Death Stranding

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7.8

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  1. 85103
    Aug 18, 2020
    7
    Cut scene, and more cut scenes, and too much cut scenes.
    That's why it is the movie, not a game.
  2. hoanns
    Nov 29, 2020
    7
    Its a very well made and produced game.
    The soundtrack is very nice.
    The world looks great but in combination with the sign spam from other players, lacking npcs or real settlements feels not that immersive. The gameplay consists of more than walking, you rebuild infrastructure in various ways helping you and others deliver. You fight throught enemy camps and connect various    Its a very well made and produced game.
    The soundtrack is very nice.
    The world looks great but in combination with the sign spam from other players, lacking npcs or real settlements feels not that immersive.
    The gameplay consists of more than walking, you rebuild infrastructure in various ways helping you and others deliver. You fight throught enemy camps and connect various settlements. The walking and carrying package mechanic is new and refreshing, too, but in the end it's all too repetitive and after I finished the story I did not keep on playing, because the gameplay on it's self was not rewarding enough.    … Expand
  3. JackKrauser
    Nov 7, 2022
    7
    The game is very good graphically and technically. The gameplay is also enjoyable despite some shortcomings. The effort to get from one place to another, searching for a way, building roads and reasoning is good, even though it gets overwhelming at times. The variety of equipment we use makes the game more enjoyable. But I can't make good comments for the scenario of the game. The scriptThe game is very good graphically and technically. The gameplay is also enjoyable despite some shortcomings. The effort to get from one place to another, searching for a way, building roads and reasoning is good, even though it gets overwhelming at times. The variety of equipment we use makes the game more enjoyable. But I can't make good comments for the scenario of the game. The script is complete confusion and strain, with too many metaphors. Frankly, I understood as much as I could, and I didn't want to force myself to do more. Basically, rebuilding America, but very complicated with side stories and metaphors.… Expand
  4. SlaughteRedLamb
    Jul 19, 2020
    7
    Amazing graphics and scenery but the story can be tired and monotonous at times.
  5. ErayTellezi
    Jan 25, 2021
    7
    Hikayesi ve yarattığı evrenle oynanışı bu denli uyumlu bir oyun çok az bulunur. Oyunun hikayesi birbirine yardım etmek üzerine kurulu, bağ kurmakla ilgili. Oynanışta da bazı npc'lere bir şeyler götürüp ağ kuruyorsunuz. Ve online oyuncuların kurduğu yapılardan faydalanabiliyorsunuz. Bu da yine bağ kurmak ve yardımlaşmak ile ilgili. O çetin şartlarda bu sıcacık duyguyu hissediyorsunuz.Hikayesi ve yarattığı evrenle oynanışı bu denli uyumlu bir oyun çok az bulunur. Oyunun hikayesi birbirine yardım etmek üzerine kurulu, bağ kurmakla ilgili. Oynanışta da bazı npc'lere bir şeyler götürüp ağ kuruyorsunuz. Ve online oyuncuların kurduğu yapılardan faydalanabiliyorsunuz. Bu da yine bağ kurmak ve yardımlaşmak ile ilgili. O çetin şartlarda bu sıcacık duyguyu hissediyorsunuz.

    Kargo taşımak sıkıcı gelmedi. Oyun ilerledikçe sürekli yeni ekipman veriyor. Ama bir kaç tanesi hariç oynanışı ne kadar değiştiriyorlar tartışmalı. Her bölümün hikayesinin bir yan karaktere ayrılmış olması kargo taşımayı anlamlı hale getirdi.

    Oyundan Higgs'in getirdiği dev insansı boss ile (Yine japo oyunu yine dev boss. Şu atom bombasının travmasını bi atlatamadınız be kardeşim.) kapışıp yeninceye kadar oldukça keyif aldım. Ancak ondan sonraki her şey tam bir faciaydı. Öbür tarafta Higgs ile tekrar tekrar dövüşmek, sonrasında oyunun sizi haritanın başından sonuna kadar yürümek zorunda bırakması ve ardından gelen sonsuz süredeki ara sahneler. Higgs'in getirdiği boss'u yendiğimde oyun bitti sandım. Ancak onun üzerine bir 10 saat daha oynadım ya da izledim demeliyim. Hikayeyi derinleştirmek adına yapılan boş ve tutarsız muhabbetler. Şunu söylemeliyim ki kurduğu evren olarak gördüğüm en saçma sanatsal içeriklerden birisi. Uyduruk kavramlar üretip üfürmüşler. Tutarlılık yok, hiçbir şey yok. Hikayenin dandikliğini sürekli diyaloglarla anlatmaya çalışmasından anlayabiliriz zaten.

    Sonuçta son 10 saatine kadar iyi ondan sonrası kepaze bir oyun olmuş. Sonu da saçma sapan bir yere çıktı zaten.    … Expand
  6. JennyBaron
    Jan 5, 2021
    7
    The ultimate chill game. No rush, no levels to grind, no timed events. Just you, going from places to places and getting familiar with the map. A perfect game ot play - if you don't know what to play. One major flaw is that the game world is sadly - very boring and monotonous. Its all the same everywhere.
  7. ZzTopNemesis
    Mar 1, 2022
    7
    Score: 7.9

    I think it's an OK designed game, but with massive problems. Story: Too confusing, complex, extended and sometimes boring. I think the premise is ok, but they way it's delivered just doesn't captivate me like other games. Gameplay: This is the main reason i played the game, the gameplay loop just hooked me idk, i loved walking around delivering **** building the roads,    Score: 7.9

    I think it's an OK designed game, but with massive problems.

    Story: Too confusing, complex, extended and sometimes boring. I think the premise is ok, but they way it's delivered just doesn't captivate me like other games.

    Gameplay: This is the main reason i played the game, the gameplay loop just hooked me idk, i loved walking around delivering **** building the roads, getting the 5 stars on everyone, collecting everything, exploring and finding ways to make it easier for the next time i'd pass through somewhere.

    Combat: Combat vs other people it's very clunky but somewhat ok, i've seen worse. COmbat vs BTs is plain boring for me, knowing that i had to walk around a region full of BTs and knowing that it will take like 10mins because of them whilst i could pass normally in 10 seconds just irritated me, i didn't find it fun or challenging. Just Boring.

    Visuals: Stunning, a lot of Copy Paste yes, but beatiful anyway.

