The Last of Us Part II

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  1. Okevin212
    Jul 19, 2020
    5
    It didn't really have anything to do with the first game. If they left playing as Abby out I would have liked it alot more because it felted stretched out. This feels like a dlc not an actual game
  2. Fad2Blak
    Jul 20, 2020
    5
    Gameplay is pretty decent if not extremely repatative. They did do a great job with the AI on this game and the graphics, animations, etc all the technical parts of the game are great. The thing that drags this game way down is the shoved in politics, pandering to a crowd that doesn't give a crap about game sin general, and the narrative choices in this game. Played this from start toGameplay is pretty decent if not extremely repatative. They did do a great job with the AI on this game and the graphics, animations, etc all the technical parts of the game are great. The thing that drags this game way down is the shoved in politics, pandering to a crowd that doesn't give a crap about game sin general, and the narrative choices in this game. Played this from start to finish and have no issues with the LGBTQ stuff, Ellie being gay etc just the train wreck in the way the story was told. Even Abby's gameplay was fun but it just didn't fit in this game or world. Joel dieing was a given and would have made much more of an impact if told better.… Expand
  3. AlexanderGus110
    Jul 19, 2020
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Es un buen juego sin contar el 1 el final hubiera estado mejor con opción de matar a Abby… Expand
  4. L_oncho
    Jul 19, 2020
    5
    El juegos es bastante bueno, su gameplay, música, el apartado técnico y ambientación son hermosos, pero la historia.... Se nota un desprecio total por los personajes que dieron vida a esta historia, más el echó de obligarte a sentir empatía por un personaje como Abby, siendo que no entrega nada interesante a esta.
  5. andresmp27
    Jul 19, 2020
    5
    Gráficos impresionantes, una bestia de la industria, lo mejor de esta generación, una cantidad de cuidado en los pequeños detalles apabullante, una banda sonora y efectos sonoros magníficos, una exploración de los escenarios mejorada bajo mi punto de vista en comparación a su primera entrega, el gameplay es el mismo que en el 1 con algun que otro añadido o mejora, asi que al que le gusteGráficos impresionantes, una bestia de la industria, lo mejor de esta generación, una cantidad de cuidado en los pequeños detalles apabullante, una banda sonora y efectos sonoros magníficos, una exploración de los escenarios mejorada bajo mi punto de vista en comparación a su primera entrega, el gameplay es el mismo que en el 1 con algun que otro añadido o mejora, asi que al que le guste lo que jugó en su primera entrega, no se equivocara con lo que encuentre aqui, pero su historia deja mucho que desear, a pesar de que haya un gran desbalance de querer meter todos los asp… Expand
  6. thebosssullivan
    Feb 21, 2022
    10
    Better than first game. History, graphics and gameplay. The game with the greatest reality that I ever saw.
  7. Churbaddasa
    Jul 19, 2020
    5
    good game play and gorgeous graphics but felt like the story was written by a child and that is my opinion
  8. TZH85
    Jul 21, 2020
    6
    Really, the truth lies somewhere in the middle. No, the game certainly isn't bad and doesn't deserve a score of lower than five or something. But the critic reviews are completely undeserved, too. The game isn't a 10/10 or even an 8/10. You could argue 7, but that is generous.
    From a technical standpoint, TLOU2 is amazing. You can clearly see the hard work put into the graphics, music and    Really, the truth lies somewhere in the middle. No, the game certainly isn't bad and doesn't deserve a score of lower than five or something. But the critic reviews are completely undeserved, too. The game isn't a 10/10 or even an 8/10. You could argue 7, but that is generous.
    From a technical standpoint, TLOU2 is amazing. You can clearly see the hard work put into the graphics, music and voice acting. The gameplay is fun. But the praise the first game of the series got mainly wasn't due to technical stuff. It was such a success because of the story and the characters and that's why part 2 should be judged for those factors as well. And they just don't hold up.
    Part 1 was great because it was ambigous. As the player you had to judge the character's actions for yourself and there was room for interpretation. The writing was subtle and emotional. Yes, there were tense moments, shocking moments and sadness. But it was balanced out with lightheartesness and tragic beauty.
    Part 2 throws that out of the window. It's one horrible emotional gut punch after another. Horrible things happen – but they don't make you pause and reflect because it's just a neverending onslaught of misery. At a certain point you stop feeling connected to the story because it's so incredibly obvious these things happen purely for shock value. A lot of contrived stuff as well. The main characters have so much plot armour – they're saved at the last moment again and again and again.
    I could look past that, honestly. But what really disappointed me was how heavy handed the writing was. Gone are the subtleties. It's so obvious how the game wants to make you feel throughout the story – to a manipulative degree. But despite this I never felt connected to the characters because I was never onboard with any of their horrible and often times stupid choices.

