The Last of Us Part II

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5.8

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  1. SpartanDarkZ
    Jun 22, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. La muerte de Joel era inesesaria aparte que no fue un final digno y también está mal que implementen
    Personajes de la comunidad LGBT .ya era aceptable que ellie fuera lesbiana y eso no era malo pero que pusieran a un transexual y la escena de sexo es muy incómoda e inesesaria y la historia no la disfrute mucho    … Expand
  2. Neffar
    Jun 22, 2020
    0
    I Lost 7 years, waiting for a great, fantastic game, so I start to play, and the only thing I got is disappointment. Sad.
    . :(
  3. Alphvwolf
    Jun 22, 2020
    0
    I give it a 0 just because of how they disrespected the fans with the storyline.
    Graphics and voice acting is not enough to salvage this game.
  4. ThonnyGaiden18
    Jun 22, 2020
    0
    Historia deficiente, trata de meter a huevo temas que ni siquiera vienen al caso xd
  5. SpiralJoker
    Jun 23, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Absolutely butchered the story and the game play isnt that good as well. Sure graphics are good but the trade off is horrible.… Expand
  6. Tonykun
    Jun 22, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Pre-ordered this game on PS4 and was stoked for this game because of the Last of Us first game. The story between Ellie and Joel was amazing with all of the character progression. Jumped into this game and was completely taken back by the false advertising by Naughty Dog game company with how the trailers made it seem like it was Joel putting his hand over Ellie’s mouth and in previous interviews stating that the game focused on Ellie and Joel and he appreciated the characters from the first game.

    So we have Joel killed out of the blue by some random character that no fans have any connection to.... seems very off putting. Like where did this character come from? Who in the development team pitched this or did Anita have anything to do with this development? Like fans everyone are just freaking confused. Then we play Abby for about half of the game still hating this character with absolutely no way to sympathize with this character. If Naughty Dog was trying to be inclusive with this character, I can’t think of the complete opposite for anyone that even remotely impersonates her. This game completely destroys any love for this game series. I just don’t know what this company is doing anymore misleading their fans and pushing out this garbage. I should have just stopped with playing the first game.
    Also Ellie kills ALL of these people in the story no problem....and then in the time Ellie has a chance to kill Abby she just doesn’t? After all of that. Lets her go? It makes zero sense no matter what flashback she had.    … Expand
  7. ChadGrand
    Jun 22, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. As many reviews have stated, the game is impressive graphics wise, decent gameplay wise (mostly the same from TLA1, which is solid) but the story is so utterly god awful that it ruins the entire experience.

    Every single likeable character is killed off in the stupidest and most nonsensical way possible, the likeable characters that do remain alive are slowly turned into petty, sadistic sociopaths. Not to mention the fact that all the female characters have been made deliberately ugly as a means by which to push some body positivity agenda or something. Apparently Joel being a physically fit, reasonably attractive man is okay, but physically attractive women aren't. How odd.

    The game fancies itself as a "love it or hate it" experience, but truth be told, it is not as grand as it claims to be. Had it actually given a message that was unique and hopeful, it could ultimately forgive botching it's entire cast of characters to prove a point. But it ultimately boils down to "violence is bad and revenge is bad lol". They slaughtered every character beyond recognition to make such a obvious statement.    … Expand
  8. krejziks
    Jun 22, 2020
    10
    The graphics and gameplay are amazing, The story, huh, I didn't play first part of TLOU till few days before of the release of the second part, because i didn't have the chance and i'm also a PC player, I'll say the first is one of the best story-telling game i've ever played (and i played a lot of games in my 10 years old "career" of gaming) And the second, huh, i'll say they just wrappedThe graphics and gameplay are amazing, The story, huh, I didn't play first part of TLOU till few days before of the release of the second part, because i didn't have the chance and i'm also a PC player, I'll say the first is one of the best story-telling game i've ever played (and i played a lot of games in my 10 years old "career" of gaming) And the second, huh, i'll say they just wrapped it up just right. So I'll give it a 10/10.… Expand
  9. Gilliusmaster
    Jun 22, 2020
    0
    This game has piss poor story the only redeeming factors are the graphics and gameplay but that is to be expected I also don’t think playing as the villain that is not sympathetic to killing Joel after he saved her life and playing ten hours of her if they wanted to make a revenge plot that is fine but not killing Abby at the end doesn’t work image Kratos not killing Zeus then after he hasThis game has piss poor story the only redeeming factors are the graphics and gameplay but that is to be expected I also don’t think playing as the villain that is not sympathetic to killing Joel after he saved her life and playing ten hours of her if they wanted to make a revenge plot that is fine but not killing Abby at the end doesn’t work image Kratos not killing Zeus then after he has to live with what he has done but Ellie doesn’t do that and still has to live with everyone gone terrible story to a beloved franchise niel **** should not even be able to live after this… Expand
  10. kuroi_hagane
    Jun 22, 2020
    4
    My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined. Imagine having to play this game instead of just watching a walk-through at 4x speed. Also I was not able to post below a 4 so here is a 10/10.
  11. Emidd21
    Jun 22, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Great game, everyone its just salty because of Joel is dead, it was something that justa has to happen… Expand
  12. syrk
    Jun 22, 2020
    0
    disrespectful to real fans.
    trash.
    7 years to for this?
    such a massive letdown.
  13. Alexjandro
    Apr 22, 2021
    1
    gráficos: 10/10

