Death Stranding

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7.4

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  1. alexeroff
    Nov 11, 2019
    1
    Manipulation with the embryo in the bank, urination, production of grenades from feces, against the background of a boring delivery of boxes.
  2. SirHybra
    Nov 14, 2019
    1
    constantly repeats itself. repeats itself. repeats itself. repeats itself.
  3. Wiiflyy
    Nov 12, 2019
    3
    Será rompedor y todo lo que tú quieras... Pero es aburrido hasta la saciedad
  4. Tkgamer2020
    Nov 12, 2019
    2
    Worst game of the year Kojima has to rethink what he does because this was his worst game ever .. defects and repetitions make this game theWorst game of the year Kojima has to rethink what he does because this was his worst game ever .. defects and repetitions make this game the worst in the year .. worst in the year ..
  5. Fellps
    Nov 12, 2019
    3
    Boring game with nice graphics and music. Ok, it is creative but a game should be fun to play and it is not.
  6. Gybeits
    Nov 14, 2019
    0
    Waste of time and money.This is not a game for me.Walk,Walk and walk.Just a word.Boring!
  7. FilthyActs88
    Nov 15, 2019
    3
    This is literally just a walking simulator, just watch a silent playthrough and you will have just as much fun (if not more because you don’t have to “play it”) as someone who actually played the game.
  8. Geracrave
    Nov 15, 2019
    0
    Pretencioso como su creador y aburrido, para nada es esto un "nuevo genero" o innovador, si quiero caminar mejor voy a la calle.
  9. Castigation
    Nov 14, 2019
    1
    This game is so unbelievably boring and disjointed as to be truly pathetic.
  10. Syrona7
    Nov 8, 2019
    0
    The first ever AAA walking simulator. LOL.
    All the mystery surrounding this game was literally just to protect it from people finding out it's a trash game and not buying it on release.
    So much wasted time and resources just to create Kojima's drunken idea of a game. This game is not fun. It has graphics, it has voice acting, it has a ton of cutscenes, loooooong cutscenes, but the fun    The first ever AAA walking simulator. LOL.
    All the mystery surrounding this game was literally just to protect it from people finding out it's a trash game and not buying it on release.
    So much wasted time and resources just to create Kojima's drunken idea of a game.

    This game is not fun. It has graphics, it has voice acting, it has a ton of cutscenes, loooooong cutscenes, but the fun is low to none.