    It's not a game i will repla, i got all achievments on steam, i had my fun now it's just stored in my mind.
    I don't recomend it for everyone. Try and get it for around 10 euros, and give it a 10/20 hour shot, see if it hooks you, if it doesn't give up.    … Expand
  8. after76_
    Jan 13, 2022
    7
    Death Stranding is Good but this one is destined to a other public many slow to me
  9. LORD_DINGUS
    Jul 3, 2023
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game is, by far, the most hit or miss thing you could ever possibly develop. Firstly, the good: I found the story to be really engaging, the characters being somewhat interesting(and with actual personality) also helps out. for example, Heartman searches endlessly across potential MILLIONS of beaches for his wife child. Deadman was grown from a lab, and as such, has a unique fascination with the dead, because HE'S dead. The gameplay too, while very same-y, is fun, at least for the first few missions. However, as with every game, there is plenty of Bad: For example, the combat of Death Stranding Suuuucks. The enemies that you fight Aren't different throughout the entire game, the only difference being the terrorists and MULES. on top of that, this game is VERY easy. when you're actually doing combat, you can just run circles around your enemies, and they can't hit you. The bosses are also incredibly easy, even some of the later fights. And the cherry on top, is this game is very unstable. When I first got it, I couldn't even launch the game, because it wouldn't stop throwing errors, and sometimes, the game wouldn't even launch at all. When I finally DID get the game to work, the crashes are plentiful. one time, right at the end of the game, It crashed as I was watching Sam come back to life, and had to watch the hour long ending sequence AGAIN. speaking of things being far too long, I'd estimate about 40 to 50% of this game to just be cutscenes. all-in-all, this game could've done with a little more time in the studio. 7/10.… Expand
  10. Asspull
    Jan 16, 2023
    7
    for me , doing a deliver job is not a enjoyable game . this game is about build road from nature , be a pioneer . the atmosphere of detonating BT is great . The story feels like Japanese style advertising connecting people work and live together .I am the one from opposite side ,I just simply don't like human , this make me a little uncomfortable . as what I known , the great people whofor me , doing a deliver job is not a enjoyable game . this game is about build road from nature , be a pioneer . the atmosphere of detonating BT is great . The story feels like Japanese style advertising connecting people work and live together .I am the one from opposite side ,I just simply don't like human , this make me a little uncomfortable . as what I known , the great people who encourage connecting people together got higher wage , higher rank . whatever how hard I work like a dog
    , blood relationship decide too many things . at least this game have concept of freedom , allow me to decide kill or not , that's important .
    the songs is fine , personally I enjoy no vocal music .    … Expand
  11. strangermoon
    May 23, 2023
    6
    even have great visuals and maps and cinematic in game cutscnes for story like you watching a serie the game eventualy not make sense. the map is mostly empty . the virus idea (which suprsingly predict corona ) more like exsuce to relase big empty map with terrain. game try to dark souls like way points and help online players but on offline you feel like Bear Grylls. helicoter drop youeven have great visuals and maps and cinematic in game cutscnes for story like you watching a serie the game eventualy not make sense. the map is mostly empty . the virus idea (which suprsingly predict corona ) more like exsuce to relase big empty map with terrain. game try to dark souls like way points and help online players but on offline you feel like Bear Grylls. helicoter drop you on point and give you bags to suvive. you found motorcycle on road but have hole on gas tank. game exactly feel like that and choice of kojimas mix cassate tapes track onlyhing you motivate to run or mostly walk.… Expand
  12. TenchuuKhan
    Jul 27, 2020
    6
    How do you rate a game that has rather terrible gameplay in terms of the only challenge being that it's rather annoying to deliver packages? Literally, the only challenge is the endless sea of stones scattered throughout the map.

    However, the story or rather the mythology is well developed. The delivery though, the ending that explains everything literally takes 3 hours consisting of    How do you rate a game that has rather terrible gameplay in terms of the only challenge being that it's rather annoying to deliver packages? Literally, the only challenge is the endless sea of stones scattered throughout the map.

    However, the story or rather the mythology is well developed. The delivery though, the ending that explains everything literally takes 3 hours consisting of 2.5 hours of cutscenes.
    You literally just finished the game and it just won't stop ending...
    At least all questions are answered, no loose endings ala "ah you gotta have to interpret that yourself".

    The concept of the game isn't so bad - deliver packages, reconnect the people.
    The people just aren't interesting, so there's no point in doing side quests to get to know them better or anything.

    So my advise here really is: just do the main objectives, you'll do more deliveries than you wanted to anyway.
    And once you get a vehicle you'll hate the stones even more... the vehicle physics are so bad, you'd think this is some indie dev game. It's laughable.
    Do yourself a favor and, even though it's really hard, don't go near stones in the water - you'll get your vehicle stuck. Definitely.
    And the battery life on vehicles is... just astoundingly bad.

    The physics when carrying packages though makes absolute sense. How you gotta counter the weight by leaning left/right or stopping from falling is perfect.
    Climbing looks like ass though and is unpredictable.

    If they made driving in the least interesting, sort of like Mud Runner, it could have been a good game.
    This however, is a rich story packaged in a bad game.

    Combat is... absolutely laughable. No challenge here, bossfights are boring as fk.
    The only time it's challenging is when you gotta deliver a package for your last mission and you get a bossfight... and you fall over with the package and it gets broken - which it will... 2 hits/falling and it's a goner.

    I really just can't comprehend how you can put so much work into a game and ruin it with horrible gameplay where the core of it just isn't in any way satisfying. It's such a shame.

