Death Stranding

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  • Summary: Besieged by death's tide at every turn Sam Bridges must brave a world utterly transformed by the Death Stranding. Carrying the stranded remnants of the future in his hands, Sam embarks on a journey to reunite the shattered world one step at a time. What is the mystery of the Death Stranding?Besieged by death's tide at every turn Sam Bridges must brave a world utterly transformed by the Death Stranding. Carrying the stranded remnants of the future in his hands, Sam embarks on a journey to reunite the shattered world one step at a time. What is the mystery of the Death Stranding? What will Sam discover on the road ahead? A genre defining gameplay experience holds these answers and more.… Expand
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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 86 out of 111
  2. Mixed: 22 out of 111
  3. Negative: 3 out of 111
  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Mar 18, 2020
    100
    Death Stranding is creating a new game genre and therefore paves its own path towards more interactive experiences. It is a brave work thanks to its novelty, which fortunately is not a bragging right for its creators, as it may have seemed, but an exceptional title that will reward the brave who play it. [Issue#299]
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  2. Push Square
    Nov 1, 2019
    100
    Following years of mysterious anticipation, Death Stranding delivers on all fronts. An accomplished, fascinating set of gameplay mechanics allow you to make deliveries the way you want to, while social features let the game live on once you've put the controller down. It may become slightly tiresome as you hit the halfway mark, but the phenomenal narrative is on hand to pick things back up again and its outstanding visuals are the cherry on top. Death Stranding doesn’t raise the bar for any particular genre, it creates an entirely new one.
  3. PlayStation LifeStyle
    Nov 1, 2019
    95
    Death Stranding is not a “fun” game, but it’s an important and meaningful experience that earns its payoff through every bit of frustration and slog. Its a look at life and death, connection and solitude; a game about building up what matters most and supporting each other selflessly. You’ll be bored at times and downright frustrated at others, but it comes with a great reward at the end that is made sweeter by the trials that precede it. It’s brilliantly unique in its design and implementation of online elements.
  4. GameOver.gr
    Nov 1, 2019
    90
    Death Stranding is one of those epic games where you reach the ending after many, many hours and you have the sense that you played something unique, fresh and a game that could be a comparative point for other games to come. Kojima reaffirms our acknowledgment for his talent of creating engrossing worlds, both in terms of lore and visuals, with well-designed gameplay. What drags it down from a higher grade is its overreliance in, basically, one quest type and the utterly derivative action sequences (thankfully not many of them).
  5. GameGrin
    Nov 21, 2019
    80
    Death Stranding might be the most unique AAA game of the generation, with an addictive core gameplay loop that manages to combine a new concept with tried-and-true design philosophies, and a story that - while messy - has a sweet emotional core that’s likely to stick with players long after the credits roll.
  6. Gameblog.fr
    Nov 1, 2019
    80
    Death Stranding is, first of all, a game which, tries, experiments, and is full of ideas. Playing the role of the lonely Sam Porter Bridges, the player is connected with everyone else thanks to a clever system of collaboration, which works really well thanks to a thoughtful game design. But to enjoy the long run through what seems to be the most beautiful Iceland landscape, you will have to go through a thick, complex and most of all tedious story, which seems to never know when to stop, or being simply essential.
  7. Stevivor
    Nov 1, 2019
    35
    Death Stranding is an irredeemable piece of garbage that should serve as a warning to publishers who give developers carte blanche to create ‘art’.

