The Last of Us Part II

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  1. Scoobiroobiroo
    Jun 19, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. **Spoilers ahead. **

    To start I wasn't one of the original fans of The Last of Us. When it came out i heard all kinds of great things but due to circumstances in my life, i was unable to play it. I ended up buying the first game about 2 years ago on PSN after they remastered it. WOW I knew there was a second game coming but I was so beyond in love with the story of the first game and the DLC. The mechanics were flawed it is true, but the way the characters were written and the story organically unfolds it just, it just really got me hooked. I said to myself, "This would make an AWESOME TV show". Looks like HBO had the same idea apparently. This game has stuck with me in a way others couldn't. I loved all 4 Uncharted games but like most mainstream games they are a PG sort of good where is this was Game of Thrones adult good (WINK WINK).

    Fast forward to a few months ago. I was riding high, very excited for the new game. With the pandemic i figured this would be an amazing game to bring out right now. Much like with the new Star Wars movies I was thinking that the possibilities could be endless. You could literally make the safest story possible and still win, both critically and with the fans. Well HBO then announces they are going to make a SHOW based on TLOU with the original writer and the show runner from Chernobyl. MY GOD how awesome....HOW AWESOME!

    Then came the spoilers. Of course I didn't pay attention to them. For weeks, i stayed off of social media the best i could. I didn't watch any youtube videos, until at last every aspect of what little of my online presence there was, pointed to the fact that everyone unanimously hated the leaks. I figured "How bad could they possibly be?". After all, this is a game meant to shock and awe, meant to bring you in with the amazing characters that you want to see succeed or fail and then and only then, bring you to your knees. Make you rethink what is right and wrong. Real moral dilemmas we could all experience. Well we can thank Instagram for spoiling one the biggest parts for me. With one "Swing", one little picture. the whole thing was ruined. It was a character i knew and loved, yes, but it had to be an honorable death the character deserved right? There had to be more context to what happened. I caved, i looked at the spoilers. My answer was a strong NO. Instead of treating this character with the end they truly deserved, it is at the hands of some MINOR MINOR.....MINOR characters that i didn't even come close to remembering, daughter...son.... or whatever they go by. I honestly don't know and I don't give a hoot what the characters orientation is. In fact, i just don't give a crap about them honestly AT ALL. Usually we tend to care about the people we spent a good portion of 20 hours with in the first game. It would be like Disney bring Mark Hamill back just to sit him on some rocks and not do AWESOME Luke Skywalker **** or if they teased Jon Snows lineage for over TEN years only to tell you that you are stupid for following the plot points. HA! GOT YOU! ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED??? Also RIP Snoke

    Frankly, NO, i'm not entertained. i am actually very saddened that the very thing that can make a show or game great can willingly be used in such a poor manner just for the sake of surprising an audience. You DO NOT need to destroy everything about a story or character to make the audience surprised. Characters don't need to act out of character to reach a destination in the story. Stop dumbing down great characters to serve as plot devices. It feels forced.... awkward, not organic. It really takes me out of a story when in the middle of a scene I say to myself, "Wait,.... why did they do that, ....that isn't how that character would approach this situation." But the story needed them to, so they are written stupid that way.

    OK so having said all that, The Graphics look AMAZING as usual with Naughty Dog. The mechanics are better, virtually everything is better, besides the most important part. THE STORY. I had a lot more about the story i didn't like but only so much can be said in 5 thousand characters. Just like with Game of Thrones and Star Wars, this could have been one of the greatest stories in the history of media. I am literally heart broken and just like with S8 of GOT, this game totally ruins replays of the first game for me. KNOWING how god awful and ridiculously remedial part II's story ended up being.

    Above all else, it hurts leaving this game with the extreme disappointment of feeling "What could have been".    … Expand
  2. PowerOfTheCell
    Jun 20, 2020
    4
    7 years later and it feels like over 7 years they slowly forgot their creation, not entirely but enough to make this latest entry seemingly misplaced and an ill thought out experience.

    A certain level of conformation has been put by its creators onto its new narrative, everything feels a little more forced and out of place. The characters are told to go right when they would otherwise    7 years later and it feels like over 7 years they slowly forgot their creation, not entirely but enough to make this latest entry seemingly misplaced and an ill thought out experience.

    A certain level of conformation has been put by its creators onto its new narrative, everything feels a little more forced and out of place. The characters are told to go right when they would otherwise go left and the narrative is a little disjointed between character coming of age and wild slasher film.

