The Last of Us Part II

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  1. mnKx
    Jun 22, 2020
    0
    Extreme poor writing plagues this game with very uninteresting new characters and shallow character development (both new and old characters) which is all tied together by a generic gameplay
    The graphics are gorgeous, but that is the only good thing about it
    Don't waste your hard earned money on this dumpster fire
  2. Galantine
    Jun 24, 2020
    2
    As a big fan of the first game I was really dissapointed with the lazy writing of the Part 2. They managed to write Joel to behave nothing like the original character. He was always playing safe and always keeping the distance to people, because he knew people would come after him and Ellie. That alone breaks my heart as a fan of the original story.

    Todays games are much more than just    As a big fan of the first game I was really dissapointed with the lazy writing of the Part 2. They managed to write Joel to behave nothing like the original character. He was always playing safe and always keeping the distance to people, because he knew people would come after him and Ellie. That alone breaks my heart as a fan of the original story.

    Todays games are much more than just games and developers know that. It's multi dimensional art. It's a very powerful media and this time that power was used in a wrong way. To send a strong political message.

    Ripley from Alien and Sarah Connor from T2 are one of the best action characters in movies. Including both genders. They were great because their stories were written so well. The story and the characters supported each other. This time the characters got in the way of the message that Naughty Dog wanted to tell. It's sad that they sacrificed one of the greatest games to the altar of politics.    … Expand
  3. mutante2
    Jun 21, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. El juego me está decepcionando bastante, parece que el guion solo lo hicieron para poder representar la fuerza femenina, que no está mal, pero se ve tan forzado. Se nota que el guión esta hecho en una sola dirección. Complacer los tiempos que marchan, estuve soportando andar de un lado al otro pero en cuanto matan a Joel, el juego acabó para mí, y aparte hacen de mala a ellie y pasas a manejar a abbie la mayor parte del juego, o sea no tiene sentido en la que de repente sus diálogos no concuerdan con lo que se nos presentó en el primero,, yo creo que no estoy preparado para ver este tipo de historias en un videojuego, para eso mejor veo una buena pelicula.… Expand
  4. mati_akumu
    Jun 19, 2020
    5
    great graphics and ok gameplay but the game is story focused and the actual story is edgy teenager fanfic tier with bad writing and horrible characters story
  5. Kremish
    Jun 30, 2020
    5
    Reviewing a sequel is always a bit iffy. I'll try and be fair here though.

    In terms of story, it feels undercooked. It feels like they had ideas, but couldn't decide the best way to implement them. A lot of the story beats could've made sense if given more time to build. Some of the choices seem ill thought out. A scene happens very early in the story (we all know which I believe),    Reviewing a sequel is always a bit iffy. I'll try and be fair here though.

    In terms of story, it feels undercooked. It feels like they had ideas, but couldn't decide the best way to implement them. A lot of the story beats could've made sense if given more time to build. Some of the choices seem ill thought out. A scene happens very early in the story (we all know which I believe), which feels haphazard and rushed. It feels like shock for shocks sake. We all knew something like this was likely to happen, it very well could've worked, but again, it was executed very poorly. The choices of story afterwards don't get much better. It's a perfect example of "what could've been". The characters could've been more fleshed out, the plot could've been given more time to breathe, the pivotal story points could've been given more weight. We see moments of character interaction of old in flashbacks, the entire museum segment is arguably the best in the entire game.

    The character representation has seemingly been crippled by something. Neil Druckmann has made no secret of his intention to include characters of certain groups and orientations. I can't shake the feeling that he's not writing characters at the moment, but caricatures. The LGBTQ+ characters are largely made to be unlikeable. Which seems strange coming from a Naughty Dog game. The track record of likeable characters from this developer is well known and highly lauded, and rightly so. It does beg the question of what the intention then was. Because it seems to be to make everyone, including the LGBTQ+ characters as unlikeable as possible.

    The gameplay is improved from the original, nothing to write home about but there is improvement there. The graphics as expected from ND are impeccable.

    My recommendation would be to buy this on a heavy sale. This game being a ND game had a lot of expectation on it's story. It would seem to me, and clearly a lot of others that they failed here. It is not nearly comparable to the original in any way from a story perspective.

    The characters we knew and loved have been seemingly ret-conned to a point where they appear to be different people with a similar name. The new characters fair no better, if anything, they get it worse, as there's nothing to grab onto and relate to. The originals ambiguous ending has also been changed to a black & white matter as well. Gone is the uneasy feeling of Joels final decision, instead changed to him being the obvious villain of the game.