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  1. Positive: 5,597 out of 8204
  2. Mixed: 503 out of 8204
  3. Negative: 2,104 out of 8204
  1. apolalec
    Nov 8, 2019
    10
    Currently at Episode 2. Having a blast!! Enjoying the game so far, The "Online Function" is really good felt connected to other players!!Currently at Episode 2. Having a blast!! Enjoying the game so far, The "Online Function" is really good felt connected to other players!! also the cutscenes are super good!!!!!… Expand
  2. Espejo0418
    Nov 25, 2019
    10
    I believe this game is brilliant. Human civilizations were constructed based on trade and building share infrastructure. As such one of theI believe this game is brilliant. Human civilizations were constructed based on trade and building share infrastructure. As such one of the most important task humans would need to accomplish is rebuilding that network. Your character role may be a courier but the significant of his task is much greater. With the remaining pockets of humanity living in isolated areas your role is into being them into the communication network. The only way to ensure people want to join is to do them favors like bringing them the supplies they need to survive. This concept is deep on so many levels it makes me think of our ancestors who from their small villages were able to connect with other villages to create the first civilization and empires. Gameplay wise I believe it is awesome too, while many ppl dread the long walks of the start of the game, I found it enjoyable in the context of what is going on. Once all the tools begin to appear the gameplay really kicks off. The combat is decent if there was an area to improve I would say it would be this. Still there were many times when I felt very tense and excited. Overall I think this game is a 10 for me, not because it perfect, but because I truly am enjoying the game… Expand
  4. jeflinus
    Nov 8, 2019
    10
    The story is interesting and engaging, the gameplay is fun and relaxing, I really enjoyed the experience and was really excited to see eachThe story is interesting and engaging, the gameplay is fun and relaxing, I really enjoyed the experience and was really excited to see each turn the story provided. It was great, especially the hades segments.… Expand
  5. Flokifer
    Dec 9, 2019
    9
    Amazing, I loved the philosophy behind the Death Stranding, this game give me so much good vibes.
    If you love videogames you must play it.    Amazing, I loved the philosophy behind the Death Stranding, this game give me so much good vibes.
    If you love videogames you must play it.
    Tomorrow is in your hand.    … Expand
  6. StoneCodeCinema
    Nov 22, 2019
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Ever since the Announcement 3 years ago when a something was brought by non other than Hideo Kojima and his new studio “Kojima Production”, they surprised all of us with a brand new IP called “ Death Stranding”. I will be honest I was expecting the revival of “Silent Hills” knowing before how I was just skeptical but the more trailers they brought into other Gaming conventions at the point I was very interested even though we don’t know what it is or what was even the gameplay going to be? But knowing how kojima keeps his subtlety into his games and teases his fans including myself. We cut now to 3 years later and the game is finally release in public. Before I talk about the game, game journalist got there copies of the game first before us and majority of game journalist gave the game mixed, bad, and even calling it a masterpiece. But I was worried from the most part is the gameplay since I’ve seen a few videos online. I only had high hopes if the game worked for me and.... it turns out it actually did. Now I’ve only have two issues of the game but we’ll get to that later. I would like to talk about the pros.
    I thought the story was really bizarre but at the same time engaging to see, sort of like you watching an arthouse cinematic experience. The music makes it feel like your connected with the world your immerse in. Acting performances and the cast did a phenomenal job. The graphics they used from the decima engine is very detail and very stunning to look at. And last in my opinion I thought the gameplay was really addicting, but here’s the controversial about the gameplay? Only 50/50 would any gamer would either like the game or not. But surprisingly I enjoyed it, later in the game it rewards you with upgrades to make your journey convenient, there is action parts in the game but not to where it would exaggerate a whole lot, just to where it needs to be or in this open world you can take down the BT (Beach Things) or The Mules. BT’s are describe as an entity that surrounds your area and if you get caught by them immediately they’ll sink your character down to where they can kill you. The Mules are enemy in the game that takes your cargo and kills you as well, they’re not the only enemies you have to kill in the game but there’s bosses in the game and some require skill and ways to kill them. And finally I thought the finale of the game is very well handled. If I had to issue two things about the game, it is in the later episodes you start to be bombarded with a whole lotta exposition to where I couldn’t sink in all the information what is has given me, and last this might be a minor spoiler but after you completed connecting all the chiral networks all the way to the West.... the game forces you to walk all the way back to East depending how long you get there, to where I was beginning to feel allot stressful. But overall I fully enjoyed this experience throughout and I also appreciate the game for being different and fresh. I am looking forward to the future for another Hideo Kojima game.    … Expand
  7. PandaHerop1990
    Nov 8, 2019
    4
    it is a rly board game, all looks rly beautiful and spectacular but a game is for playing and this is closest to a interactive movie to a game...
  8. Jazzberri
    Jul 12, 2020
    0
    Worst walking simulator ever. If you Want to try it, please dont spent more than 5€

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