Insane Metal
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All of that sounds horrible.
The Last of Us Season 2 reviews are starting to come out
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VanCityGamer
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Season 2 Meta is 82 and Season 1 was 84. So about the same, might end up a little lower.
Also interesting that IGN seems to be the harshest on it. I suspect most people who didn’t play the games won’t feel like it tells “half a story”. No more than any season of a show is just the continuation of an ongoing story.
Also interesting that IGN seems to be the harshest on it. I suspect most people who didn’t play the games won’t feel like it tells “half a story”. No more than any season of a show is just the continuation of an ongoing story.
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Strategize
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Some serious cherry-picked takes in the OP for a season with over 90% on rotten tomatoes lol.
Wanna tell us something?
Wanna tell us something?
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DragoonKain
Neighbours from Hell
Hard to do when games are 20+ hours and seasons are 7 and 9 hours. They have a talented group working on it, I'll give them that. Mazin is really talented. Doesn't mean it'll be perfect but I think with the source material they will do a decent job with most of it.
IntentionalPun
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Sounds like Season 1 TBH... randomly inserting flashback episodes in the middle of the plot, not once, but TWICE did not do the first season any favors. Kind of sounds like Season 2 also "jumps around" too much. It's the kind of thing many modern shows are doing, but not usually until their 2nd/3rd season and it's kind of driving me nuts.
Fallout did it really well, but that's because it was core to the storytelling to sort of reveal to you more and more of The Ghoul's past and how it feeds into current events. And it's not done via nearly entire episodes either, it never feels gratuitous like TLOU season 1 suddenly having nearly an entire episode be a flashback love story of 2 characters who aren't otherwise in the show.
Fallout did it really well, but that's because it was core to the storytelling to sort of reveal to you more and more of The Ghoul's past and how it feeds into current events. And it's not done via nearly entire episodes either, it never feels gratuitous like TLOU season 1 suddenly having nearly an entire episode be a flashback love story of 2 characters who aren't otherwise in the show.
Schmendrick
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The first game was great and they managed to make a mediocre slob of a TV series out of it..... The 2nd game has writing on par with an Indian soap opera, so the 2nd season being worse was almost a given.
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DragoonKain
Neighbours from Hell
It wasn't cherry picked at all, in the 3 reviews I posted, those were all points in those reviews and it was based off of those reviews I read.
Collider disagrees and thought it was great, which I've since read. Kotaku agrees with the points in the OP and adds it has too much exposition.
viveks86
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In this case, they are only covering half the game. Unlike the first season, I would think there is sufficient time this time around. Will have to watch it to see where all that time went.
lol yeah such a mess,
The Last of Us: Season 2 | Rotten Tomatoes
Joel and Ellie must survive ruthless killers and monsters on a trek across America after an outbreak.
www.rottentomatoes.com
semiconscious
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yep. tlou2, story-wise, is basically a 20+ hour version of death wish, padded with soap opera & flashback filler...
DragoonKain
Neighbours from Hell
I think much like with the first season is the takes on this season are going to be pretty polarized and it will come down to just a matter of personal preference on if you like the changes they've made. So I think the opinions will be pretty varied and there won't be one consistent sentiment throughout all reviewers. Aside from the fact that it appears most people still consider it a good show, even those who are less positive, but it will come down to the specific moments and who liked how they translated it and who didn't.
PatientGamer
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Sounds like they've gone the Moana 2 route..
If you know, you know...
If you know, you know...
James Sawyer Ford
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Sounds like another outstanding season, culture political warriors crying
bitbydeath
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It didn’t translate well on consoles either.
ValiantInstance
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bitbydeath
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Now that’s a great zombie show.
I also recommend “All of us are dead”
Skifi28
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I'll probably watch it eventually, but I didn't like what they did to S1. From casting, to very little action, to some of the episodes being really weird filler.
Having said that, it still had one of the best and most terrifying opening scenes to any recent series I've ever seen and it was achieved by just talking. Just insane.
Having said that, it still had one of the best and most terrifying opening scenes to any recent series I've ever seen and it was achieved by just talking. Just insane.
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Jaybe
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Thought the first season was fine, but some scenes were done better in the game. I still don’t buy the casting. Since the narrative and characters were the weak part of TLOU2, this one will be a skip.
Also found it odd that Ellie seems sidelined for some reason, from Rolling Stones’ review.
Mostly, though, it’s the lack of Ellie and Joel that keeps the season, while still strong overall, from hitting the heights of that first year.
Also found it odd that Ellie seems sidelined for some reason, from Rolling Stones’ review.
Mostly, though, it’s the lack of Ellie and Joel that keeps the season, while still strong overall, from hitting the heights of that first year.
Puscifer
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Wild take lol
Negotiator101
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Your last paragraph is completely contradictory, have you actually re-read it?
"The game is boring despite the stunning visuals, excellent combat, and superb level design because the story is simply lacking"
You list all the positives and only the story as a negative but still call it boring? I could understand that if this were the TV show but you're discussing the game which you play so surely the gameplay is more important than the story?