    Bottom line - can't recommend it.    … Expand
  13. Windaller
    Jul 27, 2020
    6
    This game is a very mixed feeling. Yes, it is gorgeous, and the world multiplayer is something very new and carries a lot of nice social massage. But it is annoying to play for me. It is very slow-paced and a bit tricky to follow. My recommendation if you don't have a free 100 hours to spend just relaxing and walking in quite an empty open world, save your time, and watch an excellentThis game is a very mixed feeling. Yes, it is gorgeous, and the world multiplayer is something very new and carries a lot of nice social massage. But it is annoying to play for me. It is very slow-paced and a bit tricky to follow. My recommendation if you don't have a free 100 hours to spend just relaxing and walking in quite an empty open world, save your time, and watch an excellent compilation of story cinematics on YouTube. The story worth it, but I can see why Hideo should go to film now. And yes - Кодзима Гений!… Expand
  14. Chowjust
    Dec 5, 2022
    6
    A hard game to recommend to anyone, but I do recommend everyone experiences this game at least once. It's unique unlike anything else out there and while it is repetitive and can drag out at times, it all pays off at the end.
  15. panthera1
    Jul 16, 2020
    6
    sooo boooring. not engaging story, long walking without any significant purpose, so long clips that you cannot stop or skip. not worth the time nor money.
  16. jonatasmv
    Jan 18, 2021
    6
    Technically, a masterpiece.
    Great actors and characters.
    Amazing plot...very original;
    But, sadly, with a boring "gameplay"!!
    For me, it seems that the delivery missions are a "toll" that we have to pass to learn more about the story
  17. IMBADA
    Jul 18, 2020
    6
    30시간 플레이했습니다.
    괜찮은 게임인데 다른 사람한테 추천은 못 하겠습니다. 그러면 결국 괜찮은 게임은 아니라는 거겠죠.
    게임플레이나 아트, 사운드, 컨셉, 스토리도 마음에 드는데 스토리텔링이 너무나 별로입니다. 설산부터 심하게 뺑뺑이 시키는 레벨 디자인도 마음에 안 듭니다. 레벨디자인은 딱 봐도 예산 문제로 보여서 이해는 됩니다.    30시간 플레이했습니다.
    괜찮은 게임인데 다른 사람한테 추천은 못 하겠습니다. 그러면 결국 괜찮은 게임은 아니라는 거겠죠.
    게임플레이나 아트, 사운드, 컨셉, 스토리도 마음에 드는데 스토리텔링이 너무나 별로입니다.
    설산부터 심하게 뺑뺑이 시키는 레벨 디자인도 마음에 안 듭니다.
    레벨디자인은 딱 봐도 예산 문제로 보여서 이해는 됩니다.
  18. thatguywhoshere
    Jul 16, 2020
    6
    It's a fantastic game, no doubt about that. From the time I was able to play of it, it was very engaging and looked beautiful. It was also incredibly well optimized.

    ... when it wasn't glitching or crashing. The game had a new texture bug every few minutes and crashed for me every five. It's hard to get into the game when there's always a fear that I could fall through the floor or have    It's a fantastic game, no doubt about that. From the time I was able to play of it, it was very engaging and looked beautiful. It was also incredibly well optimized.

    ... when it wasn't glitching or crashing. The game had a new texture bug every few minutes and crashed for me every five. It's hard to get into the game when there's always a fear that I could fall through the floor or have my progress reset. I'd definitely give the game a higher score if these issues were fixed, or, at least, severely mitigated.    … Expand
  19. tjholowaychuk
    Dec 8, 2020
    6
    Refreshing to play something more cathartic and meditative in the industry but I wish they went all-in on that, it's hard to enjoy fetch-quests and clunky combat, but the environments alone are nice to explore. I'd also lay off the metaphores a bit, naming everything "Strand" just sounds silly after the first few times.
  20. NYFAN23
    Jul 21, 2020
    6
    I have around 32 hours played on this game between both PS4 and PC. I have not yet finished the game but I have to say i really am enjoying playing through this game WHEN IT WORKS. I was going to give the game an 8/10 but after a few crashes, AI quality and some bugs, the game has dropped majorly for me.

    Editing this after yet another crash, the game at the moment is unplayable for    I have around 32 hours played on this game between both PS4 and PC. I have not yet finished the game but I have to say i really am enjoying playing through this game WHEN IT WORKS. I was going to give the game an 8/10 but after a few crashes, AI quality and some bugs, the game has dropped majorly for me.

