The Last of Us 2 (PS4)

Genuinly shocked to see so many negative reviews about this game! My experience of this game is that I personally rank it as equal to the best game I have ever played, (Final Fantasy 7) - the story is absolutely mind blowingly good. Myself and my partner played this for several hours every night over a period of a couple of weeks, and we were both completely glued to it, and found ourselves talking about it all the time when not playing. The developers should be applauded for their creativity, not only in the graphics / world (which is another topic) but the story and the way they manipulate time is like nothing else I have ever played, simply incredible. I loved the original - I will never forget that introduction video, and then the fact it cuts to 20years later - this blew my mind. Most games of this genre are set "now" with the outbreak being a current thing, but Last Of Us thinks ahead and then imagines what the world would be like 20years from that point. Last of Us 2 continues in this fashion, without giving spoilers away, there is another jump in time and also another "side to the story" which we didn't see coming at all. Rather than try and pick up the story straight after the end of LOU1, the game resumes some time in the future - which does away with having to keep the story going in a chronological fashion, which I think really works well. The graphics... now for me, I am much more interested in a good story than graphics. I am happy to play 90s/00s games with "poor" graphics if the story is strong. But in this game, graphics are something else - I am genuinely amazed by what they have done, not only in their appearance (ie - beautiful graphics) but the thought that has gone into the world, and what it would look like 20+ years into this virus outbreak, war, riots, bombing, civil unrest, natural disasters etc... the developers have really thought carefully about it and created a world which is breathtaking, and quite terrifying to imagine (but also, weirdly, you can totally believe and sympathise with) Absolutely everything about this game is 10/10 for me, I cannot say a single negative thing about it, and I am desperate to play it again on Story+ mode. I also really want to play LOU1 again with this back-to-back and relive the entire story. For me, this is the best 2-part game ever made. Certainly a story-line I'll never forget Thank you

Spoilers for themes, but I'll keep the story spoilers out of it. First things first, no, it doesn't have a PC or LGBTQ+ agenda. Ellie is gay and a secondary character is trans, that's it. There are no explicit queer sex scenes (though you do see a 30 second heterosexual sex scene - consensual with a bit of boob, definitely nothing that would push the limits of the 18 rating). The most explicitly gay stuff you see is kissing and general cuteness between girlfriends, if you think that's an agenda then I don't know what to tell you, you live in a bubble and queer folks exist, get over it. It's pretty grim and gruesome, the deaths are a lot more hard hitting. If you shoot someone in the leg and they bleed out, they'll scream and writhe for several seconds, there's more fear in their faces when you kill them, they sometimes beg for their lives, the people watching their friends die are more authentically messed up by it, stuff like that. Not something that will bother everyone, but I'd say that's the nastiest bit of the game in terms of overall gameplay. Once again if you're more offended by a bit of boob and a consensual sex scene, IDK what to tell you. There's also a bit of weed use and a mention of a grumpy old alcoholic, if those are deal breakers for you. Graphics are amazing, sound design is great, and the gameplay itself is very similar to the first game, but just a little bit better. IMO it's perfect, I hate when they change too much in the sequels when the original was so good. If it's not broke don't fix it, you know? And The Last of Us Part II honours that, it basically expanded on the original combat without changing much at all. Oh, except one thing - Clickers ACTUALLY use echolocation now (they just used hearing in the first game) and they don't bloody tell you, I must have died a dozen times before I realised they can "see" you if you stand in front of them while they're making noises. As for the rest... basically it's a game about how much you can mess yourself up in the pursuit of revenge. It's a game that hurts you then tells you to get over it, because staying angry will only ever leave you unsatisfied and unhappy. It's true to life, moreso than most of us would like, and at times it's frustrating, tedious, or even in-your-face insulting. The game doesn't care if you like it or not, it doesn't care if it makes you feel bad, and it doesn't care about making you feel better. Pretty much every criticism I've seen against the game so far (that this plot point should have been different, that the pacing is weird, that you don't care about that character, that you're not satisfied with the ending, etc) can be answered with "yes, I know, that's literally the point." Once you get your head around that, it's a good game that achieves exactly what I believe it set out to achieve. If that sounds interesting to you then I say go for it, maybe watch a playthrough first (I recommend JackSepticEye or GabSmoulders purely because they seems to be the only YouTubers thus far who actually get it) or wait for it to come on sale, or keep your eyes open on marketplaces online or CEX and similar trade-in stores, I'm sure there will be a lot of copies there soon enough. Do actually play the game though if you want to criticise it, and be wary of those with generic copy/paste reasons for disliking it, such as an unsatisfying ending or a dislike for the "PC agenda" it doesn't have.

Chegou, otimo

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Per me il miglior videogioco della storia, una trama molto intricata che fa riflettere sul concetto di “buono“ e “cattivo “, il gameplay è molto molto divertente, e la durata giustifica ancor di più il prezzo.

Gran juego Gráfico buenos

Super jeu et il est en français.