"If you are not scared of death, how can you value life?"
Hideo Kojima is a name that almost everyone who follows the industry knows, but i didn't know why. After MGSV i thought he was just a crazy director who wanted to do movies. I played Death Stranding expecting a meme game about deliveries, and in the end i finally understood why Hideo Kojima is one of the best game directors we have.
The delivery is just a small part of what makes DS special. The game is about connections. I am part of the people who defend that games must be played, not watched. A game with a lot of cutscenes and where you, as a player, don't matter to the narrative, sorry this is not a game, is a interactive movie. I thought DS was that kind, because he does love very long cutscenes. I was wrong.
It is not Sam that is delivering packages across the entire country. It's you. You, as a player, must feel the loneliness in a empty, but yet alive world. You must feel that people suffer and that's why they made a bridge, so you can pass. If it was a movie, you would call it cliche if Sam found an bridge or a generator just before his battery was about to end. But it was you who found. You fell and made the bridge so other players don't fall like you.
I could talk about how Death Stranding is special, and how is Kojima's Magnum Opus, or complain that the truck's controls are horrible, but i will not. All because i am stuck doing deliveries, making roads and ignoring the main story.
"Living is not different than being dead if you're alone."
Hideo Kojima is a name that almost everyone who follows the industry knows, but i didn't know why. After MGSV i thought he was just a crazy director who wanted to do movies. I played Death Stranding expecting a meme game about deliveries, and in the end i finally understood why Hideo Kojima is one of the best game directors we have.
The delivery is just a small part of what makes DS special. The game is about connections. I am part of the people who defend that games must be played, not watched. A game with a lot of cutscenes and where you, as a player, don't matter to the narrative, sorry this is not a game, is a interactive movie. I thought DS was that kind, because he does love very long cutscenes. I was wrong.
It is not Sam that is delivering packages across the entire country. It's you. You, as a player, must feel the loneliness in a empty, but yet alive world. You must feel that people suffer and that's why they made a bridge, so you can pass. If it was a movie, you would call it cliche if Sam found an bridge or a generator just before his battery was about to end. But it was you who found. You fell and made the bridge so other players don't fall like you.
I could talk about how Death Stranding is special, and how is Kojima's Magnum Opus, or complain that the truck's controls are horrible, but i will not. All because i am stuck doing deliveries, making roads and ignoring the main story.
"Living is not different than being dead if you're alone."
Psychopato
1 year ago