The Last of Us Part II

 PlayStation 4
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  1. Faacu
    Sep 1, 2020
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Le doy un seis y con mucho esfuerzo. La jugabilidad y los graficos exelentes, pero la historia un desastre, lo termine de jugar por compromiso porque el primer juego me encanto y queria saber como terminaba este, pero la forma que muere joel es muy mala. Para mi gusto joel no tendria que haber muerto, pero si era necesario al menos que me dejen jugar algo mas de tiempo con joel ya que es el personaje favorito de muchos y me incluyo, tantos años esperando este juego para que la historia sea tan mala. Yo lo recomiendo como un buen juego pero no como una obra maestra como si lo fue el primero… Expand
  2. Ringo_X
    Sep 1, 2020
    0
    Clunky, slow...so slow. Repetitive gameplay...Story is controversial but I know Americans love bad writing (or there wouldn’t be so many step up dance movies and have a joke for a president lol).
    Not worth the time, make the game as a buffer/filler for when you don’t have anything to play while waiting for a real fun and exciting game. Characters are not worth remembering because they lack    Clunky, slow...so slow. Repetitive gameplay...Story is controversial but I know Americans love bad writing (or there wouldn’t be so many step up dance movies and have a joke for a president lol).
    Not worth the time, make the game as a buffer/filler for when you don’t have anything to play while waiting for a real fun and exciting game. Characters are not worth remembering because they lack character.    … Expand
  3. TheGraveWorker
    Aug 31, 2020
    5
    Gameplay is super polished and the visuals are legitimately the best I’ve ever seen, a shame the story goes for the ol’ “shock and awe” tactic and falls flat on its face
  4. ZhongjianAJIATE
    Aug 31, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. 来自中国玩家的评价，懒得翻译成英文了：
    画面和游戏杀戮体验接近满分，但游戏性并不值得任何形式的鼓吹，潜行玩法发展到2020年还是局限于躲藏与暗杀甚至连搬运尸体的功能都没有。因此美末2的玩法只属于原有基础的完善，实际上毫无新意；
    剧本三流美剧，放在电影里也就人物情感表现可圈可点，框架思路还算有新意，然而串联起不同情节桥段的线索逻辑空缺严重，疏漏得一塌糊涂：
    乔尔为什么会犯下普通生还者都不会犯的严重错误，没具体解释；
    金刚芭比为什么杀起自己人来不手软，为什么能为了一个孩子背叛自己相处了好几年的队友连击晕选项都不给，恶心玩家的同时也糟蹋了尝试代入艾比的玩家的情感体验；
    艾莉和艾比就见了三次面，前两次死了两个自己珍视的人，最后一次就是多年以后的复仇——谈何放走艾比？铺垫严重不足
    好剧本好就好在铺垫、线索、逻辑亦或者表现力。而这些本作几乎不沾边。简单总结：
    情节转折唐突，铺垫少影响逻辑；
    角色性质工具化，情感变化代入缺失；
    预告欺诈，重要角色处理方式消费玩家感情；剥夺玩家选择权。
    狗尾续貂的垃圾    … Expand
  5. B0rnC0nfused2
    Aug 29, 2020
    10
    The story is about revenge and it’s extremely dark. Not as good as the first one, but better gameplay IMO. In you don’t like it then it’s fine. Naughty Dog took a shot and worked for some and not all
  6. AegisToaster
    Aug 31, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Woke Trash from beyond the Golf Club, ruined the previous game and attempted to tell a revenge story on the basis of "cycle of mean people never end." Core game play was relatively the same as the previous entry outside of flashier animations, the only exceptions are better stealth sections & difficulty settings customization. Lied about killing dogs, a specific QTE forces the player to murder a dog **** You Naughty Dog). The only reason I give this a 1 & not a 0 is the care given to the recreation of Seattle. I don't hate the people who worked on this game, but Neil Druckmann convinced me to boycott any and all past (woke) & future Naughty Dog releases.… Expand
