The Last of Us Part II

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  1. Robertcaliforna
    Jun 21, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The story is trash.I played until they killed joel and that was it. Over will not play any farther uninstalled… Expand
  2. JGS1703
    Jun 23, 2020
    1
    I'll start by saying that i have played TLOU1, and i loved it, as it was one of the most beautifully crafted stories that delved deep into the human psyche as to why things happen the way they do and why humans act the way they act in certain situations.

    That being said, i hoped so much for TLOU2 to give me something close or equal to that, but it obviously and unfortunately didn't, and    I'll start by saying that i have played TLOU1, and i loved it, as it was one of the most beautifully crafted stories that delved deep into the human psyche as to why things happen the way they do and why humans act the way they act in certain situations.

    That being said, i hoped so much for TLOU2 to give me something close or equal to that, but it obviously and unfortunately didn't, and i'll start by pointing out why - the death of Joel and the rushed, cliché, exhausted and terribly written revenge story that the game forces on you for the entire game.

    First is the contrivances and plot induced stupidity. And what i mean by that is a character or various characters acting stupid or acting in a way that does not match their personality to fuel a plot, and that plot device is so played out, so goddamn cliché that it hurts to see and play here, because not only does this game suffer a lot from this, but it so happens that one of the most iconic characters in gaming, Joel Miller, does aswell and that's sad.

    Let's see about the scene of his death and how it happened to really dig in as to why he suffered from this plot induced stupidity. First, a group of random survivors interact with Joel, with (seemingly, at first) helpful intentions, but Joe,l with his 25 years of experience in this harsh, cruel world would know better than to trust some random GTA Posse that he encountered not a minute ago. So he goes inside the residence with all those random and suspicious people, all of which were visibly armed and asking a whole lot of questions. Joel goes head in this group of people, and stands in the middle of the **** room where he then reveals his name. This is where the game simply lost my attention, from this point forward i felt i wasted my time and my money on it because there are so many contrivances here, that it's really difficult to point them all out, but here we go:

    First, Joel would most likely not reveal his name nor accept any help from these strangers, and if he did accept help he would be very wary of anything that might've looked like a threat, and that's all counting with his years of experience, which the writers forgot to acknowledge when writing this entire scene. He does everything in his power to be killed, i am not joking nor overexaggerating, he literally does everything he needs, step by step to get killed. In multiple occasions in tlou1, Joel demonstrated incredible awareness of his surroundings and seemed very wary of other people, regardless of how helpful or harmed they might've seen. I'll recall the scene where Joel is riding into a city, and he encounters a hunter trying to fool him by saying he's injured and needs help. Joel immediately understands it's an ambush and runs the guy over, confirming his suspicions when half a dozen hunters jump out of cover to try and stop him. After this encounter, he kills all the hunters and says to Ellie that he was also once a hunter, so he figured it probably was a trap anyways. Now tell me, where is this Joel? This man who was once a raider in a wasteland filled with criminals, this Joel who was smuggling goods in the beggining of the first game? Has he simply forgotten how to survive and live in this world?

    One excuse i've heard is "oh come on man, he's not the same, he's gone soft." but that's no justification for bad writing and to induce a character to act a certain way because the plot requires it. In this case, the plot requires a revenge story, so the plot requires Joel to die, and so it requires him to act incredibly out of character for all that to happen. THAT is bad writing, and even if he did get older, it's only 5 years, in TLOU 1 he was 52 for god's sake, and 20 years before the events of the first game he was surviving, killing, and seeing **** few people have. 5 years of being soft does NOT erase the other 20 years that he's been out in the world trying to survive. In 5 years you're telling me he didn't face any harsh situations? any hard choices? nothing? It hurts my brain to try and justify this game because you simply cannot, it is impossible.

    Well, that was the elephant in the room, now for my final considerations:

