Death Stranding

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  1. KatyRamos
    Dec 14, 2019
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Muy repetitivo solo es de ir de punto A a punto B durante mas de 35 horas fue decepcionante. Y la inteligencia artificial ( si se le puede decir asi ) fue nula.… Expand
  2. nasrochakib70
    Dec 17, 2019
    3
    Is a very monotonous game, it has great music and world detail, but no more. The story is compelling but not enough to compensate for the immense boredom.
  3. Stender16
    Dec 27, 2019
    3
    Very boring game the Lore is good but the gameplay just sucks, if you are going to buy it to play it you need to see 10 hours or more... No more words for this , don't trust anyone that recommend this game they are evil.
  4. yoyoy325
    Jan 8, 2020
    3
    Tried to like it, REALLY tried, but could not. Boring. Beautiful, but boring. This is not a "game".
  5. TonyD1985
    Jan 17, 2020
    3
    I really enjoy the idea of "bringing people together," the complexity of the story, and a different type of enemy and gaming experience. But that is about all I enjoy about it. I was extremely excited to play and the story seems pretty original. However, the menu difficulty and the lack of explaination of what things do and why youre doing it makes me completely disregard the idea of playing
  6. Erguillermo
    Jan 30, 2020
    3
    Visualmente es muy bueno, pero simplifica mucho los elementos de un mundo abierto para conseguir esta calidad gráfica. El juego falla en su base, es decir, es aburrido y tedioso, rompiendo la experiencia de juego con cinemáticas aburridas que no explican, en el 95 por ciento de las veces, nada interesante. La acción es escasa y simple hasta los límites más tediosos y simplificadosVisualmente es muy bueno, pero simplifica mucho los elementos de un mundo abierto para conseguir esta calidad gráfica. El juego falla en su base, es decir, es aburrido y tedioso, rompiendo la experiencia de juego con cinemáticas aburridas que no explican, en el 95 por ciento de las veces, nada interesante. La acción es escasa y simple hasta los límites más tediosos y simplificados posibles.
    La historia es muy lenta en el desarrollo, invitando a abandonar el juego por aburrimiento.
    Todas las misiones son iguales, ir de un punto a otro para luego ir a un tercer punto para luego volver... En resumen, el juego más aburrido del 2019. Falla en lo más básico, entretener y hay que hacer auténticos esfuerzos por terminarlo y por entender la historia que cuenta, siendo ésta demasiado compleja en su narración, tediosa en su planteamiento y con un final que no termina de desarrollarse totalmente, dejando incógnitas y preguntas.    … Expand
  7. Sargonth
    Jul 21, 2020
    3
    ИГРА НИДЛЯФСЕХ!!1 Уныло, скучно, монотонно. Типикал консоле щит. Сюжет оригинальностью и какими-либо твистами совсем не блещет. Геймплей - вообще что-то неверояно примитивное. Слишком много хайпа вокруг пустышки. Игра никак не стоит тех денег, что за неё просят. А Кодзима, оказывается, вовсе и не гений.ИГРА НИДЛЯФСЕХ!!1 Уныло, скучно, монотонно. Типикал консоле щит. Сюжет оригинальностью и какими-либо твистами совсем не блещет. Геймплей - вообще что-то неверояно примитивное. Слишком много хайпа вокруг пустышки. Игра никак не стоит тех денег, что за неё просят. А Кодзима, оказывается, вовсе и не гений.
  8. Birctreel
    Feb 1, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Kojima messed up this time. Even the spoilers on the discord before were much more fun and reasonable than the actual game.
    1. The game has a strong personal style of Kojima, perhaps he would like to control 100% of those characters’ performance, but this only leads to a result, that actors' understanding of the role are not the same as what they behaved.
    2. There's a huge gulf between the game-playing and the story plot. For a long time, it’s almost like "You can be rewarded to play as long as you've done your chores", rewarding some story after a dull (or not, depending on whether you likes to be packhorse or not) play.
    3. What the game was told, is a totally catastrophe, or say, this game has almost no narrative at all. All stories are told by everyone’s "Sam, you need to know this", even about the characters themselves! All the characters, Fragile, Deadman, Mama, Heartman and DieHard Man. Can you imagine a victim dictating her own tragic past? This is stupid.
