Pick up The Last of Us Part II for $10 off—or take $30 off a used copy

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Today's Dealmaster is headlined by the first notable price drops on The Last of Us Part II, Sony's PS4-exclusive action-adventure game that released this past June. New copies are currently available for $50 in both physical and digital form, which is a $10 discount. If you're willing to buy a pre-owned copy, though, you can grab it at GameFly for $30. The latter includes the game case and any manuals or inserts that'd typically come included with the title.

As for the game itself, to call The Last of Us Part II polarizing would be an understatement. Though it's achieved startlingly high review scores, we'd guess most people won't find it perfect. It's a game that deliberately tries to avoid being fun: it tells a messy story about humanity's worst traits, horrible things happen to almost everyone in it, and its stealth-action gameplay traffics in high tension. Even if you accept those terms, our own review raised issues with how the game develops its narrative.

That said, while The Last of Us Part II isn't a pandemic-friendly pick-me-up, it is bold-particularly for a mega-budget "AAA" game marketed to mainstream audiences-and how you ultimately feel about it will likely come down to your own interpretation of the story it's telling. While it can be bleak, it's often affecting, and it's one of the few high-profile games that's unafraid to toy with typical player expectations. If you're into that sort of thing, this might be a good chance to give the relatively new game a try at less than full price. If nothing else, it's hugely impressive from a technical perspective.

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