VulcanRaven
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Rotten Tomatoes score is now 93%.
Killjoy-NL
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Let's be real, I liked TLOU2, but the game itself already had a major problem with the non-chronological order of telling the story and it's pacing.
Translating it to a series while spreading it over 2 seasons is quite a challenge. No wonder it might not be as good as season 1.
Translating it to a series while spreading it over 2 seasons is quite a challenge. No wonder it might not be as good as season 1.
Kiya's Guard
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But does season 2 have better gameplay than the first, or is it ladders again
Slothbeing1209
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Maybe update metacritic and rotten tomatoes score ?
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VulcanRaven
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Agreed. The first season looks amazing on 4K Blu-Ray.
Shambalakan
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If you read some posts here, you expect 54 on Metacritic and 34 on Rotten Tomatoes, not 82 and 93!
Some people just like to hate The Last of Us 2 and even use great reviews to attack it! lol
Some people just like to hate The Last of Us 2 and even use great reviews to attack it! lol
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Tiago Rodrigues
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That OP is bad intended and it's pretty obvious what it's trying to do...and it only has 3 reviews, with the worst review of course, in full display (one from a videogame publication which makes no sense)...then Rotten Tomatoes is actually at 93% and metacritic is like 82.
Most posts are also of course ignoring every single good review and focusing on the only bad one.
Anyway, can't wait for this IP to keep going and in a week once ratings come in i'm sure it'll be great to witness those topics, as well as that steam usercount topic getting new updates
Most posts are also of course ignoring every single good review and focusing on the only bad one.
Anyway, can't wait for this IP to keep going and in a week once ratings come in i'm sure it'll be great to witness those topics, as well as that steam usercount topic getting new updates
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__SteakDeck__
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People forget that game vs film/tv Meta standards are different. 88 Meta for film and tv is like 90 for game.
Tiago Rodrigues
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This IP brings out the worst in most of you and it's funny to watch.
Kerotan
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Thanks for the context. Can't wait for this.
lol nothing about this franchise is wildly polarized in any medium, that's the brain-rotted incel narrative that didn't stick in 5 years.
now go add these to the first post, your cherry picking looks embarrassing.
The Last of Us: Season 2 | Rotten Tomatoes
Joel and Ellie must survive ruthless killers and monsters on a trek across America after an outbreak.
www.rottentomatoes.com
The Last of Us season 2 Reviews
Set 20 years after the destruction of civilization, Joel (Pedro Pascal) is hired to smuggle 14-year-old Ellie (Bella Ramsey) out of a quarantine zone in this drama series based on the PlayStation video game of the same name.
www.metacritic.com
Dusktildawn48
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I enjoyed the first season, but it's nothing special, my biggest problem:
Episode 3: 1 hour 16 minutes (yet, totally irrelevant to the main story)
Episode 9: 43 minutes.
They spent so much time to tell a gay love story but skipped over so much that should've been in the finale.
And you know they're gonna give Lev her own hour and a half episode. But that'll be season 3.
Episode 3: 1 hour 16 minutes (yet, totally irrelevant to the main story)
Episode 9: 43 minutes.
They spent so much time to tell a gay love story but skipped over so much that should've been in the finale.
And you know they're gonna give Lev her own hour and a half episode. But that'll be season 3.
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Little Chicken
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Absolutely, the second half of TLOU2 felt like self-indulgent drivel. Felt like it would never end.
Angry_Megalodon
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DragoonKain
Neighbours from Hell
Wrong. I liked the first season and I like the games. You’re projecting. There were 3 reviews out I didn’t see any others and then I created the thread based on those reviews. A little bit after I did, the other reviews started to pop up. Then I made a follow up post linking metacritic and saying it had an 88.That OP is bad intended and it's pretty obvious what it's trying to do...and it only has 3 reviews, with the worst review of course, in full display (one from a videogame publication which makes no sense)...then Rotten Tomatoes is actually at 93% and metacritic is like 82.
Most posts are also of course ignoring every single good review and focusing on the only bad one.
Anyway, can't wait for this IP to keep going and in a week once ratings come in i'm sure it'll be great to witness those topics, as well as that steam usercount topic getting new updates
And I brought up the Collider review in another post that was very positive. The OP wasn’t even a negative thing, I mentioned the critiques and it never anywhere said people thought the season sucked.
Fake
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LMAO at people calling
DragoonKain
for a supposed 'cherry picking'.
DragoonKain
for a supposed 'cherry picking'.
Kikorin
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The only good thing about TLoU 2 is the gameplay (luckily, since is a game). The story is filler and boring, so there's no way this is turning out good, especially considering that even the first game that had a good story has already been translated in a boring TV Series, praised for unknown reasons by the media.
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That's something unappreciated in games when it comes to story telling. There being no artificial ending every 45 minutes or so allows more space and atmosphere building between events.
