Death Stranding

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  1. nimrod33
    Aug 2, 2022
    4
    This is a Kogima egotrip served in a beautiful scnenario.
    Only if the game was more minimalistic...but no... a mandatory cutscene on every 30 min, with holograms, fetus, president of the united states, special powers, paranormal entities, govern conspiracy, time travel, ohhh realy? c'mon!
    Only the timefall itself is enough for a entire game... so why mess all this up?

    Kogima Egotrip!
  2. Grismar
    Aug 20, 2021
    4
    Initially I thought the game was going to be what all the raving reviews were promising, a hard and weird, strangely meditative game in a forlorn world. After a while, I started to notice that it wasn't just empty in terms of nature having all but reclaimed the Earth from humanity, but it was also really empty in terms of story and content. Generic, empty base buildings with repetitiveInitially I thought the game was going to be what all the raving reviews were promising, a hard and weird, strangely meditative game in a forlorn world. After a while, I started to notice that it wasn't just empty in terms of nature having all but reclaimed the Earth from humanity, but it was also really empty in terms of story and content. Generic, empty base buildings with repetitive NPCs, making me feel I was still one of only a handful of people in the world, everything else just being a bad simulation. Things got worse when the multi-player aspect started intruding - a virtual Las Vegas of poorly placed structures, signs and spoilers popped up out of nowhere. At this point, the game felt like an MMO I had joined after the crowds had already left the game because they realised it would really never be finished and would always remain empty.

    And in the end, that's my lasting impression of Death Stranding: it feels like an MMO that failed - if you've ever signed up for an MMO with high hopes but quickly became convinced the devs had abandoned it and it would never really become what it could have been, not even what it may have been when people flocked to it, you'll know exactly what you're in for with Death Stranding. It's sad, because I can see the game it could have been, and it was a game I would have really enjoyed playing. Perhaps that's why it got the good reviews: the reviewers went in when it was still relatively virgin, with enthusiastic people flocking to it, finding it pristine. Arriving to a festival where the budget bands keep playing to a few drunken people left on the field, among tons of garbage is no fun.

    Very basic failings take this game from an 8 or a 9 to a sad, sad 4. I stopped playing.    … Expand
  3. icheyne
    Oct 8, 2020
    4
    Original fiction. Beautiful cut scenes and world. Poor action. Repetitive game play.
  4. BoltarCavanaugh
    Nov 9, 2020
    4
    How much crap can one Kojima game be? All of it! The movement gameplay is horrible, characters are boring, the story is some weird mix of disney-emo-scifi and some classical manga elements. And that mix doesnt work for a single second. A basic game mechanic is giving and receiving likes, like on facebook. And there its already annoying, now imagine how annoying this is in a game. Also, theHow much crap can one Kojima game be? All of it! The movement gameplay is horrible, characters are boring, the story is some weird mix of disney-emo-scifi and some classical manga elements. And that mix doesnt work for a single second. A basic game mechanic is giving and receiving likes, like on facebook. And there its already annoying, now imagine how annoying this is in a game. Also, the main character doesnt clearly give a fook about the story, yet hes the only one driving it. All other main characters do absolutely nothing, except for calling you ALL the time about stuff they thought of YOU could do for them. Additonaly, this game is not much more than a walking simulator with clouds of emo trying to kill you - whilst listening to horrible whiney-emo music. And whilst Kojima might get a wet panty from working with hollywood actors, they add absolutely nothing to the game. In its best moments its boring, but mostly annoying. And the dialogues are full cringe mode. Its Need For Speed level of cringe. Yes, its that bad. Have you ever thought about rearranging the stuff you carry while you fought a boss? No? Well, why not? Oh, because its bullsh**, right. And that is what this game is.… Expand
  5. Kamamura
    Jul 18, 2020
    4
    Quite a solid walking simulator, totally ruined with Kojima's pretensious, ham-fisted kitcsh. You, Kojima-san, could not write your way out of a shoebox, if you are ever in doubt, come, I will give you a certificate in writing. Please, do something, ken-do, kabuki or brew tea, but something else. The "stories" you create are ridiculous, pretensious, and unpalatable. This one comes withQuite a solid walking simulator, totally ruined with Kojima's pretensious, ham-fisted kitcsh. You, Kojima-san, could not write your way out of a shoebox, if you are ever in doubt, come, I will give you a certificate in writing. Please, do something, ken-do, kabuki or brew tea, but something else. The "stories" you create are ridiculous, pretensious, and unpalatable. This one comes with heaps of hard-to-chew side of "let's reconnect America" into some sort of non-profit, Facebook like driven, post-communist utopia (everyone works like mad just for facebook likes). And as the story advances, it goes worse and worse. The obligatory "bad people made boom with bad nuclear weapons", transdimensional boo-boo, Egyptians, stuff stolen from Daniken like pyramids, coming from the dead, immaterial soul, out of body travels, pseudo-science babble (a chemical called "chiralis" (handium) that makes little hand crystals grow everywhere, in large concentrations makes dead drag you with their hands into a pool of bad, bad crude oil, leaving handprints on your body - I am not kidding).
    Characters like Diehardman and Deadman, and Heartman, and it gets worse and worse. Towns named Central Knot, Fort Konox, Warehouse west of Central Capital Knot, you will never remember where is what. Clumsy, convoluted language - "deathless freaks", "Bridges - people connecting Americans, the president is called Bridget", and it goes on and on. Pretentious, nonsensical, trihard kitsch.
    Hideo Kojima is Ed Wood of game design.    … Expand
  6. SigmaStigma
    Jul 31, 2020
    4
    Quite an odd game, it really only floats by on its visuals. It looks great, but after you get 5 minutes into the game prepare for crash after crash. Then you finally realize the entire game is being a delivery boy while avoiding pitfalls. I'm really confused how this game is so well regarded. You quickly get tired of the "Sam..." breaking in over your radio, the crashes, and prettyQuite an odd game, it really only floats by on its visuals. It looks great, but after you get 5 minutes into the game prepare for crash after crash. Then you finally realize the entire game is being a delivery boy while avoiding pitfalls. I'm really confused how this game is so well regarded. You quickly get tired of the "Sam..." breaking in over your radio, the crashes, and pretty lackluster gameplay. It has famous actors, and ads for Monster and AMC.… Expand
  7. Xplocion
    Feb 17, 2021
    4
    The good:
    The graphics are impressive on PC, minimum 1080 if you want to see it in HD (720-1080). The patches have fixed the stability of the game is now playable (sometimes)
    The bad: Boring story (I did see Kevin Costner's The Postman, 1997, Warner in the cinema) so it is clear where Kojima gets the "creativity and inspiration" from. "Kojima's Great Game" was in some cgi videos of    The good:
    The graphics are impressive on PC, minimum 1080 if you want to see it in HD (720-1080). The patches have fixed the stability of the game is now playable (sometimes)

    The bad:
    Boring story (I did see Kevin Costner's The Postman, 1997, Warner in the cinema) so it is clear where Kojima gets the "creativity and inspiration" from. "Kojima's Great Game" was in some cgi videos of his Hollywood friends cosplaying and the frenetic adventures of him delivering things from point A to point B. Boring gameplay. The game has auto-save but does not let you record progress if you are in the middle of a delivery mission. Fast travel and teleportation points are not used to shorten your path when you have an order to deliver. Weapons arrive after at least half the game has passed. The fights against the bosses and mini-bosses are very simple and disgusting. Once the Hype was dispelled, the trailers were only hoaxes since it took the best scenes and put them to generate hype, but the result has already been seen that it is not this frantic all the time. The ending is a two hour video, really? During the game they tell you that "human beings are isolated in cities" you arrive in the cities and you do not see any humans, do they live in the clouds like the Jetson or underground like the Murlocks? All cities are the same. Sam Porter in the original version without patches had the same balance of a rag-doll, Sam fell on any path that was not minimally level.

    The Meh!:
    The game didn't even come out and it already had a patch that corrects Sam Porter's bad balance. Unlike the console version, here there were no press or influencers playing or generating excessive hype, so many of the structures originally created have disappeared or are about to do so due to deterioration of the rain. The mods make the product placement of Monster and other brands can be edited by Pepsi, beers, ... while the backpacks and briefcases are replaced by packages from UPS, DHL, or food companies, Rappi, Uber Eats, Diddi, Rappi ... the sky's the limit when it comes to customization. The gag of having the mechanical dinosaurs from Horizon Zero Dawn walking around is there, but it's not understood. Don't waste your money on this boring game, on PC there are alternatives like Man Standing or Walking Simulator that at least you will laugh while you play    … Expand
  8. TOKYO_GHOUL_R
    Dec 17, 2020
    4
    В душе не чаю, кто ставит судорожно десятки этому симулятору ходьбы.