    The game's graphics are the most beautiful Naughty Dog's ever crafted, the gameplay is exactly the same as the first game and all the positives you could have about this game are overshadowed by the incredibly horribly written story, and plot induced stupidity, and the inability to ACTUALLY get revenge, since Ellie does not kill Joel's murderer, which also makes no sense, since she kills everyone else anyways. Do not waste your money nor your time with this game, it's not worth it, and i hope ND can learn with this horrible mistake    … Expand
  3. RobertoHache
    Jun 21, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Influencers and youtubers lured me into buying this generic third person shooter with shockvalue cutscenes. Druckman **** destroyed the story with that nonsense **** If you want to be inclusive no problems with that, but what's this politically charged crap? If you want a GOOD homosexuality inclusion, look at games like Dragon Age Origins. This game feels like an unnecessary attention cookie to jump on the sjw bandwagon. So here's my 2 cents and my **** refund.… Expand
  4. Pliskint
    Jun 21, 2020
    2
    Good graphics, fun gameplay, but just imagine that this game got a better general critics review than The Witcher 3, considering the disrespect and what it does to the character that may have initiated a franchise.
    Also, it should't be part of a review, but with all that has happened, you can't separtate Neil Druckmann's and his group attitude towards "their enemies", enemies that they    Good graphics, fun gameplay, but just imagine that this game got a better general critics review than The Witcher 3, considering the disrespect and what it does to the character that may have initiated a franchise.
    Also, it should't be part of a review, but with all that has happened, you can't separtate Neil Druckmann's and his group attitude towards "their enemies", enemies that they created with their inmature, imprudent, selfish and even dangerous attitude in the creation of the game and the "message" (ceratinly not one that seeks peaceful end) that they wanted to deliver with the game. It makes you wonder who the "hero" "good guy" "paragon" or the deliverer of the "good message" was wanted to be here, if someone withing the game or someone outside the game.    … Expand
  5. Robertski
    Jun 21, 2020
    0
    Really not a special game with a very poor story.this produced only for successful previous version. When play this game will understand that game not a expected result .
  6. fourroses
    Jun 21, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Graphically it looks nice, gameplay is improved but the story is completely awful and wasted $70 on this garbage game. The fact that you Kill off Joel in the first 2hrs of the game it has made me not wanting to play the game no more and i have deleted the game.… Expand
  7. jkings2807
    Jun 21, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. What a Masterpiece. I loved playing through the game from start to finish. So many emotionally draining moments, from Joel's death to the ending. It was a heartbreaking story with Ellie seemingly losing everything, Dina and JJ included as a result of her hunting for revenge for Joel's death. Hands down best game I've ever played, it's even the first one that has made me cry (Sarah's death and Ellie's incident with David made me come close).

    Visually, the game was absolutely stunning. The reflections were fantastic and the lighting was superb, even on a base PS4 with normal 1080p TV. It felt so real and in particular the cut scenes where more often than not it was like watching a scene out of a movie instead of a game. Great animation too, superb; the movement was so fluid and I loved the transitions from cut scene to gameplay, very well done!!

    The soundtrack is something else. It's phenomenal. It really adds to the experience in my opinion. The music along with the heartbreakingly brutal story just works, it's memorable. I could listen to a piece of music from the game and remember which song was in what bit of the game (I.e. All Gone playing when Joel dies when you're playing and playing All Gone without playing the game you just know where in the game that song is.

    Obviously the game isn't perfect, I do wish the Abby segment wasn't as long as it was BUT I do think that got to show is more about her, her motives for wanting to kill Joel and her change as a character (once being a devout Wolf, then going AWOL and helping Seraphites.
    Yes there was that scene on the boat with Owen and Abby and maybe it was a bit too much but this is an 18 and we know about their past relationship so I don't have many complaints there.

    I loved the brutality, the combat felt too real with the incredible graphics, very detailed.

    I've already played through it twice (first completed 21/06/20) and I still felt the same way as I did when completing the game for a second time. Even when you know what's coming it still gets you emotionally, and the Rat King is still just as scary and revolting as the first time. Fantastic game!    … Expand
  8. Zeusfarous
    Jun 21, 2020
    0
    I do not understand why they try to appeal to the minority. Like the majority of their target market does not cares about all the lgbtq crap stop forcing it in our game and let us enjoy what the game was meant to be.
  9. ohangela
    Jun 21, 2020
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I just wanted to get all this out right after finishing the game. I have so many questions and so many feelings. HEAVY SPOILERS AHEAD.

    I'll start off with this. I've been waiting for a sequel back in 2013 since the credits rolled after Joel's lie.
    The first game was a masterpiece. And it's probably why people are talking so much smack about this sequel. Neil's writing peaked at the first installment of The Last of Us. That was it. Hands down.

    See, the problem with this sequel is because the first one set the bar too high. But Naughty Dog did their absolute best to bang this game out. I loved the graphics, I loved the gameplay, I loved the challenges, I loved the feeling of getting through those insane bosses. I actually had some fun. It was intense, it was thrilling.

