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#1  Edited By Shadow_Dancer
Member since 2003 • 82 Posts

I would give this game a 7, definitely not worth a 10, everyone needs to recognize that there are actually legitimate problems with this video game and they were not called out by critics. The enemy AI is painfully dumb even on hard, at one-point Dina squats down in a doorway at the knees of an enemy, he didn't see her and couldn't move through the doorway because of her. This just breaks the world and indeed drags you out of the immersion in a bad way. The combat system gets a bit tedious after repeatedly dodging and mashing the square button or creeping up behind an enemy and choking them out repeatedly, not to mention the jump button only works in certain areas.

I think they should have expanded on Ellie and Dina’s relationship and the funny side of Joel not knowing what was going on with them as when Joel's trying to say that Jesse's into her, for him it’s just normal stuff, he just misses the mark completely which was hilarious. A narrative breaking moment is getting Joel to forget all his survival skills by giving out is real name to Abby, this totally contradicts Joel's character from the first game. I derived no joy from playing Abby for nearly 10 hours, I had no investment in this character whatsoever and she overburdened the story in a needless way. I'm sure Naughty Dog once said that you only get to play as Ellie, that is quite deceitful of them and no wonder reviewers were not allowed to speak about certain parts of the game. All I wanted to do for those 10 hours was get back to playing Ellie.

While the game did display fantastic graphical vistas and some varied combat options Part II lacks the sensitively emotional style that made the original epic such a masterpiece.

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#2  Edited By Shadow_Dancer
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The site is so slow it's painful, so I go and look elsewhere.

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#3  Edited By Shadow_Dancer
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There's only a few quick time events generally having to mash the 'x' button but you do need a mouse to choose your weapons and for some other menu options. Bloody annoying having to sit in front of the monitor rather than on the sofa playing it on the 46" TV