    Только гений(в скобках долбоеб) смог придумать сделать обычную ходьбу фишкой всей игры, да еще и убедить сообщество в этом. Перехайпленная игра, которая якобы сводит с ума своей стилистикой оказалась неудачным экспериментом и не более. Будет неверным сравнивать этот сюжет с сюжетом РДР 2, но если вообще по краешку    В душе не чаю, кто ставит судорожно десятки этому симулятору ходьбы.

    Только гений(в скобках долбоеб) смог придумать сделать обычную ходьбу фишкой всей игры, да еще и убедить сообщество в этом. Перехайпленная игра, которая якобы сводит с ума своей стилистикой оказалась неудачным экспериментом и не более.
    Будет неверным сравнивать этот сюжет с сюжетом РДР 2, но если вообще по краешку рассмотреть, то РДР наскучивает томным и ПОНЯТНЫМ сюжетом, который просто надоедает. Здесь же об сюжет черт голову сломит, ибо только к концу игры хоть что-то начинают пояснять, он также затянут, а в придачу к этому очаровательному повествованию идет такой же очаровательный геймплей, состоящий из бега и ходьбы, может быть, иногда езды. Всем тем, кто скажет, что в игре есть сакральный смысл и нечто большее, передаю пламенный привет, ибо опуститься до того, чтобы просто бегать 50 часов в игре за почти 2000 тысячи я лично не готов. Да даже если бы они просто продали набор катсцен, то все оказалось бы лучше. Как обычно игра нашла своих поклонников, которые строят мосты и ходят туда-сюда десятками часов, но это уже их проблемы.

    Итогом сего произведения от Кодзимы(которого хуй пойми зачем окрестили гением недалекие, ибо кроме МГС, он ничего не сделал) является: для обыденного геймера игру нужно просто пропустить, а сюжет посмотреть на ютубе. Тратить свое время на вот это никому не советую.    … Expand
  9. KeyjustpressB
    Jul 16, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Gameplay:it's bad besides the amazing vistas you will come across while on your journey the gameplay consists of walking forward placing some ladders and balancing yourself with the triggers.The BT sections are also boring repetitive and extremely easy with you just going around stationary enemies and occasionally having to kill an extremely boring boss that has no chance of killing you unless of course you fall asleep while playing.The only redeemable part of the gameplay are the cliff bossfights but even those are not that impressive,also the is major padding of the runtime 2/10
    ‌story:this is one of the most intriguing wolds I have ever seen in media unfortunately that potential is ruined by character that only exist to embody ideas and spout lore at you apart from the intro which was a masterpiece in storytelling it's meh 5/10
    ‌presentation:holy **** it's good 10/10    … Expand
  10. Montosuma
    Jul 21, 2020
    4
    DS is absolutely NOT as great, as this game should have been.
    Poor plot, boring gameplay and bottomless ocean of fake "brilliance".
    Ah, and it was ported, but, tbh, it needs some serious technical improvement.
  11. Gemesi92
    Jul 25, 2020
    4
    Finished in 40 hours...i want that hours back. Every votes over the 6 it's for kojima name, not for the game.
  12. kate_quinn
    Jul 27, 2020
    4
    It can be an interesting game for me, but without a good port, it's close to unplayable or at least destroying my experience. Huge problems with Xbox gamepads. I can't ride in vehicles for some reason with a gamepad plugged in. I see different combinations on screen than what game actually wants to press and it's not showing Playstation layout. It's showing Xbox buttons but different thanIt can be an interesting game for me, but without a good port, it's close to unplayable or at least destroying my experience. Huge problems with Xbox gamepads. I can't ride in vehicles for some reason with a gamepad plugged in. I see different combinations on screen than what game actually wants to press and it's not showing Playstation layout. It's showing Xbox buttons but different than what game wants me to press in that moment and I needed to google what to press. Cutscenes stuttering. Game is crashing (turning down some security wall through command fixed it... wtf?). And there are more bizzare problems. I waited few days and i was pretty sure that they will fix it with some quick update and I was surprised that they don't care about it. It's already two weeks after release and there was only one small update which fixed nothing for me. From update page it looks like they care more about people sharing screenshots than playing the game without problems. I don't know how they can put a year of work into this port and then don't care about it after its release. What should people think about them?… Expand
  13. benjyrums
    Oct 10, 2020
    4
    Things I liked:
    - Artistically amazing landscapes to look at; colours, hues, realistic, immersive, blah blah.
    - Post apocalyptic delapidated structures look very cool & detailed, amazing job environmental artists. Things I didn't like: - Constant in and out of logistics menu nightmare. - Getting penilised for 1 small wrong move on a rock after playing very sensibly for a long time    Things I liked:
    - Artistically amazing landscapes to look at; colours, hues, realistic, immersive, blah blah.
    - Post apocalyptic delapidated structures look very cool & detailed, amazing job environmental artists.

    Things I didn't like:
    - Constant in and out of logistics menu nightmare.
    - Getting penilised for 1 small wrong move on a rock after playing very sensibly for a long time then, afterward, mucking about basically jumping off cliffs (because I am frustrated at this boring game) carrying tons of stuff and hey it's fine, just glitch up and down these rocks no problem we'll forgive you.
    - Trucks and bikes can fly.
    - The games motivating factor is 'likes' LOL.
    - Preachy, boring characters that I never felt for.
    - Waste of time, go and get a delivery job instead it'll be more interesting than this.    … Expand
  14. ArchangelEST
    Oct 23, 2020
    4
    Terrible. Good visuals, good sound/music. Story and narrative is poor. Poorly presented, poorly explained. You have no reason to be attached to any characters or have any motivation to do anything in this game.

    I played the game for 5 hours and out of those 5 hours, 4 hours were cutscenes where you had no agency, and one hour was carrying a bunch of packages across bad terrain. That's    Terrible. Good visuals, good sound/music. Story and narrative is poor. Poorly presented, poorly explained. You have no reason to be attached to any characters or have any motivation to do anything in this game.

    I played the game for 5 hours and out of those 5 hours, 4 hours were cutscenes where you had no agency, and one hour was carrying a bunch of packages across bad terrain. That's the game. It's pretty bad.

    It does not deserve to be called a video game. It's a TV show where instead of ads, you're told to play Uber for 15 minutes between episodes.

    I can't think of a reason why the protagonist just wouldn't blow his brains out and remain dead the moment he gets the option. There's just absolutely no reason for him to exist or do anything. The world is dull, boring, lifeless and there's not a single character that makes you feel like: "yeah, I'll try to save the world for the". No. They're all boring, annoying, arrogant **** who can't stop abusing you for their stupid goals.

    For the love of god, don't buy this game for anything more than the price of a sandwich if you really want to see what it's about. Anything more and you're giving money to the developer who's be infinitely better off making **** one season tv-shows than video games.    … Expand
  15. nonuniform
    Nov 11, 2020
    4
    It's like playing a very slow moving tv show. Watch thousands of hours of cut scenes, walk for an hour, get flooded by goo, restart. It's Elder Scrolls with more walking and less action.
  16. RockerKR
    Nov 17, 2020
    4
    walking symulator lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
  17. WasabiWarrior
    Dec 28, 2020
    4
    Some good ideas and NPCs wasted with the very bad gameplay and boring storytelling. I can't recommend this game but I enjoyed the visuals and music. It's super slow and the story is weird (not in the positive way). Some scenes are very beautiful and I think this should be a animated mini-series rather than a game. It's 1/10 as a game and 8/10 as a mini-series
  18. Reviewer102
    Jul 9, 2021
    4
    Some may have made a joke or two in the past about how Kojima could make a game about walking .
    And yet this game is praised so mightily only purely because Kojima is associated with it .
    If you swapped Kojima's name with a random person's name ...this game would have failed in selling no doubt . This game however is optimized well for PC and the story is incredibly interesting and    Some may have made a joke or two in the past about how Kojima could make a game about walking .
    And yet this game is praised so mightily only purely because Kojima is associated with it .
    If you swapped Kojima's name with a random person's name ...this game would have failed in selling no doubt .
    This game however is optimized well for PC and the story is incredibly interesting and original .
    No doubt it must be acknowledged how creative and original games are necessary for the gaming industry but this gameplay is an insult . And even more so charging the price of a Triple A game when most of the game is going from point A to point B .
    It is similar to Ubisoft Far Cry games where you take checkpoints . But of course because Kojima is so hyped up , this game is treated sometimes as a masterpiece .    … Expand
  19. KAGASTIEN
    Nov 13, 2021
    4
    This game is not for all but surely for games who love storymode games and this game just pulls you inside it. I love it
  20. OniSenpai
    Jul 20, 2022
    4
    Si tienes insomnio esta podría ser la cura.

    Death Stranding es un juego que durante la casi media década que duró desde su anuncio a su lanzamiento se nos vendió como una total revolución en el mundo de los videojuegos, nada mas y nada menos que el nacimiento de un genero totalmente nuevo. En palabras simples, Death Stranding es tomar la misión segundaria mas aburrida existente en    Si tienes insomnio esta podría ser la cura.

