![]() From the very beginning, I wanted to reach out and shake Ellie, as her proxy in all this, and get her to do anything other than what we were about to do. "The game gave me stress nightmares, not because you kill a lot of people per se, but because playing as Ellie felt more like being dragged by my hair than being immersed in her mission. Towards the very end, it is devastating." You will be halfway through the game before you understand what it's actually doing and more than that before you really begin to feel its dread pull. ![]() "At other times, it operates with rare subtlety and understatement. Some of its points are made with an almost laughable bluntness as it hurries on to its next big idea. The cast is overstuffed and the subplots are often over- or undercooked. The characters' motivations don't always stack up. Sometimes the tone veers into a depressing, distasteful nihilism. The Last of Us 2 boss says ending hasn't leaked The Last of Us Part II is a masterpiece worthy of its predecessor." Part 2 deftly handles a war on the streets of post-zombie-apocalypse Seattle, an expansive new cast of characters, and some gut-punch payoffs to the lingering emotions The Last of Us’ powerful ending left me stirring over for the last seven years. "Ellie’s journey grows into something much more ambitious. "With The Last of Us Part II, developer Naughty Dog rises to that challenge with not only a complex, profound story that gives it a reason to exist, but also deep and satisfying evolutions to the original’s third-person action/stealth gameplay. This story feels like it completes the picture." The finale isn't as powerful as the original, but this game definitely feels like a worthy companion to the first game and not a cash-grabbing sequel. "The overall story is strong, if convoluted slightly by the various time jumps, but they do help deliver the biggest narrative payoffs. We would just have liked to have seen the same applied to the gameplay. Naughty Dog has made brave narrative choices for its difficult second album, which we massively respect. " The Last of Us 2 is going to be divisive. SHOP NOW The Last of Us Part II Limited Edition Steelbook from Amazon
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