    It lacks grace, it lacks cohesion, it lacks substance. They haven't created something new for games as a medium but instead tried to mimic the thing they really actually wanted to be working on, film. The irony while they made a cinematic experience for games, they inadvertently showed why they work on games and not cinema, lack of ability with flaws on show. But the presentation alone will trick many, especially in my opinion reviewers who clamor also for a more cinematic artistic world of games in a bid to feel more cultured.

    Avoid.    … Expand
  3. Chago__
    Jun 24, 2020
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This story is a simple revenge story, and I’m okay with it. I actually really enjoyed the story. The 2 things I didn’t enjoy at all were Joel’s death and playing as Abby for 10 hours or something. Abby’s part wasn’t boring, it was fun because of all the action, but I honestly could give 2 **** about her, I just don’t care about her story at all.… Expand
  4. Pmadison89
    Jun 20, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Remember in the first game the giraffe scene? Where after this long journey between two strangers that butted heads from the beginning finally bonded, then you as the player watch the young girl look on a herd of giraffes in awe during all the chaos? There is nothing like that in Part two.

    I will freely admit, I did not play this game. Instead I did the current year thing and watched streams of it. Some with commentary, some without, but I saw enough of the game. After watching, I knew that this game is just not worth buying, and there is nothing redeemable about it.

    So let’s get the very little pros out of the way:

    Graphics look amazing. But this should be a given for a major studio with a triple A game at the end cycle of the ps4. So this doesn’t actually save the game.

    The sound is amazing. Nothing more to say on it.

    The acting is great. Some of the people behind the faces playing the characters are some of the best and recognizable people in voice acting.

    Now for the neutral:

    Gameplay is meh. The action is pretty much the same as the first game. Very little was added to.

    Now for the cons:

    Gameplay is dumbed down. Beyond the action, TLOU p2 is a puzzler game. You make your way through the area to get from point a to point b. And it looks like the developers decided to make it so simple to solve how that there’s no challenge or thought needed.

    Character.....
    So many decisions the characters from the previous game go and make go against what the characters would have done in the first. Joel and Tommy would not have revealed who they were and where they lived to a large group of strangers.
    The new characters fall into two camps: totally forgettable or totally unlikable. Ellie’s friends are just there, but don’t contribute to the story. You won’t care about what happens to them because you are never given a reason to bond with them. Abby is the only character the developers try to force you to empathize with, but she is just bad. She just killed the reason why people liked the first game, then your forced to “understand” her justification?

    Story..............
    Tales of revenge can be fun to go through if done correctly. We can see the conflict within the character seeking revenge and the resolve they have to build to finally go through with it or turn away. TLOUp2 doesn’t have this at all. You can’t plow you way through an army of nameless people brutality killing them, then shrug your shoulders at the end before killing the big bad.

    No multiplayer mode. The multiplayer mood in the first game was great and you could easily find yourself putting more hours in there then the single player. But there is none in the sequel and really there is no reason why there isn’t.

    The developers claim that the game was about hate. They even went on record and saying they weren’t going to use the word “Fun” in their game. But playing a video game needs to fulfill another word. That word is enjoyable. TLOUp2 is not enjoyable. There is nothing but bleakness and violence for the sake of bleakness and violence. I found absolutely no reason to spend money on this, which is hugely disappointing because I was really looking forward to it when it was first revealed. And I for one am sick of criticism being dismissed with accusations of homophobia and sexism or being accused as being a bit.

    The last of us part two will be right up there with the likes of The Last Jedi and Game of Thrones season 8.    … Expand
  5. Abod69
    Jun 19, 2020
    10
    Masterpiece, I finished the game in one day and it was amazing. I’m planning to play it again.
  6. SoSofFoF
    Jun 24, 2020
    0
    poor writing, game play that scolds you for playing the game, shilled game journo reviews, forced agenda, lead developer is a fraud, this whole thing has been a trash fire since the leaks started, this is a horrid game despite what people may say, if you value yourself and your money, do not buy
  7. cROmjKh
    Jun 23, 2020
    1
    A work full of someones masturbation with arrogance.
    This sequal ruined my whole memory from TLOU1.
  8. lefrosch
    Jun 21, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Firstly, this game is great in the diversity, ethnically, gender-based and sexual-orientation regions of the characters - even highlighting strength of pregnant women.
    However, no matter how great the foundations of a character are - poor writing shines through - and the characters are ultimately shallow and rushed.

