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I was skeptical. I actually put off the game because of all of the outrage. I was wrong to do that. This game is an experience unlike any other game you will ever play. The reason people hate it is also the same reason it is amazing. Give it a chance. Just like people hated Empire Strikes Back when it first released, I believe in 10 years this game will remembered for its greatness.

The writing is amazing, the characters engaging, the way violence is depicted is unlike any game I've played, and last but not least the story is memorable. If you were on the fence about this game, give it a shot with an open mind. You might just be like me and absolutely love it.

This game has gotten way too much critisism for the decisions that the creators made. Even when this came out, I strongly disagreed with some of the critisism, because I felt people misunderstood the plot and the motives of the characters. Now that I'm playing the game for the second time and I can kind of relax, knowing how the story goes, I can focus more on how the story and the characters proceed, and the game is still amazing. It looks amazing and I love the characters because they seem like real people. Real people do things wrong, they are not perfect.

I feel like haters just concentrated on what happens to Joel. But the game shows that everything has consequences, even for the characters that everybody adores. If you cannot handle that, you should never watch movies, read books or play games, because it happens in every form of media. People that are loved, suffer or die. That is just life.

I have no other choice but to give this a 10/10. I'm having so much fun and I'm excited to see pt III.

I simply can't understand all the disappointed low reviews. I imagine it's people who don't like to think and simply want to point and shoot.

This game is a master class of storytelling, character creation, paradigm shifting... all wrapped in a beautiful shell. No other game had ever made me throw the control away because I simply couldn't decide which character to hurt. And that's the whole point: this game makes us question violence in games and the futility of violence in general as a response to conflict. If nothing else, just for that, it deserves every recognition in the world.

The way it introduces the different characters and makes you realise that your antagonist may be someone else's protagonist, is flawless.

The characters are full of life and truth. They're believable and 3D, not flat archetypes.

I could go on and on. And I genuinely feel sorry for those who feel disappointed by this game. I honestly believe they missed the whole point of it.

10/10.

Yes this game has flawes. I think the game is too long and because of that the pacing suffers sometimes. I also disagree with some minor decisions that were made.

But you cannot deny how beautiful and engaging this game actually is. This game did something most games before have never actually touched upon and used its medium in a clever way. Trust me when I say in 5 to 10 years time, people will look back and say this game was severely misunderstood.

Most people get what this game was going for, they just don't want to except it (yet)....

Story is not stupid. It is horribly sad. It develops around the theme of neverending violence, and how it destroys us in the end. A really needed perspective, a thing, that we all need to hear in todays world.

I have to say, that one of the best things is, that this story doesnt give a **** about you. It develops in its own way. Yes, at the end you might wish you didnt play it and just stick with ending of first part, but isn't it what life really is about? Us remebering the good old days? Horrified what might future do to us? And is it really up to us to stop that wheel of violence? Or are we just trapped inside its never ending cycle?

These and other thoughts I have during gameplay. So it is thought-provoking, which is great and beyond what ou expect from game story.

One star down for unnecessary double ending.

As for the graphics design, combat modes and atmosphere, it is totally fantastic. Totaly enjoyed it.

Well, sequel is great and was worth waiting. But I guess lots of people will think twice before wanting another sequel. But isn't it another great truth? Be happy with you have?

Like damn, this 30-hour game hasn't even been out for a day in most countries and y'all act like you finished it already

Now i do know what most of you think about this game because of what druckman did, that he ruined the original characters and he prefers that you hate his game rather than feeling nothing about it and tbh me too was really upset and disappointed after you know 2 hours into the game "the thing" happened but if you actually continue to play the game it all makes sense and it's not like you are not getting any Joel and Ellie moment. You should know that Joel in the first game did a lot of messed up things with no mercy, even if it was out of love and his past is coming to hunt him in this game which was always the case. He's not a hero guys even if you want him to be.

The graphics and environments are breathtaking, some of the best world design i've ever seen, the attention to details is up there with games like RDR2 and the gameplay while similar to the original, it's even more violent, horrifying and gruesome as it can get.