    BUT, this isn't anything like the first one. There were some parts of the game that I thought was just a drag. Playing as different characters isn't anything new but playing as the game's antagonist definitely was a different experience. When the game tried to gain sympathy for Abby by putting us in her shoes, it sort of worked for me.

    I was so confused as to why I actually felt sorry for Abby when Ellie was beating her up at the final fight. I guess that's what made this game good in its own way. Good guy? Bad guy? This game blurred the lines between those. It was a roller coaster of emotions. A bundle of unpredictability.

    Ellie and Joel's fate broke my heart into a million pieces. However, I will not give this a bad rating. It wasn't unbearable to play, it was just hard to watch everything that everyone went through. I've developed an emotional attachment to these characters since the first game so of course I've shed some tears during some parts of the game.

    If you liked this game, let's call it an acquired taste.    … Expand
  10. adorno-dev
    Jun 21, 2020
    0
    The script sucks.
    I didn't like the story in general.
    It's about an agenda.. not a regular game story.
    There's no relevant connection to the first one.
    Unfortunatelly a lot of Youtubers are lie about this game.. I don't know why.
  11. ibrahimovi
    Jun 21, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I don't like the story line...naughty dog destroyed dis game killing main character Joel and playing half of game with bodybuilder Abby.......… Expand
  12. PhoenixRisin
    Jun 22, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Good gameplay and nice sound however the story is a huge letdown and a spit to the face, the characters are very bland and the story is not good and they try to make you sympathy with your murder which is beyond silly. Definitely avoid this game and go back and play the previous one which is a much better game.… Expand
  13. Gemyx
    Jun 21, 2020
    9
    Played the game 10 h so far. It's one of best looking and detailed games on the current console generation. I'm astound of the details they put in. And yes the strikes on YouTube are a sign of bad behavior but on my side the game is way underrated. (I'm not a native English speaker)
  14. BadEnoughToMake
    Jun 21, 2020
    1
    .....Story killed the game. The animation was great, why it gets a one. News a few more characters to post but I have nothing else to say.
  15. heatherlynsey
    Jun 21, 2020
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The Last of Us Part II isn't a bad game. But it isn't brilliant. The first 12 hours as Ellie were perfect. I was an emotional mess, even having to take a break when Joel died. But I loved it. I loved how well the emotion was being delivered and I loved revisiting this world and the characters of Ellie and Joel. The relationship between those two characters was such a huge element of the first game and it continued through the flashbacks in this game.

    So it felt like a slap in the face when I was handed control of Abby in Seattle. I know it's not uncommon to play a character you aren't too fond of in a video game, but this felt like the wrong game to do that. Her gameplay was insufferable. I just lost interest as soon as I realised how long I was going to play her. There was such a strong attachment to Joel and Ellie taken from the first game, so you didn't even want to give the person who ruined their dynamic a chance.