    jugabilidad: 7/10 (no es mejor que el primero) Historia: 1/10 (forzar no sirve, una trama estúpida e injustificable) Nota; muy enojado con la publicidad engañosa, cuando supuestamente Joel le tapa la boca a ellie en el trailer, y por mi sorpresa resulto ser el asiático, destruyeron mi juego favorito!, esto es lo único que puedo hacer para demostrar mi descontento    gráficos: 10/10

    jugabilidad: 7/10 (no es mejor que el primero)

    Historia: 1/10 (forzar no sirve, una trama estúpida e injustificable)

    Nota; muy enojado con la publicidad engañosa, cuando supuestamente Joel le tapa la boca a ellie en el trailer, y por mi sorpresa resulto ser el asiático, destruyeron mi juego favorito!, esto es lo único que puedo hacer para demostrar mi descontento con el.    … Expand
  14. C61lude
    Jun 23, 2020
    0
    Really poor story telling makes you not care for the characters you play as. Pretty sad deal for all the people at ND that obviously put a ton of passion into the game. Incredible visuals, acting and gritty gaming that i really enjoyed from the first one. Probably one of the bigger disappointments I've experienced in my 37 years of gaming.
  15. grollo22
    Jun 22, 2020
    4
    The graphics are fantastic and push the PS4 to its limit. However, a lot of the motion is unnatural. Sounds are used well and help to add an interesting play element in some places. Levels are beautiful but become slightly stale over time. Presentation 8/10

    Gameplay is boring and never what The Last of Us was known for. Puzzles and cinematic scenes have been cut down to make room for more    The graphics are fantastic and push the PS4 to its limit. However, a lot of the motion is unnatural. Sounds are used well and help to add an interesting play element in some places. Levels are beautiful but become slightly stale over time. Presentation 8/10

    Gameplay is boring and never what The Last of Us was known for. Puzzles and cinematic scenes have been cut down to make room for more gameplay. Shooting still sucks and the jump function might as well have been left out. Gameplay 5/10

    Without giving any spoilers characters act way outside of their personalities and it feels like someone wanted to retcon the first game. Destroyed the story in a story driven game. It feels like fan fiction written/directed by a D+ 10th grade creative writing student. I would love if the company would admit the mix up, release a new TLOU II and made this one non cannon. I would pay $120 for a basic game just to see this done. 0 means you didn’t even put your name on the paper.