    Death Stranding es un juego que durante la casi media década que duró desde su anuncio a su lanzamiento se nos vendió como una total revolución en el mundo de los videojuegos, nada mas y nada menos que el nacimiento de un genero totalmente nuevo.

    En palabras simples, Death Stranding es tomar la misión segundaria mas aburrida existente en los juegos de mundo abierto y dedicar un juego completo a ello, en Death Stranding eres nada mas y nada menos que un recadero, durante las 50 o 70 horas que te tome acabar el juego te la pasarás caminando e punto A a Punto B una y otra y otra vez, sin apenas grandes desafíos y sin realmente hacer uso de todas las herramientas que ofrece el juego.

    Narrativamente es lo que Kojima nos tiene acostumbrados a ver, largas cinemáticas con monólogos, si eres fan de kojima ese apartado no te decepcionará, además de que en el tema gráfico es bastante destacable, principalmente por las animaciones faciales.

    No te voy a mentir, si no tienes el presupuesto para comprarte el juego o las 90 horas libres que se necesitan para explorar bien su mundo mirate un Walkthrough, te estarías llevando la mejor parte del juego, que es la parte película y te quitas de encima el somnífero jugable que Kojima nos vendió.    … Expand
  21. realWhiteMan
    Mar 5, 2023
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. My rating is based on my impressions of the game. This is not an objective review. I play quite a big number of titles per year and decided to review them as a peace of art and not as a product.… Expand
  22. Dikano
    Aug 28, 2022
    3
    Interesting premise meets mediocre execution. Death Stranding sadly doesn't do anything particularly well: the initially alluring premise is belabored and convoluted, the characters and dialog are unconvincing and hard to get invested in, the cinematography is sophomoric and gameplay is ultimately relegated to a very thin experience that never particularly engages. All this contributes toInteresting premise meets mediocre execution. Death Stranding sadly doesn't do anything particularly well: the initially alluring premise is belabored and convoluted, the characters and dialog are unconvincing and hard to get invested in, the cinematography is sophomoric and gameplay is ultimately relegated to a very thin experience that never particularly engages. All this contributes to the ultimate shortcoming of the game not being fun and Kojima's self-service cinematics being a long, dull chore.… Expand
  23. tremault
    Sep 19, 2020
    3
    I really should have read the reviews. I'm actually quite shocked to come here and see such negative reviews... I honestly believed I'd be alone in my own feelings of frustration. Yes this game is terrible pacing and the boring gameplay just stretches out between these cut scenes. I cant say any more than others have said..except the marketing for this game was really good because I had noI really should have read the reviews. I'm actually quite shocked to come here and see such negative reviews... I honestly believed I'd be alone in my own feelings of frustration. Yes this game is terrible pacing and the boring gameplay just stretches out between these cut scenes. I cant say any more than others have said..except the marketing for this game was really good because I had no idea it was this unpopular. I thought it was the magnum opus.… Expand
  24. Atyne
    Apr 5, 2021
    3
    Story:
    +the ending
    +original +soundtrack +cinematic +characters and actors -cringe -too long, slow, and boring -doesn't make sense Generally average story. Gameplay: -very clunky -very boring -watching same long cutscenes for common actions The first maybe 2 hours is an introduction with mostly cut-scenes, then, there are 30+ hours of moving between locations, transporting    Story:
    +the ending
    +original
    +soundtrack
    +cinematic
    +characters and actors
    -cringe
    -too long, slow, and boring
    -doesn't make sense
    Generally average story.

    Gameplay:
    -very clunky
    -very boring
    -watching same long cutscenes for common actions
    The first maybe 2 hours is an introduction with mostly cut-scenes, then, there are 30+ hours of moving between locations, transporting something, mostly for meaningless characters. It's like playing side missions. Just walking, or driving, refilling stamina, basically all that boring stuff I don't like in games. If you like slow-paced strategic games you may like it. But still, movement isn't smooth. You'll get stuck over small rocks a lot, even on vehicles - suspension is not working. Here and there there is some cutscene, stealth, or even shooting. The last maybe 10 hours is ending, also mostly watching cutscenes.

    Art:
    +vistas
    -cities
    -soulless
    The graphics is average, it only looks nice in 60fps pre-rendered cut-scenes. Some vistas are nice, but cities are disappointing. You only get to the gate, never inside. So the whole game world and the atmosphere are dead, even for a post-apocalyptic world, it doesn't feel like it.

    Conclusion:
    I was very disappointed. The game was just too long and too boring. The story was so cringy with no sense, and gameplay boring. I can only understand if I liked slow-paced strategic games, maybe it would be 7/10.    … Expand
  25. Molag-Bal
    Jul 22, 2020
    3
    Do you like delivering packages for hours and hours to one sided boring characters??? This is the game for you. Do you like painfully long cut scenes that makes this so call game feel more like a movie??? This game is for you!!!!! What a shame Kojima new game is this dumpster fire.
  26. AllNewSuperfake
    Oct 21, 2020
    3
    Well, I can't say I haven't been warned.

    But let me say upfront that I found a way to - kind of - enjoy "Death Stranding": SKIP. Skip the cutscenes, skip the dialogue, skip the calls, the mails, skip the animated sequences for every single mundane tasks, skip them all. Don't bother with the "science" or the "lore" or "story", you will come up with a better, more consistent and way    Well, I can't say I haven't been warned.

    But let me say upfront that I found a way to - kind of - enjoy "Death Stranding": SKIP.

    Skip the cutscenes, skip the dialogue, skip the calls, the mails, skip the animated sequences for every single mundane tasks, skip them all.

    Don't bother with the "science" or the "lore" or "story", you will come up with a better, more consistent and way more interesting explanation and message on your own.

    Just make up some new words you milked from Greek and Egyptian mythology, throw in some of the deep philosophy your found in your last fortune cookie, decide that you are going to make some nation of your choice great again, and boom: Now *you* are the genius, one-of-a-kind game designer. Even though you are not doing drugs with Norman Reedus, but hey, that's his loss.

    Maybe even skip the rest of this review. Really. It's just another rant about some of the worst writing and game design that I have seen in a long time, badly hidden under a very thin veil of beautiful graphics and well-done audio. That audio includes a score that I could have grown fond of, if it hadn't been forced on me repeatedly in the most "cinematic" way.

    Also understand that this is not a giant open world game, even though everyone says it is. It's not giant, it's not open, and it's not a world.

    It's a collection of hub worlds full of artificial borders and limitations - including rules and unlocks that don't care about logic or how silly they are, especially if you, against my sage advice, follow the story. Those hubs are littered with the same models and assets puzzled into "cities" that are devoid of life and any interesting features. There are no creatures, and only the tiniest amount of enemy types.

    Even though you supposedly travel across all of America, there is no distinctive level design, not the climate, not the textures, not the flora. There is no day- and-night cycle. There is no weather, except for the rain that tells you that enemies are near. Most of the map that you can actually explore looks completely random and has no regard for even the most basic rules of geography.

    And while I'm supposed to believe that everything has been destoyed, melted and thrown into chaos by some major event that I stopped caring about two hours into the game, I think laziness and having to pour all the money into celebrity appearances might be the actual reason.

    And down in that collection of hubworlds you are basically playing a walking simulator that made the simple act of walking as complicated as possible.

    You read the expression "tank-controls" in a lot in reviews, but a tank has a least some precision. It can change direction without keeling over, and doesn't get stuck in pebbles every five metres. It's instruments don't get stressed out and cry only to stop working for several reasons whenever the plot demands it.

    Later on I accepted that this is all there is, at least as far as gameplay is concerned, and that this is pretty much your only challenge as long as you are not literally throwing shyt at ghosts. You will still need a lot of free time and nothing better to do.

    But if you follow my advice and skip, and skip, and skip some more, this is where you can almost have fun.

    Lay bare the core gameplay loop of getting things from A to B while improving the infrastructure and technology to do it faster and with less problems. It isn't half bad if you do it like that, even though controls, camera and UI get in your way too often and break the flow whenever you let them.

    But the fact that I put dozens of hours into this even though I hated a lot about it tells me that, if you skip all the BS, there is a nice, not overly challenging, sometimes weirdly zen experience to be had, where you can set your own little goals and have your own little story. As long as you, I can't stress this out enough, don't listen to the actual one. Really. You will start asking questions, like, who came up with all that technology after the world ended and you couldn't leave the house and you had no resources and no clue what was going on? You don't want that.

    You have a map, you have your mission markers, you take stuff from point A, where it came from nothing, and you put it down at point B, where it disappears into the void again, and some hologram will say the same thing it always says and give you likes, and who does not like likes?

    Unfortunately you can't skip the crashes and glitches. I haven't had too much troubles, but be aware that the game will require some decent hardware. It's horribly ported and optimized and comes with loads of DRM and telemetry running in the background on top of that.