    Spoiler:
    I realy don't care how many dogs I get to pet as Abby, I still don't like her. The writers wanted the player to feel for her so badly, but I can't bring myself to do it. Even if she gets the most fun gameplay sequences. The problem I have with Abby is that she never ever reflects on her own actions. She's the one who encouraged her father to perform the operation that would have killed Ellie. And she never once questions her decision or her father's. She thinks she's justified in the beginning of the story and she still feels that way at the end. She even becomes Lev's Joel and kills her own people to save him. And yet she never makes that connection and never feels bad for what she did.

    I was disappointed in Ellie's character development as well. She flip flops about whether or not she should kill Abby all the time. The story might have been salvageable if it had ended on the farm. But now I don't even feel invested in what happens to any of the characters in the inevitable third installment.

    My biggest gripe with the game is that it tries to make you feel bad about playing it. What kind of decision is that? The message of the game is "revenge is bad, don't kill people". Ellie and Abby lose so much because they can't grasp that simple idea. And in the end both of them refrain from killing each other when they get the chance. But while the game tries to hammer down that moral standpoint, it makes you kill endless amounts of NPCs and makes it fun to pick them off one by one. That kind of makes the message of the game hypocritical. The whole story revolves around the consequences of Joel killing one NPC in the first installment. And here we are, killing hundreds more. So TLOS2 is basically a guy wearing leather boots and a coat made from polar bear cubs preaching about the moral superiority of vegan food.    … Expand
  9. yagamisera
    Jul 20, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The only reason I'm giving a five is because that score is meant for the Naughty Dog team who did all the wonderful work in combat, puzzles and visuals and not the story writing/screenplay. The story gets a ZERO from me and hence the score is FIVE. This game is an excellent example of how a game can be ruined if there's no proper story to tell. Even the stunning visuals couldn't save it from the plotholes, bad character depiction and insulting storytelling that was shown. The writer did no character justice - Ellie, Joel, Tommy, Abby - none of them were relatable. The former 3 had completely different personalities compared to part 1 and Abby's story should have been kept at first so that she can be relatable.
    Other plot holes were the unrealistic demonstration of including a pregnant woman in combat, unrealistic body figures for women, men showing callousness during combat way more than they actually do, showing women as weak and unable to kill the last person they should let go even though she has killed SO MANY people shows that this game hates both men and women.

    The image of LGB community was also shown really bad, the image they are trying to portray was so frivolous and mindless. This is not how LGB community is, just because they love the same sex or two sex does not mean that they have no morals or good ideals. They have been portrayed so disgustingly that people will feel like discriminating against them even more, thanks to this game.

    Transgenderism is a thing that exists during our times because people are not trying to survive, they are just living without care in the world. In a post apocalyptic scenario, no one would be thinking whether they "feel" like a man or woman, everyone is trying hard to survive here and such things will not even cross their mind.

    The story and scene setting is so unrealistic, it's as if nothing had been thought through and the writer just wanted to sell a game for money and not because he loves TLOU1.

    This game is one of the worst games for me because
    1) A game is made because you have a story in mind, didn't seem like that case with this one.
    2) A game is made to detox you from the world so that you can face the real world again, this game didn't help me do that...hell it's not even a game, this story would have done better if it were a movie.