    On a more positive note however, Ashley Johnson and Troy Baker's performances were incredible and the museum scene was absolutely beautiful.    … Expand
  16. Th4t
    Jun 21, 2020
    0
    Save your 60 bucks on another game. The graphics are pretty good but the story isn't.
  17. WzRed
    Jun 22, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The last of us 2 it's the worst story game I ever see in my life!
    . . . . . .    … Expand
  18. Sebah96
    Jun 21, 2020
    0
    Awful, boring, and unidimensional characters, awful story full of plotholes and a nonsensical ending, how can people like this lazy garbage
  19. xXThordanXx
    Jun 21, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I really don’t understand how anyone could defend this game. Politics and agendas aside, the story was horrible. What made the first game so epic and amazing was having Ellie attached at the hip, creating a dynamic that everyone fell in love with. It was such a good dynamic that they tried to replicate it with god of war. Not only did they undo that dynamic by separating them and spitting on their relationship the entire game and claiming Ellie “doesn’t need” Joel, but they then kill Joel in a way that was completely unbecoming of his established character. Joel is a man who has walls of trust issues. The idea that he would walk into a room and tell people his given name and where he lives is insane. To then have Ellie go on to kill hundreds for the sake of revenge to then not kill the person ACTUALLY responsible? … Expand
  20. Lyo1
    Jun 21, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Es un buen juego, me pareció interesante el hecho de la exploración y algunos enemigos me parecieron un poco más desafiante!… Expand
  21. Jaredk21
    Jun 21, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I am extremely disappointed and will not even play this game. Its a LGBT love story makes me wanna puke. The reviews speak for themselves critics now a days are clearly paid off to write positive reviews. This is the mpst disappointed ive been since THE OUTRAGEOUSLY HORRIBLE FF15… Expand
  22. overkore
    Jun 22, 2020
    0
    Una decepción, un error por parte de naughty dog en algo tan importante como es la historia de su juego.
  23. NooK0
    Jun 21, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Praticamente perfetto.
    Valutare negativamente un videogioco senza nemmeno averlo giocato o finito ha davvero un senso?
    Il finale può essere sicuramente messo in discussione, ma, a parer mio, solo da chi ha vissuto in prima persona l'opera; da chi ha passato 30 ore con il controller in mano, a giocare e vivere la storia di Ellie ed Abby.
    La maggior parte delle persone che sotto i video o su Metacritic scrive “Tutto questo non ha senso: l'ha risparmiata dopo un intero gioco in cui cerca di ucciderla e assassina chiunque. 0/10” non ha nemmeno idea di cosa possa essere passato per la testa alla protagonista in quel momento. Non mi permetterei mai di giudicare un videogioco in modo estremamente negativo o di lasciare una recensione con un voto basso senza prima averlo giocato e finito. E penso sia sbagliatissimo che possiate farlo voi (o tutti gli altri che lo hanno fatto se voi lo avete già finito, ma dubito) solo basandovi sulla prima metà di gioco o su video spoiler.    … Expand
  24. Cauez
    Jun 21, 2020
    9
    lindo lindo lindo lindo, só n dei 100 por causa do final que me broxou um pouco ...
  25. jayaw200
    Jun 21, 2020
    8
    While not as good as the first one, part two is still an great experience and fantastic game
  26. william90239
    Jun 22, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. 聖母婊外加智障充斥的世界。感染者，那是啥，一點都不重要啦。還敢洗分啊，頑皮狗… Expand
  27. RobitusCz
    Jun 21, 2020
    10
    It's amazing game, with amazing Storyline, THX Naughty Dog! This is Masterpiece!!!

    + Graphic
    + Story
    + Gameplay
    + Atmosphere
    - none
  28. Jigggler
    Jun 21, 2020
    0
    At your left you can see the classical pay to disguise. Nobody eats that publicity anymore, we're in 2020.
    This game is really bad, the girl behind the storytelling is throwing personal nonsense into this game and sadly that ruined everything.
    Thanks everyone who helped this to become real, and thanks CD Proyekt for stopping this same thing in the past.
  29. VentusX24
    Jun 21, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Where to begin with this game...I avoided the rumors, ignored all the copyright abuse of sony for so much as breathing about this game. I wanted to believe Naughty Dog would deliver as they did for the first game. BOY was I wrong: the only thing they did (like the first game) made it look nice. This is a BEAUTIFUL game. The problem is the story and characters. Whoever wrote them needs to be fired and blacklisted because what I was forced to endure was The Last Jedi levels of terrible story writing and character assassination.

    Joel, the way they send off this amazing character is disgusting. We're forced to play a disgusting and terrible woman after we watch her BEAT Joel's head in with a golf club and Naughty Dog expects us to LIKE HER!? She is fundamentally an evil character, every time I played her I purposely let her die because I found it humors against this character who had done nothing to make me like her. Seven years of waiting for this game and all we're rewarded with is Abby practicing her golf stroke on Joel's head!

    The entire game there is nothing to make her endearing, nothing to make her sympathetic or understandable, and at the end when Ellie, who until now has carved a bloody path to get to this disgusting character, has her hands around her neck choking her...she lets her go...WHAT!? The person who KILLED Joel, your father figure, after you carved a bloody path to get to her and you LET HER GO!?

    I don't care about the 'Revenge is bad' dumb message, this is an insult to Joel, Ellie, and all the loyal fans who waited nearly 7 years for this game, only for Sony and Neil to slap us in the face and tell us we better like their **** or else we're every name in the book companies call us when we don't like the message they're trying to force down our throat.

    1/10. The Last of Us stood out thanks to its amazing story and beautiful graphics. This game only has graphics and a pice of **** story that will be forever remembered for being absolute garbage. I hope it was worth it Naughty Dog.    … Expand
  30. carlozbernardo2
    Jun 21, 2020
    0
    Um lixo total uma merda lacradora uma decepção pra quem é verdadeiramente um fã de the last of us
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  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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