This review contains spoilers
I'm not necessarily super fan of Kojima, the first game of his I played was MGSV wich I really liked. But I loved every single trailer for Death Stranding and I really thought I would be playing the best game ever made : In the end, this is not the best game ever made, but it's interesting.
I really want to defend the gameplay here cause that seems to be the aspect most people made fun of, "it's just a walking simulator". And yes, it is the core of the gameplay, but it was deeply thought, it has a lot of depth, and the result is great. You are constantly pressing buttons to keep balance, weather and terrain affect how you walk, and there's a lot of freedom of customization ...
I really love the visuals, music, and overall mood of the game. On a personal note I wouldn't have mind if the game was more linear (main story kinda is, but the game encourages you to go back and optimise your path, do more deliveries etc) and totally devoid of online features (during my playthrough I never really found anyone's structure really useful, and there were a lot of stuff kinda spoiling the view). Speaking of online, marketing was a bit stupid : Kojima calling the game a new genre "Strand Game", when asynchronous online is really not new + it's not the core of the gameplay at all ?
And so while people tend to hate on the gameplay I don't see much people talking about the story beeing sometimes outrageously stupid !? There's a whole thing in chapter 3 (I believe) where the bad guy is disguised as a postman but you clearly recognize him and he's overdoing it, and if you look at the package he gave you it clearly says that it's a bomb but you still have to go deliver it and then Sam takes a nap and suddenly wakes up realizing that the postman was the bad guy and all of that is adressed in a serious way ??? Idk I think this kind of stuff is just unacceptable
Despites that I still liked some parts of the story, especially the end. It has interesting themes, and I'm a bit curious about the sequel, so I might give this game another shot at some point. I also still really love the trailers.
And this game made me discover Low Roar !!
I really want to defend the gameplay here cause that seems to be the aspect most people made fun of, "it's just a walking simulator". And yes, it is the core of the gameplay, but it was deeply thought, it has a lot of depth, and the result is great. You are constantly pressing buttons to keep balance, weather and terrain affect how you walk, and there's a lot of freedom of customization ...
I really love the visuals, music, and overall mood of the game. On a personal note I wouldn't have mind if the game was more linear (main story kinda is, but the game encourages you to go back and optimise your path, do more deliveries etc) and totally devoid of online features (during my playthrough I never really found anyone's structure really useful, and there were a lot of stuff kinda spoiling the view). Speaking of online, marketing was a bit stupid : Kojima calling the game a new genre "Strand Game", when asynchronous online is really not new + it's not the core of the gameplay at all ?
And so while people tend to hate on the gameplay I don't see much people talking about the story beeing sometimes outrageously stupid !? There's a whole thing in chapter 3 (I believe) where the bad guy is disguised as a postman but you clearly recognize him and he's overdoing it, and if you look at the package he gave you it clearly says that it's a bomb but you still have to go deliver it and then Sam takes a nap and suddenly wakes up realizing that the postman was the bad guy and all of that is adressed in a serious way ??? Idk I think this kind of stuff is just unacceptable
Despites that I still liked some parts of the story, especially the end. It has interesting themes, and I'm a bit curious about the sequel, so I might give this game another shot at some point. I also still really love the trailers.
And this game made me discover Low Roar !!