  7. The_laggy_one
    Aug 31, 2020
    7
    So basically, I like the story, a bit disappointed in the end, overall good game. I really like the gameplay and gameplay mechanics.
    Summary: a good game, wouldn't play it again though.
  8. AaronF
    Aug 31, 2020
    5
    The gameplay is fine however the story disregards the last game. It really feels like aside from character names we were playing an unrelated story because the characters were different and not so much time has passed that this would make sense. The game is also to long. It should have ended sooner than it did.
  9. BeamishBull
    Aug 31, 2020
    4
    I wouldn't call this game a complete failure, the graphics are godlike and the gameplay is very fun. However, this game is very brutal and made me sick at some parts, the story sacrifices character moments for SJW appeal (which it somehow also fails at? what?!) and you don't play as the giraffe from the first game. 0/5 **** sucks
  10. thedarkjorsh
    Aug 31, 2020
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Excelente graficos y banda sonora tenia todas las de ganar pero lamentablemente solo la mitad de ellie es buena y por el precio que tenia de salia no recomiendo comprarlo gastar $54.000 pesos chilenos es mucho para un juego que no cumplió las expectativas… Expand
  11. Tivicks
    Aug 31, 2020
    10
    I couldn’t expect more the story is unique it is subjective but i love it life is not like a Disney / Pixar movie and this is what i was expecting going into it. The mechanics are superb, the permadeath ootion is spectacular and makes it even more interesting to playthrough. Thank you Naughty Dog i really love this masterpiece.
  12. Stormking80
    Jun 21, 2020
    1
    its , not meaning full , its so poor and the way u are going to see both sides are old , not good at all and it is failure for those who thinks better than other
  13. JimmieJones
    Aug 31, 2020
    7
    Visually stunning, and many compelling moments, but the try hard drama and emotion, left me having to groan though long periods of unnecessary dialogue and activity. It is the first time in a major title I just couldnt keep playing and having to endure the laboured over-wrought story line. That the writers basically tried to tick every woke inclusive box and as a result this required toVisually stunning, and many compelling moments, but the try hard drama and emotion, left me having to groan though long periods of unnecessary dialogue and activity. It is the first time in a major title I just couldnt keep playing and having to endure the laboured over-wrought story line. That the writers basically tried to tick every woke inclusive box and as a result this required to play through a lesbian romance and as either a slim lesbian or hulking butch brawler, sealed my disappointment with a game I had been anticipating for a number of years. As a result I wont be playing any 3rd iterations of what was once an incredible franchise.… Expand
  14. LucasF07
    Aug 31, 2020
    10
    The last of us part 2 will make you feel emotions like any other AAA game has ever made, a total new experience at every corner of the game awaits you. Either you like it or not.