In terms of story i think the original is told better with no room for error, almost every character in that game was likeable, even the supposed bad guys and that's not the case here. Abby and her group are incredibly unlikable and she had very little redeeming qualities to me if Lev and his sister didn't existed. Dina and Jessie are alright but as a supporting role, they should have been way better and the pacing is all over the place. Flashback after flashback, it just gets tiresome after a while. But even with all that, this is still a quality game and it's nowhere near as bad as some would make you believe and most of them didn't even gave the game a chance and made up their minds based on the leaks which works for a movie i guess but this is different and you have to experience it for yourself and even if you still don't like it, it's understandable like i said the game is flawed, extremely divisive and it's not for everyone like the first game.

First thing's first, play the game for yourself. Buy the game, turn the lights off, and get cracking. In the end, this is a video game, and the only thing that matters is your own personal experience. You might hate it, you might love it, but it's your opinion, and nobody should be able to change that. I have played all the way through the game, and I took my sweet time. What follows are my honest opinions:

The Gameplay: Putting everything from the story to one side, this is stellar, top class gameplay. Combat is fluid, tense, and really exhausting in the best possible of ways. It takes everything we loved from the first game and only builds on it. You're able to approach encounters however you please, but playing smart (using stealth and your tools) feels immensely rewarding. I thoroughly enjoyed scavenging for materials and planning ahead to decide how I could be the most effective predator in combat while utilising as little resources as possible. Whether you're up against human foes, or the infected (Including the absolutely terrifying new infected types!) it's up to you as the player to determine how you can be the most effective against each very different enemy type. This is a true post-apocalypse experience.

The Story: It's extremely difficult to talk about the narrative, for many reasons. First and foremost, spoilers. (I won't be spoiling anything!) Reading the leaks and not playing the game will not give you the faintest idea of the direction this story takes. It's a video game, and it must therefore be played in full, by you. In my opinion, the story is truly complex and multi layered. Sometimes you want to cry, sometimes you want to laugh, sometimes you want to throw your controller through the TV. There's a lot at work here, and my understanding is that most of these emotions you feel are intentional. There are points in the game where you will NOT be satisfied with the outcomes of events, and this is the way it's designed. This is a story about the cost of revenge, sins of the father, and the near impossible ability to swallow hatred. The game is a message, and only by playing through the entire story could I piece together -and comprehend- the message I was being taught.

But given this, I believed the story was far too long, with some really odd and dissatisfying decisions mixed in. There's a particular sequence of the game that has you go back in time to relive events from a new perspective. There are moments here that are crucial to the overall narrative arc and your understanding of the plot, but it turns into a 10+ hour deviation. I found myself wanting to get back to "the game" as if I was playing something completely different. The game lost it's flow for me here, and I began to feel disconnected from all of the characters on-screen. There are moments (that I can't go into) Where the game wanted me to perform actions that I simply did not want to perform. This did not feel intentional to me, all I was feeling in these particular moments was confusion and disappointment. But, the final hour brings it all back together, and finally concludes what the game is setting out to say in a really intelligent and hard hitting way. I am likely to carry these feelings for years to come!

In conclusion, I saw this as a heavily flawed masterpiece. It added upon things I loved about the first game, and it took away things I loved about the first game. It was an exhausting journey through just about every emotion a person can feel. It was incredibly intelligent, well constructed, and beautifully rendered. I often found myself admiring random, totally unimportant spots in the game world, considering just how much work had gone into creating such gorgeous environments. But it's far from perfect, the concept of "If you don't like it, you don't get it" is preposterous, nobody can tell you how to feel. You are perfectly in your right to dislike this game, but only once you have played it for yourself.

