Utterly dreadful experience, one of the worst titles put out by AAA companies especially taking into account the conditions the game was made under, the amount of effort placed into it and the money Naughty Dog and Sony threw at this project.

One of the few things it is good at is using its photorealistic 3D graphics and animation effectively as a veneer to hide the fact that the world Neil Druckmann and Halley Gross have imagined is laughably (and ironically) one dimensional. Every person you come across is out to murder you, and you are out to murder everyone. Almost everyone in the world TLOU2 imagines has the same motivation: Kill. Is there any interesting interrogation into why they are like that? No.

For a game that they have marketed as one about 'hate' and 'violence', it sure doesn't want to explore why everyone that inhabits its world shares the same bloodlust as its protagonists. It just assumes that everyone is born with that propensity for violence without rhyme or reason, which is both laughable and I find it a lot funnier thinking about how Druckmann and Gross are begging you to extend your suspension of disbelief that far.

Abby's arms are good. The juxtaposition between how they effectively made Ellie gameplay-wise the Predator and how they made Abby basically Dutch from the same movie is one of the few good things about it, even if it's unintentional because it's a game that wants to sit you down and talk to you about violence, no matter how cool the exploding arrow works in the game.

Bad game, one of the worst in recent memory.