Considering the game have 7k reviews on PSN with average 4,5/5 versus 50k reviews on metacritic with average 3,9/10 I would say it is mostly column A.

That ending. Holy fucking shit... I just can't....

I don't know how anyone can defend the writing in this game. This is just really fucking bad. This is what I think the story should have been.

This shit is really all over the place. The signs were there in Uncharted 4. The writing was a tad stupid in that game. But it was nowhere near this level.

Now onto the topic at hand, I think Neil Druckmann put his political correct agendas first before crafting an actual good story. The sexuality of the characters are not so important. If he crafted a game with these characters and delivered a really good story, I don't fucking mind. More power to them. But this thing, it goes way beyond the actual game and how he behaves on social media and such. So yes, I agree that his agendas affected the quality of ND games in negative way.

Not saying that it explains the difference because it does not, but around 3k reviews were already made to the game giving it a 5 prior to release, because it seems you can review the game as soon as you start the pre-download. I may be wrong though.

Exactly. I'm saying that inclusion is not a matter of politics but a natural progression of storytelling in the modern world and that including gay/trans characters to a narrative shouldn't be seen as a political statement. Because, you know, it's not. 

But you and others are saying it is. That's the problem here. Having queer characters in a game shouldn't be some point of contention, it should be a perfectly viable, and normal way to tell stories. That's how we remove the stigma associated with it, by normalizing it. The arguments I'm contesting are the ones that maintain the status quo by acting like literally any inclusion of queer characters is some SJW agenda and should be treated as a political issue. To make matters worse, just like @Soundwave said, the talking points around the issue have shifted becuase it's agreed on a widespread level that you can't just say 'get the gays out of our game' anymore, so now people are twisting these points and these stories so that they can justify their bigotry by claiming it's 'bad writing' or 'hamfisted character inclusion' when it's no worse than straight male inclusion. It's just another character archetype, not a goddamn political statement.

I have yet to see an ACTUAL argument about the game's story that didn't circle back to 'b-b-b-but my sensibilities! SJW propaganda!' Many try to avoid it, but it's not hard to read between the lines. 

Personally, I absolutely hate The Last of Us, but it's not for the story/writing. I always found the gameplay to be boring and mundane and frustrating. I always found that the gameplay only ever existed to perpetuate the plot...but I always felt the plot was outstandingly well-written and well-presented. the game's visuals, audio, and storytelling elements were all top-of-class and I acknowledged that while also not liking the games becuase I care more about gameplay than the other elements in a game. People forgave the bland and lacklustre gameplay elements becuase the story and character work was so good. but now? Now that Ellie's sexuality and various other progressive inclusions are a part of the story, suddenly everyone hates their writing? 

Naw, I don't buy it. I've experienced the modern political climate long enough to not trust that. I've been on the internet long enough that I have no doubt in my mind that this assault on The Last of Us Part II has nothing to do with the actual writing/storytelling and almost everything to do with the perceived SJW agenda of the development team. This fan hatred is nothing more than thinly veiled bigotry masquerading as legitimate criticism. 

Again, if you and others could accept that this is truly about your discomfort and resistance of progress, then maybe we could have a productive discussion about it. But instead of actually explaining yourself, you're just playing the victim to try and get sympathy points while calling me a meanie for expecting you to be held accountable for your regressive beliefs all while being purposefully disingenuous about your opinions on the matter and attempting to justify the backlash. It's not helpful. If you don't like the game, don't play it. If you don't agree with the direction of the story, don't watch a playthrough of it. but for the love of progress, please don't try to hold the rest of us back with your regressive views and play the victim when you're called out on it. 

**Edit** I got DonFerrari and EnricoPallazoo mixed up. My bad. Assume all my points in this post were directed at Enrico, not DonFerrari. I am unsure of DonFerrari's stance on the matter. 

Please see the recomendation to talk ND games not things tangent to it.

And how would you compare to 40k reviews being with majority being 0 on metacritic put less than a day after the release of the game?

As I said, those 3k before the game released does not explain the difference, of course, just that on psn the game also has probably a grade that its higher than it should be at this moment. We will se when more people review it.

As for the 40k reviews on metacritic (I believe already 10k were already erased) its just a bunch of people with too much time in their hands. Giving anything below 5 for this game makes absolutely no sense. From a technical point of view it is a masterpiece and this alone would guarantee at least a 6.

But considering this is a story driven game and in my opinion, along with many others, the story is absolutely terrible, plus the misleading marketing and etc I can understand people giving it a 5-7. 

Below this is pure nonsense or just kids with too much time in their hands.

By the way, believe me the hate is guided mostly to the story, not gender politics. Other games with different genders including left behind are pretty aligned between critics and players on metacritic.

Good Diversity

• Settings where it makes sense
• Good character development for minority characters
• Don't make inclusiveness focus of your marketing or brag about it how you have it

Bad Diversity

• Shoehorning diversity into settings where it doesn't make sense
• Changing the races of established characters just so you can have a minority character
• Bragging about your diverse cast
• Adding minority characters just for the brownie points, then giving them crappy character development

I don`t really believe it is due to the story since most of the 0s and low scores were given before people had time to evaluate the game so it was mostly based on spoiler which doesn`t cover most of the story.

Misleading marketing is reaching, just like people claiming SE lied on their FFVIIR marketing because they made small changes to the story (they had announced the game being multiple releases and with changes to the story for over 3 years).