    Editing this after yet another crash, the game at the moment is unplayable for me.The game looks great, the soundtrack is awesome and the story is fine with me, i'm actually looking forward to seeing what happens if the game will ever let me continue playing it. Fix the bugs, glitches and crashes and this review will rise back to an 8. The more crashes that happen, the more i will come back an re-edit and keep lowering that score.    … Expand
  21. Justareviewer21
    Jul 19, 2020
    6
    It’s a very.... specific game, it’s really slow and beautiful, but, for me, it wasn’t worthy, it’s not my gane
  22. Clive_cowan
    Jul 25, 2020
    6
    The game is Different and original. With a great story. Not my usual kind of game but a good game all round.
  23. Ch1ck3n
    Jul 26, 2020
    6
    Death stranding? More like death slipping all the time when I’m trying to climb a mountain! But to be honest it isn’t a bad game.
  24. Ali129
    May 1, 2021
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Death Stranding benim deneyim ettiğim en farklı oyunlardan birisi oldu. Oyun yepyeni ve daha önce görülmemiş bir oynanış deneyimi sunsa da ben oyunu oynarken genel olarak sıkıldım. Oyunda Türkçe dil desteği bulunması çok güzel, Türkçeleştirmeyi de çok başarılı buldum. Oyunun hikayesinden biraz bahsedeyim. Oyun yakın gelecekte kıyamet sonrası bir dünyada geçiyor. Yıllar önce Ölüm Kıyısı adındaki olay yaşanmış ve dünya değişmiş. Oyunda kontrol ettiğimiz karakter kargocu Sam Porter Bridges, kendisini oyuncu Norman Reedus seslendiriyor ve bu konuda kendisinin oldukça başarılı bir iş çıkarttığını söyleyebilirim. Oyunda aldığımız kargoları zorlu yolları aşarak teslim ediyoruz. Bu kargoları teslim etmeye çalışırken kargolara saldırıp onları çalmaya çalışan Yükçü grupları, üzerine düştüğü insanları hızla yaşlandıran Zamankıyım yağmurları ve KV isimli ilginç yaratıklar oyunun büyük çoğunluğunda oyuncuya saldırıyor. Amerikayı yeniden eski haline döndürmeye çalışan ancak bunu başaramadan ölen başkanın kızı Amelie ülkeyi Kiral Ağ'a bağlayabilmek için 3 sene evvel harekete geçmiştir fakat saldırıya uğramış ve esir düşmüştür. Ardından hologramı yoluyla Sam ile iletişime geçen Amelie, onun yardımını ister. Sam ilk başta pek sıcak bakmasa da sonradan Amelie'nin teklifini kabul eder. Sam bir "Öteci" olarak isimlendiriliyor. Öteciler ölümsüz oluyor ve öldükleri zaman okyanus gibi bir yerde yeniden doğuyorlar. Oyundaki düşmanlarımız Higgs ve Cliff. Oyunun hikayesi genel olarak Sam'in tüm zorluklara rağmen verilen önemli kargoları taşıması ve Amelie'nin amacına ulaşmasına yardım etmesi ile geçiyor. Oyunda Norman Reedus'ın yanı sıra Lea Seydoux, Mads Mikkelsen ve Troy Baker gibi ünlü isimlerin de bulunduğunu belirteyim. Bu isimler harika oyunculukları ve seslendirmeleriyle oyundan alınan keyfi kesinlikle arttırıyor. Oyunun hikayesi ve hikaye sunumu başarılı. Fakat oyundaki bazı ara sahneler çok uzun ve sıkıcı, çoğu zaman ara sahneler oyunanışı baltalıyor ve ben oyun oynarken sürekli ara sahneler tarafından durdurulmayı hiç sevmiyorum, elbette oyuna ara sahne koyulmasın demiyorum bu kadar güçlü bir oyuncu kadrosu ile tabii ki ara sahnelere ağırlık verilmesi normal fakat keşke oynanış ile ara sahneler biraz daha dengeli olsaydı. Bana göre oyunun en büyük problemi oynanış, evet bu oyun yepyeni bir oynanış ve çeşitli içerikler sunuyor fakat bunu yaparken oyuncuyu eğlendiremiyor. Kıyamet sonrası bir dünyada bir yerden bir yere kargo taşıma konsepti benim hiç hoşuma gitmedi. Oyunda farklı araçlar kullanarak, yapılar inşa ederek, çeşitli ekipmanlar kullanarak kargoyu belirtilen yere ulaştırabiliyoruz fakat konsept bana göre çok sıkıcı olduğu için ben pek keyif alamadım. Ayrıca oyundaki savaş sistemi çok yetersiz ve sürekli birbirini tekrar eden savaşlar var oyunda, bunlar da zaten sıkıcı bulduğum oynanışı daha da sıkıcılaştırdı. Ayrıca oyun biraz fazla uzun, ana hikaye biraz daha kısa tutulsaydı daha iyi olurdu diye düşünüyorum. Grafiksel olarak oyun fena sayılmaz, 1080p yüksek ayarlarda oyunun gayet güzel göründüğünü söyleyebilirim. Fakat optimizasyon konusunda maalesef oyun vasat. Oyunu akıcı bir şekilde oynarken bazen aniden saliselik takılmalar meydana geliyor ve bu takılmalar sürekli tekrarlanıyor, kısa bir zaman sonra oyun tekrar akıcı hale geliyordu. Sistemimin oyun için yeterli olmasına rağmen bu sorunu yaşamak beni üzdü, bahsettiğim sorun sürekli olmuyordu fakat yine de bu sorunun çözülememiş olması üzücü. Death Stranding güçlü oyuncu kadrosuyla güzel bir hikaye ve hikaye sunumu isteyenler ile yepyeni farklı bir oynanış arayanlar için iyi bir oyun olsa da oyunun konsepti herkese göre değil ve şahsen ben oyunu oynarken oldukça sıkıldım.… Expand
  25. flp456
    Mar 14, 2021
    6
    Visualy gorgeous but endless boring and repetitive cutscenes ruin the gameplay experience
  26. Yannig
    Nov 27, 2022
    6
    + Great attention to detail.
    + Somewhat interesting story.
    + Good graphics. - Just not fun to play. - The same cut scenes and summary screens again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again ... - The end is so tedious. It took about three hours (and two ending credits) before all the ending cut scenes had    + Great attention to detail.
    + Somewhat interesting story.
    + Good graphics.

    - Just not fun to play.
    - The same cut scenes and summary screens again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again ...
    - The end is so tedious. It took about three hours (and two ending credits) before all the ending cut scenes had finished. I kept on wishing the game would just end already.

    I feel somewhat like a free man now the game is finished. However, there's work to be done, the game doesn't really finish. Orders available.

    Please release me already! Aaaaaagggghhhhh!!!    … Expand
  27. XMM001
    Dec 6, 2021
    6
    Played 22 hours. The game is boring. It's like doing another work in the game.
    If you feel comfortable to be a delivery guy, this game might work but otherwise I think this game can easily make you tired.
    I liked the graphics though.
  28. Wipleri
    Jan 9, 2022
    6
    Deathstranding is a great piece of work, a game graffifically as well as a story of high-end top class. The annoyance of the grade of eating some of the graphic bugs and other little bugs, eg buildings walls disappears, the objects are going to be invisible, the character hovers in the air. These things have been corrected before the release of the game would be worth the full ratings.Deathstranding is a great piece of work, a game graffifically as well as a story of high-end top class. The annoyance of the grade of eating some of the graphic bugs and other little bugs, eg buildings walls disappears, the objects are going to be invisible, the character hovers in the air. These things have been corrected before the release of the game would be worth the full ratings. That will have to settle for the average game among though it is many parts of a great and good game.… Expand
  29. Dangusse
    Dec 26, 2022
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. there is a wealth of interesting and innovative content to be had here, but it is wasted on an almost unplayable system of walking, as well as a huge number of forced point and click segments that should simply be replaced with some narration or dare i say another cutscene. i get what they were going for, the controls are generally the opposite of ergonomic, and norman flails about like a deranged octopus when faced with the smallest obstacle. it's also just rude of kojima to force us to listen to his pretentious songs, they are not good and it's literally impossible to turn them off, plus the name of the song and band stay in the middle of the screen for the duration of the songs. i've heard 2 songs so far and they were awful. when it seriously began playing the first song in full AGAIN, i had to mute the entire game for the duration of the mission. i think the reason kojima chose these weird songs in english is probably because it's not as distracting to a native japanese speaker when the english lyrics are bad.

    it just seems that no matter how good the mid to late game content might be, kojima is firmly opposed to making the game fun or enjoyable aside from the cutscenes. i get that it's supposed to be dark, but that doesn't mean you need to deliberately make it impossible to walk. norman should be in a wheelchair with this level of motion impairment, not climbing freaking mountains while carrying his mom's corpse. besides that, why am i forced to walk to the incinerator? there are literally 5 different cars i walk past, and they could have at least made a road to the facility if it's so important, or perhaps just put an incinerator inside the freaking settlement. this is just one more of what seems like an endless slough of restrictive and pretentious design choices, so it feels that the controls have taken a step back in realism when it was supposed to be an improvement.

