The Last of Us Part II

 PlayStation 4
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  1. Magical_Aids
    Aug 20, 2020
    5
    The game is beautiful, Music score is one of the best. Innovations in gameplay for a sequel not bad hoping for more. Lied to us in the trailer making us think Joel was more involved in the the story. GG Neil Druckmann big mad.
  2. Rextor117
    Aug 20, 2020
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. El juego me gustó bastante en el sentido de gameplay muy bien elaborados los mapeados las físicas y cada detalle está hecho con mucho cariño pero la historia es bastante mala en el sentido que quieren que nos encariñemos con un personaje que nos quito a uno que queríamos del primer juego de una manera muy cruda es muy forzado todo nos muestran una historia desde la perspectiva de ellie y cuando pensamos que estamos en la batalla final nos la cortan para ver la historia del otro personaje, rompe con todo el ritmo y a volver a empezar desde el inicio pero con el otro personaje después es incuerente muchas partes que después que ellie pierde contra ese personaje por primera vez va decidida a seguir con su venganza y cuando va a matar al otro personaje lo perdona pensando que la venganza es mala y entonces ella hace un viaje por gusto para perderlo todo después en fin esa es mi opinión.… Expand
  3. Meldron
    Aug 20, 2020
    10
    Absolutely impressive game, with great flair, deep story and nice controls. Great work of Naughty dog.
  4. Mark099
    Aug 20, 2020
    10
    Muito bom o jogo uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuúuuuuuuyyyyyyyyyyy
  5. Colodrin
    Aug 20, 2020
    0
    Que pena... soy un gran fan de la primera parte y siento decir que con esta segunda la han fastidiado pero bien.
  6. ProGamer101
    Aug 20, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I managed to avoid all the leaks and spoilers and didn't read any reviews prior to playing. I intended to play this game with a blank slate so that I could truly appreciate what I thought was going to be one of the best sequels ever made.

    Intro
    I regard The Last of Us (original game) to be one of the best games I've ever played. Part II doesn't match for me. The storytelling, gameplay, and the graphical achievement of the original are what made the first game great in my opinion - with the storytelling part being the strongest element. Part II utterly lacked the storytelling element for me, and not because bad things happened and I didn't like them. While I was playing, I often thought "what is the point in this?"

    The Story
    I'm just going to get straight to the point here because it's my main criticism of the game. Very early on in the game, the antagonist is established to the audience since she kills our father figure antihero protagonist from the original game. No problem, the scene is set. It makes sense; his history has finally caught up with him, but in the most brutal fashion imaginable. The audience now hates her and wants to kill her and intends to spend the rest of the game seeking Joel's vengeance.

    After this painful and angering moment, the audience is forced to play about half the game as Abby. I understand that the intentions of Naughty Dog here were to show that there are two sides to every story, but it was done ineffectively here. Her side of the story didn't connect with me in any way whatsoever. I found myself trying to speedrun parts of the game where I had to play as her because I simply had no interest in trying to understand her motives and lacked any empathy for the antagonist. As mentioned before, I didn't see the point. The audience is angry with this character and is now being forced to play entire segments they simply have no care or pity for. We see a sequence where her father, a surgeon who was about to perform the fatal procedure on Ellie, was killed by Joel in order to save her life. So what? The audience doesn't connect with Abby's side of the narrative because they are accustomed to Joel's story and it felt as though this other story was being shoehorned in. There was no value in showing the antagonist's side of the story.

    Throughout the narrative, major characters die. This isn't a problem in itself - but the impact of these deaths lost effect once the audience begins to realise there's no real reason these people are dying. Joel dies, Nora dies, Owen dies, Mel dies, Yara dies, Jesse dies, and so do a couple more of Abby's friends. What was the point? There was no resolution to any of these deaths and I asked "what are the developers trying to do here?" The audience empathised with Ellie on Joel's death and that was the majority of it. There was no sense in killing characters other than a small part of Nora's death because it felt as though Ellie's story was progressing. For the rest, the audience got nothing in return and there was no sense of fulfilment anywhere to be had. It's puzzling here trying to understand what Naughty Dog intended.

    Naturally, Joel's death was most impactful and sets the audience hellbent on wanting some form of meaning from the very beginning - what is going to become of his death? In the end, the answer was simply nothing. His killer gets away and we played an entire 25 hour or so narrative so that we could see her get away with it even though everything leading up to the end made us want her dead. Every other plot point up until then just felt like filler. Ellie's relationship with Dina, Dina's pregnancy, the guitar, Abby's entire segments - it all felt like filler and the audience just wanted to be done with it and get to the story-rich part of the game, which sadly never came.

    The Gameplay
    The game plays much like the original with improvement and additional features such as being able to go prone in tall grass for additional stealth, or being able to slip through small cracks as a means of evading enemies. For some gamers accustomed to fast-paced action, gameplay might feel sluggish. However, fans of the original should appreciate it because of its familiar and unique survival elements. My one criticism here is that controls occasionally felt unresponsive; sometimes button presses weren't registering and I sometimes found myself mashing triangle to pick up items, then going back because it missed them.

