Before the game release, they were already feeling bad vibes among the gamer community, largely thanks to leaks from crucial parts of the game's history, one of the most controversial was the death of Joel. Although, of course there will be people who didn't really like the game and gave a genuine review.

But, the main thing that we must analyze here is the time. In less than a day of its launch (June 19) the game already had more than ten thousand negative reviews; An average of the time required to complete the game was obtained, which was approximately thirty-five hours. So, they only endured a few hours of the game to leave their review on Metacritic (
page from which we extract this data), although of course, the game time of each one varies if you want to find all the items / collectibles and fully explore the scenarios, but despite that, Although they had the game in less than twelve hours and had played the other twelve hours, the vast majority made the criticism with less than half the game completed.

Still, it is possible that they have seen other streames play the game a little before they got it and gave their criticism based on someone else's game, but it is still very possible that the majority of negative criticisms were from people that they did not even touch the game or completed as we had previously said.

Despite what has already been said, the main reason for the negative criticism was the radical change regarding Ellie's sexuality, since at no point in the history of the previous game was any of this explained or shown, so this led many fans to think it was just an attempt by Naughty Dog to make their game more inclusive. This happened because the majority of fans had not played / seen the DLC "TLOU: Left Behind" where Ellie's sexual orientation was explained and finally clarified; Ironically, the DLC received many positive reviews precisely for that reason.

Also, we must bear in mind that "TLOU 2" is not a game for children, since it contains scenes of explicit violence, sexual acts, it deals with mature as well as psychological themes, such as revenge which is the main focus of the game, although those things are already They were seen coming when they showed the first trailers of the game. Still, there are and will be more conservative and closed-minded players who just don't approve of that kind of thing.

To finish and as Jordi Wild said, you may or may not like the game for different reasons, but that does not mean that it continues to be a very good game, with a spectacular technical section, and that leaves us with a great teaching that Don Ramon knows very well: "La venganza nunca es buena, mata el alma y la envenena."