    For the first time I felt that a game could tell a story without depending on joy. Something that the film industry shows for a long time. There's movies that make you feel sad, and often offer something that's    The last of us part 2 will make you feel emotions like any other AAA game has ever made, a total new experience at every corner of the game awaits you. Either you like it or not.

    For the first time I felt that a game could tell a story without depending on joy. Something that the film industry shows for a long time. There's movies that make you feel sad, and often offer something that's painfully to watch. But the main difference is that in a video game you're not the spectator and this game will make you feel the actions of the main characters you control like any other game ever made.

    Hopefully this will open a new path for storytelling in the AAA industry.    … Expand
  15. The_last_magyar
    Aug 31, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The last of us has some pretty good high value here and there for a medium that is often pretty poor. From excelent uses of color in dramatic moments (the red room, the camera tricks in the last phase) to dramatically powerfull symbology and use of recorrent images. I cannot deny that the team behind it did some astouding work in some regards, but it is also undeniable that those good feats are more due to talented individual artists (that unfortunatelly were not well paid during production) than of any concrete/ well organized vision.

    Videogame storytelling is still strugling to be respected in counterpart to its movie and literature brothers, and the last of us is not a good example of one that stands out from the crowd. The game suffers from just too many poor editing choices (the game is to long, and there are scenes that could have really won with a good editor) and plotholes that easily make any telespectator lose his suspension of disbelief. But even if those more ''technicall'' dificulties of production were removed (there was no need for the false ending) the story itself does not bring nothing new to the table. Sure, the idea of playing as the villain you were initially hunting can open interesting new possibilities, but the overall message is still a shallow ''Vengeance is bad''. There are many stories that speak of such themes with more interesting lens, and as a screenwriting undegraduate I can atest that this sort of metaphor the game proposes is a common mistake with beginners.

    To conclude: the last of us part 2 really needed a editor. It would have made the game greatly superior to what it is now (there is a reason why Holywood has diferent editors for everything possible) but even them, it is not really a outstanding work on its own, and there are games/literature/movies that perform this sort of vision in a more nuanced and innovative way.    … Expand
  16. Jimborha
    Aug 31, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Super jeu, une histoire déstabilisante qui nous pousse à remettre en question les choix d'Ellie.… Expand
  17. Rhegar
    Aug 31, 2020
    10
    goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood
  18. Sniperjwolf
    Aug 31, 2020
    2
    Que paso acá desde la mitad del juego es muy bueno, pero después es injugable. tiene graves problema en contar la historia. se siente extraño y no empatizo con el personaje metido a la fuerza.

    Me quedo con el 1 y olvidaré este.
  19. Elxd
    Aug 31, 2020
    4
    Mala la wea, perkin el ctm que hizo este juego
    Fome la abby culia chanta, por ultimo xd
  20. MightyBailey28
    Aug 31, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The Last of Us Part 2 is a masterpiece. I hated that Joel died, but with what he did at the hospital. Especially with Abby, it makes sense why he did die. The world is gorgeous as hell. The character relationships (like Joel and Ellie, Ellie and Dina and Abby and Lev) are fantastic. The infected is still incredible like the Rat King is INSANE!! The new enemy types are amazing. I love the Scar brutes, the guard dogs. I love that Ellie is much more faster and agile than Joel in TLOU Part 1. The combat is brutsl and I love it. Even though people hate Abby for what she did to Joel, I love her character and her story… Expand
  21. Sephi
    Aug 31, 2020
    10
    Ein würdiger Nachfolger
    Das Spiel hat mich in den ersten Minuten wie der erste Teil gefesselt.
    Der Anfang wurde schön an das Ende vom ersten Teil geknüpft .
    Weiterfuerde Rache story ist Geschmackssache mir hat es gefallen. Grafik ist sehr gut fuer die veraltete ps4 Sound ist genial Einziges manco die ps4 schreit nach Luft alter falter die ps4 kämpft richtig mit dem Spiel beim Lüfter
  22. Casualk
    Jun 28, 2020
    10
    Naughty Dog have done something I thought they'd never achieve - a sequel that surpasses the first. From the beautiful graphics, to the excellent acting, the stunning soundtrack and the engaging gameplay. A clever, undoubtedly controversial moment comes with a surprise shift in gameplay some way through the game - but the way it soon wins you round is quite the achievement. And the story -Naughty Dog have done something I thought they'd never achieve - a sequel that surpasses the first. From the beautiful graphics, to the excellent acting, the stunning soundtrack and the engaging gameplay. A clever, undoubtedly controversial moment comes with a surprise shift in gameplay some way through the game - but the way it soon wins you round is quite the achievement. And the story - an emotional rollercoaster: violent, brutal, funny, heartbreaking. Just brilliant.

    It truly pushes new ground in the line between movies and gaming.

    And that guitar...

    If I have one complaint, it's the same one that I had for the first game - the AI is not the best. But you can forgive that.

    An easy 10/10 for me.

    An aside: The ridiculousness of people spamming zero stars based on spoilers they'd seen rather than playing the actual game (laughably thousands of these appeared within minutes of release - despite the game taking 25-30+ hours) is incredible.