    4. Character building is also terrible, which is the consequence of poor storytelling. All the characters dictate to the player what they are, and with too many unnecessary settings (like Deadman being a Cyborg, so what?) , it shows that Kojima is trying to instill in the player "what's the character like" Without leaving any space. Oh and besiedes, even the main theme is connection, there is no connection between most of the characters each other. They are just connecting to Sam.
    5. Comparing to others, Sam, however, is not shown much in this game. Too little characterization of Sam, and the lack of describing the relationship between Sam and Emilie throughout the story, leads to a serious discrepancy between Emilie's character and the player's understanding, and so at the climax of the game, I, and many of my friends are baffled by the act we must do to continue this game, by hugging Emilie.
    6. The main story of the game does not exist any choice, with awful characterization lead to an unconvincing end. This makes the game itself like a movie, a one-sided absorption with no way of feedback. A lot of people think Kojima should make a movie for this game, but given those conditions above, the game's narrative skills are so poor that it will turn into a horrible slapstick play.
    7. The world design is cool, and nothing else. There are too many settings are just for settings. In the game, many of the settings are even phenomenal, with no mention of the essence at all. It doesn't mean anything except, wow, this is cool.
    8. With Western-like scene and characters, yet the story is still, after all, a Japanese-style family drama. The grand design is only for a small story, and I have to say I felt wasteful.
    9. A game that makes you think about pain should not be done by making the reader or player experience pain. I'm talking about the beach walk at the end of the game.
    There may be more, but due to my terrible English it’s too difficult to complain.    … Expand
  9. GoPortal
    Jul 14, 2020
    3
    The game contains an excessive dramatic history and a poor gameplay, all together forms a boring experience, the only thing really interesting are the graphics. It's a shame that a game so bad have so many hype
  10. ViperXT
    Mar 28, 2020
    3
    OMG am I ever glad I did not buy this game. A postal delivery game with a very lack luster story and long periods of just walking, even getting to a fast travel spot is a long walk. The controls are clunky at times, with periods of frustration trying to climb over something that should easily be tackled. Graphics a great but the scenery can get boring with a lot of the same colors usedOMG am I ever glad I did not buy this game. A postal delivery game with a very lack luster story and long periods of just walking, even getting to a fast travel spot is a long walk. The controls are clunky at times, with periods of frustration trying to climb over something that should easily be tackled. Graphics a great but the scenery can get boring with a lot of the same colors used throughout. This is going to be one of those love it or hate it games.… Expand
  11. tcost
    Apr 14, 2020
    3
    F. Not in for poor design. Art is great, story interesting, but the gameplay aspect is just weak and not innovative, was expecting gameplay richness, but got a film.
  12. Cracker1789
    Nov 17, 2020
    3
    Death Stranding has an ok story but boy is the gameplay trash. Played through this game 1 time and probably spent a year walking.walking.walking.walking.walking.walking and waking.
  13. gabrielchg
    Jun 9, 2020
    3
    It’s a pointless long game. After pushing myself for 45 hours to finish the game waiting for that plot twist to save the game, it didn’t.
  14. xHARKYNx
    Jun 19, 2020
    3
    Absolutely boring. Awful clunky 'gameplay. This is a walking simulator no questions asked. The story and characters are utter vile rubbish. I didn't find any of them appealing. Fragile was beyond annoying and I found myself rolling my eyes whenever she spoke and I got so tired of being told to make America whole again. This game has no redeeming features in my opinion.
  15. Vahid_ee
    Jun 19, 2020
    3
    The Game Play is something you haven’t seen before but the cutscenes make you frustrated in some occasions
  16. Alenyaka
    Jun 20, 2020
    3
    There is a lot of effort and a lack of sense of a good game. There are flaws that make you simply hate the game and honestly quite a few things simply to smooth the hate coming from ex Kojima's fanboys.