    I don't know what lead to this outcome, but something changed drastically between parts 1 and 2 development. I would genuinely urge the developers at ND to try and identify this change and make changes for their next project. They can do better than this, they have done better than this. I hope they will do better than this.    … Expand
  6. Riipperi
    Jun 19, 2020
    1
    A game that is mostly about story and charachters that somehow manages to screw those things up wprse than I have ever seen. It is not entertaining, it is not art, it is not interesting. All it is is a sad attempt to pander towards todays mainstream political agenda and it fails miserably at it
  7. ABCguy
    Jun 21, 2020
    1
    Never did I think they would do that to our beloved characters from the first game. The second portion of the game becomes extremely mundane and boring and makes you not want to continue. Gameplay was good for the first few hours but becomes boring very quickly. The story was not well written and there was obvious political pandering.
  8. TiaxTheMighty
    Jun 24, 2020
    2
    There's a lot to say about this game but I'll be brief.

    This game had the potential to be 10/10. There were gameplay elements and visuals that would have been stunning if I wasn't so frustrated, angry and despondent.

    The marketing of a game hasn't been so misleading since metal gear solid 2.
  9. rfisha
    Jun 30, 2020
    1
    Could have been a masterpiece, but messed it up with a poorly executed storyline, bad character development, very long boring cut scenes and pointless boring levels that are supposed to develop the back story. A story about revenge, but spends a lot of time focused on relationship building with really unnatural poor dialogue and character decisions that seem illogical and out ofCould have been a masterpiece, but messed it up with a poorly executed storyline, bad character development, very long boring cut scenes and pointless boring levels that are supposed to develop the back story. A story about revenge, but spends a lot of time focused on relationship building with really unnatural poor dialogue and character decisions that seem illogical and out of character. Awesome graphics and attention to detail in environments - felt really ripped off that I had to play a character I hated that was not advertised or promoted in any of the trailers. Really misleading marketing.
    I got the platinum and finishing it the second time skipping cut scenes, I finished it half the time. there is too much padding that adds no value to the story or immersion.

    TLDR; Boring. Wait until later to buy it if you haven't already - there has been a record number of trade ins and definitely not the sort of game I would ever play again.    … Expand
  10. tahalampre
    Jun 19, 2020
    0
    Great story-NO
    Beautiful characters-NO
    Interesting gameplay-NO
    Gay characters-YEEES, exactly what we needed.
  11. leogdiniz
    Jul 7, 2020
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Overall TLOU2 is an awesome game and definitely worth playing. The story, differently from the first one, is not about hope but hate, revenge and how someone can end up losing everything in the pursuit of it.
    The graphics and the audio are definitely on of the best we can find in the PS4. The game is pretty fun and even though the jump button didn’t add much to the game, being able to crawl and dodge does make the game play way more fun than the previous one IMO.

    The combats are great and the clickers and stalkers will definitely scare the **** out of you.

    The story itself is not bad and the game does give you that rollercoaster of emotions. By the end I could sympathize with Abby and I actually had a lot of fun paying with her. It was a really nice experience being able to play against Tommy and Ellie. I actually admired them more since I faced them as enemies. Their are really tough to beat.    … Expand
  12. Yugakhan
    Jun 23, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. good things first game came out early and it is done. no bugs or game breaking glitches. also the game looks great land scape shoots are amazing to take in. game play is smooth and clean but reputative and that wouldn't be a problem if the story made you want to progress watch it dose not. Every time it switched to Abby I wanted to turn the game off at the same time Elie wasn't that fun to play with either. by hour 5 I felt like I was just doing chorus and I just wanted the game to be over but I stuck in there to see if this story had anything up its sleeve. At the end of my play threw I really truly wish I just turned of the game at hour 4 and got my money back. It is a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing… Expand
  13. Jolyne
    Jun 20, 2020
    0
    Horribly written storyline and characters development, gameplay-wise is as old as my grandma's socks. At a point, it made me just feel sad and sick and snap the discs.
  14. Sergioetm24
    Jul 6, 2020
    10
    Una obra de arte hecho video juego.
    Gran juego. No experimenté tanta emoción desde que jugué RDR2. Realmente candidato a juego del año y ha superado al primer juego por mucho. La calidad gráfica, de audio, banda sonora, mecánicas de jugabilidad realmente es una ruleta rusa de emociones y lo más brillante es el guión y por supuesto la interpretación de Troy y Ashley merecedores de un Oscar    Una obra de arte hecho video juego.
    Gran juego. No experimenté tanta emoción desde que jugué RDR2. Realmente candidato a juego del año y ha superado al primer juego por mucho. La calidad gráfica, de audio, banda sonora, mecánicas de jugabilidad realmente es una ruleta rusa de emociones y lo más brillante es el guión y por supuesto la interpretación de Troy y Ashley merecedores de un Oscar cada uno. El único pero podría ser algunos bugs que encontré que espero solucionen pronto y que en algunos momentos sentí que alargaban un poco más de lo necesario el juego.    … Expand
  15. Turtleboy
    Jun 30, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I will never be able to describe the feeling I had playing the last of us. The countless play throughs Brought me joy That other games could not.
    Now I found myself playing part two just wanting to finish the game so I can get it over with. I’ve waited so long as so many other people for this just to be ruined by one person’s political/morale views.

