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The Last of Us Part II Remastered for PC is officially Steam Deck Verified ahead of its release on April 3!
WTMG's Kyle Nicol: "The Last of Us Part II: Remastered is a beautiful mess. An ambitious title that had all the right ingredients, but didn’t always pan out the way it should. The excellent survival action gameplay that showcases humanity’s brutality is often let down by a story that is trying too much and has poor pacing. Thankfully, Part II’s debut on PC improves on the last game, making it the best place to play, even with its imperfections."
If the story is deeply flawed to the blogger and it's a story game, how does the blogger justify giving it a 9? A deep flaw is unacceptable in any part of the game. If everything else was perfect, it would be an 8 game. Deep flaws are foundational issues.
Let me help:
Graphics: 10
Sound: 10
Story: 8 (Overreliance on flashbacks. While the story beats are properly paced and the plot points are generally pacy, it tries to tell 2 stories at once, which led to a structural issue in the overall story, but despite this the message and mood are striking relevant.)
Gameplay: 8 (Turning in the game is awkward and it gets in the way or searching for stuff and the quick turn in combat doesn't feel intuitive.)
Overall: 9
CG says: In this video, we take a look at the same forest section on horseback in The Last of Us™ Part II Remastered that we showcased in 2020 on the PS4 Pro. It’s an amazing bit of exposition with not much happening aside from a bit of banter. However, taking it slowly rather than galloping past, the forest graphics are actually pretty detailed. One of the more beautiful moments from the game. PS4 Pro version holds-up pretty well (that output was upscaled 4K and back then, there was no DLSS or AI interventions that we know about).
The Last of Us Part II finally comes to PC - is Joel and Ellie's adventure as good on the home computer as it was on PlayStation? JDR straps in for more devastation in today's review.
I just picked up my NG+ run as a refresher for the TV show. Game has aged extremely well! Gorgeous, brutal. Poor Yara really gets it. 😔
With the game getting mods in the near future, this release will be everything you could shake a golf club at.
Spider-Man 2 was also Steam Deck Verified, but it just got kicked down to not verified because of poor performance. I'll believe it when I see it.
Back when the Vita first came out I dreamt of being able to play the first game on it. Now we can play both games on a bloody handheld, nothing too special but still damn cool.
Mad to think when I was playing my PSP 20 years ago we'd get games looking this good on a handheld device
At its core tlou2 is a last gen game a stupendously good looking last gen game but still a last gen game.
So it's unsurprising to see it verified.
Spider man 2 is also not a last gen game and is not optimised well for PC so to see that stripped that's not surprising.
Have to really consider the steam deck is more inline with last gen consoles pushing modern games requires a lot of sacrifice on the unit so anyone buying a steam deck today thinking it can just run everything it doesn't work like that it's an amazing system but it doesn't have a desktop GPU and power draw