    Stay away from it.    … Expand
  11. Lionheart_Alpha
    Nov 8, 2019
    4
    While the cut scenes are long and intricate I still carnt walk for miles just to watch the next one no matter how much I will myself too
  12. Dantecz78
    Nov 29, 2019
    0
    Se volevo guardare un film andavo al cinema. I giochi servono a giocare (e poi se c'è una storia di sottofondo è anche meglio) Ma in questo caso c'è SOLO una storia e il gameplay vale zero
  13. livelovedab
    Nov 20, 2019
    1
    I tried. I really tried. The game gets a 3 for me for the story only. The story was pretty interesting and I was invested in figuring out where the story went, but after about 30 hours I cannot play this game anymore or I'm going to lose my mind. The gameplay is so obnoxious and intentionally slows you down every chance it gets. For example, if you drive a vehicle into any area with BTsI tried. I really tried. The game gets a 3 for me for the story only. The story was pretty interesting and I was invested in figuring out where the story went, but after about 30 hours I cannot play this game anymore or I'm going to lose my mind. The gameplay is so obnoxious and intentionally slows you down every chance it gets. For example, if you drive a vehicle into any area with BTs you will have to sit through 3 seperate back to back "loading cutscenes" that completely destroy what little immersion you get in this game. The driving mechanics themselves are completely atrocious. When you're walking you are constantly encumbered and having to stop yourself from falling over like a dumbed down version of QWOP. Did no one QA test this game and recognize the gameplay was hot trash? I will look for a cutscene compilation on youtube to see the story through. I cannot be bothered to play even another second of this mind numbing gameplay.… Expand
  14. sergenik1307
    Nov 12, 2019
    0
    Скучно, скучно, скучно!!! Очень унылая и неинтересная игра с примитивными механиками, боевая система просто отвратительна. Вся суть игры, получи груз и неси до следующей голограммы. Мир пустой и неинтересный, бесконечные унылые ландшафты и пейзажы, провал года.Скучно, скучно, скучно!!! Очень унылая и неинтересная игра с примитивными механиками, боевая система просто отвратительна. Вся суть игры, получи груз и неси до следующей голограммы. Мир пустой и неинтересный, бесконечные унылые ландшафты и пейзажы, провал года.
  15. Brownbelt2018
    Nov 8, 2019
    1
    How could you give this a 10? what kind of people would like this game? I have no idea. Simply, this is the most boring game I have ever played. Graphics are good? not really. Whats with all the cinematics? I want to PLAY the game not watch a fu*king movie, thats what Netflix is for. I played for a couple of hours and wanted to ice pick my ears when that baby started crying. It tells youHow could you give this a 10? what kind of people would like this game? I have no idea. Simply, this is the most boring game I have ever played. Graphics are good? not really. Whats with all the cinematics? I want to PLAY the game not watch a fu*king movie, thats what Netflix is for. I played for a couple of hours and wanted to ice pick my ears when that baby started crying. It tells you how to calm the baby, but not how to kill the annoying f*cking thing! To say I am disappointed is an understatement, and all these c*nts giving it a high score cause they want to lick Kojima's balls or are being paid to do so can get f*cked, this is giving the game an unrealistic rating! This game is utter hyped up rubbish! thank f*ck I can return it for a refund!… Expand
  16. NathanClarke
    Nov 13, 2019
    1
    What a dumpster fire. I have been waiting for this game ever since it was announced. I was scouting for every insignificant bit of information I could find, day after day. I knew it would not be an action-focused game, in fact most of my all-time favourite games aren't action games. So what is so wrong about Death Stranding? Basically everything, save for soundtrack.

    Death Stranding is    What a dumpster fire. I have been waiting for this game ever since it was announced. I was scouting for every insignificant bit of information I could find, day after day. I knew it would not be an action-focused game, in fact most of my all-time favourite games aren't action games. So what is so wrong about Death Stranding? Basically everything, save for soundtrack.

    Death Stranding is an Open World game in which you make deliveries. And that's pretty much all. Every open-world games worth their salt have main objective/missions, fetch quests being optionnal stuff left for people who really want a reason to keep playing the game after going through the main story. But the truth is, most people never do these missions because they are just boring filler content. Death Stranding revolves around those:

    In games like GTA, RDR, The Witcher, you have a variety of main objectives. It keeps the game fresh and makes you want to see what kind of neat stuff you'll do in the next mission. In Death Stranding, you walk. You walk, and you walk. You deliver packages and go through meaningless and repetitive dialogues with various cameos. It's fun for the first couple of hours, but after you realize you're still doing the same thing 20 hours after it becomes a bore fest. There are a few interesting moments (very few), and when it's done you're back to delivering stuff for another 20 hours.

    The gameplay is also a complete miss. The basic movement itself is fine, I thought the whole balance stuff based on weight was interesting. But the combat isn't. Hand to hand fighting is clunky, slow and lacks precision. The vehicles controls are a joke. The motorcycle feels like it's sticking to the ground. The vehicles feel like plastic toys. There are no proper physics in this game. Everything seems to be animation-based, just like in the ps2-era. Guerilla Studios lend them an amazing game engine and they can't manage to use their physics system? Hell even cheap indie games have real-time physics.

    The map is huge and empty. Painfully empty. There are mule camps with copy-pasted assets, copy-pasted bridge stations and that's it. There are no buildings to explore at all. That makes the exploration unrewarding and uninteresting, especially after playing Red Dead Redemption 2 with it's sprawling open world full of secrets and interesting places to discover. What's the point in making a huge map if you can't fill it with anything but rocks and mule camps?

