4 stars, one for each time the credits play in the ending of this game. While the story is somewhat scattered and occasionally nonsensical and pretentious, I loved the gameplay loop of Death Stranding and found it addicting to keep delivering packages and building up the world of the game. I loved the sound design and the visuals were always amazing as well, everything has an inspired design to it.

I think later in the game it starts to get more annoying to do quests, once you have enough of the world connecting it just becomes a chore to zip around or truck around, with BT's just showing up to potentially mess your shit up.

But Death Stranding was fascinating to me, with very interesting music, weird and misleading casting, and gameplay more reminiscent of American Truck Simulator than Metal Gear Solid (not a bad thing).