    What really hurts this game, is how it punishes you for the decisions in the first game - even though everyone loved how the first game ended: it is why it was so successful - the writing agreed with what the player would have felt and wanted.

    It is an insult to the player to play as the person who killed one of the most beloved characters, and expect them to instantly sympathise. The arc to Abby had to the potential to be great, especially as a muscular female character (not commonly done) - yet, it was introduced in the wrong part of the game and it is difficult to want to hear her after her actions 2 hours into the game.

    However, by no means does Abby later in the game show remorse for her actions - which begs the question: why should she be a protagonist?
    It is made clear than Ellie's actions are wrong, she is fuelled by revenge which is harmful only to her and those around her. It is made clear by the writing that the player *should* empathise with both protagonists Ellie and Abby - and during the final fight not want either to win, having developed a strong bond to both. Except, Abby was allowed to kill Joel, but Ellie is not allowed to kill Abby - for no real reason except for a contradicting character arc.
    A more contradicting arc might be Joel's lack of survival skills as he wanders into Abby's trap - but that was overshadowed by the rest of the games poor writing - even if it is the catalyst of the games events.

    TLOU is a story driven game, and if the story is riddled with plot holes, plagued by weak character development and finishes unresolved: then it is a bad game no matter how good the cinematics are.

    Edit was for pro-nouns    … Expand
  9. CodeZeta
    Jun 21, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. 1:Story makes only sense if characters are stupid and act irrationally all the time(Abby killing every Joel, Abby defending her father chopping up teens for a "possible" cure, Ellie not killing Abby after she murdered her father figure Joel and messed her up in general)
    2:The story also undermines what the first game did with its characters just to be subversive
    3:Game also throws lotsa "Why are u so bad?" and other undertones when you kill enemies who attack you while not giving you any choice to not defeat them. This also ties back to Ellie not killing Abby, but being absolutely okay with killing hundreds of other people just to get to Abby
    4:The game's focus is also taken away from zombies, now just going with "The real zombies were the people we made along the **** While it is common to focus in human relationships in zombie apocalypse writing and such, it shouldn't replace the setting itself.
    5:The anal sex scene. It isn't necessarily much of a point against the game, as much as it is against Sony and their laughable censorship rules with other games. "Showing skin is bad unless it is in our cinematic masterpiece where Druckmann's self insert gets to **** Abby"
    6:False advertising with flashbacks and such.
    7:Gameplay hasn't evolved much since the first game that came 7 years ago.
    8:The game is more of a single-viewing experience that doesn't use videogame format to its advantage at all. You can view it from side and not lose much compared to playing it. The interactive and choosing elements are almost non-existent in story, which is quite a problem when the story, voice-acting and graphics are the only things going for it
    9:It kills the last game's main character to be subversive and be shocking.
    10: Enemies do not react to being shot at all, but when they die, they do a B-tier screaming, trying to reinforce the "You are so bad ****    … Expand
  10. Blaccstar
    Jun 19, 2020
    2
    The story in the first game was masterpiece writing. It seems like they took the secondary aspect of the first game (humans are garbage), and attempted to create a completely unconvincing, very forced story. What happened?
  11. thelewddood
    Jun 23, 2020
    0
    Graphics 8/10 pretty decent tbh
    Gameplay 7/10 the jump button is a joke, nothing new or inovative
    Story 1/10 it exists 5/10 -1 for killing off one and treatment of the main characters from the first game -1 for striking youtubers and social media users. -1 false advertising in the trailers. -1 for terrible ending, and no player choices -1 for Abby and the forced introduction,    Graphics 8/10 pretty decent tbh
    Gameplay 7/10 the jump button is a joke, nothing new or inovative
    Story 1/10 it exists
    5/10
    -1 for killing off one and treatment of the main characters from the first game
    -1 for striking youtubers and social media users.
    -1 false advertising in the trailers.
    -1 for terrible ending, and no player choices
    -1 for Abby and the forced introduction, terribly written and inability to sympathize with
    -5= 0/10    … Expand
  12. WalterCash
    Jun 21, 2020
    0
    A spit to the face... This game is a taste sent from LGBTQ with a middle finger.
  13. Carlaobigboss
    Apr 29, 2021
    2
    Dude...this game is in a unbelivable level of bad writing..the mechanics and gameplay are good thou...but story ...just sad.
  14. Ddarko1