    I will just say this: to those writing it off because of some spoler you've read - just play the game. Trust me, many of you may you may be surprised.    … Expand
  23. WaterMellons
    Aug 31, 2020
    10
    I successfully avoided all spoilers and got to play the game with an open mind. Such a gorgeous game with beautiful visuals and realistic, complex characters. This game made me feel so much. It's got a different vibe from the first game, but I like that the developers didn't go the easy, fan-service route. Game-play was improved upon and I love how there are also so many accessibilityI successfully avoided all spoilers and got to play the game with an open mind. Such a gorgeous game with beautiful visuals and realistic, complex characters. This game made me feel so much. It's got a different vibe from the first game, but I like that the developers didn't go the easy, fan-service route. Game-play was improved upon and I love how there are also so many accessibility options for people who might need them. The game did feel surprisingly long, compared to the first installation, but as a huge fan of the previous game, I really didn't mind. I took my sweet time with it, even stopping to play around with photo mode and collecting everything i can - even with my extremely slow pace, it took me just around 34 hours to complete. Most open world games have taken me many times as much time to complete, so as a linear game, the Last of Us Part 2 felt quite nice to me personally.… Expand
  24. davecnll
    Aug 31, 2020
    10
    I do understand the complexity and deepness of the emotions that naughty dog wanted to create trough this game. Here we have the future of gaming guys. Games can be better than movies to communicate feelings and this game is the perfect proof. Not to mention the quality of every other aspect gaming related.
  25. Leach1
    Aug 31, 2020
    10
    This game masters all the things than you can find in the video games world, its a masterpiece.
    The game touch in points than you never will imagine.
    If you dont play this game yet you odnt know what are you losing.
  26. LASTOFUS2_SUCKS
    Aug 31, 2020
    1
    Gameplay and graphics are AMAZING. But in a naughty dog's game, all that matters is the story (Uncharted, even Crash Bandicoot!). BIG DISAPPOINTMENT! Your wallet will be proud of you if you DONT BUY IT! 1/10!!
  27. MsEllie
    Aug 31, 2020
    10
    It was a unique experıence for me. No game has ever given me this experience before...
  28. TheLastOfUsFan4
    Aug 31, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. *sigh where do i start?

    Let me say my credentials so you don't think i'm a 'troll' or 'right wing bot'.

    I played The Last of Us on PS3, then got it on PS4. It became a game i would return to again and again, i played the game 6 times. Multiplayer was very fun and i happily spent hundreds of hours in the mode. I was hyped, i followed every development that the game had, nearly bought the collectors edition, but settled on the deluxe edition. With all that out of the way, i have to describe my experience.

    I stayed up late, i was in the discord of the subreddit, watching as the minutes ticked down. I was one of the first to enter the game. I was excited, I've only seen one spoiler and it was minor. I got into the game, and... i was blown away, the graphics and stuff. I remember Joel and Ellie's relationship being kinda rocky in the start. Then i was so so on the new characters, Then, i saw Joel's death. I was hoping it was going to happen later on in the game, as the marketing showed Joel alive in Seattle, so i thought maybe he was alive but brained damaged/coma. I had to stop there because it was a awful way to die, but it fits the universe. I picked back up in the morning, i wanted revenge, and i went out of my way to kill every WLF patrol in game play, i didn't feel any remorse over who Ellie killed, as she was acting in self defense. The flashbacks were amazing, between Joel and Ellie hit the right balance between good writing and character development. The only flashback that felt off because of little talking that happened was when Ellie goes back to salt lake hospital and learns what happens. We get 3 sentences and it's a shatter relationship. Then we get to the most meh of meh parts, Abby's entire section.

    Oh boy, Abby has no goal. The Entire. God. Damn. Time. Her flashbacks were nice, i really liked Owen out of the new cast, Smart, resourceful and pragmatic. Mel was the worst of the new cast, it makes no sense for her to be out in combat, the first thing that happens is she and everyone of the new cast gets AMBUSHED and she's out here thinking everything will be fine. Anyway back to Abby. This leads back into my theory of Part 1, a theory that was put out by Joseph Anderson in his review of the game, that the fireflys have no idea what the **** they are doing. I thought Part 2 would spend more time fleshing out this theory that the fireflys were bad, by replacing it with anything to make me care more about the group. Instead you see that they really are scum, they rather they sacrifice the only known case of immunity so they can excuse there own sins. They don't have the best interest in helping anyone. It's just a reactionary group trying to gasp there way back into relevance. It's not like the fireflys would be able to make this cure, or that they would give it out freely. Joel's choice was selfish, but looking at the bigger picture, it's good the best choice for humanity.