    1/10

    Overall: 4.6/10 but I’m going to round down to SuBvErT ExPecTaTiONS. 4/10    … Expand
  16. marcleme1980
    Jun 22, 2020
    10
    Most of reviews isn't finish the game, poor people. Most of the comments are based in racist felling.
  17. burntcheeto
    Jun 22, 2020
    0
    uh oh stinky dssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
  18. Gamechaser21
    Jun 22, 2020
    0
    If you could leave identity politics out of our games and not kill of the best character for that reason maybe I would have bought and played a game I couldn't wait to come out for. Screw your hypocrisy. Good job killing a franchise that I loved. Thanks alot Naughty Cat.
  19. Felwatcher
    Jun 22, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Graphics and environmental detail is great, ai could do better, but as a single player game where story is important it was surely lacking. No issue with joel dying but the way they did it just sucks so bad, and them trying to make abby(joel's killer) and her crew likable by having friendships i was laughing so hard, andwas think nobidy gives a **** about this new characters when the first major thing they did was kill the main character of the first game add the fact that abby basically condemned ellie by telling her father to kill her she was the reason her father is dead, sad part is you dont even get to kill abby in the end, ellie gets bad endings period what ever you do… Expand
  20. MauricioMPG228
    Jun 22, 2020
    0
    Mal juego, historia mal desarrollada, Gameplay poco profundo, lineal, poca libertad, aburrido
  21. Alejandro1111
    Jun 22, 2020
    0
    El juego es muy bueno la parte 1 pero con esta segunda entrega lo arruinaron completamente decepcionaron completamente a los fans que fracaso SONY
  22. Danjamin20
    Jun 23, 2020
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Overall I enjoyed this game. I understand some of the issues people are having with the story, but I think the criticism has been overblown. The sequel to the first game was always most likely going to revolve around the repercussions of Joel's actions at the end of The Last of Us. Given the stretch of the first game where you get to play as Ellie, I always expected her to be the main protagonist of the second game. I felt Joel's death was sadly the best way to make sure this was Ellie's game. My biggest problem was actually the structure and pacing rather than the story itself. I wish they had jumped back and forth between Ellie and Abby's perspectives between chapters from the start rather than throwing Abby's full storyline into the middle of the game. If our introduction to the character had been her spending time with her dad and then finding him dead in the aftermath of Joel's rampage, then the player would see the her in a more sympathetic light from the beginning. Instead our first real experience with Abby is her brutally killing Joel immediately after he and Tommy save her life. This is the problem with all of the WLF characters. When Abby's storyline builds up the character arcs and relationships with Owen, Mel, Nora, and the others, the player already knows their fates. This acted as a barrier to actually becoming invested in them as characters, since I already knew they would be dead. Because there is a hard break when we transition to Abby's storyline, it completely breaks the momentum of the 10+ hours of gameplay that proceeds it. We go through the entirety of Abby's playable arc knowing where we are going to end up, so there was little incentive to get invested in the how. The player spends the whole arc wanting to rush through to see how the stand off in the theater is resolved.
    The structural issues with the storytelling are even harder to get past because Abby isn't ever a distinctly relatable or likable character. We see her grappling with anger, but there's no real remorse or guilt. We never really see Abby questions what her actions say about her morality or how she can see herself as any better than Joel. Her romantic arc with Owen is more distraction than character development because we know he is going to die. Her arc with Lev is her most redeeming sequence, and it seems out of character with everything we see from her in the events leading up to it. Liking dogs and being scared of heights are fine as character notes, but they aren't nearly enough to make the player willing to forgive her murdering the protagonist of the first game. She is a pseudo protagonist lacking in emotional depth or clear motivations once Joel has been killed.
    All that being said, I still enjoyed the game. The visuals are beautifully done, and the setting is as engaging and anxiety inducing as the first game. If you enjoyed the game play of the first game, then you should enjoy it in part 2 because it hasn't changed much. There are minor wrinkles, such as the search dogs, stalkers, and the ability to craft silencers, that make the encounters feel a bit more varied and immersive than the first game. Overall the gameplay experience is still quite similar to the first game, maybe to a fault. Given how much time has passed since the first installment, I was a bit disappointed there wasn't a more noticeable difference. There is one section early in the game that is semi-open world, where Ellie is able to explore a section of Seattle building by building more or less at the player's leisure. That may have been my favorite stretch of the game, and I wish more of the gameplay had been structured that way.
    I found the dynamic between Joel and Ellie to be the most memorable element of the first game, as did most players. I thought the flashback sequences featuring the two characters in Part 2 lived up to the original game and were some of the best parts of this game. With their inclusion, I actually came away pretty satisfied with Joel's role and presence in the game. I'm not really sure what people were expecting.
    Overall The Last of Us Part 2 had too many flaws to live up to its predecessor, but I still really enjoyed it. Revisiting the characters of Joel and Ellie was still one of my most enjoyed gaming experiences of the year, and I would recommend The Last of US Part 2 to anyone who enjoyed the first game.    … Expand
  23. rflow
    Jun 22, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. tlqkfrkxdms rpdladla roqudtlstoRlemf alclstoRlemfsk dlfjsrjtehnrldlafkrh aksemfdjTsinwhwrkxdms toRlemf… Expand
  24. Docharbpr2280
    Jun 22, 2020
    1
    Cookie cutter story, copy and paste combat. Beautiful graphics, and atmospheric settings. Nothing new in crafting. Without posting spoilers, I would strongly suggest you save your money for when the game goes kn sale.
  25. LadyLavenza
    Jun 23, 2020
    0
    The Graphics are amazing it looks like a game that took 7 years to make but it isn’t written like one new characters and old have seen to be ruined Ellie and Joel don’t have a connection with each other because of a whole in one the game is just down right awful on its story but hey I guess since it’s pretty reviews are prompted to give it a 10
  26. Alexlikesthesho
    Jun 22, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Joel Gets killed in the worst way possible. How could they?
    Shame on you Naughty Dog. Shame on you    … Expand
  27. RMSH94
    Jun 24, 2020
    0
    Graphically and technically, this is a brilliant, but the plot broke my heart in a bad sense of the word.
  28. sonsan
    Jun 24, 2020
    5
    The story is incredibly predictable aside from an insulting ending that sends the opposite message from what the story means to convey. It feels like an amateur attempt at "being different" just for the sake of surprising the audience. By the end, you'll feel as though you wasted your time and all was for nothing. It's not a 0 due to everything else of the game being of superb quality, butThe story is incredibly predictable aside from an insulting ending that sends the opposite message from what the story means to convey. It feels like an amateur attempt at "being different" just for the sake of surprising the audience. By the end, you'll feel as though you wasted your time and all was for nothing. It's not a 0 due to everything else of the game being of superb quality, but it's by no means a 10 -- or even an 8 -- with a story like that.

    Ditch Neil Druckmann before you even consider a Part 3, ND.    … Expand
  29. Rayho
    Jun 22, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game is only for SJW........Trust me, don’t buy this game......This game is a disgusting game.....… Expand
  30. ScarryTerry
    Jun 22, 2020
    5
    The graphics of this game are amazing and the gameplay aspects is ok but sadly the story of the game is terrible with many plot hole and down right decision that make you don't wanna keep playing it.
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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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