and myself for waiting 7 long years for this game to come out. I'm holding onto hope that Naughty Dog releases a DLC explaining this whole plot is just a bad trip from when Dina and Ellie where smoking up weed, perhaps the weed was laced with bad acid or something.. **** anything to fix this conjured up mess.… Expand
  13. Araxiel666
    Jun 21, 2020
    0
    No Tiene Comparación Con El El Primer Juego y La Historia Es Una Completa Burla Hacía Los Fans, No Entiendo En Que Estaban Pensando..
  14. Strider32
    Jun 21, 2020
    0
    I'm not entirely sure how a sequel to one of the best games ever can come out and be this terrible. The gameplay is fine, although there is a bit too much of the walking/talking. The graphics are amazing. But the story and what they have done to beloved characters from the first game might be some of the worst writing and decision making I've witnessed in the industry.

    The direction    I'm not entirely sure how a sequel to one of the best games ever can come out and be this terrible. The gameplay is fine, although there is a bit too much of the walking/talking. The graphics are amazing. But the story and what they have done to beloved characters from the first game might be some of the worst writing and decision making I've witnessed in the industry.

    The direction they have taken this game is so bad, it makes you wonder if they were out to deliberately sabotage the legacy of the first game and wanted to destroy their reputation. What a mess.    … Expand
  15. Isentinel
    Jun 21, 2020
    0
    bu ne biz bunu mu bekledik sevdiğimiz adam öldü ilk dakikada döndük birde o sevdiğimiz adamı öldüren kadınla oynadık oda yetmez gibi eleştirmenler sadece travesti ve lezbiyenlerden laf yememek için oyuna tam puan vermiş oyunda değişen tek şey görüntü böyle bir rezillik olamaz hiç bir şey değişmemiş grafiği övenler de witcher 3 ün grafikleri bundan daha iyi özel yüklemelerle lütfen yapmayınbu ne biz bunu mu bekledik sevdiğimiz adam öldü ilk dakikada döndük birde o sevdiğimiz adamı öldüren kadınla oynadık oda yetmez gibi eleştirmenler sadece travesti ve lezbiyenlerden laf yememek için oyuna tam puan vermiş oyunda değişen tek şey görüntü böyle bir rezillik olamaz hiç bir şey değişmemiş grafiği övenler de witcher 3 ün grafikleri bundan daha iyi özel yüklemelerle lütfen yapmayın bu yılık en büyük fiyaskosuydu… Expand
  16. Kuude_Namba
    Jun 21, 2020
    7
    The game has beautiful scenarios, an awesome ost, and a better gameplay than the original. But the history is awful. If the game were one hour shorter, it would be a 9, because I really got happy at the final part. But the epilogue ruined it all. The last chapter, that ending they give to the game is a spit for the fans and the original game.
  17. Spyrolegend16
    Jun 21, 2020
    10
    Un gioco emozionante e coinvolgente, difficile da staccarsi da esso una volta in mano il gamepad. Il giusto canto del cigno per la Playstation 4. Non ho mai avuto così tanta voglia di rigiocarmi varie sezioni della storia per diventare perfetto nell'esecuzione.
  18. NoobMaster89
    Jun 21, 2020
    0
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  19. AjdarFan
    Jun 21, 2020
    10
    this is a game pushed by a certain agenda in order to be more "progressive". you would be better off just by not playing it.
  20. RicardoProNoob
    Jun 21, 2020
    0
    The graphics are so bad for a game who was launched in the final of this generation of console! trash
  21. Wlaugh
    Jun 21, 2020
    0
    This is not the game for gamers, it's the game that make to earn goty by political way
  22. SgyIndica
    Jun 21, 2020
    0
    Don't waste your money on this propaganda. Amazing graphics, garbage story.
  23. Elcartu03
    Jun 21, 2020
    0
    Too bad some sex contentt....what a deesseppttion... my time wasted in this game
  24. mungdaal
    Jun 21, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I just don’t understand. Everyone has been waiting to play this game for years. To play as Joel. Why would they kill their only chance at having the game be a success? Absolute **** Really bad game don’t waste your money.… Expand
  25. Hugomix07
    Jun 21, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Muy bueno los que dicen que no es bueno son los que no disfrutan los juegos y solo los pasan sin apreciar lo bien realizado que está.… Expand
  26. An4l_leakage
    Jun 21, 2020
    10
    Disclaimer : this game is not a 10 but it is much closer to a 10 then a 0...

    I feel like giving this game o to 4 is totally not okay. I've seen much much much worse game with better rating. The last of us part 2 as really enjoyable gameplay (much better than the first one), amazing environment and graphics. The story isn't as great as the first installment but it is still one of the    Disclaimer : this game is not a 10 but it is much closer to a 10 then a 0...

    I feel like giving this game o to 4 is totally not okay. I've seen much much much worse game with better rating.

    The last of us part 2 as really enjoyable gameplay (much better than the first one), amazing environment and graphics. The story isn't as great as the first installment but it is still one of the best games I've played in the fast few years. I honestly didn't see any of that "hidden agenda" thing people are talking about.

    Its a really good game but its a shame that people would give a ridiculously low score because they don't agree with how the story unfolds.    … Expand
  27. Lezter203
    Jun 21, 2020
    0
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  28. Sjoerdjuh89
    Jun 21, 2020
    10
    One of the best story driven games that i played. And i played a lot of games
  29. Aps601
    Jun 21, 2020
    10
    Amazing graphics. Story is just as engaging as the first one. Super fun stealth play.
  30. ajaxkitt
    Jun 21, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I waited years for this game. Stopped playing after about five hours because I hated the story. What a waste of good characters (from first game). I don't know these characters (Part II)! Playing as the "evil" character sucks!… 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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