    I was really sad to learn that Part 2 doesn't try and disprove the theory i said above, as i think the writers want you to think that they are good, and Joel is bad bad man that 'doomed' humanity. So now we have Abby, a firefly member that would sacrifice herself to her cause, meanwhile, they don't even allow Ellie to have that choice. Anyway, when i was fighting Abby, i wanted her to die, i didn't want to hurt Ellie. The game forced me to win that encounter, because they knew if we played as Ellie, Abby would be dead. I think that alone is a failing of the games story, no matter what growth both characters went through.

    We had a entire game to like Joel and Ellie. We were given no backstory except key snippets of Abby's life. The parts relating to Ellie and Joel. What did she do to join the WLF? What was she doing in her time in the WLF? All of these questions are never answer or hinted at. the best guess you could do is that Abby is 'the best Scar killer' so killing people daily. It just fells like there is a ghost game that would have bridged the cap between Part 1 and Part 2 that would follow Abby and Abby only and at the very end hint at her coming after Joel. Then we have buildup and we like for sure both characters, not because they have kids, but because we could feel bad for them. WLF kill all trespasser, you think Abby's never had to shoot a family? If you think about it, the WLF is a Hunter group, a group of people who freely kill people within there territory. Instead of for supply's, for ??? why do they kill trespassers again? Could you image if aside from Scar's, they accepted outsiders in, just like Jackson? Could you imagine seeing the same **** you saw in Jackson in the WLF? Then it would be a lot more questionable, but nope, they send kill squads around to kill anyone that isn't WLF.

    Anyway, this review is getting long, i rated it a 3 because the game play graphics and sound are godlike. The story however, has serious flaw    … Expand
  29. Grey_Gloves
    Aug 31, 2020
    0
    An absolute slap in the face to anyone who enjoyed the first game. Joel as a main character is treated with complete disrespect and the once gregarious and funny Ellie is reduced to a moody brat and lost all likability. The new characters are all terrible with cringeworthy dialogue and hamfisted backstories.

    The story is boring and preachy and the ending is lame and forgettable. The    An absolute slap in the face to anyone who enjoyed the first game. Joel as a main character is treated with complete disrespect and the once gregarious and funny Ellie is reduced to a moody brat and lost all likability. The new characters are all terrible with cringeworthy dialogue and hamfisted backstories.

    The story is boring and preachy and the ending is lame and forgettable. The visuals and sound mean nothing when you can't even tell a coherent story.

    I'll never play another Neil Druckmann game again. You have lost a longtime fan.    … Expand
  30. Maark1037101
    Aug 31, 2020
    0
    Сюжет вообще не о чем,глупая, банальная детская месть, хотя игра взрослая. Навязана из вне идеями лгбт, а это не должно быть в фильмах, играх, книгах и т.д. То есть идет навязывание,а 80% населения земли, против навязывания чего либо.Ты считаешь что это хорошо, ок считай. Но если другой считает что это плохо, то это плохо, и с этим надо считаться а не поддерживать как других людей (не надоСюжет вообще не о чем,глупая, банальная детская месть, хотя игра взрослая. Навязана из вне идеями лгбт, а это не должно быть в фильмах, играх, книгах и т.д. То есть идет навязывание,а 80% населения земли, против навязывания чего либо.Ты считаешь что это хорошо, ок считай. Но если другой считает что это плохо, то это плохо, и с этим надо считаться а не поддерживать как других людей (не надо путать людей с ограниченными возможностями, например инвалидами и т.д). Вообщем игра шлак, ничего нового по сравнению с 1 частью. Все тоже самое, улучшилась только графика, но настоящим геймерам графика вообще не нужна, точнее не на первом месте, это 100000%. у меня все.… 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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