    STORY: Having Joel die for the sake of plot is such an lazy act of writing. I couldn’t even comprehend it happening while waiting for the game to release. As I witnessed his death I closed open my eyes and I had to takeoff my headphones and cried. I was crying for the fact that I couldn’t believe that this was actually happening I waited for years and supported naughty dog for them to sh** right in my face I balled out crying Knowing that the character i respected died like he was nothing. And for that it killed my enjoyment of the rest of the game. Having this take place in three days adds to the laziness. This game is very similar to uncharted in terms of how “action packed” it is in the span of time. It was very believable that Joe had that many encounters while traveling across America protecting Ellie, now Ellie fights a group of 20 people/infected every 10 minutes and is ready to go go at the next moments notice.

    CHARACTERS:
    I do not care for any of the characters except for Tommy and Eli everyone could died and I wouldn’t blink an eye. Having me play as Joel’s killer felt like I was just spat in the face constantly while playing.I remember tearing up when Tess died I remember tearing up when bills lover didn’t want to be with him I remember tearing up when Sam died and his brother killed himself now I could care less. most characters are cringe or annoying. unfortunately the only non-annoying character is Jesse which people might call me sexist because he’s a male.

    ELLIE: what made Ellie special was the relationship between her and Joel, having the father daughter bond or Having them travel across America and her seeing all these monuments and museums and asking these questions on how things actually were before and Joel knowing and explaining and seeing her in disbelief is what made these two characters solid, now when they go to a Monument, Museum or store they always say the same thing “I can’t believe they used to do this” or “I can’t believe they used to do that” haha hehe humans where weird. Now that the connection is gone I just feel like I have to be forced to care about there funny jokes of the past.
    ABBY: Being FORCED to play as Abby during a big portion of the game was not enjoyable at all. The fact that they made her the “female Joel” made me want to stop playing immediately. combat was fun yes, but I did not want to play as Abby I did not want to see her story I did not want to see her feelings because I did not care. For some reason this game try’s to make you understand her, the only thing I understood Was that she needed to die.

    GAME PLAY:
    Naughty dog always was good with game play, but in this game it waste so much time of you walking around during these “game play” cut scenes, That you find yourself bored and just wanting to get it over with. I’m actually kind of disappointed with some of the variations in game play stealth killing people is the exact same Animation over and over again no matter what character you play which is lazy and boring. I found myself having the same exact death animation as well ; getting shot in the head. I did not die any other way.

    Graphics: Beautiful but wasted.

    This is such a forced game that I hope it bites Neil in his a** this is propaganda at its finest. I was 13 when the last of us came out I DO-NOT care that Eli is the main protagonist, so it’s not me being a misogynist this is Neil being a beta.    … Expand
  16. Sleevedagger
    Jun 23, 2020
    0
    Never in my life have I played a game so blatantly motivated by SJW hysteria whilst simultaneously destroying the memory and reputation of a previous installment. Naughty Dog has just taken a huge dump on its fans and made you pay for it too. As long as Neil Druckmann is behind any future games I will not be buying them, what the hell were you thinking Naughty Dog?
  17. Valtiata
    Jun 23, 2020
    2
    I ignored the leaks and the fuss, I played the game. I am curious about what will actually happen in this game. I followed them, the post-apocalyptic world, the beautiful sceneries, the good musics.....until 5 hours in.

    This curiosity, all ruined by a poorly executed story. I forgot many of these new character's names already. They have little to none background, nothing to make me    I ignored the leaks and the fuss, I played the game. I am curious about what will actually happen in this game. I followed them, the post-apocalyptic world, the beautiful sceneries, the good musics.....until 5 hours in.

