No spoilers!
If I could I would have gave 3.5 stars
My 3 star rating is As goes starting with the downs of the game in my opinion.
Not in order of game play. Just simply some things I remembered for why I didn’t like the story/game play.
3 stars because of the horrible thing that happens WITH IN THE FIRST HOUR OF GAME PLAY I mean come on naughty dog was that wise. And as another person stated In their review. Playing as Abby first introducing her character building up the wondering who she’s after, then playing as Ellie makes more sense. Would have been smarter. Less cut scenes would have been nice, and not mostly always being on foot would have been nicer too. Plus I’m the end not knowing what’s next, and with there being so many years between the first game and the 2nd one, I worry and wonder if there will be another game a “part three”? So I’m left to wonder, what’s next for Ellie as is seems to be something next....that’s my opinion. Finding resources was hard. And sometimes the amount of zombies/human enemies after you made it hard to get through an area. Don’t like how a year passes (trust me you’ll know when I’m talking) and you have no idea of what transpired during that time. But with all of the cutscenes they couldn’t have some about then? Flashbacks to Ellie’s past with her people, why not flash backs during that year of missing info?
For the positives
3 stars because I loved the game play and I love the sceneries, all beautiful and well put together to look post apocalyptic. The music was great and the characters looked better too. More artistically well created. Abby on the other hand, unrecognizable there towards the end. Love how it showed some real world problems in the game. Like one cut scene where Ellie, jesse and Dina are at some party back in Jackson and that old guy, bartender guy talks down to Ellie about something. It’s true in reality, people do that to people and it’s wrong. But how he comes back and owns up to it being wrong and apologizes for it, shows faith in humanity. Not everyone would apologize but some would. I like the action. Edge of my seat. Kept me craving to play. Always wanting to know what would happen next.
I just simply love the game play and was satisfied with playing it. Just the story was not so well written, would have been better if reversed on who we played first and what happened the first hour of the story didn’t take place so soon in the game. Otherwise I would have given 5 stars. Swear to it lol.
Naughty dog if you read these reviews, please work on part three. I really want to continue in the story. Hopefully all these reviews give you more of a better idea of how to do a story based on what is players like. I will buy the next game, always will because the first was just so damn great! But the 2nd could have been better story mode wise.
Thank you naughty dog.