The Last of Us Part II

 PlayStation 4
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5.8

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  1. AzeePoDz
    Sep 27, 2020
    10
    Story in this part is very good, after first part you must play this game. Also in this game we have amazing view in some locations, and guitar...it’s pretty good
  2. TheSwattle
    Sep 27, 2020
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Everything is dark. so depressing and dark. The story is... ok and it sorta doesnt make sense but Joel's actions did have consequences although i would have liked for him to stay for at least until the 3rd part and even with all of this, we still have Ellie and Tommy to bring justice.… Expand
  3. Randariel
    Sep 27, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Half of the game you play the villian, and than no happy end? WTF? And waaay too much SJW stuff. Totaly kills the gameplay… Expand
  4. Bubochkaa
    Jun 22, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Как же люди поверхностно судят. Критиковать такой шедевр из-за ЛГБТ, даже не поиграв в неё.… Expand
  5. l__seeker__l
    Sep 27, 2020
    9
    Altough I couldn’t obsessed with it as much as the first game it was stil a very good game
  6. TheeClumsyNinja
    Sep 27, 2020
    10
    The game is another great naughty dog game.

    The graphics are some of the best along with the attention to detail. The story.... could maybe be different but the effect is the effect is exactly what you want. Few games give me any emotional attachment. Part 2 brings out even more then the first! I felt joy, saddness, anger and being absolutely stunned. The gameplay is fun, twisted and    The game is another great naughty dog game.

    The graphics are some of the best along with the attention to detail.

    The story.... could maybe be different but the effect is the effect is exactly what you want. Few games give me any emotional attachment. Part 2 brings out even more then the first! I felt joy, saddness, anger and being absolutely stunned.

    The gameplay is fun, twisted and intense! The environments allow for a lot of free flow combat!

    The audio is also 10/10... every aspect is perfect!    … Expand
  7. Mazokie
    Sep 27, 2020
    9
    I don’t understand the user reviews in this site. The Last of Us II is one of the best games ever. It has and impressive gameplay and a powerful story. Playing it is a great pleasure that It’s not usually enjoyed.
  8. Danikosman
    Sep 27, 2020
    7
    First is one of my favourite games of all time but this was not bad but some of the decisions were very wierd and stupid so thats why i give 7.5/10. Combat gameplay and graphics are amazing
  9. rickgrimmes
    Sep 26, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. For the first I saw a game like that. naughty dog made a masterpiece for those who are hating the game they don’t know how to judge. I was really upset when Joel got killed but I understood why he got killed. He killed abbys father he destroyed fireflyes and he was a scammer.… Expand
  10. AbdulShiekh
    Sep 26, 2020
    9
    Didn’t really think that the story made sense. But other than story, gameplay and graphics were so detailed and satisfying. This is a really fun game to play.
  11. Derekjbailey
    Sep 26, 2020
    10
    People mad about this game have an adolescent view of growth and revenge. Was stellar.
  12. foodreviewer
    Jun 19, 2020
    0
    i really liked the first game and had pre ordered this game, the graphics are nice but the game play is boring and the sex scenes are pretty cringe
  13. daavizl
    Sep 26, 2020
    10
    Jogo ESPETACULAR, gráficos ao auge da geração, em quesitos técnicos, o jogo é sem igual, melhores expressões faciais da geração, e história IMPECÁVEL!
  14. shodamkhaste6
    Sep 26, 2020
    10
    best story ever (from a big fan of the first game)
    gameplay is so much better than first game.
    music is best
    graphic is best
  15. jettaredPT
    Sep 26, 2020
    4
    Horrible choices by the director. Horrible characters, story, camera play, map is like a maze. Game forces you to play 50% of the entire time with a character that you have and feel disgusted by. Just play Last of Us 1 and forget about 2, not worth the time and money spent.
  16. skmoyer
    Sep 26, 2020
    10
    This video game may not be for everyone, but for what this video game is attempting to accomplish, this game is a master piece. The gameplay, art direction, cinematics, action/excitement, and overall presentation is one of the best third person action games in ps4.

    The video game may not be for the following people though: (A) this game is very violent. Like vey violent, (B) this game    This video game may not be for everyone, but for what this video game is attempting to accomplish, this game is a master piece. The gameplay, art direction, cinematics, action/excitement, and overall presentation is one of the best third person action games in ps4.

