end of the day just need to accept this game will never have a neutral. either u like it, or u dislike it.
if nv play before 1st game, it will be a 9/10 game no doubt.
but if u played the 1st game, the only reason u wan to finish this is cause u paid 80$. at least thats the only reason i can think of.
actually the gameplay of TLOU was never its strongest point, it was the story. if i wan to play a real open world/ combat/ shooter game, it will never be TLOU series.
To be fair the open-world part (think ish the only open-world part in the whole game, where you start to pray as ellie and her les wifu) actually quite fun to pray and sexplore. Just that by the time you reach that part already si pek low morale and\or angry to continue, especially when you know wat coming and how you effort to pray through won't get any good payoff.
Actually for moi the graphic ish definitely 10/10 as ish definitely very impressive for PS4 hardware limitation and the game do pay attention to a lot of micro details with the environment. The first game also a 10/10 at it's time, actually even if pray today the first game graphic still can look 10/10. But taking both gamepray and story into consideration the overall score even 8/10 ish too high for the sequel, let alone 9/10.
Gamepray wise moi never really like stealth game, and though LoU stealth and combat gamepray not sux but it ish also not the best stealth that moi have prayed in such genre. Also don't really enjoy the jerking aiming mechanism even though moi understand ish a design choice to add more realism. Thus personally ish give the gamepray 5/10 at most though can understand how some will give it higher but giving this an above 8 score would be too much, should go try other better stealth game to sexperience how those are much better in gamepray. (Eg metal gear, dishonored, hitman, splinter cell etc)
Story ish also wat really got moi into the first game, and the main reason why it allow moi to pray through the whole game even though moi don't really enjoy the gamepray. The bonding and chemistry between Joel and Ellie felt natural and really works and that why people can still understand why Joel make that decision in the ending. This ish why the story for the first game ish 10/10 for moi.
But the sequel's story make no sense in many area, seem like force writing to want the story to go a certain way nia. The part where they try to psycho you to like certain character by forcing you to pray her side story end up not convincing enough for many people thus felt ish a waste of time as will still end up hating her. Worst ish all the earlier force created drama didn't lead to a good payoff in the ending, leaving many felt WTF and not convincing with many of the characters in-game choices.
For those that pray and love the first games and the characters really hard to believe they don't give a 0/10 or at least a 3~4/10 for this kind of story. For those who pray this sequel as the first game and know nothing about the previous characters, also hard to believe why they would want it to give a 9~10/10 for this kind of unconvincing story arc.
So even if dropping the personal biases for the sequel, to moi the game by average taking consideration of gamepray, graphics and story ish at most a 6~7/10 game nia. Won't be as magnificent as those MSM and critics make it out to be.
Worst thing ish they force people to pray probably one of the most disliked and hated character that even take up almost half of the total content gametime, some more change to her PoV in crucial moment such as boss fight with ellie. KNN we want ellie to hoot jialark jialark and kill this transgender bitch (doesn't matter why they nao claiming she ish female not a transgender, still look, and act like one to moi) not the other way round. And by the time you get to pray as Ellie again in the final boss fight, they don't even give you the option to kill this bitch. This really already make the already mediocre and repetitive gamepray hard to pray and lack the motivation to push you to complete the game since the ending doesn't even offer you any satisfactory outcome and payoff in the story.
Some more Sony and Naughty dog had resort to many bull$hit and dirty techniques like fales advertisement to mislead fansee (just check the earlier trailer, don't tell moi it ish not trying to sian you into believing that you will be praying as Joel and Ellie for most of the game) or the false DMCA to try silence negative reviews and nao even user metacritic scores also start to ban\delete negative reviews while only allow the positive one. (Thus the scores suddenly rise so fast, not because teh game ish really good but nao cannot give low score) Because of these underhand tactics, moi think they really deserve the 0/10 score.