    frankly, this game could be made a 10/10 with a simple patch to remove like 75% of kojima's input. he has been so arrogant in this game's development that it almost feels like the game is intended to cause frustration and disappointment to the player. allow us to turn the music off, remove the song names on screen, turn down the wet noodle physics by more than half, let us go faster, and maybe dont put a bunch of cars on our path that we have to walk past but can't use despite them clearly being usable later. i get that it's supposed to be hard to carry a body up a mountain when you are on 50 of those quaaludes from wolf of wall street, but can hideo instead ask himself: "why are we carrying a body up a mountain on quaaludes, and what life choices have led to this being considered ready for release"

    above all else, what bothers me about this is that i want to know whats going on. the plot is great, tons of cool stuff, but the game wants to make me go through such a ridiculous gauntlet to proceed that i'd almost rather just be provided a "Story mode" where i don't need to worry about balance, death, or resources at all. however, this can be accomplished by simply watching all the cinematics on youtube. at the end of the day, i will give this a 6 because i got it for free and there is genuinely good content here, particularly in the art department. had i paid for it, i would be demanding a refund though. perhaps someone has modded it by now though.    … Expand
  30. urmom123
    Jun 5, 2023
    6
    Would have been better as a movie. The story, world, atmosphere and message is really unique and interesting and I was genuinely curious about how the world came to be and how each character got involved in it. I don't think anyone else could pull off being a post-apocalyptic deliveryman/construction worker better than Kojima can.

    The big pain of playing this game is the    Would have been better as a movie. The story, world, atmosphere and message is really unique and interesting and I was genuinely curious about how the world came to be and how each character got involved in it. I don't think anyone else could pull off being a post-apocalyptic deliveryman/construction worker better than Kojima can.

    The big pain of playing this game is the mediocre-to-terrible gameplay experience you're going to have. Awful controls and responsiveness, terrible UI and UX, god awful combat, and suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuper drawn out and convoluted exposition that all gets thrown out the window anyway because Kojima spoon feeds you the entire story in the last 2-3 hours of the game anyway.

    I've seen some gameplay of the Director's Cut though and it looks quite a bit better than the base game, please go for that instead over the base "game".    … Expand
  31. PenetratorGod
    Aug 29, 2023
    6
    Main problem with this game is that it was developed more like a movie than a game. Nobody has observed the development from a gamer's point of view. That's why the gameplay is so boring. They wanted to try something different but I hope the sequel will be different because this way it will never be a game that will appeal to everyone.
  32. DexSK
    Jan 10, 2023
    6
    The story is typically Kojima-esque, bizarre and interesting in its own way, a category unto itself. So far so good, although it caused quite a few raised eyebrows while I'm playing it through.
    There's one disappointing detail though. If I want to reload my last save, I have to quit the game into the main menu and hit continue, no easy way to do this directly from the Esc menu in game.    The story is typically Kojima-esque, bizarre and interesting in its own way, a category unto itself. So far so good, although it caused quite a few raised eyebrows while I'm playing it through.
    There's one disappointing detail though. If I want to reload my last save, I have to quit the game into the main menu and hit continue, no easy way to do this directly from the Esc menu in game.
    Also, when I get caught by the monsters and end up in the cutscene that leads to respawning, there's also no way to just interrupt the thing and reload the last checkpoint before that. Just to get rid of that cutscene and do another try from the last saved position, I have to kill the whole game via Alt+F4 (thankfully at least that works and I don't have to do this in the Task Manager), and start it up again. Not at all user-friendly, this kind of crap effectively degrades even the best games to torture IMHO, even to the point of regretting my purchase. I was glad Epic did have it on its free games offer for a time, I don't have to think about asking for a refund.

    Overall, beautiful visuals, interesting story, great soundtrack: 8/10. Usability crap: degraded to 6/10.    … Expand
  33. i3ringit
    Feb 12, 2023
    6
    Very underwhelming considering it comes from the mind of legendary Hideo Kojima.

    In a few words: Postal Service Simulator.
  34. LilitNefara
    May 25, 2023
    6
    Онлайн состовляющая в теории звучит очень круто, на деле это минус. Чисто бродилка, тупым сюжет не понять.
  35. Veska
    Sep 9, 2022
    5
    I tried to finish it. I really tried because the story, background of the whole world, etc. feels so interesting. But the gameplay is so annoyingly boring that I just gave up after 8 hours. You really can't just "walk" all the time.
  36. savvym
    Jul 29, 2021
    5
    Death Stranding is a realistic walking simulator in a post-apocalyptic fantasy world based in the territory of America where we play as a cargo porter.

    It's story driven and has repetitive quests in a semi-open world. Story is captivating and mysterious but I feel like there are some strange explanations inside missions and the initial tension and horror features evaporate shortly    Death Stranding is a realistic walking simulator in a post-apocalyptic fantasy world based in the territory of America where we play as a cargo porter.

    It's story driven and has repetitive quests in a semi-open world.

    Story is captivating and mysterious but I feel like there are some strange explanations inside missions and the initial tension and horror features evaporate shortly after experiencing them 10 times over.

    There are long cutscenes and a lot of unplayable scenes which you will be skipping on purpose after seeing them so many times and this happens when delivering a cargo, going to private room, repairing a bike and even when entering a BT territory, game stops you and goes into slow motion, like if it was not clear that you are going into danger zone from the signs around put by other players and these zones are same. Even facing BTs who are supposed to kill you, you repatriate and you need to be very bad at game to get to 0 health because after 20 hours in, they still did not manage to kill me, on the hardest difficulty.

    Walking is the most common way of getting around, the transport on bike comes into play after 7 hours but still walking will be required afterwards.

    We have to balance our body so we won't fall and damage the cargo which in some cases can still be delivered if it's not too damaged. The problem is our character will start losing balance easily when carrying over 120 kg and everything above that makes him move very slowly.

    When our guy - Sam - loses too much stamina, he walks slower, he can rest and sleep outside, refuel stamina by drinking a monster energy drink.

    The bike is charged at the power station but the territory first has to be connected to the first main city which requires you to deliver certain supplies.

