Shaunodon said:
The blurb for that review: "Cultured Vultures
Jun 21, 2020
In trying to subvert expectations, The Last of Us Part II discards the best aspects of its predecessor to provide a rote revenge tale that is ill-considered, ending on a note that makes everything — all the violence, all the loss, all the struggle — feel utterly, hopelessly pointless."
...Is the one that sounds in tune with most of the users here who've played the game. Or I should say most users who aren't just overt Sony/ND fanboys/fangirls. The ones that seem the most objective (to me). Also in line with some of the more recent youtube reviews I've been seeing, mostly from channels I've never watched. That said, I honestly don't know much about Cultured Vultures. When going through Metacritic scores, the one I usually seek out first is Destructoid who gave it an 85. Below the average, and somewhere between the extremes of reviewers throwing out perfect scores along with overly-emotional soliloquies (which Destructoid is also guilty of), and fans who aren't completely bombing it but hate many of the choices the designers made. Until I play it for myself, I'm assuming 85 is probably closer to where the actual quality of this game lies. |
While I wouldnt give it a 65 I definitely have to agree with that. It discards so many aspects of what made part 1 amazing.
Gameplay, which is the biggest factor for me, has remained of the same quality if not better, everything else seems to be a downgrade.
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