The Last of Us: Part II (Video Game 2020) Poster

(2020 Video Game)

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Sex & Nudity

  • Two girls make out passionately and later they are seen in their underwear cuddling, implying they had sex. While in their underwear, one of the girls jumps on top of the other, but they are interrupted.
  • A racy photo becomes a plot point during one section of the game, and in the photo can be seen a woman pulling up her shirt to reveal her abdomen and bottom of her bra. The photo comes with a letter to someone explaining it is to "hold (them) over" until they get back together.
  • A note can be found containing crude drawings of breasts and penises, with varying sizes and hairiness. The doodle was done in an act of boredom and is mainly comedic.
  • Some infected are partially, or fully nude, including exposed breasts
  • At a community gathering two girls make out on the dance floor, as a result are insulted by an old man using a homophobic term.
  • Male Clickers have genitals.
  • In one scene, a young woman sits topless with her back to the camera. The side of one breast is briefly visible.
  • There are multiple sexual references throughout the game. For instance, two characters discover a stash of tapes, and joke about it thinking it's porn tapes
  • A man starts kissing a womans neck the woman breasts are shown than they start having sex there heads are shown but we hear the moaning.

Violence & Gore

  • Enemies can be graphically blown apart and shot with realistic gore and blood physics that follow. Due to the incredible detail and life like graphics, the violence is disturbing and enchanced
  • Melee is brutal as enemies can be bashed, cut, slashed, and impaled with a variety of melee weapons such as wrenches, planks, bats, knives, machetes, fists, etc. All animations and blows are disturbing violent and realistic unlike most games of this genre, and it's accompanied with extremely graphic and gruesome sounds. There's no cartoonish tone, and it's very graphic.
  • Violence and gore is worse than games such as red dead redemption 2 and resident evil and is even more violent than the first game
  • Enemies die with an overuse of blood and gore for dramatic effect.
  • Extreme violence and gore, much like the original. Violence is very often and extremely brutal and gory.
  • People are Stabbed, Shot, Burned, Impaled, and Beat to death throughout the game. This games is extremely gory and violent. More so than the first one. It can be hard to play at times because of the intense graphic violence
  • A character gets shot in the head. This is sudden and the game shows his face with the hole of the bullet full of blood.
  • Another character gets shot in the head, but it's less graphic because it shows the main character's reaction, but it's pretty disturbing regardless.
  • Much like Spec Ops: The Line (2012), the game, despite the incredibly excessive amounts of violence and gore, is meant to show the consequences of hatred, revenge, grey morality, and the violent content is specifically meant to make players wince due to its realism.
  • Violence looks and more importantly feels shockingly realistic thoughout scripted and unscripted sequnces
  • When you die your character will be seen getting their throat ripped out due to clickers teeth, Same goes for eclipsing zombies burning away your skin with acid, People shooting you through the head, And normal zombie going for your neck
  • A zombie attacks Ellie and Dina shoots it twice in the leg and head with blood spurts.
  • Ellie stabs a man in the neck twice. Blood graphically sprays everywhere as he realistically chokes to death for several seconds.
  • Ellie stabs a woman in the throat. Blood briefly sprays out. Pretty graphic.
  • Ellie falls into a trap and impales herself brutally (a lot of blood is shown). Later two cannibals come and find her and one tries to feed her to a zombie but she shoves his hand in the zombie's mouth (the zombie eats the man graphically). She then shoots the other man in the legs and then in the head.

Profanity

  • There is swearing throughout the whole game
  • The word cunt is used
  • Very frequent 237 uses of fuck and infrequent uses of cunt
  • Swearing throughout the whole game.
  • A homophobic slur is used once, and is used with intent to upset a character
  • Strong and mild language throughout.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • One sequence depicts two characters smoking a marijuana joint in a room full of marijuana plants.
  • There are references to weed usage, and bongs are seen by themselves and affixed to a gas mask for optimal dopeage.
  • In a flashback scene, which takes place during a dance, Ellie is seen standing at the bar drinking alcohol.
  • Two girls start smoking weed
  • A man tells a woman that he intends on lying on a couch, watching a movie and drink until he passes out. It's heavily implied that he means drinking alcohol.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The game is extremely intense, frightening, disturbing & upsetting, and the ending can be sad to most audiences. The story deals with mature themes, including animal deaths, torture, graphic violence and cult activity, and may be disturbing. Only for ages 18 and up.
  • There are several sections where the confrontations with the infected are very intense and frightening, e.g. in dark basements or underground car parks.
  • The game is a violent and dark story surrounded by themes of moral ambiguity, post-traumatic stress disorder, rage, hatred, revenge, torture, cult activity, animal cruelty and guilt. Appropriately enough for this, the tone is relentlessly dark and incredibly bleak.
  • The Last of Us: Part II is filled with lots of extremely graphic and brutally disturbing violence which may be nauseating for some.
  • Overall, this game is extremely depressing and at times hard to play.

Spoilers

The Parents Guide items below may give away important plot points.

Sex & Nudity

  • There is a sex scene about halfway in the story in a boat which two characters start kissing and taking their clothes off. The woman's bare breasts are seen briefly. The woman turns and her back faces the man and starts thrusting.
  • In a cutscene, Ellie is seen removing her shirt from behind. She is telling her girlfriend what happened as the girlfriend cleans her up. The screen goes black before Ellie is showing waking up. Her side breast is briefly seen before she turns away from the camera and dresses.
  • About 3 make out scenes by two main characters, Ellie and Dina.

Violence & Gore

  • The main character falls in a trap and crashes on a tree with a branch that stabs her. She starts bleeding and then she passes out.
  • Ellie kills a pregnant woman (without knowing she is pregnant), this is violent and upsetting
  • A teen girl is shot in the abdomen and left lying on the floor, and not short after she is discovered to still be alive at which she is then barraged by gunfire from multiple people. Her body convulses while being torn apart by the bullets, and the her brother watches it happen. The brother is later seen distraught from the whole ordeal.
  • A group of people bash in a teen girl's arm with a hammer. They are interrupted from going any further.
  • A group of cultists hang a man on a noose before disemboweling him while he's still alive. This is seen from a distance but he can be saved from the disembowelment if the player is quick enough but still dies from being hanged.
  • During one of the final scenes, two lead characters struggle with each other. One character bites two of the other character's fingers off.
  • Abby bites a Scar's ear off while defending herself. Very brief, but gruesome. (Seattle day 1).
  • Ellie brutally bashes Nora in the face with a crowbar before torturing her. None of this is shown onscreen but blood is shown spraying and the entire scene is visceral and graphic.
  • Ellie shoots Owen in the chest with blood splatter before stabbing Mel in the neck very graphically and completely onscreen. She finds out that Mel was pregnant afterwards and has a panic attack.
  • Ellie kills a dog when arriving to the aquarium on the hunt for Abby. Little to no blood is shown.

Profanity

  • Ice Cube's song "It Was a Good Day" can be briefly heard in one scene. This is the uncensored version, which contains use of the n-word.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Joel's death scene might be upsetting to fans of the series.
  • A section of the game shows people being imprisoned and forced into slave labor.
  • One of the monsters, the Rat King, is a horrific amalgamation of several Clickers. This creature is absolutely repulsive and gut-churningly disgusting, and it may sicken and frighten some people.

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