    But if you are not like me and morbidly curious about "that game that everyone talked about last year", don't waste your money. Don't waste your time. At least wait for a sale, like I did    … Expand
  27. whunterj
    Sep 23, 2020
    3
    Simplemente me forcé a jugarlo para ver si de verdad era bueno pero me gano el aburrimiento
  28. OrwellWasRight
    Jul 16, 2023
    3
    Awful.
    After all the hype around this game I'm very disappointed now that I've finally played it. All you do is walk (or drive) around and do meaningless missions. There are so many cutscenes it is more like a movie than a game.But the biggest problem with this game is Hideo Kojima himself. He's just not very talented when it comes to story telling. You get the feeling he wants to be a    Awful.
    After all the hype around this game I'm very disappointed now that I've finally played it. All you do is walk (or drive) around and do meaningless missions. There are so many cutscenes it is more like a movie than a game.But the biggest problem with this game is Hideo Kojima himself. He's just not very talented when it comes to story telling. You get the feeling he wants to be a film director instead of a game creator. What you get is a big mess of a story that isn't engaging at all. For a game that relies so much on it's story this is a big problem. Another problem is the resolution. I can't even set it to 1600x900 and I'm forced to play at 1280x700. They didn't even bother to fix this in 3 years. Tells you how much they care about the playerbase.
    If you still want to play it wait for a big discount. At full price it is not worth your money.    … Expand
  29. hileger
    Jan 29, 2023
    3
    Завуалированный СЖВ ,ЛГБТ Кал с примесью Трансгуманизма.........................
  30. unusual
    Jul 30, 2020
    3
    According to the plot, the game is not bad, and this is the only plus of this game. Gameplay, game world and so on pulls the maximum by one.
  31. eMeLDi
    Oct 28, 2020
    3
    It was a really unnecessary game by Hideo Kojima.
    It seems he needed a break after MGSs and this is how he did it. By walking to places and enjoying landscapes. So he made this game.
    The game looks and runs amazingly. And Norman is awesome as ever. But the whole experience seems so hollow and unworthy.
  32. lil_jahoda
    Jul 16, 2020
    3
    This game was created with good idea but it is really bad. I understand that Kojima tried to create something new and fresh but it went horribly wrong. Gameplay is horrible and boring but music and graphics are great. But who plays game to just look at the graphics and listen to the soundtrack. There is Spotify and artworks for that.
  33. Bryansky
    Jul 21, 2020
    3
    !!!Early Access Game!!!
    This port is awful, crashes, stutters, game breaking bugs, devs have nothing to say to those who encountered these problems, waste of money.
  34. aqerty69
    Jul 26, 2020
    3
    Impossible to understand what the player shoud do. Just a waste of time and money. No way to understand what is meaning of the game.
  35. LironesAlviento
    Aug 2, 2020
    3
    Prefiero trabajar de cartero y que me paguen que jugar a esto y pagar, un poco aburrido, igual mas adelante le doy otra oportunidad pero a día de hoy me ha parecido un truño
  36. Kneedeep
    Aug 16, 2020
    3
    This just shows that good visuals beat good story but this thing makes no sense.
  37. cryptomonkey
    Oct 15, 2020
    3
    The story seemed interesting enough as far as i've seen it, not interesting enough to keep me playing through that atrocious gameplay and see the rest of it thought, almost right away it seemed like this would have made a better movie than a videogame and farther in, i truly felt like i was being trolled as i played, i'm still not sure if it's actually meant as a troll or if kojima lostThe story seemed interesting enough as far as i've seen it, not interesting enough to keep me playing through that atrocious gameplay and see the rest of it thought, almost right away it seemed like this would have made a better movie than a videogame and farther in, i truly felt like i was being trolled as i played, i'm still not sure if it's actually meant as a troll or if kojima lost his mind, it's a pity cause there's some good ideas, mechanics and art in there, but i rather get a real job as a delivery guy and listen to a good audiobook as i do that than "play" this thing, at least i get paid for my suffering, the gameplay is sooo bad, and not the idea of it, that could have maybe been passable if done right, but the actual execution of it is terrible, it doesn't even do well what it set out to do and what it set out to do it's seriously questionable begin with, it's hard to even give it a score at all.… Expand
  38. Daz26
    Dec 20, 2020
    3
    Kojima's ego created this absurd product, a must play if you're a sheep who likes to walk a lot and think little.
  39. Ratingss
    Feb 26, 2021
    3
    The game is extremely casual and the story complete drivel that doesn't drive you to keep playing, quite the contrary, every time you reach a cutscene you ask yourself why are you playing this game, if you have more than two brain cells that is. The Kojima that made the first Metal Gear wouldn't even recognize himself anymore.
  40. KanarXP
    Feb 28, 2022
    3
    No gameplay only watch

    Graphics 8/10
    Gameplay3/10
    Music 8/10
    Story game 4/10
    Co-op -
  41. sontopo98
    Aug 23, 2022
    3
    No le doy un 3 por hater ni nada, simplemente no soporto que el objetivo del juego sea llevar cargas de un lado a otro, tener cuidado de no caerte, calmar al BB y la lluvia... y encima, el 90% del juego es una cinemática. Al que le guste, genial, te doy mi enhorabuena, pero a mi no me ha gustado nada esta experiencia, eso sí, le doy un 9.5 a la temática de la historia.
  42. CuriousCork
    Jan 15, 2023
    3
    NOPE! Trust me i really want to like this game, but the "baby in the pod " thingy freaks me out, and YOU HAVE TOO SOOTHE IT.Its just **** up man, im sorry.
  43. yggril
    Feb 8, 2023
    3
    The gameplay is good-- surprisingly captivating, in fact. I'd give it an 8. But Death Stranding insists on putting its story at center-stage, so the enormous deficiencies of that story will enormously reduce your enjoyment of the game.

    A good video game doesn't need to have a good story. Mario runs across platforms because his motivation is to save the princess... that's it. You're just    The gameplay is good-- surprisingly captivating, in fact. I'd give it an 8. But Death Stranding insists on putting its story at center-stage, so the enormous deficiencies of that story will enormously reduce your enjoyment of the game.

    A good video game doesn't need to have a good story. Mario runs across platforms because his motivation is to save the princess... that's it. You're just supposed to have fun stomping on goombas. But Mario doesn't ask you to pay attention to its story. It doesn't interrupt the gameplay over and over to tell its story instead. Death Stranding focuses on its story to the detriment of gameplay-- almost to its exclusion by the end. It tries to be a movie as much as a game, but the movie part disappoints again and again.    … Expand
  44. TwiTu
    May 11, 2021
    2
    Great graphics (even though the landscape looks very bland), awesome animations, very good sound, superb actors.
    Thats it.
    The story is extremely weird and makes no sense. You dont get much explained either. You are a postman and considered a hero, even though people can just send stuff to each other via a grid. You just have to deliver lost stuff you randomly find (spawns out of    Great graphics (even though the landscape looks very bland), awesome animations, very good sound, superb actors.
    Thats it.
    The story is extremely weird and makes no sense. You dont get much explained either.
    You are a postman and considered a hero, even though people can just send stuff to each other via a grid. You just have to deliver lost stuff you randomly find (spawns out of nowhere all the time) or special items that cant be send via that grid. They always say that there are many like you, but you never see any, only the crap they leave behind.
    What do you get for your deliveries? Likes. Yes. Likes. just like on Facebook.
    The USA, where this game plays, also shrunk (while keeping the same shape). Its only a few dozen miles wide now and there is no sign of a former civilization, except some futuristic buildings and rarely a road or car wreck....

    The dialogues and characters are typical for a Japanese game, including their cringy names. Just awkward for everyone non-Japanese.
    The cutscenes are too many and most dont add much to the story, yet they are done very well.
    The controls are rage inducing. Always having to balance your body is just annoying after the first 3 hours. It feels like the devs just tried to make the game slower with that. The bike and other vehicles are no better. At first I thought I am missing a button when I drove the bike, because it was soooo slow (much slower than in the intro). And even when I hit the boost its not much faster. It also gets stuck everywhere and the jump sometimes works and sometimes doesnt. Its random.
    Delivery missions (thats pretty much all you do) get extremely repetitive very quickly as well. Avoiding BTs (having to watch the same animation over and over again, when they are detected) is also just annoying to no end. Also you can pretty much predict where their areas are located every time - they always block your way. Always. Its no challenge. Just annoying, most likely also to make the game slower. And then to top it off you also have to watch for a baby (and have to press about 5 different buttons just to soothe it) that keeps crying all the time if things get a little tougher. Again no challenge, just annoying.
    Your allies just hide in their bunkers. Most of the time you only see their holograms. They never even help you with a squad against those pesky "postmen gone bad", not even with a proper weapon!
    I never got real weapons, aside from some clunky grenades that only damage one type of enemy, while youre pretty much effed against other enemies and have to stealth around them and use gadgets to fool them.
    You always have to carry a pile of extra gear to survive, which massively limits what you can pick up on your way or how fast you can go.
    It still made me play for about 11 hours, but then I had enough. Its just too repetitive and annoying and the story just gets weirder and weirder and so doesnt keep you interested at all - no epic feeling at all, no interesting characters either.
    Oh yeah, and it also features ads and product placement (also in a very weird and immersion-breaking manner).
    No idea at all how this is so popular.

