Death Stranding Review

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Kojima has gone to great lengths to create his own fictional universe for Death Stranding with a dizzying amount of lore delivered in an excessive amount of dialogue that will leave players' heads spinning. But despite going through all this trouble to immerse players in Death Stranding 's universe, there are some hugely immersion-breaking moments through the game's blatant and distracting product placement. Sam drinks Monster Energy to refill his stamina when out in the game world, and if players happen to use the toilet in Sam's private room, they will be treated to an advertisement for Ride with Norman Reedus on AMC. Apparently AMC and Monster Energy were the only two brands to survive the apocaly


In Death Stranding , Kojima developed an entirely new genre of video game: the social strand system. It's unlike anything any other developers have done and probably not something they'll immediately want to jump into developing. Kojima has pointed out that if he wants the genre to continue, he will likely have to be the one to keep making games using it. This means a potential sequel to the game that started it all: Death Stranding . In an interview with GameSpot , Kojima explained how he wants the social strand genre to become a permanent one in gaming, which could mean expanding that genre in a Death Stranding sequel. Kojima s


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Weird concepts like BBs and BTs are consistent throughout Death Stranding , and the actual plot is just as bizarre. Sam is a "porter" working for a company called "Bridges," with his job being to deliver packages to various locations in the world. He is soon tasked with connecting America through a super-Internet called the Chiral Network, and is given various tasks by a weird cast of characters with names like Deadman, Heartman, Die-Hardman, and Mama . Death Stranding 's characters like to shout expository dialogue and technobabble at each other a lot, which really doesn't make sense as Sam should know about this stuff already considering he's been living in the same world as them. Of course this dialogue is for the audience's benefit, but it doesn't feel natural and is immersion-breaking. It also does little to help the plot make sense. Players will be knee deep in talk of afterlife "beaches" and umbilical cords when it becomes clear that the Death Stranding story is Kingdom Hearts levels of convoluted, and not worth the trouble trying to get invested


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