    The storyline is NOT good. It is pretentious as it gets. When you're not listening to some of the most embarassing b-movie tier dialogue, you're being force-fed with exposure. The characters, bearing some of the most overly-pretentious and over-the-top names, always repeat the same thing (make us whole again sam, without you america cannot survive!), there's so much useless dialogue in this game it's downright insulting.

    The atmosphere and graphics, whatever. It is highly subjective. I didn't like it. I hated the color tones. I hate most of the landscape. The graphics look much worse than Horizon Zero Dawn for some reason. This is weird considering that they were supposedly improving the engine. Instead, they made it regress. The foliage shading is bad. The lighting feels flat. The character models are sometimes good sometimes not-so-good. You can see Kojima wanted his team to put all of their focus on Madds's character (Cliff). He looks borderline photorealistic while characters like Sam or Deadman look much worse.

    I have nothing about experimental games and weird stories, but this is way above what i can stand. It is boring, tedious, irritating and bland. Most of all, it is my biggest disappointment in 20 years of playing video games.    … Expand
  17. GameSpirit
    Nov 16, 2019
    0
    Only good thing about this game is "production quality". Top notch cinematography, actresses/actors, motion capture, game engine. AAA production quality was expected and delivered. OST is good and fitting which was it should've been.
    Everything besides that is simply bad. Least bad thing could have been story but it becomes insulting in so many ways. Gameplay is tedious, repetitive,    Only good thing about this game is "production quality". Top notch cinematography, actresses/actors, motion capture, game engine. AAA production quality was expected and delivered. OST is good and fitting which was it should've been.
    Everything besides that is simply bad. Least bad thing could have been story but it becomes insulting in so many ways. Gameplay is tedious, repetitive, onerous. It would be understandable if it was a small part of the game is about delivery but it's extremely long and not rewarding at all. Hologram dialogs are boring and overused. It bears a positive message but main characters are not even showing emotions.    … Expand
  18. Velim_na_LIVE
    Dec 6, 2019
    0
    Jogo horrível, fazer um jogo em 2019 de entregar pacotes e lançar como um a grande inovação é chamar os jogadores de trouxas, merece nota 0
  19. KB5K
    Dec 21, 2019
    4
    I think Metacritic must be broken. You see, at the time of this writing, Death Stranding is scoring an 82%, which would indicate that this is a good game. And there's simply NO WAY that's even close to resembling reality.

    Here's a spoiler-free checklist for you: **Endless fetch quests? Check. **Lots of walking over large featureless unpopulated spaces? Check. **Ridiculous, pretentious,    I think Metacritic must be broken. You see, at the time of this writing, Death Stranding is scoring an 82%, which would indicate that this is a good game. And there's simply NO WAY that's even close to resembling reality.

    Here's a spoiler-free checklist for you:

    **Endless fetch quests? Check.

    **Lots of walking over large featureless unpopulated spaces? Check.

    **Ridiculous, pretentious, and impossible-to-comprehend story? Check.

    **Gameplay mechanics designed solely to aggrivate the player? Check.

    **Shameless in-game corporate advertising? Check.

    **Poorly designed, ridiculously detailed in-game menus that you can BARELY read because the print is so small? Check.

    **Most of your time spent managing inventory? Check.

    **Meaningless collectibles (e.g. "memory chips" that let you read factoids about random real-world things like motorcycles, action figures, and Kojimas favorite movies)? Check.

    **Not really exciting, not really scary, not really interesting--but generally just a depressing atmosphere? Check.

    **Seemingly endless amounts of cutscenes, even when performing routine actions? Check.

    **Artificially extended game length (Example: "Sam, before you can continue the main quest, you need to help these 5 meaningless NPCs with their fetch quests!")? Check. Another example: you're also forced to run around in circles throughout an empty environment during the credits for 30-40 minutes while the plot is explained to you -- because the plot is convoluted nonsense and Kojima *knows it -- and because it adds 40 minutes of "gameplay."

    **Generally BORING? Oh yeah, that's a check.

    Come on, Metacritic. Do better.