    TL;DR:
    Very weird and annoying postman walking simulator in a very weird post apocalyptic world, where postmen are the ultimate heroes and face unchallenging, very simple and very annoying delivery missions for likes as a reward. It looks very good, but its gameplay is some of the worst and idiotic console crap Ive ever seen.    … Expand
  45. ozzless
    May 3, 2021
    2
    Very hard to even write the review about this "game".
    It is extremely boring and slow. You are told like 12-15 times in the beginning that this is a Hideo Kojima game, during the first 15 minutes of the opening cutscene, as if you could forget that. As a typical modern console game, the actual gameplay is about 5% of the game, all the rest is watching endless and really slow cutscenes.    Very hard to even write the review about this "game".
    It is extremely boring and slow. You are told like 12-15 times in the beginning that this is a Hideo Kojima game, during the first 15 minutes of the opening cutscene, as if you could forget that. As a typical modern console game, the actual gameplay is about 5% of the game, all the rest is watching endless and really slow cutscenes. When you actually get a few seconds of gameplay to break your sleep - it's a kind of 'balance the ball' mini game combined with 'uber eats' courier simulator. It all creates a feeling of absolutely braindead game, which hardly requires any wits to play (basically point to a direction and press W for a few minutes).    … Expand
  46. Pc080972
    May 20, 2023
    2
    Looks good, but what a bore - like a walking simulator with sporadic elements of "horror"
    Incredibly pretentious.
    After being informed by the GUI that game was saved, launching it this morning = no saves present, only new game. Might be the only thing to make this even worse - all that time spend walking having to balance all the way in rough terrain to avoid falling on your *** ...    Looks good, but what a bore - like a walking simulator with sporadic elements of "horror"
    Incredibly pretentious.

    After being informed by the GUI that game was saved, launching it this morning = no saves present, only new game. Might be the only thing to make this even worse - all that time spend walking having to balance all the way in rough terrain to avoid falling on your *** ... only to see all that time wasted due to no save game.

    Got it for free on Epic - had I paid for this **** I would have gone for a refund. Its uninstalled.    … Expand
  47. coroner01
    May 21, 2023
    2
    I didnt even give it a chance - the 1st 10mins were enough

    worst movment control ever , stumbling about the place , 0 control
  48. jorokw
    Dec 21, 2020
    2
    I made metacritic login specially to warn people to not buy Death Stranding on PC. Interesting and fresh ideas (dream like concept is rather good) - but actual gameplay is terrible. Everything is spoiled by bad UX - imagine car with climate control buried in 3rd submenu, where desired temperature is set by tapping inside passenger glove box. For example - from time to time U must pissI made metacritic login specially to warn people to not buy Death Stranding on PC. Interesting and fresh ideas (dream like concept is rather good) - but actual gameplay is terrible. Everything is spoiled by bad UX - imagine car with climate control buried in 3rd submenu, where desired temperature is set by tapping inside passenger glove box. For example - from time to time U must piss (this is OK) - but it is complex multi-step process here. What TF? While fighting bosses you have grenades in multiple slots - for example 15 grenades in 3 slots. In actual fight there is need to open another slot to use next 5 grenades.… Expand
  49. Deaden
    Jul 20, 2020
    2
    Another garbage console to PC port failure. Honestly, the creators should design games first on PC specially. Because consoles are having handicaps to do great games. Console players are thinking they are playing very quality games.. no no most of them just cheap designed, delusional tricks. Consoles are for captivity, PC platforms are for freedom! That's a certain and known thing. PeopleAnother garbage console to PC port failure. Honestly, the creators should design games first on PC specially. Because consoles are having handicaps to do great games. Console players are thinking they are playing very quality games.. no no most of them just cheap designed, delusional tricks. Consoles are for captivity, PC platforms are for freedom! That's a certain and known thing. People should stop buying consoles. Come to the PC side and play quality games for freedom. Designers will do it after consoles trashed! Also that's why console games get more lower points on PC platforms. PC gamers don't like delusional console sh...ty games.
    I gave 2 points for Norman's sake.    … Expand
  50. honest_rev7
    Sep 24, 2020
    2
    LOL, ya no it was MY DECISION to get this game for myself? Hype got to me. Cos trailers and preview stuff looked so mysterious and pretty.

    Ok so, the soundtrack is good. Casting is all Kojima's famous mates other than Amelie's character (which is the only one I liked). That guy Norman Reedus is supposed to be Everyman, but it breaks immersion cos all you can think about is The Walking    LOL, ya no it was MY DECISION to get this game for myself? Hype got to me. Cos trailers and preview stuff looked so mysterious and pretty.

    Ok so, the soundtrack is good. Casting is all Kojima's famous mates other than Amelie's character (which is the only one I liked). That guy Norman Reedus is supposed to be Everyman, but it breaks immersion cos all you can think about is The Walking Dead, init.

    But yeah, the game is all about some sort of huge open world which is basically empty. NO NPC's walking around, no romance, no surprise encounters.

    But! If your dream's desire is to walk around burning dead bodies and reconnecting the internet and Twitter then this is just right up your street!

    It's bloated like Windows 10. Nonsensical story telling that doesn't even make any sense.    … Expand
  51. Vhons
    Jul 15, 2020
    2
    The performance are really bad. Texture glitch, bugs, framerates drops and sometimes even crash.
    I've reset my PC two times yesterday, only just for play at least 2 hours with this.
    (and one hour of these two hours only for the cutscenes) And I've checked the performance of my PC, and it's all set with the recommended stuff. I think that they should resolve this issue soon, but it's    The performance are really bad. Texture glitch, bugs, framerates drops and sometimes even crash.
    I've reset my PC two times yesterday, only just for play at least 2 hours with this.
    (and one hour of these two hours only for the cutscenes)
    And I've checked the performance of my PC, and it's all set with the recommended stuff.
    I think that they should resolve this issue soon, but it's disappointing see this kind of problems. Because in this state it hard even only open this.    … Expand
  52. Ridleymain
    Dec 27, 2020
    2
    I wanted to enjoy this game, but I just could not. The game is really slow and takes a long time to get anywhere.
  53. Yowisz
    Dec 7, 2020
    2
    Naprawdę słaba gierka . Nudna i bardzo wolno rozkręcająca się. Fabuła absurdalnie słaba bez logiki jaką stara się gra tworzyć.
  54. Nintendonot
    Feb 27, 2021
    2
    Hideo Kojima continuously described death stranding as the first ever stand type game. He considered it so innovative that it would create a whole new genre of video games, and now that we have the game the question that has been on our heads for the last few years can now be answered: "What is a strand type game?" Well it's a special type of game where everything about it besides theHideo Kojima continuously described death stranding as the first ever stand type game. He considered it so innovative that it would create a whole new genre of video games, and now that we have the game the question that has been on our heads for the last few years can now be answered: "What is a strand type game?" Well it's a special type of game where everything about it besides the visuals is a complete piece of trash. Death stranding is one of the most disappointing games I have ever played. The gameplay is walking; you put some packages on your back and walk them from point A to point B. I think the goal was to try and turn walking into exciting gameplay, similar to how Mario did. Well you don't do it like this because it sucks. You'll continuously keep falling over and losing your packages for 35 hours straight. The boss fights are an absolute joke. They have no way of defeating you. Later the game turns into the worst 3rd person shooter ever. Kojima even responded to critics addressing this saying, "Americans are big fans of fps games and Death stranding is not." What does the fact that the game is 3rd person shooter have to do with Americans not liking it? Most Americans back in the day played Fortnite. Now about the story: its just meh. It revolves around the kingdom hearts method of story telling where everything is explained but there is still no context for anything. The characters don't stop talking and every single one of them has some dumb thing to say especially the character Fragile. I'd say the only good part about the game is its visuals and voice acting. I can only hope that this is the last strand type game because it is a complete embarrassment.… Expand
  55. MihAlves
    Jan 18, 2023
    2
    O jogo é bonito, mas ao mesmo tempo é repetitivo e cansativo. Faltou muita criatividade ao Kojima sobre esse jogo já que dizem que ele é um dos melhores desenvolvedores de jogos do mundo, coisa que eu discordo totalmente.
  56. Joe2539
    Jan 3, 2023
    2
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  57. sashang
    Jul 5, 2023
    1
    They should have called this game Keep Standing because most of the gameplay revolves around not tripping while you hoof it over the country. It's the first time I've ever played a hiking simulator. This is what, at its core, Death Stranding is. A terrain traversal game. I've never played a game before where I was paranoid about tripping, and falling on my face, as I rushed to balanceThey should have called this game Keep Standing because most of the gameplay revolves around not tripping while you hoof it over the country. It's the first time I've ever played a hiking simulator. This is what, at its core, Death Stranding is. A terrain traversal game. I've never played a game before where I was paranoid about tripping, and falling on my face, as I rushed to balance myself. In that respect, it is creative. But do I really want to be a hiking hero? Nah. If they focused on making it a terrain traversal puzzle game. If they made the traversal more challenging and rewarding, instead of the long grind that it is.