As a fan of the first game, I was absolutely HYPED for this game. When The Last of Us 2 opens up, you get a beautiful world, familiar soundtrack, and the return of both of the characters we all grew to love in the first game, Joel and Ellie. For the first 2 hours of gameplay, you feel right at home in the world. But it soon begins to fall apart. It is hard for someone who has replayed the first game multiple times to realize that the sequel is not up to par. TLOU is about characters and story. Many people, myself included, did not play the game for the gameplay, which is just like a lot of other games. It was the story and the chemistry between Joel and Ellie as a father-daughter duo that drew us all in. Part two feels like it completely disregards the relationship established in the first and the characters seem to change personality and consistency just to further the plot along. There are times where the characters feel like a different character entirely and I was left thinking, "(insert character name) wouldn't have done that. They were smarter than that."

After about 7 hours of gameplay, it begins to feel flat. In a world full of undead, even the living lose life. The story becomes cliche and predictable, and there is a section that is about 10 hours long that focuses on things that have nothing to do with the main story except that it is trying to establish a backstory for a new character. In the first game you learned about the characters as they pushed through the story, a 10 hour flashback was not needed to establish the characters. A lot of the times, things were just unnecessary and by the halfway point I was just wanting it to be over because I was just bored.

Boring is not a word I would like to use to describe The Last of Us 2, but it is what it is.

The ending is anticlimactic and it feels as if the game was trying too hard to be artsy and deep instead of just telling a good story. I felt so much emotion for these characters in the first game, and to this day I can't get through the prologue without crying, but I felt nothing in part 2. The characters feel so different and inconsistent that if it weren't for the fact that clickers were present, you could easily forget that this is even a TLOU game.

All that said, the graphics, soundtrack, and acting are phenomenal. The story, is flat and feels more dead than the undead themselves.

This game is definitely getting bombed by negative reviews on purpose, but don't just ignore the audience score because of that because there are some valid reasons for disliking this game.

Finished The Last of Us Part II and started Survival+. Blew me away! The editing in this game is beyond impressive. It reminds me of the editing in Pulp Fiction, which took some people time to get used to. Now, this kind of editing is common in cinema, but to have it in a game is really impressive. I gotta say, I was expecting a bad ending, too but was pleasantly surprised. Technically and gameplay wise it is the best 3rd person shooter I've ever played and best stealth game, too. Better than the first and my new all time favourite game tied with God of War.

This game and the first have been given different themes. The first was, 'The journey, companionship, fate and destiny', while Part 2's themes are, 'vengeance and the cycle of violence'. Makes so much sense now, after playing the game in full and seeing how it ends. I'm happy. I definitely would not have had the same experience if I hadn't played the whole game myself and just watched the cut scenes, or watched someone else stream a play through. You slowly grow to feel empathy for Abbey by playing the entire game. This is why I believe some of the haters did not play through the whole game themselves.

The people who aren't happy with the story wanted to hate Abbey, but instead were forced to feel empathy for her. Funny, cause if the first part of Abbey's story never happened these haters would have really liked her and not disliked the story.

You do not have to like Abbey (I eventually did), but you are meant to feel empathy for her. This is the part some people struggled with. The whole point of the script is to feel empathy for every single human in the game, even the lesser enemies as you kill them. I commend Naughty Dog and Neil Druckmann for taking such risks. If they never did what they did with the story we would more than likely have had just another game instead of this masterpiece.

This game is absolutely stunning! So many people have gone into this game believing that they already hate it before even playing.

I REFUSED TO LOOK AT ANY LEAKS BEFORE PLAYING AND I LOVED IT!!

The story makes sense! Its true, its dark, realistic and its explores so many gritty and real themes. Like it says on the game case, it's a REVENGE story, not another cash-grab sequel. Everything that happens in the story happens for a REASON.

This game looks INCREDIBLE! I played this on the original PS4 and it shocked me how polished and beautiful it was. Definitely one of the best looking games out there.

The gameplay is very similar to the first game but feels quite a lot more polished. And the game is just so much more brutal than the last.

This game is already in the top 5 games on PS4 for me and I will always stand by that.

I honestly do not think this game is bad in any way, people are just mad because it wasn't made the way they wanted, and by now it just seems like people love to hate it, which I think is stupid.

