The Last of Us Part II Remastered
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Stealth mechanics were widely praised as tense, flexible, and improved, especially when No Return encouraged new approaches.
Pros: core gameplay loop, level design
Cons: family friendliness, puzzle design
Stealth is a clear strength across reviews, with praise for camo, sneaking, and rewarding no-detection play, despite a few situational frustrations.
Pros: world interactivity, sandbox freedom
Cons: crash stability, learning curve
Stealth was praised through shadows, foliage, detection behavior, and the ability to avoid PvP through careful play.
Pros: frame rate stability, platform-specific feature support
Cons: voice acting, writing quality
Stealth received a positive note from one reviewer who found avoidance viable and encouraged rather than merely optional.
Pros: voice acting, emotional impact
Cons: family friendliness, menu usability
Stealth is one of the strongest points across reviews, with darkness, prone movement, assassinations, and Naoe's toolkit repeatedly praised despite occasional execution complaints.
Pros: environmental detail, cross-save support
Cons: writing quality, enemy variety
Stealth is broadly praised as deeper, more flexible, and more fun, with many reviewers comparing the expanded toolkit favorably to Kojima’s stealth legacy.
Pros: animation quality, facial animations
Cons: quest design, AI behavior
Stealth is one of the strongest areas, with reviewers praising Hitman-like agency, infiltration routes, social stealth, and strategy-first mission options.
Pros: level design, user interface design
Cons: AI behavior, facial animations
Stealth is widely viewed as improved thanks to free crouching, better detection behavior, and less punishing tailing, though social-stealth and penalty changes remain debated.
Pros: core gameplay loop, visual effects quality
Cons: monetization fairness, microtransaction impact
One reviewer praised invisibility as useful for sneaking and completing quests, giving stealth a positive but lightly supported score.
Pros: accessibility options, protagonist appeal
Cons: frame rate stability, polish
Stealth is a pleasant surprise and more advanced than expected, though one hands-on reviewer notes the demo version was not especially deep yet.
Pros: pacing, core gameplay loop
Cons: companion AI, map and navigation design
Stealth is enjoyable and viable, especially with chain assassinations and tools, but several reviewers call it basic or largely unchanged.
Pros: movement feel, environmental detail
Cons: puzzle design, age appropriateness
Stealth was the most divisive system, praised as tense and effective by some but criticized by others as predictable, low-tension, or merely serviceable.
Pros: user interface design, graphics quality
Cons: combat system, animation quality
Stealth was useful and sometimes satisfying, yet reviewers also called it finicky, weak, or frustrating in specific forced sections.
Pros: soundtrack quality, fun factor
Cons: checkpoint system, family friendliness
Stealth/action sequences were a recurring weak spot, with instant-fail or active-control sections standing out as less enjoyable than the story-focused portions.
Pros: side character depth, visual effects quality
Cons: user interface design, handheld play suitability
The small stealth segments were singled out as a weak link, especially because the engine was not seen as well-suited to stealth maneuvers.
Pros: world-building, art direction
Cons: mission design, stealth mechanics
Stealth was mostly a weak point: one reviewer liked a short sequence as variety, but others called later stealth awkward, padding-like, or simply not good.
Pros: character roster, animation quality
Cons: core gameplay loop, polish
Stealth was scored only where a reviewer found late-game stealth and scanning unreliable rather than tense.
Pros: world-building, world interactivity
Cons: enemy variety, stealth mechanics
Reviewer evidence is strongly negative: stealth mechanics was consistently framed as a major weakness across 1 review(s).
Pros: level design, replay value
Cons: stealth mechanics, save system reliability