    The action elements of the game are tepid and uninspiring. I just wanted to turn them off while hiking and get back to not tripping over rocks and staying out of the rain. If they cut all the fluff around it, the acting, the song track, the lame action/fight then they would have a game. At the moment the auxiliary parts of the game, like the excellent sound track, are the highlights. But if I wanted a soundtrack I would have bought it. And that's the problem with Death Stranding. It's core gameplay is too diluted. It could have been a strong terrain traversal puzzle game where obstacles required ingenuity and creativity from the player to overcome. As it stands, the largest obstacle is the grinding hikes around the country, and the second largest is not tripping.    … Expand
  58. maximus99
    Oct 22, 2020
    1
    A boring, unappealing disaster in one word with a bad script....! What a shame for a great director....
  59. lorddragonstar
    Jul 28, 2021
    1
    This game has some great graphics and music. But everything else ranges from mediocre to disastrous.

    The controls feel stiff, sometimes feeling sluggish other times just not responding to your input at all. I think this is by design but it's terrible and feels bad. Everything is frustrating. You tilt, you stumble, you fall, you get stuck on rocks, packages fall off you, the enemies    This game has some great graphics and music. But everything else ranges from mediocre to disastrous.

    The controls feel stiff, sometimes feeling sluggish other times just not responding to your input at all. I think this is by design but it's terrible and feels bad.
    Everything is frustrating. You tilt, you stumble, you fall, you get stuck on rocks, packages fall off you, the enemies knock your packages off, you fall in water, you slide down slopes, vehicles stick slide bonce and defy physics constantly. The UI is a complete mess and an insult to user interface design. You have to press buttons repeatedly to do anything.

    Animations play constantly and you have to repeatedly skip them. Some you can't skip and they are forced on you by an overly egotistical game designer. Nothing is fast or smooth. It's always slow, bumpy, frustrating, and too much.

    The combat is boring even on hard. There's no challenge at all. The boss fights are auto win they are so easy.

    The story is nonsense and it's told in a very repetitive manner, so many times I was just begging for them to get on with it so I could do something, even if the something was playing this boring game.

    Of the thousands of games I've played (yes, thousands) this is in my bottom 5%, and for games I've completed, it's in my bottom 5.

    And yes, it really is that bad.    … Expand
  60. darkwolf79
    Aug 29, 2022
    1
    First off, visually I can't fault the game. It looks good.
    When it comes to gameplay however, the game is nothing more then a walking simulator.
    Now, don't get me wrong, there are plenty of "walking sim" style games out there that I thoroughly enjoy. This, however, is not one of them. There is neither a good plot nor good gameplay that would carry the game as a whole. It's just empty    First off, visually I can't fault the game. It looks good.
    When it comes to gameplay however, the game is nothing more then a walking simulator.
    Now, don't get me wrong, there are plenty of "walking sim" style games out there that I thoroughly enjoy.
    This, however, is not one of them.
    There is neither a good plot nor good gameplay that would carry the game as a whole. It's just empty repetitiveness.
    Initially the game is quite intreaguing due to its atmosphere but rather quickly the plot becomes just a device to make you walk some more and repeat and collect and deliver more things repeatedly again and again. :/
    Shame, I wanted to like it, but it just doesn't work for me.    … Expand
  61. ChrisWeasel
    Dec 26, 2022
    1
    The game looks great, but the story is meh. This is easily the most boring game I have ever played. Every mission just drags on and on. And all you literally do is walk. If you want a game that looks great, this is it, but if you want a game that is fun, or challenging, this is not it
  62. Zapp_Brannigan
    Nov 1, 2020
    1
    Walking simulator. Gameplay is fetch quest the videogame (literally), with a very mediocre storyline, save your money, this game is atrocious.
  63. AymenAibeche
    Oct 22, 2020
    1
    If you do a game to ps4 keep it on ps4 And the game is bad Ihope day did it a move
  64. gg22uu
    May 19, 2021
    1
    не работает на пк . пишент что система не соответствует минимальным параметрам , хотя мое железо даже чуть выше рекомендуемых .
  65. Onyru
    Jul 16, 2020
    1
    Substantially it's a poorly designed game.
    With really big flaws this deliveryman simulator is basically a glorification of the fetch quests, the worst kind of mission for an open world game today.
    You go from point A to point B for all the time, and very often with very long and repetitive cutscenes. The writing and the gameplay they are also bad, and I've encountered even some really    Substantially it's a poorly designed game.
    With really big flaws this deliveryman simulator is basically a glorification of the fetch quests, the worst kind of mission for an open world game today.
    You go from point A to point B for all the time, and very often with very long and repetitive cutscenes.
    The writing and the gameplay they are also bad, and I've encountered even some really big bugs during different missions. If I can give you an advice, save your money.    … Expand
  66. ElsaIceQueen
    Jul 16, 2020
    1
    The worst game I've played in the recent years.
    Only deliveries missions, and cringe plot cutscenes with terrible writings. Absolutely disgusting.
    Also, numerous textures glitch during the cutscenes, and framerates drops under 30fps.
    The most boring experience I've ever had.
  67. iniko
    Jul 16, 2020
    1
    Definitely a bad game. Texture with gliches in the cutscenes, bugs, monotony and repetitiveness of gameplay and plot. Certainly the worst work done by Kojima.
    I am surprised at how you can even think of making a game filled only with fetch quests.
  68. Dirodi
    Jul 22, 2020
    1
    Juego aburrido y repetitivo. Una estafa considerable. Arriesga mucho y fracasa. El único punto positivo es el apartado gráfico, pero es insuficiente.
  69. bartwart
    Jul 31, 2020
    1
    Repetitive, boring trash bookended by an LSD fever dream story. I'm never buying a Kojima game again.
  70. AlexXZ
    Jul 30, 2020
    1
    можно было бы сказать что то хорошее но не буду потому что игра отвратительная и вся шумиха на протяжении нескольких лет что это что то уникальное а на деле пшик. а ну да про плаплаченое голосование и то что было до этого на метакритике тожеможно было бы сказать что то хорошее но не буду потому что игра отвратительная и вся шумиха на протяжении нескольких лет что это что то уникальное а на деле пшик. а ну да про плаплаченое голосование и то что было до этого на метакритике тоже
  71. hertzian68
    Nov 16, 2020
    1
    Banal, pretentious, pagan, satanic, cringey garbage. The graphics don't look any better than MGSV at the same settings. gtx 1070. Hideous Kochimp and his kabbalistic marxist satanic masonic world view on full view here. Gross. Disgusting. Hypocritical. I like to play games, not watch interactive movies which is what this really is, kochimp needs to just move over completely to movies andBanal, pretentious, pagan, satanic, cringey garbage. The graphics don't look any better than MGSV at the same settings. gtx 1070. Hideous Kochimp and his kabbalistic marxist satanic masonic world view on full view here. Gross. Disgusting. Hypocritical. I like to play games, not watch interactive movies which is what this really is, kochimp needs to just move over completely to movies and leave gaming the heck alone. This should be called the "Skip Button Simulator" because I must have hit that 100x. From the emo cringey music you're forced to listen to, to the awful Monster product placement I just couldn't recommend this at any price. If you're curious watch a yt video you'd get 99% the same experience but for free. There is almost no game PLAY here, and what there is is very banal, delivering stuff to futuristic cities which could easily just drop ship from altitude with the tech on display everywhere else, ridiculous. Drones? Crying baby if you slip is really annoying. No separate audio options for music, score and voice. Even when I turned down the volume it was too loud on headphones. The story is totally pagan kabbalistic marxist trash. People now are so programmed and dumbed down it's scary, thus the "rave" reviews by the whore presstitutes and retarded players.… Expand
  72. Mitradis
    Dec 16, 2020
    1
    this game for americans, about americans election and their experiences about this
  73. Wiezzel
    Nov 1, 2021
    1
    Game is very disappointing in many ways.
    First of, the gameplay, really something that does not belong in a game.
    Moving your characters feels clunky, the suppose "balance" mechanic is very pathetic and only in the way of the game. My best guess is that added that to make it feel "difficult" when it is just a dumb constant struggle. THE ONLY maybe good thing, is that you like decent    Game is very disappointing in many ways.
    First of, the gameplay, really something that does not belong in a game.
    Moving your characters feels clunky, the suppose "balance" mechanic is very pathetic and only in the way of the game. My best guess is that added that to make it feel "difficult" when it is just a dumb constant struggle.