    Death Stranding is not a game. It is meant to be a movie, maybe a good one for some audience. Guys, just don't waste your time on it, it doesn't worth it at all.
  17. Kapcake
    Jun 21, 2020
    3
    Graphics, soundtrack and story are great but the game is just painfully boring and repetitive
  18. Chase-2200
    Jan 14, 2021
    3
    I absolutely hated this game, I got 10 hours in and I forced myself to keep giving it another hour. I would give game a 0 because of the boring story and the horrible gameplay but I respect that he tried something different with this game. It’s a love or hate situation and for me, it wasn’t love.
  19. NeoXMahi
    Jul 4, 2020
    3
    Death Stranding is a very pretty game, using the Decima Engine from famed Horizon Zero Dawn development studio Guerilla Games. It's a very large uninhabited world to explore.

    The game has very talented actors putting on amazing performances. And the animation to go with those performances is quite incredible. Now, true to form Kojima crafts a story, as he's generally good at doing and it    Death Stranding is a very pretty game, using the Decima Engine from famed Horizon Zero Dawn development studio Guerilla Games. It's a very large uninhabited world to explore.

    The game has very talented actors putting on amazing performances. And the animation to go with those performances is quite incredible.

    Now, true to form Kojima crafts a story, as he's generally good at doing and it twists and turns your brain in a really incomprehensible way as a man that has no conception of the afterlife tried to explain what the afterlife might be. This, is the games strength as it should be, but it doesn't carry the same weight as Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. But,bits a valiant effort to do so.

    Where the game struggles, for me anyway, is in the gameplay department. There are gamers that quite enjoy the open-world setting that Kojima and his team have created, but in my opinion, Kojimas forte is certainly his story telling. I think Kojima is best served to sticking with linear gameplay to tell his stories and open world games are not hear suited for his talent.

    For me, Death Stranding felt like the team at Kojima Productions had no regard for the value of my time, that it was like some suck joke to make you wander around and then look at the time and realize you just lost three hours of your life. I was hesitant to play the game because I'd heard it was basically a walking simulator and I didn't want Kojimas reputation tainted in my mind. Metal Gear Solid V had already shaken my faith and I didn't want anymore damage done, but as I played the game, it took me forever to get through it and it felt like Kojimas team just thought it would he funny to make people work their way around the map slowly. Everything feels like it takes forever and Kojima Productions punishes you for not being patient and playing the game by their rules The only other reason I can think of, is that they were really pressured by Sony to get a game done and they had to slap something empty together and this is what came up. They also knew gamers wanted a lengthy experience to "get their moneys worth" and ultimately this is what we got.

    The game feels so lacking and Kojimas potential wasted. In my humble opinion, games like Skyrim and, believe it or not, to this point, Days Gone know how to do open world right. Death Stranding misses the mark and was better served as a linear story based driven game. It's too bad.

    Sony now has an attempt to try and do things right with a disappointing recent set of games, given their reputation in years past and especially on the PS3 where they'd proven they know first-party developers and how to get them to produce, with the upcoming Ghost of Tsushima where, fortunately, developer Sucker Punch knows how to do open world with their previous series Infamous. Too bad Kojima Productions Don't do another open world game, please, MGSV and Death Stranding didn't work. And I think I'm starting to see where Konami was getting frustrated with Kojima and his ego, his name is plastered all over everything, multiple times. I'm getting the feeling he doesn't know the meaning of the word humility. I think that's what frustrated Konami. Proof is in the credits of his last two games. Rather than bundling everything together, he lists didn't title cards for each part of how he contributed to the game, it's pretty messed up, also during photo mode, the title tag bears his name..... Sorry is good, gameplay is not, the gameplay drags on so long, you forget the story along with how frustrating the climbing can be with unresponsive controls. Too bad, I wanted this to be great, I waited so long but, it wasn't.....    … Expand
  20. ItaloKratos
    Jul 30, 2020
    3
    Um asco, zerei esse jogo só pq paguei mesmo, mas uma das piores experiências que tive nos games.. tedioso, chato, combate ruim, único ponto positivo dele é o gráfico
  21. moviesfoodlife
    Jul 14, 2020
    3
    "I think I'll go on a walkabout
    And find out what it's all about
    And that ain't hard Just me and my own two feet In the heat I've got myself to meet" - Walkabout by the Red Hot Chili Peppers Pretty much sums up this game. The marketing for this game is atrocious; it makes it seem like there is more than long and boring walks throughout a beautiful but plain world. Two out of    "I think I'll go on a walkabout
    And find out what it's all about
    And that ain't hard
    Just me and my own two feet
    In the heat I've got myself to meet"

