This review contains spoilers
I don't think there has ever been a game that hates itself more than TLOU2. The graphics are stunning and environments are gorgeous, but the pathetic attempt of a revenge story and terrible characters makes this one of my least favourite games.
You'll noticed that I haven't rated this game half a star, even though I despise it with every fibre of my being. That's because it has genuinely great elements/moments, but the game is mostly about the story and it's so depressing, badly written and self-hating.
Pros:
• Beautiful graphics, attention to detail, gorgeous environments, a few great gameplay sections.
• The boss fight against Ellie is fantastic, and the rat king is great as well.
• Flashback sequences are, for the most part, great.
Cons:
• Joel's death is rushed, stupid, predictable and unrespectful #JoelDidNothingWrong
• Jesse gets thrown to the sidelines the whole game. As one of the only interesting and likable characters in the game, I was furious when he open a door and immediately get shot in the head and dies. He is literally never mentioned ever again, despite being a father, and nobody cared that he died.
• Tommy doesn't want revenge, then gets shot in the eye, then wants revenge and disowned Ellie when she says no. Then Ellie abandons her perfect life to get revenge, after literally just saying she didn't want to.
• Ellie slaughters hundreds and hundreds of innocent people and animals that she has literally never met JUST to get to Abby and kill her. Then at the end of the game, she has her fingers bitten off and suddenly decides that she should let Abby live. Then she goes back to an empty home and life, not even being able to play the guitar Joel gave her.
• Bigot sandwiches and lesbian small talk.
• There are a total of 2 changes to gameplay, being the ability to dodge and crawl. Really? It's been 7 years and you couldn't find any way to spice up the gameplay?
• The game tries so hard to make you like Abby and hate Ellie. Fuck off.
• 12 hours of Ellie, then we jump to 12 hours of Giagantor where we do the exact same shit except we get better guns and gameplay sections (i.e Rat King), but we don't give a shit about any of the supporting characters since we know that all Abby's friends die, and then the other characters that we never met also die. What a fucking joke.
• This is a zombie game. You spend more time slaughtering humans that than you do even being near infected. Also, there's 2 new infected types that you see about 3 times in the whole game across both stories.
• The whole story with Yara, Lev and whoever the fuck else was utterly retarded.
Naughty Dog don't like the word "fun"? Wow, I never could have guessed...
You'll noticed that I haven't rated this game half a star, even though I despise it with every fibre of my being. That's because it has genuinely great elements/moments, but the game is mostly about the story and it's so depressing, badly written and self-hating.
Pros:
• Beautiful graphics, attention to detail, gorgeous environments, a few great gameplay sections.
• The boss fight against Ellie is fantastic, and the rat king is great as well.
• Flashback sequences are, for the most part, great.
Cons:
• Joel's death is rushed, stupid, predictable and unrespectful #JoelDidNothingWrong
• Jesse gets thrown to the sidelines the whole game. As one of the only interesting and likable characters in the game, I was furious when he open a door and immediately get shot in the head and dies. He is literally never mentioned ever again, despite being a father, and nobody cared that he died.
• Tommy doesn't want revenge, then gets shot in the eye, then wants revenge and disowned Ellie when she says no. Then Ellie abandons her perfect life to get revenge, after literally just saying she didn't want to.
• Ellie slaughters hundreds and hundreds of innocent people and animals that she has literally never met JUST to get to Abby and kill her. Then at the end of the game, she has her fingers bitten off and suddenly decides that she should let Abby live. Then she goes back to an empty home and life, not even being able to play the guitar Joel gave her.
• Bigot sandwiches and lesbian small talk.
• There are a total of 2 changes to gameplay, being the ability to dodge and crawl. Really? It's been 7 years and you couldn't find any way to spice up the gameplay?
• The game tries so hard to make you like Abby and hate Ellie. Fuck off.
• 12 hours of Ellie, then we jump to 12 hours of Giagantor where we do the exact same shit except we get better guns and gameplay sections (i.e Rat King), but we don't give a shit about any of the supporting characters since we know that all Abby's friends die, and then the other characters that we never met also die. What a fucking joke.
• This is a zombie game. You spend more time slaughtering humans that than you do even being near infected. Also, there's 2 new infected types that you see about 3 times in the whole game across both stories.
• The whole story with Yara, Lev and whoever the fuck else was utterly retarded.
Naughty Dog don't like the word "fun"? Wow, I never could have guessed...
3 Comments
I have trouble remembering anything that happened in this game.
Yeah, each story is 12 hours and I don't even remember most of the things that happened. It was all just the same and not very unique. Then again, the whole time I wasn't even focused on the gameplay because I was still thinking about where the stupid story would go.
Yoav
2 months ago