In April, The Last of Us Part II?s critical scenes were leaked and they caused quite a stir, to put it mildly. Angry social media users resorted to posting the game?s spoilers everywhere, spared no one, and prompted Sony and Naughty Dog to lock down Twitter replies and disable YouTube comments to prevent the spoilers from spreading.
When Part II?s critical consensus went live last week, this angry subset of ?hardcore? gamers picked out the rare middling reviews to make the case that Sony ?paid off? reviewers (Chandler?s still awaiting his $5,000 reward /s). It prompted at least one of the reviewers who didn?t exactly enjoy the game to ask their followers to stop using their review to legitimize asinine conspiracy theories, but that wasn?t enough. The trolls waited with bated breath for their big moment: the Metacritic user reviews.
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