    THE ONLY maybe good thing, is that you like decent environment looking "ok" and some music that forces you to watch the game as a movie and not playing really.
    There is so much more that the game and not worth wasting my time with it.    … Expand
  74. tzfqv
    Dec 18, 2020
    1
    It is decent delivery game, and challenge of this game comes from everywhere but delivery. I expected interesting delivery game, not an FPS that I can sometimes make deliver.
  75. BFG-1337
    Apr 27, 2021
    1
    If you ever meet a person that says this game is good, RUN AWAY!
    And never talk to that person again in your life
  76. EduCLSS
    May 22, 2023
    1
    Uno de los peores juegos que existe. No le pongo un 0 ya que los mafiosos de esta página borraron 1500 comentarios con nota 0 al momento del lanzamiento para manipular la nota promedio de este juego y que se pudiera vender (el juego al momento del lanzamiento tenía nota promedio 3.5). Es impresionante lo monótono que es. Son horas y horas de hacer exactamente la misma misión, que es llevarUno de los peores juegos que existe. No le pongo un 0 ya que los mafiosos de esta página borraron 1500 comentarios con nota 0 al momento del lanzamiento para manipular la nota promedio de este juego y que se pudiera vender (el juego al momento del lanzamiento tenía nota promedio 3.5). Es impresionante lo monótono que es. Son horas y horas de hacer exactamente la misma misión, que es llevar algo de un lugar a otro. En eso se resume este "juego". Es insufriblemente repetitivo. A eso añadir las terribles escenas que duran una barbaridad y no aportan nada a la experiencia. Y ni hablar de los problemas técnicos que tiene, que si me extiendo en eso podría escribir un libro.… Expand
  77. ParGellen
    Jul 29, 2020
    0
    This is the weirdest game I've ever played. Unfortunately not in a good way. It's very boring but that's not the real problem. The real problem is simply how WEIRD it is. It's unrelatable on a level that is hard to describe. If the image of three gerbils riding a bottle of Mountain Dew up a mountain backwards while Jesus cheers in the background and holds up a sign that reads "FREEThis is the weirdest game I've ever played. Unfortunately not in a good way. It's very boring but that's not the real problem. The real problem is simply how WEIRD it is. It's unrelatable on a level that is hard to describe. If the image of three gerbils riding a bottle of Mountain Dew up a mountain backwards while Jesus cheers in the background and holds up a sign that reads "FREE HARAMBE!" could be a game then this is it. In short it's just too damn bizarre to take seriously on any level. It's not even strange in an "edgy" way. It's like a weird contest where every concept is trying to out-weird the rest. Not for me... Don't even get me started on the plot. Who wrote this garbage?… Expand
  78. Switters
    Oct 11, 2021
    0
    Tedious Game for midwits and pseudo intellectuals. Probably the dumbest, least coherent story in any AAA title.
  79. notacarebear
    Oct 28, 2020
    0
    Thanks to CPY i can rate this garbage a big fat ZERO.
    Traitors behind this game will lead to the fall of a once great country: Japan.
  80. porre722
    Oct 29, 2021
    0
    If I were to rate this game after my first hour or two, I would have given it a zero for sure. I thought there were to many and to long cut-scenes. And not to mention the stupid names that almost everyone has. "Diehardman", "Deadman" Heartman" and so on. But thankfully I decided to play on, and after some time I started to enjoy it, and after some more I time I absolutely loved it! EvenIf I were to rate this game after my first hour or two, I would have given it a zero for sure. I thought there were to many and to long cut-scenes. And not to mention the stupid names that almost everyone has. "Diehardman", "Deadman" Heartman" and so on. But thankfully I decided to play on, and after some time I started to enjoy it, and after some more I time I absolutely loved it! Even the stupid names made sense after some time. One of the best game I have played, and believe me, I have played many! You just have to get past the tedious start of the game.… Expand
  81. LinusBeagle
    Aug 8, 2020
    0
    I think the controversy surrounding this “game” is a matter of semantics. It is, in fact, not a video game but rather a 30 hour long movie with about 10 hours of game play interspersed. If you like Sci-Fi flicks then grab the popcorn and settle in for a marathon of a film which will occasionally (very infrequently) ask you to move the mouse or controller. During the last 5 hours or soI think the controversy surrounding this “game” is a matter of semantics. It is, in fact, not a video game but rather a 30 hour long movie with about 10 hours of game play interspersed. If you like Sci-Fi flicks then grab the popcorn and settle in for a marathon of a film which will occasionally (very infrequently) ask you to move the mouse or controller. During the last 5 hours or so you will not even have to do that. All in all, not a bad movie but could have been condensed down to about 2 hours. How would I review the game? I can’t, it’s not a game.… Expand
  82. assassinsith
    Feb 28, 2021
    0
    I installed this game twice because I wanted to give it a second chance however turns out that with one fall I lost the package and I have to go back and find it in order to complete the stupid mission. Instant trash!
  83. Kirpich17
    Aug 9, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Скучно, немного спасает графика, персонажи не вызывают доверия, какие-то деревянные, а главный герой кажется вообще слабоумным доставщиком деливери-клаб, ну как в это можно играть? Много пиара но, потратил 8 часов игры и не могу заставить себя доиграть, даже из-за сюжета, который может, вроде как стать интересным. Особый дебилизм какие-то МУЛы отбирающие посылки (кому они их будут доставлять? раз у них мания друг у друга они тоже отбирают? если сами доставляют зачем они главного героя упрашивают доставить МУЛам бы дали они сами все доставят)… Expand
  84. sursaa
    Dec 16, 2020
    0
    Very boring. world is very very bland.and the quests are nearly all boring fetch quests. walk here pick up this and bring this to another place. and mainly just becomes a bunch of walking or driving, and setting down ladders and other things. very boring and awful boring quests
  85. geck
    Jan 24, 2022
    0
    incredible experience
    unusual storytelling and emotional interaction. not a "beer shooter"
    great pc port. all new technologies and optimization.
  86. Marceloo25
    Nov 7, 2020
    0
    If someone paid me an actual salary to deliver cargo around I would probably be too lazy to do it. But since this is a game, I want to do it for free xD

    In all seriousness, Death Stranding is a metaphor to life. Death Stranding has been the most humbling and life changing experience I ever felt. If you are reading this, I hope you give this game an actual try and you won't regret it.    If someone paid me an actual salary to deliver cargo around I would probably be too lazy to do it. But since this is a game, I want to do it for free xD

    In all seriousness, Death Stranding is a metaphor to life. Death Stranding has been the most humbling and life changing experience I ever felt. If you are reading this, I hope you give this game an actual try and you won't regret it.

    Side note: I don't believe the negative reviews. If you check steam you will see the game actually has positive reviews from people who actually played the game. Console games usually get a lot of hate from the PCMasterRace community    … Expand
  87. Critics2017
    Jul 16, 2020
    0
    Гениальная игра, но не идеальная цена...

    Ходьба, ролик, ходьба, ходьба, мочилова, ходьба, ролик на 50 минут, конец
  88. asdasdasdawsde1
    Jul 29, 2020
    0
    Hideo Kojima is easily one of the most self absorbed developers out there and that is really saying something, spamming his name in caps on every screenshot or video. However as living up to it,. denuvo riddled filth game that is boring and bland at best.

    0
  89. XDDRUS
    Jul 27, 2020
    0
    Is unplayble **** Crash every 20 minute. Dont buy it for full price! If you want to play it, wait for discounts.
  90. McRaoul
    Jan 22, 2021
    0
    Pretentious plot that needs the characters to force feed you exposition through lengthy cutscenes so you know why you run with bags on your back across the country, but it stills doesnt make any god damn sence. i've played for 5 hours and it hasnt been fun for a second of it so im not giving it any more of my time. The best way i can explain the traversal in this game is to compare it toPretentious plot that needs the characters to force feed you exposition through lengthy cutscenes so you know why you run with bags on your back across the country, but it stills doesnt make any god damn sence. i've played for 5 hours and it hasnt been fun for a second of it so im not giving it any more of my time. The best way i can explain the traversal in this game is to compare it to spider-man PS4. Remember how the web slinging was so fun you never used the fast travel system? This is the complete opposite. Sam is a slow and grumpy piece of **** that doesnt know how to keep his balance with a backpack on. im not interested in the reasons why you cant fly helicopters in this game, or why bodies explode after death or why you need to burn them at a specific spot. There is no humor to be found in this game, everyone is super **** serious all the time and act like the edgy cool anime guy. **** me this game is bad.… Expand
  91. FrostormNidhegg
    Oct 16, 2020
    0
    Унылейший симулятор ходьбы. Ландшафт - красивый, да. Игра - мусор. Метал гир 5 был симулятором ходьбы в крошечном убогом мире пустынном с постоянным респауном врагов на одних и тех же аванпостах и с коридорами скал, такой себе открытый мир времен пс 2, но Дес Стрендинг - просто хлам. Бедные Конами, как они с этим уродом работали вообще, он же как геймдизайнеры Юбисофт, парашетворец.Унылейший симулятор ходьбы. Ландшафт - красивый, да. Игра - мусор. Метал гир 5 был симулятором ходьбы в крошечном убогом мире пустынном с постоянным респауном врагов на одних и тех же аванпостах и с коридорами скал, такой себе открытый мир времен пс 2, но Дес Стрендинг - просто хлам. Бедные Конами, как они с этим уродом работали вообще, он же как геймдизайнеры Юбисофт, парашетворец. Игровые механики где? А их нет. Мир есть, игрового процесса нет. Ни в коем случае не тратьте время. А деньги - чем тратить деньги на игры Кодзимы, лучше в детдом купите что-нибудь.… Expand
  92. Anon_
    Nov 6, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Oh boi where do I even begin ?

    this ain't even a game but a culmination of crap design choihes mashed together.