    This game is a 5 out of 10 at best. There are some good qualities: The graphics and acting are great. It's well-optimized on the PS4 and my experience has been entirely bug-free, even after playing through the entire game and completing almost all of the side quests it . It's ambitious and strives to be artful and make a deeper statement about humanity. But that's the most it has going for it.

    One could forgive poor gameplay if there existed an interesting and engaging story. One could forgive a poor story if there existed fun and interesting gameplay. However one cannot forgive an absence of both.    … Expand
  20. aelguindy
    Nov 12, 2019
    1
    This is what you get when someone keeps hyping a game without any evidence to support it. A very boring game simply asking me to deliver from point A to point B that's it, that's basically it! But what is even worse those lengthy cutscenes in between exceeding the gameplay time. I bought a game not a movie!

    What is really puzzling me how people are just trying to convince themselves    This is what you get when someone keeps hyping a game without any evidence to support it. A very boring game simply asking me to deliver from point A to point B that's it, that's basically it! But what is even worse those lengthy cutscenes in between exceeding the gameplay time. I bought a game not a movie!

    What is really puzzling me how people are just trying to convince themselves that this is actually a nice enjoyable masterpiece "game". It has a nice atmosphere and graphics, I will give that but really it is such an empty world with nothing to keep you interested for 40 hrs.