    This game is also possibly the most accessible game ever made up to now. There are numerous options for gameplay customisation for those who may need special requirements.

    Graphical Achievement
    Similar to the original game, these will be the best graphics of this ending console generation - it pushed current and ageing console hardware to its limits. Attention to detail in the game environments were very well done and are a marvel to look at.    … Expand
  7. Jorgi044
    Aug 20, 2020
    8
    Dejen de llorar por no ver la historia que querían ver y acepten lo que paso. Tlouf nunca se trató de historias felices.
  8. HatterKiller
    Aug 20, 2020
    1
    Dont wost your monay on this game where game will destroy your filling if you play 1 one, the jurnay of part 2 will make you suffer
  9. fawaz1234
    Aug 20, 2020
    0
    this game is **** and the game play is the same as the last part the story ist ver very very **** the only good thing is the graphics
  10. HacheFair
    Aug 20, 2020
    9
    El juego es complejo, quizás cuando lo juegas poco tiempo no te gustará por alguna razón, pero es uno de esos juegos que cuanto más lo analizas y entiendes, más te gusta. En esto no hay gente buena y mala, solo gente cuyas acciones son buenas para ellos pero para otros son malas y lo más importante es que en el juego nadie importa, este es el mundo de los últimos de nosotros donde hagas loEl juego es complejo, quizás cuando lo juegas poco tiempo no te gustará por alguna razón, pero es uno de esos juegos que cuanto más lo analizas y entiendes, más te gusta. En esto no hay gente buena y mala, solo gente cuyas acciones son buenas para ellos pero para otros son malas y lo más importante es que en el juego nadie importa, este es el mundo de los últimos de nosotros donde hagas lo que hagas tú Puede morir, donde la violencia es vital y si no te das cuenta de lo que tienes, lo pierdes.… Expand
  11. Bokonist
    Aug 20, 2020
    10
    Masterpiece! Better than first part for me. The story, emotions is unforgettable experience
  12. Zojar
    Aug 20, 2020
    3
    Te hace odiar la historia. Te obligan a odiar a un personaje, para despues tener que utilizarlo.
    Y el centro de el juego es una venganza que no se cumple.
    Que pena.
  13. Sbingu
    Aug 20, 2020
    10
    Wow. This Is a good game, with a good and a long story. Very enjoyable. Compliments to Noughty Dog.
  14. himarxuky
    Aug 20, 2020
    0
    la gente a la que le gusta no ha jugado al 1º o no tienen capacidad crítica... (de hecho las ventas del primero subieron poco después de la salida de este, eso quiere decir que un gran porcentaje de la gente a la que le gustó, no había jugado al 1)
    En un apocalipsis, donde hay constante peligro y escasez de recursos, hay muchas prioridades antes de tener una relación sexual.
    El problema    la gente a la que le gusta no ha jugado al 1º o no tienen capacidad crítica... (de hecho las ventas del primero subieron poco después de la salida de este, eso quiere decir que un gran porcentaje de la gente a la que le gustó, no había jugado al 1)
    En un apocalipsis, donde hay constante peligro y escasez de recursos, hay muchas prioridades antes de tener una relación sexual.
    El problema no es la preferencia sexual, es el hecho que haya escenas eróticas sin venir a cuento y que se use a una minoría para ganar la aprobación fácil de descerebrados.
    Un argumento sobre su sexualidad muy forzado que te saca de la historia y del juego constantemente y que no te haga disfrutar plenamente de las mecánicas e historia (básicamente la historia es que la prota se enamora de la tía que mató a su "padrastro", y se ponen a meterse mano y fumar porros en un apocalipsis zombie. tiran por el suelo la historia de la primera parte como que matan al protagonista de la primera y no le dan importancia al hecho de que ella sea inmune).
    Sobre los gráficos, la entrega anterior fue impresionante en comparación a los demás títulos, en cambio en esta segunda entrega no me parecen tan impactantes (solo en las cinemáticas se esforzaron) pero igualmente el diseño gráfico de los zombies son pésimos en esta segunda entrega).
    la IA de los zombies es similar a la de juegos como minecraft (puedes hacer que te sigan varios y dar vueltas al rededor de una columna o subirte a un andamio de metro y medio y ya no te alcanzan, realmente no hay ningún peligro) pero podrías decir que son zombien y no razonan, pero igualmente los enemigos vivos tienen una IA del año 2000 (le puedes clavar una flecha, te escondes unos segundos y se olvida te ti y se va con la flecha clavada. puede también verte claramente y si te escondes antes de unos segundos, se olvida de ti enseguida. y esconderse significa ponerse de cuclillas detrás de un arbusto de medio metro y ya)
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    pero diría que lo peor es la cara dura del guionista y/o del director que engañaron con los trailers.
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    pd: mucho éxito en ventas pero ebay (y todas las páginas de 2º mano) está saturada y lo puedes pillar fácil por menos de 20€ con una semana de uso (llegué a ver una subasta a menos de un día de cerrar, de uno en edición coleccionista a 17€) y cada día que pasa está más barato.    … Expand
  15. Bobduke99
    Aug 20, 2020
    10