    This curiosity, all ruined by a poorly executed story. I forgot many of these new character's names already. They have little to none background, nothing to make me curious, nothing likeable, and be honest, none of them acts "rational" and "realistic". They are doing it for a just because and it was soooo bland, so forgettable, and so bad. These "review bombers" or as some of you call it "bots" are true, and I should've listened to them. For the future of a good narrative driven game, stay out of this game. The Last of Us saga ended in the first part.    … Expand
  18. Kobevh
    Jul 2, 2020
    10
    In my opinion, the best game I ever played.

    ND took some bold risks with the story and I really liked them. It’s a story with lots of emotions. It has no good or bad characters. In its core it is a revenge story, but it’s also so much more. The gameplay is familiar if you have played the first one, but it is much improved. New mechanics to both combat and stealth. The AI is also way    In my opinion, the best game I ever played.

    ND took some bold risks with the story and I really liked them. It’s a story with lots of emotions. It has no good or bad characters. In its core it is a revenge story, but it’s also so much more.

    The gameplay is familiar if you have played the first one, but it is much improved. New mechanics to both combat and stealth. The AI is also way better. The level design is amongst the best I have seen. Animations are amazing and the infected are way better than in the first game.The graphics are also amazing.    … Expand
  19. ManVil81
    Jun 19, 2020
    0
    This game it's a bad copy of The Walking Dead! Abbie it's Negan, Joel dies like Glenn, Ellie it's a female copy of Carl (bad written), and the plot just the same! They forgive Abbie, just like they forgive Negan. AMC-FOX should sue SONY-Naughty Dog for © and intellectual stealing. Don't buy it! Better watch last seasons of the Walking Dead!
  20. d7860
    Jun 19, 2020
    1
    what a garbage game. the story was so god awful. But the graphics are the only think which is ok. thank you for destroying all character development from the previous game.
  21. eggman1013
    Jun 26, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Did not like the game. I did not get my revenge for the death of my favorite characters… Expand
  22. Lightning7Z
    Jun 19, 2020
    0
    bad story... stupid dialogues....hideous characters...nothing good in this game just a piece of ****
  23. Williamey
    Jun 26, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Gameplay is almost the same as the first one, so no real improvement there, the graphics looks incredible, and the voice actors are doing a great job, but that sadly just isn't enough to fix the incredible flawed story, and the empty characters that completely changed from game 1..… Expand
  24. Ivmena
    Jul 2, 2020
    2
    the story is awful, it completly disrespect firs part, story 0-10 but the gameplay, graphics, physics is very good.
  25. urzombo
    Jun 19, 2020
    1
    Really wish I would have waited till this went bargain bin. Sad, because I was so hyped for this.
  26. Zippoiii
    Jun 19, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It's a good golfing simulator, but that's about it.
    The story just f*cks over the first one, making Joel look weak and Ellie even worse. Half of the game you play as some (woman?) you've never seen before, which is infuriating because she was never clearly shown in the trailers    … Expand
  27. Chaosgears
    Jun 21, 2020
    1
    Good with game, disastrous history, I do not recommend it, is what was expected when turning games into movies
  28. warezki
    Jun 22, 2020
    2
    The A.I is bad.. visuals good. Combat okayish. Story and writing weakest part and didnt make sense to me. 1/3 of the game had to really force myself to play through for a maybe rewarding ending and just got smacked in the face with dissapointment. Most of the time i was bored playing. For me me the last of us 1 was a 9/10.
    This game made me decide to never buy a ps5 nor support sonys road    The A.I is bad.. visuals good. Combat okayish. Story and writing weakest part and didnt make sense to me. 1/3 of the game had to really force myself to play through for a maybe rewarding ending and just got smacked in the face with dissapointment. Most of the time i was bored playing. For me me the last of us 1 was a 9/10.
    This game made me decide to never buy a ps5 nor support sonys road they have taken about pushing agendas and faking obviously all the reviews. Another thing I want to add is if your thinking about buying because of the trailers, they are lying. The trailers are all fake for this game and dont happen so in game and charecters have been swapped. Be warned. Dirty tricks Sony, shame

    The 2 points and all the appreaciation to the developers who worked hard on the game itself but never join a project again that is obviously written by a mad man with no idea about storytelling.    … Expand
  29. Lmaogame
    Jun 19, 2020
    0
    Bad writing, bad story, bad lgbt, bad game, bad 60 dollars, bad ending
    Just freaking buy ff7, p5r, ghost of tsunima or doom eternal. Worth of 60 dollar rather this pointless sequel.
  30. sausager
    Jun 20, 2020
    0
    If you are a fan of TLOU, DO NOT PLAY this game. It ruins the characters built in part 1.
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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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