    - Walkabout by the Red Hot Chili Peppers

    Pretty much sums up this game. The marketing for this game is atrocious; it makes it seem like there is more than long and boring walks throughout a beautiful but plain world. Two out of place combat sections (one of which is the second trailer) are terrible also and are short. If the gameplay was better with these and there were WAY more of them then this game could have been good. I would say that this review is spoilerific, but I don't even know what the game is about AFTER playing/watching THE WHOLE THING (I played up until Chapter 4 when I realized it wasn't going to get better, then I watched Jacksepticeye's series for the rest (which is very entertaining, unlike the game itself)). The game feels like nonsense, just a lot of sci-fi words to confuse the audience into thinking the game is "art". With all of the great games on Playstation (Spider-Man, God of War, Horizon: Zero Dawn, Last of Us Part 2 (had flaws but the gameplay was phenomenal), etc.), don't choose this one unless you have nothing else left. I wish that Kojima put in super-powers or something ridiculous; the map is too big for its own good, it takes forever to go anywhere. I'm mostly left with a sad feeling that we will never get a great game that the earlier trailers hinted at (although all of them are still in the game). One stand-out though is Lea Seydoux as Fragile; I would love to see her in another AAA PlayStation game in another main role. Because of the acting and graphics, I have to rate this game something, but I urge you to stay away.    … Expand
  22. UlukaiUA
    Jun 28, 2020
    3
    Good: atmosphere, story and level design.
    Bad: Gameplay, stealth and physics.
  23. Rocco200088
    Jun 29, 2020
    3
    può avere la trama più bella del mondo, una regia mozzafiato, ma a questo punto poteva fare un film il nostro caro kojima, perchè è un film, dove per vedere i vari video devi camminare da un punto all'altro, 0 divertimento e varietà per un gioco che dura svariate ore solo perchè i vari punti sono distanti fra loro e lo spostamento è molto molto lento, 0 appagamento e intrattenimento dovepuò avere la trama più bella del mondo, una regia mozzafiato, ma a questo punto poteva fare un film il nostro caro kojima, perchè è un film, dove per vedere i vari video devi camminare da un punto all'altro, 0 divertimento e varietà per un gioco che dura svariate ore solo perchè i vari punti sono distanti fra loro e lo spostamento è molto molto lento, 0 appagamento e intrattenimento dove le UNICHE novità si avranno saranno modi "più veloci" per spostarsi come la moto o il furgone, molto innovativa la questione che ogni oggetto occupa uno spazio e peso, e innovativo anche il fatto che non puoi correre a caso nelle discese ma devi stare attento per equilibrio ecc., ma basta non ha altro di così innovativo e quello che c'è non basta certo per farti divertire, io l'ho abbandonato quasi subito e l'unico momento in cui mi sono un po divertito è stato andando addosso con la moto ai muli e andare a picchiarli così per divertimento, ma diventa stancante anche quello dopo 3 - 4 incontri sempre uguali, quindi smettetela di chiamarlo gioco, ma definitela come un'esperienza al massimo, un'esperienza in quel mondo post apocalittico o film interattivo che ne so.. so solo che definirlo gioco è una vera bestemmia… Expand
  24. Kiruhalenin
    Jul 2, 2020
    3
    После отзывов о том, что игра становится гениальной в конце, я решил ее пройти, прежде чем высказать мнение. Я провёл в игре 44 часа. И ни одна концовка не способна оправдать настолько унылый, однообразный и скучный геймплей. Бегать 30 часов туда сюда, чтобы появилось хоть какое-то развитие событий - это слишком. Что касается сюжета, то он норм. Ровно на три балла. Сюжетные ходы, которыеПосле отзывов о том, что игра становится гениальной в конце, я решил ее пройти, прежде чем высказать мнение. Я провёл в игре 44 часа. И ни одна концовка не способна оправдать настолько унылый, однообразный и скучный геймплей. Бегать 30 часов туда сюда, чтобы появилось хоть какое-то развитие событий - это слишком. Что касается сюжета, то он норм. Ровно на три балла. Сюжетные ходы, которые есть в игре, уже были во множестве произведений. Сюжет неплохой, но чтобы до него добраться, нужно пройти через ад. Эта игра - это высокое искусство в самом худшем его значении. Когда человек видит мазню и боится признаться в том, что это мазня, он начинает искать ей оправдания и говорить, что это шедевр. Здесь тоже самое. Игра была сделана именно для этого. Сделать ее максимально унылой и повесить ярлык «не для быдла». Короч я не понял, я быдло. Больше колзима от меня ни копейки не получит.… Expand