    Besides taking 2 to 3 km walks across rough terrain with heavy load on the back, there are two types of enemies; BTs and MULEs.

    First, they are ghosts presented in the very start, they appear in the rain which happens in certain areas. They react to sounds and drag you to death if you fail to run off. They can even throw you off the bike.

    Second, they are bandits stealing cargos and use scanners to track your cargo whenever you pass by, they are using electrical weapons to stun you. They are afraid of rain.

    The enemies almost always respawn in the same areas. Many players have put up signs of warning areas but still we can not fully avoid the danger zones, we can only maneuver in between them and outrun them when they start chasing us.

    The bike can also be stopped easily and it's frustrating to beat the same opponents especially because we will be running back and forth a lot.

    Your character is a one man army but without real weapons, he is using his pee and poo grenades and can throw cargo or ram enemies with bike. He can knock them out.

    I see a big problem with building ladders and such to provide me the ways to cross some rough terrains, when going on the edges of areas, you are not allowed to build these bridges despite not being on the edge of the world map, just trying to avoid make a shortcut with a lot of fabricated ladders, the game easily prevents new players from seeing other players bridges and signs, why did the developers have to prevent a solo player from building in their single player game building anywhere they want when they grinded so long to have spare materials.

    The game does not respect a lot of my time and fails a mission by losing materials due to aging rain or BTs, but even worse when an NPC warns me about a nearby body to turn to necro but there is none marked on my map, nor receiving any objective, a couple hours later, a game is over when this supposedly marked body was not near, and was secretly time sensitive main mission as I can progress a couple hours but I can not continue afterwards.

    It is also dragging through its chapters like no other game. The story starts to stagnate just a few hours in, I reached only the 3rd out of 14 after 20 hours, still not completing all missions, you can see for yourself this game is grindy, frustrating and punishing despite not being very difficult.

    Verdict:
    5/10

    If I took the story separately, I would probably say it is worth watching if you like a sci-fi horror movie but the gameplay drags it so low despite being rather innovative at some areas and definitely a good portion of the struggle I was having fun. I can not recommend this game to the general audience, nor to the fans of long story driven RPGs. It is an exhausting and not very rewarding experience. I almost loved it for its visuals but then I get reminded how bad the missions are and how grinding has not helped me at all.    … Expand
  37. zzkaiser
    Jul 27, 2021
    5
    Un juego demasiado bueno y demasiado malo a la vez, tiene una gran historia, con personajes mas que destacables, un apartado gráfico, que mas quisieran otros juegos, pero eso solo es una pequeña parte, por desgracia, que el 90 por cien del juego sea hacer de repartidor y que solo 2 o 3 repartos tengan algún sentido, hacen una gran promesa, en un juego largo y muy aburrido con escenariosUn juego demasiado bueno y demasiado malo a la vez, tiene una gran historia, con personajes mas que destacables, un apartado gráfico, que mas quisieran otros juegos, pero eso solo es una pequeña parte, por desgracia, que el 90 por cien del juego sea hacer de repartidor y que solo 2 o 3 repartos tengan algún sentido, hacen una gran promesa, en un juego largo y muy aburrido con escenarios preciosos pero con cero de vida… Expand
  38. HempWolf
    Dec 29, 2021
    5
    The game is clearly meant, for players, who can enjoy a cineastic experience, unfortunately i started playing it on a day i had no time, so i got pretty quick annoyed, by the amount of cutscenes. If you buy, do yourself a favor and start it in the right mindset and with alot of time to start the first part of the game.
  39. TangChao
    Jul 18, 2020
    5
    玩了前两章 ，好玩，绝对10分，不错，有意思，优化很好，垃圾IGN，
    玩到第三章 ，从上面跑到下面，又从下面跑到上面，草拟吗的又要从上面跑到下面
    玩到第五章 ，跑路，战斗，BT，跑路，战斗，BT，总算到雪山山顶了，好吧下山，吗的又要上山？还要带个包袱，甘霖娘的小岛秀夫 玩到第六章 ，对不起IGN，我误会你了 第七 ，第八，第九，第十，我己经麻木了 这个游戏就是个“开头的神作”，越玩到后面越感到乏味 很多人之所以给高分大多数都只是玩了个开头或者只是冲着小岛去的 单机模式那天文数字的材料收集让我望而却步 联机模式下别人造好了建筑，游戏又少了份建造的乐趣    玩了前两章 ，好玩，绝对10分，不错，有意思，优化很好，垃圾IGN，
    玩到第三章 ，从上面跑到下面，又从下面跑到上面，草拟吗的又要从上面跑到下面
    玩到第五章 ，跑路，战斗，BT，跑路，战斗，BT，总算到雪山山顶了，好吧下山，吗的又要上山？还要带个包袱，甘霖娘的小岛秀夫
    玩到第六章 ，对不起IGN，我误会你了
    第七 ，第八，第九，第十，我己经麻木了

    这个游戏就是个“开头的神作”，越玩到后面越感到乏味
    很多人之所以给高分大多数都只是玩了个开头或者只是冲着小岛去的

    单机模式那天文数字的材料收集让我望而却步
    联机模式下别人造好了建筑，游戏又少了份建造的乐趣
  40. x_moyo_x
    Jul 16, 2020
    5
    It is good to see a game with so many refreshing mechanics and experiences. Let take a look to the game:

    Graphics: What can I say, they are amazing, the 3D engine provided by Guerrilla is one of the most advanced one, performing excellently moving big maps. The details are impressive and the face expressions are close to real life. The technology behind is one of its strongest points.    It is good to see a game with so many refreshing mechanics and experiences. Let take a look to the game:

    Graphics: What can I say, they are amazing, the 3D engine provided by Guerrilla is one of the most advanced one, performing excellently moving big maps. The details are impressive and the face expressions are close to real life. The technology behind is one of its strongest points.

    Sound: The environment effects are created nicely and they sound like they must, nothing revolutionary but doing a good job. The voices of characters are nicely recorded and match with the face expressions. The music does ok with good and chill themes around that appear under pressure. Nothing to complain.

    Game play: Well, I liked it a lot, but I can understand that this is not a game for everyone. Do not be fooled, this is a walking simulator and it has all the good and the bad of these types of games. You will expend hours trying to reach a point with no interaction with any living form apart form the protagonist. It is a game that you will enjoy if you like to child out and enjoy the journey with some punctual combat moments. The combat, on the other hand, feels simple and out of options.