    The video game may not be for the following people though: (A) this game is very violent. Like vey violent, (B) this game have lesbian themes, if that offends you then you may dislike the game, (C) if you are looking for the story and the themes of the first game to be repeated, then you will be disappointed. If you are hoping that this new game repeats the first game, and will be upset at any potential story moments that impact the characters built previous games, then you may not like this game.    … Expand
  17. Omerhadad
    Sep 26, 2020
    10
    The perfect game, I really think it suppress it’s predecessor, waiting for part 3
  18. Kysr
    Jun 24, 2020
    10
    the game is good, but have some problems with storytelling, but in all i enjoyed playing it
  19. Lourenco1795
    Sep 26, 2020
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. A stunning game. Visually and mechanics-wise it improves upon everything the first game did right. The attention to detail, atmosphere, artwork, are all spot-on, 10/10. Storytelling-wise, 9/10. The way Naughty Dog did it was bold and unusual, and I dare to say revolutionary. In TLOU 2, the story is stripped of narrational perspective: the thing that makes the heroes get out of a pinch, makes you sympathize with your hero and his ideals. In other words, the plot is indiferent to the two sides of the story: Ellie and Abby. It doesnt favour one or the other. What you get when employing this is a true journey of self-reflection. You can't hold on to anything or anyone, you can't just take the side the story takes because there isn't one. That's the way this game got me feeling. I couldn't hold on to Joel. I couldn't bear to see Ellie hurt, but I couldn't hold on to her either. I could empathize with Abby to some extent, but I couldn't condone her actions and couldn't hold on to her. Everything about this game was heartbreak and despair. The game accomplishes this lack of narrational perspective almost perfectly, but I feel like the Abby side need more reenforcement. We have to have in mind that Ellie was a character with a lot of history and emotional value. She was, therefore, at an advantage. That's where I feel the game failed. The two sides of the story are supposed to be equal, but Abby, because of her narrational disadvantage and lack of internal insight ( by internal insight I mean the "peep" at a person's mind, like Ellie's journal entries), feels too much like a side character. This is, for me, the reason many, while empathyzing with her, didn't care for her enough for that empathy to feel real and meaningful. This is the main reason I give the game a 9.
    Now, I can't make a review of this game without addressing Joel's death. At first, I was dumbfounded. On the earliest hours of the game, they killed our dear The Last of Us hero in the most horrible way possible. I thought it was merely for shock value, but it wasn't. You see, the narrative had a problem. How can the game portray the broken relationship between Ellie and Joel? How can you truly have a sense of the tragic, the despair, the hopelesness that they feel? So they kill Joel. They make it even more tragic. Because now they didn't even have the chance to try and fix what they broke. And the storytelling that they got in exchange for Joel's death was breath-taking. They don't tell you the whole thing together. They tell you pieces of it. Flashbacks. Memories. Journal Entried. Photos. And that's the truth about loss. That's all you got of your relationship. And because Joel is dead, you cherish those moments and little things much more intensily, like Ellie does too. So even though I was very sad that Joel died and to this day it sometimes comes back to me, I think it was very very well done. Hats off to Naughty Dog to doing a very risky thing work wonderfully.
    This game was loss and injustice portrayed beautifully well. But maybe it wasn't just that. I like to think that, at the end, when Ellie utterly lost everything and everyone, she also found what she was looking for. And that's a very special thing, for game with such a desolating ending, to leave a somewhat uplifting taste in your mouth.    … Expand
  20. jucs
    Jul 26, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It is an amazing looking game with great gameplay mechanics. The story is okay as a stand alone game but as a sequel I found it to be boring, disrespectful to fans and not at all what I waited for. Joel’s death is rushed and dumb, he looked so naive by giving his name and location in a place full of armed strangers. That’s nothing like him. Also I never came around liking Abby. She’s just a character I don’t care about. I get what naughty dog was trying to do but I waited 7 years to play as Joel and Ellie, and even if Joel had to die, let me play the whole game as Ellie, the character I actually care about, the one I waited all this time to know more about. I did not wanted to play half of this long awaited game as the character that killed Joel. A couple of hours with Abby would’ve been fine, but not half of the **** game. And Joel’s death aside, I just didn’t want to play with this characters. I mainly loved the first game because of Joel and Ellie’s relationship, all they went through, how they end up in a father/daughter relationship and their backgrounds. Even if Joel had to die, let me play this game as Ellie. If they start with such a bold move like killing Joel, a character all the fans loved, then let the story be about that. Anyone on Abby’s story (including her) could die and I would not care. Also, when you finally catch on the cliffhanger, they make you beat the **** out of Ellie with Abby. What the **** At least let me play that scene as Ellie, let me try to revenge Joel, even if the outcome is exactly the same, that was something that had to be experienced as Ellie.
    Overall it is an unique experience that might be worth playing for the graphics alone. But as a huge fan, I feel they ruined everything I liked about the first game.    … Expand
  21. AxElfilosofo
    Sep 26, 2020
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I played the game before to submit this review. To be honest I'm a big fan of the franchise and I think that there is a lot of good things about the game on the graphics and the music, the sound of the water and the nature. I enjoy most of the game but the history. I think that there is a lot of no sense. How ever even the game doesn't have that memorable experience as The last of us, the truth is that the game have a propose and has been completed by the creators. I don't hate Abby for been Abby but I have feelings about the fact of her behavior and the way she killed Joel was so cruel, I do understand the revange but not the brutally on that. At the end of the day Joel killed her father but didn't tortured him.… Expand
  22. Bboyxclub
    Sep 26, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Spoiler Alert!. This game will go down as the best game story game to turn to ****

    *****************Buy a used copy of this game******************Dont give money to this company for a game that destroyed an amazing possible series****************