    A masterpiece - an amazing video game about revenge, justice, the cycle of violence, and forgiving, that lives up to its predecessor and creates a unique and ambitious story that could only be told as a video game.
  16. nachocapo
    Aug 20, 2020
    10
    INCREIBLE! NO HAY BUENOS NI MALOS, SOLO HUMANOS SOBREVIVIENDO A SI MISMOS, no es el juego que esperaba la gente fue mucho mejor que eso una historia de venganza pero a la vez de redencion
  17. AndresRC19
    Aug 20, 2020
    0
    Vaya basura y perdida de dinero, unos gráficos nada realistas como lo prometió Sony
  18. Dtwenty
    Aug 20, 2020
    0
    Menudo pedazo de MIERDA mayúscula esta. Tan repetitivo como todo y para colmo se cargan la historia. Recomendable para cuando este gratis en PSN plus no más de ahí (Deserción total).
  19. DanteSGames
    Aug 20, 2020
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. From my heart, being more of a fan of consoles, more a little bit being xboxer, this is an amazing game
    One of the best of the whole generation
    The game has bugs as every good game has, the fact of murdering almost the most beloved character (Joel) is a little disgusting for me, preferred to kill another character, the character development is masterful, you get very fond of the characters, very well made here sony    … Expand
  20. Cheesey17
    Aug 20, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. For me, story is everything. Why did you kill the main character for the first of the game. Why dont you just let us play as a Joel. Graphic, gameplay mechanic, all off stuff in this game is **** good except the **** story… Expand
  21. Jwmalcol
    Aug 20, 2020
    10
    I know there are a ton of controversies about this game but they are mainly based on ridiculous personal preferences or lazy thinking. This game is a masterpiece. From the visuals, to the gameplay, and especially the story line, it keeps you more than 100% invested the entire time! Easily one of the top 5 games and stories every developed. You’d be insane not to play this game!
  22. AxelCab13
    Aug 20, 2020
    10
    Obra maestra, cuidado en todos los aspectos. Simplemente Impresionante juego, es de lo mejor que he jugado.
  23. Overt
    Aug 20, 2020
    5
    Five long years for this garbage ?, I prefer to play Doom Eternal, I prefer to play Ori and The Will Of the wisp, I prefer to play Animal Crossing NH; This game stands out visually but the story is Horrible, badly posed with a silly script and sometimes very predictable, and I can still continue the problem of crunching spoilers etc etc ... TLOU2 is a bad game
  24. MKsoares
    Aug 20, 2020
    10
    Jogo perfeito, não tenho o que reclamar. Valeu o dinheiro gasto. Espero que tenha a parte três
  25. lilgod8080
    Jul 12, 2020
    10
    This game is amazing And that's more than just a game.
    Thank you naughty dog for everything
  26. venenarius
    Aug 20, 2020
    0
    The story is atrocious, contrived, and manipulative. The characters don't act like they should. The gameplay is worse than ever. Stealth games from 20 years ago did better than this. The plot was built around trying to get "muh theme" but the whole thing is stupid and the theme contradicts itself. They force you to play as a character you hate, all while trying to trick you into likingThe story is atrocious, contrived, and manipulative. The characters don't act like they should. The gameplay is worse than ever. Stealth games from 20 years ago did better than this. The plot was built around trying to get "muh theme" but the whole thing is stupid and the theme contradicts itself. They force you to play as a character you hate, all while trying to trick you into liking this sadistic **** They never advertised that you'd play as this character, and demanded that reviewers don't mention that part of the plot. Textbook false advertising. I would have given it a 1 if it had crashed upon launch, so I wouldn't have had to suffer through the whole thing. Do not buy this game.… Expand
  27. SlyGalaxy12
    Aug 20, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Un cerote mal hecho. … Expand
  28. Aristarkos
    Aug 20, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Una obra madura, valiente, sin complejos. Una obra que mima hasta su más ínfimo detalle. Una historia que amar u odiar, pero con identidad propia, no subordianda al gusto del gran público. Bravo por Druckman y el equipo de The Last of Us II.… Expand
  29. Mdi1odc
    Aug 20, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. An absolute masterpiece.

    This game was beautifully crafted and had me on an emotional rollercoaster throughout the entire course of the story. Fueled with anger and hate at the beginning, then empathy and sadness in the middle, and finally peace at the end.

    I loved each character -- even Abby who I had initially hated. The relationships between each main character was genuine and amazing. This experience was like no other.

    I am very proud of Naughty Dog and the risks they took with this game. I hope they do not let the negative criticisms deter them from continuing to take similar risks in the future.

    This game is a must play to anyone who loves an amazing story. Way to go Naughty Dog!    … Expand
  30. tiskololroar
    Aug 20, 2020
    10
    Very, very good game. Don't let the haters prevent you from playing this absolute masterpiece.
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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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