    - tedious and boring gameplay, even a real work as mailman is more exciting.

    - motorcycle is often times useless and feels arcadey because its getting stuck on every goddamn rock there is in existence, and yeah boi theres only rocks.

    - boring and lifeless open world filled with anything but rocks

    - non existent meaningless crap plot

    - way too many too long meaningless cutscenes

    - results prompts that can't be skipped once and for all.

    - for every **** thing theres a mini cutscene that sometimes can't even be skipped !

    Taking a **** ?
    cutscene

    Taking a shower ?
    cutscene

    confirmed delivery ?

    unskippable cutscene in yo face where he takes off his **** chain for the 9000th **** time. Why ? because Hideo Kojima

    - NPC if you even can call them so have always to say the same crap, while Sam says nothing.

    You're Sam Bridges, right ?.
    I expected you.
    The package was excellent.

    for real shut the **** up already.

    - BT are annoying and in no way challenging

    this crap movie is 40h long but has maybe 8h at most. of interesting content, artificial inflation of the game lenght is palpable.

    93 % positive reviews on steam are you **** kidding me ?

    easily the worst game I played in the last 5 years.

    Hideo Kojima failed **** hard and should pay me instead to play his trash and the fanboys on steam are desperate.

    im glad I didn't spend any money on this crapshot.    … Expand
  93. AceAscendus
    Jul 17, 2020
    0
    Boring interactive movie walking simulator with no real gameplay. Stay away or waste your money, the choice is yours.
  94. Net-energy
    Aug 13, 2020
    0
    Кодзима – гений (абсолютно поехавший 56-и летний ребёнок). Я и представить себе не мог, что можно сделать такой унылый высер! Сюжет игры представляет из себя то, что Hideo Kojima видит в унитазе, когда сходит в уборную по большому. Геймплея в этом куске вонючего бреда нет ни капли, а только мучения и издевательства над игроком. Игру надо было назвать 15 глав ада по Кодзиме. Игра deathКодзима – гений (абсолютно поехавший 56-и летний ребёнок). Я и представить себе не мог, что можно сделать такой унылый высер! Сюжет игры представляет из себя то, что Hideo Kojima видит в унитазе, когда сходит в уборную по большому. Геймплея в этом куске вонючего бреда нет ни капли, а только мучения и издевательства над игроком. Игру надо было назвать 15 глав ада по Кодзиме. Игра death stranding должно быть зафиксирована как орудие пыток, мне никто не вернет потраченные деньги за игру и самое страшное мое потраченное время! Hideo Kojima ты унылое говно и пожалуйста не делай никогда больше игры!!!… Expand
  95. nurshav331
    Jul 15, 2020
    0
    Very boring, the game is literally made of fetch quest.
    May be fun for people looking to dose off while playing, but definitely not for everyone.
  96. Martynas98
    Jul 18, 2020
    0
    Boring gameplay and very strange story. Also the game is very slow, no action no intressting stuff happening its just BORING!
  97. Kianoosh06
    Jul 15, 2020
    0
    Boring m
  98. Krofes
    Mar 23, 2021
    0
    Truly masterpiece, that was an absolutely new gaming experience since... uh-oh, I don't know, maybe from the first time I've tried MMO games in 00's.
  99. cakedust
    Jul 27, 2020
    0
    The game is basically a glorified walking simulator with baked on "shooter" elements. The story of the game is a sad joke. The fan theories of what the game could be about was far more interesting than the banal drivel offered in this game. Why is this character called Die Hardman? Because he...died...hard. You'll get typical Hideo Kojima try hard lines like, "I'm Fragile but not thatThe game is basically a glorified walking simulator with baked on "shooter" elements. The story of the game is a sad joke. The fan theories of what the game could be about was far more interesting than the banal drivel offered in this game. Why is this character called Die Hardman? Because he...died...hard. You'll get typical Hideo Kojima try hard lines like, "I'm Fragile but not that fragile" without the bombastic and interesting cutscenes of the Metal Gear Solid games. The entire game is an exercise in futility.

    The story beats you over the head over and over again with stupid lines like, "We need to be connected" and other things that might have felt "cool" in Kojima's mind but falls flat in execution. Don't be surprised if you end up rolling your eyeballs so far inside your socket at the game's sad excuse for "twists" and "revelations". Only a fool would be unable to see where this predictable trash story is going to lead.

    The gameplay is basically a walking simulator (Amazon Prime delivery simulator) set in an open, empty world with nothing to do. You walk from point A to point B. Unlike what all the idiotic shills like to say, there is no "challenge" in traversing the dumb environment. There are falling rocks that phase through you without doing any damage whatsoever. This must be the "challenge" shills were talking about. The game's online basically has roads and ziplines everywhere so it's easy to travel to and fro without. The combat in this game revolves around throwing poo and pee grenades at dumb bullet sponge enemies. Enemy AI is stupid and can be easily tricked into loops where you can annihilate them.

    The music is basically licensed trash that you can listen to while trudging across America which looks a lot like Iceland than America. It is clear that Kojima spent the bulk of his money on the so called "star studded" losers from TV and film. All that money wasted, on characters you won't care for, on a game that seeks to insult your intelligence by repeating plot points and threads ad nauseum.

    The PC version of the game comes with Denuvo DRM so to hell with gamers willing to pay money for this trash. It also works only on Windows 10 and won't work on GPUs and CPUs that are technically able to run this unappealing wreck of a game. The game still has numerous crashes and bugs on certain hardware setups (check the Steam forums to know the full extent of how bad this game is).

    Death Stranding is quite possibly the worst game made by Hideo Kojima that fails in every aspect. It's no wonder that Sony did not offer him another deal to work with them. They've also stopped revealing sales numbers after the initial flow of articles that said the game sold 200k copies in Japan (total tally is 399k in Japan). Death Stranding was at the top of the list but quickly toppled over after a few days. To this day, Hideo Kojima insists his game is not a flop. If it is not a flop, why won't he reveal the sales numbers? Last Guardian sold around 1.4 million copies. Ghost of Tsushima sold 2.4 million copies in 3 days. Why is Kojima the only one who refuses to state how many copies his game sold? Please don't post me fake stats from Gamstat that says the game has 3 million players (there is something called Game Sharing on Playstation). Besides, Gamstat states on their website that the numbers are not official. What's the point then? Kojima insists his game is a success. I don't believe him. The game flopped big time. The Steam numbers for the game is pathetic as well.

    If you want to spend your time on a quality game, kindly play something else rather than this putrid pile of garbage called Death Stranding. The game spends more time blowing its c__k than in at least trying to engage the player in any meaningful form. A stupid game, made by a narcissistic pseudo intellectual game maker who is riding on the coat tails of past successful games. That's what you'll get with Death Stranding.

    … Expand
  100. bigandlongp3nis
    Jul 31, 2020
    0
    Your money will be a lot more worthy to spend on some bit ches with STDs than playing this shi tty game of the century,
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 54 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 46 out of 54
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 54
  3. Negative: 0 out of 54
  1. CD-Action
    Oct 15, 2020
    70
    I approached Death Stranding twice. I spent a couple of hours with the PS4 edition and was fascinated with it. I kinda wish I stopped at that and let the game remain a mystery to me rather than complete it later on PC and be disappointed. There are moments when Death Stranding eludes the traditional 1-10 rating system. There are moments when it sets new standards and becomes a truly special experience. But those are just moments scattered throughout tedious gameplay. Still, it is in my opinion one of those games you simply need to play. [10/2020, p.44]
  2. Riot Pixels
    Sep 20, 2020
    67
    Death Stranding is asking you to find variety in a daily rut, cooperation possibilities for a character who has fear of contact, scientific explanations in clear-cut mysticism. Today, you’re annoyed that the story doesn’t move forward, and you have to trek into the same ghost-infested area as before, but tomorrow you’ll gladly spend a few hours hauling resources for a new highway and feeling good about it. This source of joy is very weird and defies explanation.
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  3. PLAY! Zine
    Sep 5, 2020
    90
    Death Stranding on PC is the best way to experience this journey. Game is much more than a walking Sim, it mixes and matches a ton of brilliant new ideas and game mechanics. It is bursting with atmosphere, and the overall quality of the production and presentation is fantastic. Other than minor issues and some non-consistent storytelling, Death Stranding shows us that boundaries can be moved in the today gaming world.
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