    Story: Remember this is a Kojima game, so you shall expect a lot of confusion during the game, with a lot of second meanings and unconcluded elements. After finishing the game, you would probably try to find an explanation of the ending in Internet. For me the story could be better as it is a complex and slow-paced apocalyptic tale told by NPCs through large cinematics. Am I the only one that miss simpler stories as MGS the twin Snakes or MGS 3 Snake eater?

    Online: The online system is something similar to Dark Soul; you cannot summon other players but players support each other building elements that other players can use to make the journey easier.

    Performance: The game run smoothly in pcs that are 4 years old. The engine is really optimized and it look amazing, but this game has a DRM that slows the game close to 20%: Denuvo. This evil DRM affect deeply the performance of the game and I am not really up to install this kind of programs that fill your computer with trash and undeleted element in the pc.

    Good things:
    - Technology behind the game is awesome
    - Refreshing game play
    - First line actors
    - Original online system
    - Music is ok

    Bad things
    - DENUVO for god shake
    - Not a game for everyone
    - Combat system can be better
    - The story can be confusing, again not for everyone

    I would give this game an 8.5 points, but the Denuvo DRM is an evil that must be destroyed in the pc industry. Sadly, I must give this game less points. Unfortunately, I bought the game before I knew this game has Denuvo.    … Expand
  41. ArianHedayat
    Jul 19, 2020
    5
    این بازی یک بازی بسیار متوسط که بدون هیچ نقطه aخوب باعث میشه که یک افتضاح و بدترین بازی تریپل سونی در این نسل به شمار میره
  42. Mixey1991
    Jul 20, 2020
    5
    5 maximum for it. ppl who score it 10, u really think that this game is perfect?really?omg, whats wrong this u?
  43. HexadecimalByte
    Jul 22, 2020
    5
    The game is hard to get used to, it's not the best game with the best graphics but it's not terrible. There's many negative things about this game, I was hoping it wouldn't go too far from mgs, the gameplay is frustrating for me to play.
  44. CraigSouthern
    Jul 15, 2020
    5
    I enjoyed the fact hideo tried an entry of something completely different. Music was fantastic, visuals excellent but unfortunately the actual gameplay fell flat for me. Many peoe will enjoy the traversal, but me personally found it boring and to repetitive to invest more of my time. I rated it 5/10 as a you'll either love it or hate. I played a good 20 hours and payed £50 for it but amI enjoyed the fact hideo tried an entry of something completely different. Music was fantastic, visuals excellent but unfortunately the actual gameplay fell flat for me. Many peoe will enjoy the traversal, but me personally found it boring and to repetitive to invest more of my time. I rated it 5/10 as a you'll either love it or hate. I played a good 20 hours and payed £50 for it but am reluctant to return to it. I knew it was a gamble I have read the story is amazing but getti g to that point I ran out of steam. Weirdest thing is I would recommend it because it's so different and unusual you have to try it just in case it is your masterpiece... That's how good/bad it is.... There's no denying it's unique it's just boring to a gamer whose been spoilt this generation on playstation. Maybe next time kojima… Expand
  45. GamersInfuzed
    Jul 17, 2020
    5
    Hideo Kajima did it again with this stunning game. The story, the characters and the world is very beautiful, detailed and interesting.
  46. Gaber17
    Jul 21, 2020
    5
    This game is actually amazing,spetecular,perfect.Kojima Productions thanks for this beautiful story.Can't wait Death Stranding 2.
  47. jordanlearmonth
    Jul 31, 2020
    5
    Game has an interesting story and concept, unfortunately it is ruined by the length of the game at 40-60 hours. This means you will be walking and delivering parcels for that amount of time, the gameplay isn't great the BT's are more annoying than scary massive disappointment imo.
  48. Ariek
    Nov 25, 2020
    5
    While its graphics were outstanding and the details were well implemented, the story is lakin more moments of impact. The game have big segments in where the player is basically wandering around aimlessly, which turn it dry and sometimes boring.
  49. Fyre
    Nov 26, 2020
    5
    While the story is good with its interesting lore, the gameplay just does not hold up. Way too boring, slow, and I don't enjoy walking as gameplay.
  50. hyperjoc
    Jan 10, 2021
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. So what is an important thing we do not like about games? The simple A to B quests/missions, take this to there etc. So what is this game about? Bringing stuff from point A to B. Sounds simple right? You must walk and not on the easy way. You run, you loose your balance, you will drop unless you press left and right mouse button, then everything is alright.

    It is boring... You also have a baby which will cry every time the bump is too hard and you must shake the bottle so he goes to sleep again. The first times are fun, but it is just like a real baby, you need to do it everytime, a lot of moments and it is getting boring.

    So you have a vehicle right? Yes after a long time you get your electrical vehicle which can go not so far. But you can climb mountains with it. Talking about mountains, do you know you also get bridges, ladders, rope etc. to cross every obstacle? By that time my load was already many times in the water or falling down a hill :P. When you climb a ladder and it is just too high you will jump off on the side of the hill and you tumble down. No big deal right? Well your load will get damaged and your baby starts crying again...

    it is trying to be realistic, there are a lot of detail, like with the walking but also when you have too much stuff on your back and you go into a cave, the load will fall off when you hit the ceiling. In a way I like it, but when I look at the characters, they all look flat. First I think: wow they are looking good, but then you think: it is like the put paper on a robot. Like it is an old game. Everything is stiff and almost no emotion in the faces. Also the bodies can look a bit odd.

    Also you run around in a big open world, but you walk from building to building. In some buildings you can enter with one room, but other building only have a big pole standing there. You communicatie with holograms. You can go to your own room, but that is a loading screen and you cannot do so much, you sit on your bed and you can go take a shower, you land back on your bed, you can go to your baby, you go back to your bed. Yes you can also go to the baby and press A or D to go to the next thing. But it does not feel realistic. When you want your vehicle repaired, you must put the vehicle inside the building on the elevator. Then go to the pole and place it in the garage, then an animation will start and it is in the garage. You will get a notification that it is repaired, so you must go back to the pole, put your bike out of the garage and another animation will follow...

