![]() Perhaps the one review that inadvertently hits the nail on the head so perfectly, though, reads “Pandering has negatively infected gaming culture and the Last of Us 2 is the quintessential example of it”.īut that’s not what is going on here. Many reviewers online have co-opted the narrative about Naughty Dog’s reported problems with crunch culture (where staff work long hours for extended periods of time to finish the game) as a reason for why they hate the game. “What a joke of a game so u **** the whole story up just to be progressive” reads another with the same score. “Absolute disrespect towards the 1st game” reads one, rating the game a zero. Take a look at the user reviews themselves and there’s a running trend. This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. in just a few hours we have almost double the number of user reviews for The Last Of Us Part II than the first game received in seven years. ![]() Neil Druckmann even tweeted, mockingly, a day or so after release, saying, “Oh, man. Many of those for The Last Of Us Part II were placed within hours of the game coming out – not nearly enough time for many of these reviewers to have actually played the game in any meaningful way. For comparison’s sake, Red Dead Redemption 2 on PS4, which came out almost two years ago, has only 11,000 reviews. This is based on more than 100,000 user reviews, far more than any other game I’ve ever encountered. Then you look at the user score: 4.8 out of ten. Sure, there are some mixed and unscored reviews there too, but the prevailing critical consensus is overwhelmingly positive. A swath of specialist and mainstream press have lauded the game for its narrative direction and technological achievements. ![]() It includes “perfect” scores from the likes of the Guardian, the Washington Post, IGN, Game Informer and more. This is from 110 official magazines, websites and newspapers. The game has a critical aggregate of 94, which indicates acclaim. You need only look at the Metacritic page for Part II to see that. Review bombs on Steam or Metacritic or wherever are more often than not written by people who have clearly not played the game in question. Gamers have channelled that dislike into bizarre rumourmongering, such as altering clips and creating memes that suggest Neil Druckmann concocted a sex scene so he himself could star in it with the game’s lead actresses. Gym-fit and androgynous, she does not match their idea of what a woman should be. They’re also angry that a woman like Abby, the game’s secret second protagonist, even exists in a video game. Talk about bad faith – call it what it is: transphobia, plain and simple. They’re angry that there is a transgender character, claiming that trans people have no place in a post-apocalyptic world because hormone treatment wouldn’t be available. A subsection of the game world seems to despise this.
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