    Very disappointed at the writers in Naughty Dog.    … Expand
  10. Alevitzky
    Jul 20, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Amazing. Stunning visuals, great characters, plot that twists your guts and makes you wanna throw away the controller at times yet it all adds up. There are no black and white characters here (well, infected i guess...)… Expand
  11. Lcfairy
    Jul 20, 2020
    5
    Graphics are amazing the environments are amazing gameplay mechanics amazing battle playing amazing. Other than all the achievements with the technology making this game. They failed to make any sense in more than one place throughout the story. Leading it to fall apart many times. Failing to use there own story info in an important scene to make it more impactful. It was trageic. ItGraphics are amazing the environments are amazing gameplay mechanics amazing battle playing amazing. Other than all the achievements with the technology making this game. They failed to make any sense in more than one place throughout the story. Leading it to fall apart many times. Failing to use there own story info in an important scene to make it more impactful. It was trageic. It should have been done differently.… Expand
  12. SMDFK
    Jul 23, 2020
    2
    Story is bad, It makes me feel uncomfortable and disgusting.
    This game series is absolutely dead
  13. Joanne0713
    Jul 25, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The **** of the year.
    The **** of the year.
    The **** of the year.
    The **** of the year.
    The **** of the year.    … Expand
  14. Ste333
    Jul 20, 2020
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I was wary going into this game as I'd seen so much noise on social media and youtube about the plot and Naughty Dogs behaviour around release, but I was determined to ignore all that and make my own mind up. Here is the long story short - if you liked the way the first game played and looked - you'll like this one. They haven't done anything revolutionary with the mechanics etc, and the game looks amazing - the ruined seattle and santa location really immerse you into the desolate destroyed world. That being said, it did become a bit samey with just either stealthing or shooting your way through alternating hordes of people, or infected. With the odd added dog or shambler to mix it up. The story I felt a bit let down - the pacing of the game was weird, jumping around in the memories of backwards/forwards/backwards/forwards was clever...but just took me out of the immersion a bit. I like the way they brought the new groups in - the WLF, and Scars...but the newer characters that had any kind of role just felt a bit "throwaway" if that makes sense? Naughty Dog obviously set out to make a fairly gritty shocking game, and they succeeded..but at the detriment of having a good solid story which newer players to the genre could have loved. As I played on and got to the 20+ hour mark, I started to get a bit bored of the same grind and just wanted to speed through sections as fast as poss to progress the story. All in...this had huge potential, but it just didnt quite live up to my expectations (having loved the first game). I hope they do better if there is a 3rd installment.… Expand
  15. Alexande12312
    Jul 20, 2020
    0
    Здесь каждый найдёт что-то для каждого. Я нашёл здесь 0 из 10. Удачи, Ногти Дог.
  16. jake05431
    Jul 20, 2020
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game is good, but only that. Gameplay and graphics are great, but plot is one big mistake. Joel died like a dog, Ellie didn't kill Abby, because... I don't know she just let her go. I'm not a hater, I'm just disappointed TLOU fan. This game is just leftside propaganda, and I'm not homophobic or something like that I'm only sad, because of that the big franchise is turn into propaganda like SW. "I wish that things were different, but they ain't".… Expand
  17. Toxic_Doggy
    Jul 21, 2020
    2
    This estimate is real for that destroyed story, ugly characters, stupid SJW-propaganda and boring gameplay.
  18. M-MONST3R
    Apr 10, 2021
    0
    Great game 10/10
  19. Howeezy
    Jul 20, 2020
    7
    It was alright gameplay was awesome story wasn't as compelling as first but solid.
  20. ATKstat
    Jul 20, 2020
    7
    I'm not one for big, involved reviews - besides, there are plenty of those all over the internet, so I'll keep this brief.