    Jun 19, 2020
    6
    Once again the story is amazing. I've got a lot a emotions playing this master piece...
  15. Neil_Cuckmann
    Jun 23, 2020
    0
    The Last of Us, I'm sorry to say is nothing special. We all know its uncharted with zombies. What made the first game so great was the story. When you take the exact same gameplay, add a few tweaks here and there, and then make the story terrible; what is the point in playing? I gave this a 0 because it just isn't the sequel, I'm still waiting on that one.
  16. PhatdaddyDF
    Jun 19, 2020
    5
    TLOU2 was hyped up so much and I was extremely excited to get my hands on it to experience it for myself and see what had been improved upon from the first game. Regrettably, this game has left me conflicted and kinda let down. Firstly, I didn't like how the characters were portrayed through the game, and I feel some characters took steps back, like Joel. Some things in the story happenTLOU2 was hyped up so much and I was extremely excited to get my hands on it to experience it for myself and see what had been improved upon from the first game. Regrettably, this game has left me conflicted and kinda let down. Firstly, I didn't like how the characters were portrayed through the game, and I feel some characters took steps back, like Joel. Some things in the story happen that make me think shouldn't have happened given the characters experiences from the first game, like Joel and Ellie. Also Abby just wasn't likeable at all, and I get that she did some horrible things but the game tries to make me sympathize with her and her struggles, kinda like Thanos or such, but she just didn't. And the ending itself left me feeling let down as well. I can say the gameplay feels better overall and improved upon, but when a game's driving force is the story and that doesn't live up to expectations and doesn't drive me emotionally like I was hoping. Overall Gameplay was improved and the clickers definitely look amazing same with the world as well, which I can also praise this game on, even with me playing on a PS4 Slim. But overall this game just let me down and I feel let down and hope the series can correct this and create characters I can love and feel connected too again.… Expand
  17. Su27
    Jun 19, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I am utterly heartbroken and angry. The plot is over ambitious,lazy,sloppy and nihilistic. It felt forced. Naughty dog bit off more then they could chew with this one. Tlou2 could have gone several ways in terms of plot with the existing characters, yet we get the cliche revenge plotline with the character abandoning the quest altogether to realise revenge isn't the answer. This trope has been done several times before, with more finesse and better execution. The circumstances that lead to Joel's death was out of character as well. The Joel I know from tlou1, a hardened survivor who has fought tooth and nail to survive the past 20 years would NEVER end up in a situation like that. Joel was intensely alert, critical,clever and intuitive.One of the bigger issues was the constant reinforcing that Joel is a villain who lacks empathy,Ellie believing the cure would have been a guaranteed sure shot success ..... WHY? This retcons the first one completely. The beauty of the tlou1 which was it's moral ambiguity, which is lost. The treatment of the main chatacter in her own game is utterly cruel and disappointing, and seemed unfair. Ellie is broken beyond repair. She chooses to be the better person, gives up on her vengeance and hate, still manages to be on the losing side as she ends up losing everything and everyone. Ellie gets a depressing, worthless, futile and a hopeless conclusion. Her BIGGEST FEAR has become a reality by the end.
    The gameplay, beautiful sceneries, and new characters like dina and jesse are few of the positives of game. The space shuttle cutscene, the museum flashback sequence, ellie and joel's flashbacks were the only parts that recreate the magic and beauty of tlou1.
    Abby... the forced deuteragonist, is an utter failure of character execution. Her character was forced onto us, felt hasty and lacked real build up. The abby-lev bond which is pretty much walmart version ellie and joel falls flat on it's face. The heart and soul of the game is butchered completely - ellie and joels bond.
    The false advertising to make us believe joel is alive and good?this is an ellie and joel centric game? A complete mockery of the fans who waited 7 years to see their favorite characters get horribly treated,retconned, disrespected and thrown under the bus in favour of new unlikable characters.    … Expand
  18. Marcelord
    Jun 24, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. História ruim e mal feita. Ser obrigado a jogar com a assassina do Joel é horrível. O final é terrível, parece que o único objetivo do jogo é cuspir na cara dos fãs do primeiro jogo. O gráfico e a jogabilidade são bons mas a história destrói tudo.... o diretor é um mentiroso quando disse que os vazamentos eram falsos. Lixo total… Expand
  19. JerrySeinfeld
    Jun 25, 2020
    1
    Absolutely dreadful writing decisions.