  25. Javierortiz75
    Jul 6, 2020
    3
    Nice graphics and environment but the gameplay is very boring I really think it's a good idea but very bad in the way they make
  26. LALO1829
    Jul 14, 2020
    3
    Mal juego en cuanto a mecánicas del juego, ya que únicamente se basa en caminar todo el rato. Si tiene una que otra cosa llamativa como su música y la ambientación pero un mal juego que ni ganas me dieron de continuar pasandome hasta terminarlo
  27. Fenno91
    Jul 21, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Reflection on the game. Premise, I played It with hard settings. Guys, let's face it. The setting, the music, the graphic quality (it doesn't even click to pay for it), the idea of the game, the storyline; all these things are fantastic. Planning the trip is very nice and delivering gives satisfaction, especially for the big plan behind it of course. But what's the bloody reason for having MULI or CA so damn "empty"? Why not add a bigger challenge component to travel and planning? Like "will I get away with all those MULES?" or "let's hope I don't get CA this time". But no, MULES are just dummies to throw puppets at and there's no stealth gameplay done right, and the CA, the CA... total disappointment the CA. They don't even catch you doing it on purpose, and if, out of frustration, you choose to get caught to feel some kind of emotion, you find yourself expecting a boss that calling him blind and with the reactivity of a Baobab would be reductive. Please try to give up the role of kojima fan (which I appreciate, eh!!) and think objectively for a minute. That's a serious shortcoming. A more accurate AI would have made the game extraordinary, imagine riskier trips, where really the organization of the trip would have counted and actually moved the success or failure of the delivery. It would have been a dream to play it. I do not complain about the long deliveries, menus, huge cut scenes, the combat system or the many other things on which many people hate (right or wrong you decide it). I complain about the lack of IA, we are in 2019 for **** sake. I complain that there is absolutely no difficulty in making deliveries. And it's really a frightening sin with enemies that he has IN particular...devised so splendid and… Expand
  28. LuizH
    May 31, 2021
    3
    A intenção com certeza foi muito boa, fazer um jogo diferente e tal, mas na prática, na minha opinião, foi um fracasso.... milhões de cutscenes, e mesmo com a ideia de ser diferente, ainda conseguiram deixar aquele clichê clássico do cara que queria ficar sozinho, mas tem uma missão de salvar o mundo, que ele só aceitou por causa de alguem que ele ama... fala sério ne? e o pior é que tudoA intenção com certeza foi muito boa, fazer um jogo diferente e tal, mas na prática, na minha opinião, foi um fracasso.... milhões de cutscenes, e mesmo com a ideia de ser diferente, ainda conseguiram deixar aquele clichê clássico do cara que queria ficar sozinho, mas tem uma missão de salvar o mundo, que ele só aceitou por causa de alguem que ele ama... fala sério ne? e o pior é que tudo isso, somente pra ficar carregando pacotes de um lado pro outro over and over again... Tedioso demais.… Expand
  29. Invader12
    Feb 18, 2022
    3
    A great post-apocalyptic world but the gameplay is so bad and boring. Completing the plot is enough. Don't try to get Platinum 100% walkthrough, it's a waste of time
  30. MrPajamas
    Aug 6, 2022
    3
    Death Stranding has been a big mystery from the start. According to the trailers, it wasn't exactly clear what it was about and I decided to discover more about this game by buying it myself. Unfortunately, I regret it. After about a month of release, I bought the game and played it for about 10 hours and then stopped because I wasn't enjoying it. I hid the game and let the dust crawl onDeath Stranding has been a big mystery from the start. According to the trailers, it wasn't exactly clear what it was about and I decided to discover more about this game by buying it myself. Unfortunately, I regret it. After about a month of release, I bought the game and played it for about 10 hours and then stopped because I wasn't enjoying it. I hid the game and let the dust crawl on it for years. After a couple of years, I decided to give it another go and this time to the end. Ladies and gentlemen. I've never been more bored with a game than I am here. I've enjoyed some bad games. Mafia III was repetitive crap, but