I gotta admit, this game isn't quite like the first one, and makes you feel a little bit different, which I think is okay since the first game is about love and this is about hate. I can admit that a few things (not many) was indeed a little bit dumb, but overall this game has great graphics, great gameplay and a good story, and I do think people should try to play it themselves, cause you do get invested in the story, and it's a great journey.

I think the characters are likeable also, which is good. I even startet to like some of the "bad" ones too, which I didn't like that I did, but is a good thing.

I personally think it's worth your money, give the game a shot.

The graphics are amazing in this game and the gameplay is Definitely a step up from its predecessor. Many are review bombing a game the haven't played over choices the game itself makes. But if you actually play the game like I have it all makes sense and it gives the the sense of rage to immerse you in this intense story about revenge.

This is one of the best stories of any medium. It is reductionist to say this is a story about revenge, because it is only that in the most surface of ways. The subtext is rich with questions of moral relativity, perspective, growth vs deterioration, obsession, trauma, autonomy, choice, tribalism, etc...

It is not shock value if the shocking things hold meaning and builds character. The game takes place in a post apocalypse and the decisions the characters make are totally sensical given the confines of their world.

The game is better written than 98% of shows and films, and 100% better than any other game out there. Only the best filmmakers like bergman, kieslowski, haneke can write above this level and I doubt this games detractors even know these artists.

The game is relentlessly bleak, but it is purposeful. That being said, I understand how someone wouldn't enjoy this, but bleak plotting isn't automatically bad writing.

Whatever the reason for it, it has nothing to do with the game. This thing is amazing. High point in storytelling for the video game industry as a whole.

Greetings from Lithuania.

I was really looking forward for "The Last of Us: Part II" (2020) because I've completed first game three times and it is one of my favorite, if not my favorite game of all time. I watched main trailer many times, avoided all leaks on internet and even did not watched demo of Part II - i wanted to come to this game as "empty" as possible, so all the twists were truly unexpected for me - did not see that coming. And after ~34 hours that took me to complete the story (because i took a time to explore this world little by little) i can safely say - this is a great game to say the least despite its flaws.

By flaws i mean that it was a bit to long in my opinion - some of the stuff later in the game could have been cut out - playing it felt more like a "directors cut" were they put all scenes possible to enrich this world. Also this game had some pacing issues later in the game, were it dragged a bit here and there. And those were my only complains. Other than that this is hand down one of the very best if not the best PS4 title ever made.

If you liked exploration of this bleak world in the first game - you will more then like this. Graphics, sound, music. controls - all were first rate. Acting was very good as well. There were a lot of very intense action set pieces, were i was fighting bunch of enemies using all possible "tools" that game gave me - i can't even describe it - it has to be played to truly be experienced it. I also like how brutal and bleak this world is, were many of good characters that i encountered died suddenly and without any warning - it felt like a real world. And the story took me to places i surely did not be seeing in this game - there were many surprises along the way.

Overall, creators of this game surely took a risk with plot, and as it can be seen now, many did not like it. I liked it because it felt fresh and took a different direction then one can expect from a sequel. "The Last of Us: Part II" is epic, bold, unique and technically amazingly game which despite its flaws ranks among the best games on PS4, and i think one of the more unique sequels ever made on any media.

I was a huge fan of the original game. It was one of the best stories I've ever experienced so you can imagine my disappointment when hopping into this game. First of all, the main characters of the first game are completely butchered by stupid writing. Everything from, trying to avoid spoilers, traditionally careful and experienced characters who've shown in the first game that they know how dangerous strangers can be and to not trust anyone but in this game they're now automatically trusting of people they've never met to go as far as to even tell them they're names and where their settlement is within 4 minutes of meeting them.

That's just one example of the poor writing in this game and trust me when I say there's plenty more to complain about but to avoid spoiling anything I'll just say the game makes bold decisions in its story. The problem is the execution was done so poorly as it obviously was trying to be bold for the sake of being bold and ignoring good story telling. I recommend you pass on this. If you're a fan of the first game, just pretend this game never came out. You'll be far happier with the bittersweet ending of the first game and believing that to be the definitive ending to Joel and Ellie's story.