The actual problem that everyone seems to have with this game is a lot simpler than that, and one would think that someone at Naughty Dog would have realized how it would make the players feel. Ellie being gay is in no way thrown in our face as a way to force a social agenda. It is solely used as a piece of character development to show what drives Dina to join Ellie on her revenge fueled trip to hunt down Joel’s killer. I don’t see that as the problem at all, there will always be a select few that this may turn off, but it’s just not that big of a deal in The Last of Us Part 2. You hear a lot of people saying that the forced social agendas of the game are a big driving force behind the low user reviews like making Ellie openly gay in order to show that it is okay to have major roles portraying the LGBT lifestyle. Personally, I believe that Naughty Dog’s largest mistakes are in the way they go about the perspective story telling in this game which I will elaborate on shortly. The constant state of crisis that all of the characters are living through weighs heavy on them, and gives the player a grasp on what drives them through the tougher scenes. This game is driven by it’s notably dark and emotionally heavy story line. Additionally, the narrative lives up to the standards that Naughty Dog has previously set with their distinguished line of games. The entire time I was playing through this game I was taking screen shots at every opportunity, because I was so in awe of the design and natural beauty that it presents. The world is appropriate in the way it looks abandoned by civilization while at the same time giving you the feel of being lived in. You can tell that Naughty Dog took great care in designing and developing the world in this game in particular. It could be that the larger companies reviewing this game became wrapped up in viewing the game as strictly a piece of art and made the mistake that too many review critics tend to make by not viewing the game as the average user and what they might think.Īrtistically speaking, The Last of Us Part 2 is a masterpiece and does a very good job of carrying the water as the sequel for the critically acclaimed original. They all hold up the mask labeling them as a group of average gamers giving honest reviews, but you can never be sure as to whether or not there is a larger agenda fueling them from time to time. However, I have also never been a believer in the weighted words behind the reviews that come from the larger companies like IGN, Game Informer, etc. Now, I have never been one to believe the mob when it comes down to things like this, because generally speaking the entire thing gets blown out of proportion. One would think almost universally that the average user who played the game deeply hated it. "I was happy to unpack a bit of my reasoning, however, and received a perfectly cordial message in response", he said.Since the open release of The Last of Us Part 2 there has been a constant controversy over the official reviews coming out of places like IGN compared to the actual user reviews coming from the average players of the game. That said, Zacny said that the exchange with Sony wasn't confrontational, even if it was quite unusual. He replied with an excerpt from Teddy Roosevelt's The Man in the Arena as a dig at critics. It seems that the dreaded leak and public slamming of the Shindler's List references turned Naughty Dog and even their voice actors on the defensive, and not the kind that makes them look good.Įven Jason Schreier's pretty open-ended tweet saying "video games are too long" was interpreted by voice actor Troy Baker as a dig at The Last of Us Part 2. Saying it's not trash equally, if not even more so. Suggesting it's anything less than a masterpiece is treated as an insult. More like blazing and scorched landfills if you ask us. Now there's no dancing around this - there doesn't seem to be a way to start a reasonable conversation over The Last of Us Part 2, and to say that discussions take three replies to turn into dumpster fires is an understatement. "They felt some of the conclusions I reached in my review were unfair and dismissed some meaningful changes or improvements", the reviewer, Rob Zacny, told Polygon It turns out that Vice's review rubbed the two the wrong way, which resulted in Sony's PR department contacting the reviewer and enquire why he said certain things they deemed unfair.
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