the gameplay was fine. Wolfenstein: Youngblood, which I thought was the worst AAA game to date, at least the gameplay was entertaining. These bad games may have had bad story, repetitive gameplay, but it was action packed and I was quite entertained. Unfortunately, I can't say that about Death Stranding. The gameplay in this game is an unmitigated disaster in my opinion. Repetitive and so boring to boot. The constant walking and delivering packages felt like a side quest. I found it so annoying. Walking long distances and over and over again. Later on in the game you get attacked every now and then, so you have to protect your cargo. You would think that this would make the game more action packed and better, but unfortunately for me the opposite was true. It was all the more annoying because someone was constantly destroying my cargo, delaying me from completing my shipment. Just awful. Playing this game was something terrible for me. It's not helped by the fact that the game tries to be realistic and thus the bigger the load, the more challenging it is to carry, so tripping and then falling was a classic for me after a while. In short, I've never experienced worse gameplay in a AAA title. On the one hand, I admit that this is an original approach. I've never seen anything like it before. On the other hand, I wouldn't want to experience something like this again and I didn't like it. So trying something new here didn't work for me. I'll stick with originality for a while. I grumble a lot about the gameplay here, because I think that's the biggest stumbling block in this game. Other things are better, though. The idea of linking the chiral network with the fact that other players can help you and build you things in the world is a cool idea in my opinion. I've used their builds a few times to make the game easier, or maybe I could deliver a package to someone who didn't finish it. This is where the originality worked out in my opinion and I liked this feature thing. Another thing is the graphics. In a word, wow. Very nice. The characters in particular looked really very good, which enhanced the overall cinematicness of the game. There's another thing that ties into that. Cut-scenes. They look absolutely brilliant. The camera work, the aforementioned graphics. They look very cinematic and very good. I'm going to pick up the story. In a word, WTF. I almost have no idea what I was playing. For me it was pretty **** but on the one hand it was pretty original. Mainly, I think it's that cinematicness and storyline that pulls the whole game together. The cutscenes look gorgeous, the story I sadly didn't get and the graphics look fabulous. ONLY, ALL OF THIS IS OVERSHADOWED BY THE REPETITIVE GAMEPLAY, WHICH IS SO INCREDIBLY ANNOYING, BORING AND ACTUALLY SO POINTLESS BECAUSE YOU MOSTLY JUST WALK AROUND IN IT. Every now and then you'll get a bossfight, which were good, but by the end I was getting quite annoyed and found them repetitive, or every now and then you'll go with a vehicle, like a motorbike, which I didn't find very easy to control anyway. I could swear a lot more here, but I think I've said enough. In my opinion, Death Stranding should have been a movie or rather a series that we would just watch. For example, towards the end of the game it was so incredibly drawn out and pretty much all you watch here are cut-scenes, which of course look great as I mentioned. But then the cutscene ends and it's your turn as the player, and I think that's terrible. Even the music that played here and there didn't save the feeling of the constant repetition of delivering packages and besides, the music could have played a lot more in my opinion. If this had been a series, I think it would have turned out much better. This game definitely deserves a few points for the aforementioned bravura cut-scenes, very nice graphics and originality, which unfortunately as far as gameplay is concerned, I think has been very detrimental. It depends on one side what you want. If you're not exactly a game enthusiast, but rather looking for a proper story, you might like Death Stranding, if you can understand it. But if you prefer gameplay, as I do, I recommend you avoid Death Stranding. Games can provide excellent stories, but they can also be fun gameplay-wise. I'm talking about Naughty Dog or CDPR, for example.… Expand
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#33 Best PS4 Game of 2019
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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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