    1st. Im gonna address the biggest counter argument that most people at naughty dog seem to claim when they see a bad score/review against the game: Politically Im very much left leaning pro-gay rights, pro lgtb and very much a advocate for do what makes you happy and be whoever you want if it makes you happy person. However , then comes this game set in a end of the word scenario whose main character Ellie is gay with her girlfriend. So far seems fine with me here, they could have made a beautiful love story tying these 2 characters together and bringing the fans even closer to Ellie and this new lover or hers. Then you have Dina, another gay/bi character getting in a relationship with Ellie. Ok fine. Good representation to the LGBT community and a decent love story could have made these two glow in recognition from everyone. Then you have Abby an unlikely character possible in "the end of the world" with muscles that consume 10,000 calories a day and require 3 hours at the gym daily. This is where the problems start, ok so now we have another gay character that everyone ends up hating but ok. So the 3 main characters are gay/lgtb. Then you have a 4th character Lev that joins Abby that TURNS OUT is ANOTHER LGTB character than joins and become part of the main story line. Now up until now you could let things pass, but now you throw you hands up in the air tired of the PANDERING and at this point PREACHING of this whole social justice warrior intentional normalization "agenda" being shoved down your throat in a game that you just want to play to have fun. Everyone easily recognized as straight was killed off. however in a apogalactic game with just a few thousand people alive in the US, and in this world , the only survivors are the gay people. like REALLY??? These people have become exactly the type of person that they had set out to destroy.

    Now in regards to the game. Best word to describe it :Terrible!

    Let be realistic here, just as the first game, This is not a game with incredible gameplay and amazing in depth content. This Part 2 and it was part 1, is a game Heavily STORY DRIVEN. Is a game that will redact the characters in a form that you can empathize with them learn to love them or to hate them. I remember in the first game me continuously had me laughing and going at Ellie :"What the hell is up with this little **** as a response to her snarky and Whitty attitude that was just a front for her ever growing fatherly love towards Joel. In this game Ellie has lost all personality and likeness , basically an Emmo Young Woman that kills and murders with no reassuring reason as to why. Joel was murdered and deleted from his main role 2 hours into the game. This was the biggest mistake. Im not against killing Joel just against how they did it without adding any real meaning and value to the story. Sure revenge was the underlying tone for Ellie to hunt Abby but there were so many deviations that it just felt like that really wasn't the driving force in the game and much less when YOU SEE THE ENDING!! HOLY **** What kills the story mainly is the addition of this Abby Character. The killer of Joel who they make you play for half of the game while you are hating her for just killing your previous main character. There is so much more I could put down but this is more than enough to hate any story driven games.

    The only good thing about this game is the amazingly beautiful graphics and sounds details. I did love the gore of the game and the individualistic setting of the enemies calling themselves by names all the time, which made it even more closer to real life. In my opinion First play the first game then go to Ebay and buy a used copy of this game. Dont give your money to this company for atrociously destroying an amazing franchise.

    I could have given this game a 6/10 but after seeing how many "Professional" Reviews Naughty Dog bought , I will counter with what they really deserve. 0/10    … Expand
  23. nicolascr181
    Sep 26, 2020
    10
    A masterpiece!, Just ignore the **** they talk about this game. I simply loved it. It's a hit of emotions...
  24. Robotato
    Jun 23, 2020
    0
    Complete and utter garbage. There was shovelware games on the Wii that were better.
  25. Lenner
    Sep 26, 2020
    10
    Un hermoso juego que te llena de emociones, un viaje que es una montaña rusa de sentimientos y con un final más que perfecto para los protagonistas
  26. r_strelnikov
    Sep 26, 2020
    10
    Definitely the largest and most delightful work this year, and on the entire generation of Playstation 4. Amazing adventure, gorgeous emotions
  27. sickness1
    Sep 26, 2020
    10
    I've played the game from the beginning to the end and the truth is that is a great game, the story is really fine, the gameplay spectacular, the graphics incredible… I don’t think we will see a game like this in years, the best way of confirming this is that the 59.5% of the people that has played the game has finished it, something not very common, for example Ghost of Tsushima has beenI've played the game from the beginning to the end and the truth is that is a great game, the story is really fine, the gameplay spectacular, the graphics incredible… I don’t think we will see a game like this in years, the best way of confirming this is that the 59.5% of the people that has played the game has finished it, something not very common, for example Ghost of Tsushima has been finished by the 44.8%. Enjoy it, at least if you have a PS4 ;)… Expand
  28. AgenteVoid
    Sep 26, 2020
    0
    Omg i want to forget this game! Terrible story! They did not give a good sequence for TLOU!
  29. XIuhcoatl451
    Sep 26, 2020
    10
    This game was amazing, beautifoul and perfect.
    The best games for 2020, pvto el que diga que no
  30. Jahmood
    Sep 26, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Game is trash. Abby's a **** villain. Can't believe the game force me to play as the **** Game is literally trying to make u like her and the only people who like this game are twitter and half of reddit. Masterpiece my ass… Expand
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  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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