    What a shame and waste of resources. Guess Konami was right to fire this so-called gaming industry genius who ruined previously for everyone the MGS V experience we were looking for!    … Expand
  21. JGGamer97
    Nov 11, 2019
    1
    The only redeeming quality of this game is the visuals. It is stunning, perhaps the best looking game of this generation. But that doesn’t save it from the slow, repetitive and boring gameplay that had me hoping, for the first time ever, that this would be a really, really short game, so I didn’t have to give up before completing it, but I just had to. I didn’t want to waste any more of myThe only redeeming quality of this game is the visuals. It is stunning, perhaps the best looking game of this generation. But that doesn’t save it from the slow, repetitive and boring gameplay that had me hoping, for the first time ever, that this would be a really, really short game, so I didn’t have to give up before completing it, but I just had to. I didn’t want to waste any more of my time. The story too is slow and boring, and fails to keep you interested. Kojima has certainly failed this time round. There are people that will probably enjoy this. But I did not. Was definitely not worth the full price I paid for it. I will not invest any more of my time into this boring, snooze fest.… Expand
  22. Arya_arya00
    Nov 13, 2019
    0
    I was waiting for 3 years for this game...ive been so hyped and i enjoyed every last trailers....i praised kojima every day ....but when i playing it i am so disappointed right now....this game is just a fedex walking and biking simulator.... literally all of the main missions and whole of the side missions are fetch quests....map is very big and its so empty...this game reminds me no manI was waiting for 3 years for this game...ive been so hyped and i enjoyed every last trailers....i praised kojima every day ....but when i playing it i am so disappointed right now....this game is just a fedex walking and biking simulator.... literally all of the main missions and whole of the side missions are fetch quests....map is very big and its so empty...this game reminds me no man sky....!this game has so paradox...like we see the animals in the cutscenes but in the gameplay We don't… Expand
  23. MrFoster
    Nov 12, 2019
    3
    Another overrated Kojima game, boring from start to finish. Too much marketing for too little gameplay. The biggest wasted of money of the year.
  24. OmegaZaggy
    Nov 8, 2019
    3
    It's just a walking simulator made to watch cutscenes full of convoluted mumbo jumbo
  25. ElUnicoQueJuega
    Nov 12, 2019
    0
    empieza con una cinematica de 45min en la que no se puede elegir un rumbo como muchas otras novelas graficas;
    el juego va de caminar y se deberia poder elegir personajes que hagan cosas diferentes ya que no parece un juego que usa mucho recursos;
    en ningun momento hay sensacion de peligro; historia sonsa de alienigenas fantasmas es lo único defendible; va de caminar y explorar, cuanto    empieza con una cinematica de 45min en la que no se puede elegir un rumbo como muchas otras novelas graficas;
    el juego va de caminar y se deberia poder elegir personajes que hagan cosas diferentes ya que no parece un juego que usa mucho recursos;
    en ningun momento hay sensacion de peligro;
    historia sonsa de alienigenas fantasmas es lo único defendible;
    va de caminar y explorar, cuanto menos caminas y menos exploras MAYOR puntaje;
    las batallas son automaticas;
    la interaccion con el terreno es normalita e inútil en prácticamente todo momento.    … Expand
  26. nana6352
    Dec 14, 2019
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Well it is what it is, a walking simulator, routine which other games try to get rid of, was represented as a gameplay here. It's soo obvious that this won't work out. Don't know what were they thinking on the development stage.
    When I was watching final scene, Amelie had those super long monologue, I couldn't take that torture and just skipped. Better show than explain - that's the main rule of a good cutscene/story.
    And the story is not perfect here. It's sooo far from reality that become not appealing. All those beaches thing, for example, and mrs. president who lives two lives, too much fantasy things that make plot boring. Metal Gear on contrary was so good with the plot, cause it was logiccal.    … Expand
  27. Adolfopac
    Nov 19, 2019
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Joguete totalmente sem nexo, tmb vindo da coitada da Sony falída é o minímo q dá pra se esperar… Expand
  28. SIPPIO
    Dec 1, 2019
    0
    I WAS sooo stoked for this because it's Kojima Unleashed!!
    Finally free of his Evil Konami overlords...
    What we got was NoMansSky level letdown.. *What baffles me the most is delivering packages are even generic. Not even a interesting point other then to add on to us going from A to B to so on... *another HUGE complaint is the messy inventory management UI. One would think that    I WAS sooo stoked for this because it's Kojima Unleashed!!
    Finally free of his Evil Konami overlords...
    What we got was NoMansSky level letdown..
    *What baffles me the most is delivering packages are even generic.
    Not even a interesting point other then to add on to us going from A to B to so on...
    *another HUGE complaint is the messy inventory management UI.
    One would think that inventory management would be smooth.
    *im just so disappointed that im depressed. Esp after the recent dissapointments..
    I was for sure Kojima would be a home run for me too...
    *I even tried to score the Collector's edition too....
    I am baffled how this could happen..
    "Americans are used to FPS games"
    that's a load of crap..
    We just don't like empty boring games....    … Expand
  29. yoggcthu
    Nov 11, 2019
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It is a third-person action game, with a heavier-than-usual de-emphasis on the "action." It is a game about exploration in which there isn't that much to discover. It is a game about America that takes place in a world that bears only minimal resemblance whatsoever to the country it's portraying. It is a game that takes, at minimum, 10-15 hours to actually become "fun," and even then the definition of fun is one likely to vary wildly for its players. It is a Hideo Kojima game in which the story is the least appealing aspect of the whole endeavor. Ultimately, Death Stranding is a game that is unlike much else I've played before, and I'm not entirely sure if I want to play anything like it ever again.… Expand
  30. ahar-exe
    Nov 12, 2019
    0
    Je m'ennuie à mort, ce n'est pas un jeux-video mais un film interactive ....
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Metascore
82

Generally favorable reviews - based on 111 Critic Reviews

Critic 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]
  2. New York Daily News
    Mar 18, 2020
    80
    This game does manage to be fun, even if it is one of the heaviest experiences of 2019. Everything from story to gameplay is begging to be dissected, filled with imagery and symbolism -- just like so many Kojima games before this one. Entering Death Stranding, it’s likely that we all thought Kojima’s calling card was lengthy cutscenes and stealth and action gameplay.
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  3. Carole Quintaine
    Jan 29, 2020
    100
    Death Stranding stands as a powerful author’s game which drives a strong message of how our over-connected society is evolving, and how we can help other players. Unlike many AAA games, it shines on a truly spiritual level. Well written, engaging and visually magnificent, it offers, despite some pacing flaws, an astonishing solo game with elegant multiplayer elements. A unique representation of Hideo Kojima’s talent.
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