    So for some one who mostly skips videos because he wants to play, this is very annoying, but specially for this game I watched all the movies in the beginnen. The story starts weird and that is what keeping me interested. But after a while I started skipping the videos. I started loosing interest in the game. I did not care about the ghosts who are flying around, I see them as a reason to slow me down. I tried to play it with a trainer, to cut away the things I did not like, but I saw now improvement. Also the bad UI is killing for me.

    Today I decided to uninstall the game and write a review about it. This is really not the game for me, while I can like games that are repetitive or different. I really liked metal gear solid 5 for example, not the big robot part, but everything else was very good. The options you have, the freedom etc. So this is not like that and I was not expected that. I can see they put a lot of love in it and I really encourage to do something different, but this is not for me. This is just a boring game, that is trying to let you do your job in the slowest way possible. Now that I am on the end I am feeling that a small part of me wants to go back to the game. There were good things, but I just start up another game and I will forget about this feeling.    … Expand
  51. Chocomint
    Jul 13, 2021
    5
    It is quite ironic that Death Stranding has the best story I have ever seen in a video game but at the same time the single worst possible gameplay I could have ever imagined

    -The story : The narrative is amazing and it is carried with solid acting and well-crafted cutscenes that keeps the plot constantly evolving; the whole story is like a puzzle on which every cutscene gives one    It is quite ironic that Death Stranding has the best story I have ever seen in a video game but at the same time the single worst possible gameplay I could have ever imagined

    -The story :
    The narrative is amazing and it is carried with solid acting and well-crafted cutscenes that keeps the plot constantly evolving; the whole story is like a puzzle on which every cutscene gives one small piece but at the end of the game all pieces come together and everything makes sense and it kind of rewards the players who have really paid attention to the details from the beginning which is the only element I'd say gives you motivation to continue playing to see what happens next.

    -The gameplay :
    Now you'd wonder, if the story is that good, the gameplay can't possibly be that bad right ? Well No, but actually Yes. The gameplay is one of the most boring, unsatisfying, frustrating, tilting I have ever seen all throughout my 15 years of gaming; it is nowhere near bearable let alone it being enjoyable or fun. It's as if the developers tried their hardest to think about the task that most people hate to accomplish and turned it into a video game. Walking from point A to point B couldn't even be that bad if the controls weren't this terrible, especially the vehicles; however the game tried to come up with an interesting solution in order to travel faster which is creating structures like roads, bridges, ladders etc. but those are so time-consuming to make and they cut such a miserable part of the roaming that nobody even bothers with them because it is not FUN to spend hours gathering ressources and transporting them to a specific location just for you to save around 200meters of not having to ride through natural ground. The last thing I can complain about is how detached the gameplay is from the story, there is literally no link between both; besides, the portion of the gameplay is much much higher than the interesting story parts where it should have been the opposite, you have 2 hours of walking and delivering packages and then 5mins of cutscenes but at that point you completely forgot what happened last time especially if you can't afford yourself to play it at once.

    Long story short, death stranding is in my opinion a 30h game that should have been 15h AT MOST. As a movie I'd give it a 10 but as a game I can't give it more than 5.    … Expand
  52. HongGilDong
    Jan 24, 2022
    5
    I turned on the translator, so please understand.

    I guarantee that I won the Platinum Trophy.

    The game is fun from the moment I receive transportation. I thought of it while sleeping, so I woke up and played the game again.
    However, the feeling of driving beyond all of this is annoying. So I gave him five points.
  53. Knjutbadag
    Mar 20, 2022
    5
    THIS IS GOOD GAME ilove this game, n yk daryl so hot for whatt? AAAAAAAAAAA
  54. TurboCotton
    May 28, 2023
    5
    Fascinating story and a unique experience, but I really did not find the gameplay enjoyable. I felt like a slave pack mule delivering **** for a cause I really did not care about, nor did the game make me feel like I should. I like my games challenging, but even on the hardest difficulty, I could just hold W and complete a delivery with an S rank for the majority of the deliveries. Not forFascinating story and a unique experience, but I really did not find the gameplay enjoyable. I felt like a slave pack mule delivering **** for a cause I really did not care about, nor did the game make me feel like I should. I like my games challenging, but even on the hardest difficulty, I could just hold W and complete a delivery with an S rank for the majority of the deliveries. Not for me personally.… Expand
  55. Jariconx
    Jun 2, 2023
    5
    it's a great game.The plot here is just beautiful, because here it is tragic, but sometimes it is quite difficult to understand.I will be happy to play death stranding 2.Well, if you of course send me a ps5, then it would generally be 10 out of 10 :)
  56. Midyen
    Jun 7, 2023
    5
    Based on the gameplay, graphics, sound, content, and originality of the game, I will give it a rating of 5.
  57. Agate1
    Aug 22, 2023
    5
    Walking simulator, I know it’s kind of the point of the game but man it’s too much. And even with vehicles it just gets boring
  58. 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!
  59. 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
  60. icheyne
    Oct 8, 2020
    4
    Original fiction. Beautiful cut scenes and world. Poor action. Repetitive game play.
  61. 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
  62. 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
  63. 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
  64. 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
  65. 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
  66. 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
  67. 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.
  68. 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.
  69. 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
  70. 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
  71. 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
  72. 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.
  73. RockerKR
    Nov 17, 2020
    4
    walking symulator lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
  74. 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
  75. 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
  76. 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
  77. 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
  78. 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
  79. 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
  80. 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
  81. 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
  82. 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.
  83. 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
  84. whunterj
    Sep 23, 2020
    3
    Simplemente me forcé a jugarlo para ver si de verdad era bueno pero me gano el aburrimiento
  85. 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
  86. hileger
    Jan 29, 2023
    3
    Завуалированный СЖВ ,ЛГБТ Кал с примесью Трансгуманизма.........................
  87. 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.
  88. 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.
  89. 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.
  90. 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.
  91. 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.
  92. 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
  93. Kneedeep
    Aug 16, 2020
    3
    This just shows that good visuals beat good story but this thing makes no sense.
  94. 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
  95. 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.
  96. 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.
  97. KanarXP
    Feb 28, 2022
    3
    No gameplay only watch

    Graphics 8/10
    Gameplay3/10
    Music 8/10
    Story game 4/10
    Co-op -
  98. 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.
  99. 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.
  100. 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
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#16 Best PC Game of 2020
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#11 Most Discussed PC Game of 2020

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86

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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