    Unlikable characters that make dumb decisions. Why do we have to play as one of the most hated characters in the game? And dear god that ending. Holy ****
  20. Jennanerd
    Jun 22, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. My hearth is broken after playing this game. Everyone i’ve loved in the first game they managed to destroy in this peace of crap. Waste of money, time and ruined any good memory i have for the characters.… Expand
  21. Diogoxbox
    Jun 19, 2020
    3
    DECEPÇÃO TOTAL!!! Que história lixo, lacração chegou ao mundo dos games.
    Esperar 7 anos pra uma sequência lixo dessa, tô fora.
  22. UnisoxGamer
    Jun 19, 2020
    7
    Los 3 puntos que le quitó para el 10 es debido a que la historia es una completa basura llena de coincidencias absurdas y políticamente correcta
    Vale la pena si solo te vas a concentrar en el gameplay y te gustan las películas de rápido y furioso
  23. Fourtheplayer
    Jun 19, 2020
    10
    The game is beautifully crafted and the story will leave you in tears. GOTY for sure. Well done Naughty Dog.
  24. tomysuarez616
    Jun 19, 2020
    2
    esto va para la prensa sobre todo la Europea ojo por ojo diente por diente el the last of us 2 no puede tener 95 de media es muy inferior al 1 que tiene lo mismo cuando mucho un 90 se merecía muy lejos de un GOW o Uncharted 4
  25. BrightiF
    Jun 19, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Yes they kill of Joel in a HORRIBLE way and they obviously never cared about him in the first place, but the actual gameplay is amazing, like really top notch, the graphics make the first game look like it came from 2005, and the level design is fantastic. They really paid attention to detail on the small things too like Ellies face changes when she’s killing an infected or when the weather changes, just wish they put that level detail into the story where the game really needs help… Expand
  26. Althys
    Jun 21, 2020
    1
    one more licence destroyed by political belief and pushing an agenda, the same minority elitists game developers, the press, etc pushing down our throat their beliefs we just want to have fun it's entertainment we are not stupid
  27. godzillacat
    Jun 22, 2020
    0
    it' is worst game in the world it' is worst game in the world it' is worst game in the world it' is worst game in the world
  28. KGS90
    Jun 21, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It's very clear to me what Naughty Dog are doing here, they ended this game the way they did knowing it would leave us wanting revenge on Abby, long theory short they want you to pay for a DLC story expansion so you can finally kill Abby. This is why they really delayed the game multiple times, they weren't making it better, they were cutting content to sell separately. My main gripes with Part 2 aren't only the story, my problems are that the gameplay is full of boringly scripted sequences and outdated, and more importantly the replayability value is nonexistent, at least with RDR2, God Of War and Spider-Man i can free roam and still have fun exploring, but The Last of Us Part 2 once you complete it that's it, there's not even a strategy guide for this game, it gets a 3 for excellent graphics, audio and atmosphere, i'm going to play Sekiro Shadows Die Twice now because that is truly a masterpiece, i'm done with this forced "accept homosexuals" agenda.… Expand
  29. GameWriter
    Jun 19, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Amazing graphics, but boring gameplay and poor character development. I really enjoyed the first one and I'm really desapointed with ND.… Expand
  30. Joe_Bags
    Jun 19, 2020
    2
    Not only is this game a misery simulator, but it has moments of catharsis peppered throughout so that the misery hits harder whenever it comes along. Gameplay feels sluggish and the movement is janky when the game is performing optimally. Controls are not responsive, and the audio mixing is very unpolished, the VA’s seem insistent on muttering every other line, even after shootouts. TheNot only is this game a misery simulator, but it has moments of catharsis peppered throughout so that the misery hits harder whenever it comes along. Gameplay feels sluggish and the movement is janky when the game is performing optimally. Controls are not responsive, and the audio mixing is very unpolished, the VA’s seem insistent on muttering every other line, even after shootouts. The story is preachy despite how simple it is, and at every turn you are reminded of the disgusting director who doesn’t seem capable of keeping himself outside of the project. There could not be a bigger slap in the face to all the fans who bought this game on good faith than the first and last hours of the story, the mind boggles at the idea of this getting greenlit. Whatever Niel Druckmann, Naughty Dog and Sony were hoping to achieve with this title, I hope it was worth it. All three have been tainted in my eyes, and any representation they were striving for has backfired significantly. This game is a net negative, not because it is all bad, but because I can see the good parts of this game being held back by everything else and that’s even worse.… Expand
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#2 Best PS4 Game of 2020
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#1 Most Discussed PS4 Game of 2020
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#3 Most Shared PS4 Game of 2020

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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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