    This game is gorgeous, amazingly well animated, and mechanically deep, with excellent acting. Most of this game is an absolute home run. Where I think it falls short is in the structure of the narrative. I won't go into any spoilers, but never mind the main points of    I'm not one for big, involved reviews - besides, there are plenty of those all over the internet, so I'll keep this brief.

    This game is gorgeous, amazingly well animated, and mechanically deep, with excellent acting. Most of this game is an absolute home run. Where I think it falls short is in the structure of the narrative. I won't go into any spoilers, but never mind the main points of contention among fans of the first game. Whether you enjoy the story and characters or not, TLoU2 suffers from the inescapable feeling that it is actually two games duct-tapped together at the center and end. It makes sympathizing with and caring about most of the characters conflicting at best and - at worst - impossible for some.

    Personally, I really appreciated what the game was trying to do, and I enjoyed my time with it overall. However the flaws in the writing and pacing are simply unavoidable. If you just want more of what the first game offered, TLoU2 will surely disappoint you. But if you're like me, and you're looking for something a bit different from the first, there are absolutely reasons to like this one.things    … Expand
  21. Stevaustin
    Jul 20, 2020
    6
    Technically and gameplay wise, this game does everything better than the first game. Too bad the story isn’t as good. Such a great opportunity to make a perfect game, wasted due to a succession of poor story choices, botched characters and an underwhelming conclusion to what should have been a masterpiece. Do better next time.
  22. Taosana15
    Jul 20, 2020
    5
    It's okayish. Not a 10/10 like the reviewers all say. Definitely not a 10/10. story is pretty ass, gameplay didnt evolve in the slightest in comparison to the first game. They basically only added jumping and proning. The ending is absolute horrible
  23. Helgi_Skegg
    Jul 20, 2020
    4
    Awesome technical work and total disappointment in everything else. It is a pity that you cannot return half of the money spent back.
  24. Witchy
    Jul 20, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The gameplay of the game is superb, it felt good playing the game when I wasn't focusing on what have happened throughout the game … Expand
  25. Hun_Bela
    Jan 31, 2021
    0
    Good graphic, re used game mechanics and sound. Really nothing special. Made us hate everything we loved in the first game. Story doesn't have to be a fan service, but doing just what nobody wants isn't a good direction. If you loved the original, you want to avoid this. No one asked for a scissor fest, and for the story of Abyzila. Stupid things upon stupid things, just to make space forGood graphic, re used game mechanics and sound. Really nothing special. Made us hate everything we loved in the first game. Story doesn't have to be a fan service, but doing just what nobody wants isn't a good direction. If you loved the original, you want to avoid this. No one asked for a scissor fest, and for the story of Abyzila. Stupid things upon stupid things, just to make space for new main character. Star Wars 7-8-9 vibes. Really hope their next game won't have the same influence this one had while in the oven. And the return to making good games without relying to be"brave" to get awards the game didn't deserve at all. Wish the best for ND for next time. Let's make this cringe great the long forgotten past.… Expand
  26. JustNTime
    Jul 20, 2020
    3
    Just do not enjoy playing this game. The graphics and gameplay is fun, but you just get knocked out of it by the god awful story. So much so, it's extremely hard to play through the entire game. Don't recommend.
  27. LexKing
    Jul 20, 2020
    7
    Amazing graphic, animation, sound and awesome little things...but a lot of LGBT's content and some plot twists is terrible...
  28. Andre_Felipe
    Jul 20, 2020
    0
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  29. AnnieNoName
    Jul 20, 2020
    0
    Sorry but im beyond disappointed. I wanted to give it a chance but all the potential the game had was wasted. Completely. Terrible story, poorly written characters and no real development or plot.
  30. Alexiszg
    Jul 20, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. El juego es una mierda en todo el desarrollo de su historia, solamente arruina la gran obra maestra de la primera parte con sus tramas forzadas y sus mensajes estupidos simplemente porque Ellie mataría a todo un ejército a sangre fría solo para perdonarle la vida a la asesina de Joel simplemente una basura de juego.… Expand
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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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