Death Stranding

 PlayStation 4
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7.4

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  1. Efren89
    Nov 14, 2019
    2
    Es monótono, un simulador de entrega de productos solamente, el ego de kojima se fue hasta el infinito, le doy un dos por la historia que es interesante.
  2. DonPelayo
    Nov 15, 2019
    2
    Extensas cinemáticas, se supone que esto sea un videojuego no una película.
    Las mecánicas son un desastre, realmente el feto no es necesario, y tampoco el fabricar puentes, ya que otras personas ya lo hacen por mi.
    El caminar de un lado a otro probablemente no sea lo más aburrido, sino mas bien los soporíferos combates.
    -A Hideo Kojima Review
  3. SimonThSorcerer
    Nov 15, 2019
    2
    THUMBS DOWN AS A GAME! Thumbs up as a movie! (I have played it myself and I have watched 16 hours of let's plays on Yotube and the 9 hour long movie version, also on Youtube.) Most of the actual gameplay is REALLY boring, except the few tense boss fights and the rare action sequences. But the story, weirdness and cutscenes really make up for it. I wouldn't buy it for the astronomical priceTHUMBS DOWN AS A GAME! Thumbs up as a movie! (I have played it myself and I have watched 16 hours of let's plays on Yotube and the 9 hour long movie version, also on Youtube.) Most of the actual gameplay is REALLY boring, except the few tense boss fights and the rare action sequences. But the story, weirdness and cutscenes really make up for it. I wouldn't buy it for the astronomical price it is sold currently, but maybe on a 80% Steam Summer sale when it comes out on PC next year, but most probably not at all. I can already see the many-many disappointed buyers....

    Just watch a Youtube let's play or Youtube Movie version of it. In fact, I find watching someone else play the game is better than playing it myself, hence the 2 out of 10. Just type in on Youtube "Death Stranding movie" and get ready for a better more enjoyable movie experience that the game itself, and it's free. Why would you buy it then? It gets a thumbs up as a movie, but thumbs way down asa game. Kojima you should focus on making animated movies and series instead of games, because you are better at it.    … Expand
  4. Cumbuca
    Nov 15, 2019
    2
    Time and money waste, really a walking simulator, monotonous, for free is expensive!
    Flop.
  5. Abel89nea
    Nov 16, 2019
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Buenos gráficos e historia como videojuego deja mucho que desear ideas nuevas sin pulir.. Físicas toscas y aburridas… Expand
  6. Jamadi
    Nov 16, 2019
    2
    Como mi nota, 2 son las únicas cosas buenas que tiene este juego: los gráficos y la banda sonora. Por lo demás, muy flojo. La jugabilidad es simplemente mala, y totalmente repetitivo, te pasas todo el juego haciendo lo mismo. Llevando paquetes de un punto a otro, y por el camino esquivar a los EV si te los encuentras, o no hace ni falta, ya que si te atrapan unas pocas granadas y acabasComo mi nota, 2 son las únicas cosas buenas que tiene este juego: los gráficos y la banda sonora. Por lo demás, muy flojo. La jugabilidad es simplemente mala, y totalmente repetitivo, te pasas todo el juego haciendo lo mismo. Llevando paquetes de un punto a otro, y por el camino esquivar a los EV si te los encuentras, o no hace ni falta, ya que si te atrapan unas pocas granadas y acabas con ellos sin problema, solo te hacen perder tiempo. Si el juego no fuera de Kojima, habría pasado totalmente desapercibido en la industria y tendría muchas peores reviews.… Expand
  7. adnero
    Nov 17, 2019
    2
    Amazing visuals and a beautiful soundtrack can't save this game from what amounts to a project that tries too hard to be different and left field and is just trying to be too clever for itself. The result is a 40+ hour bore fest that relies too heavily on its "connecting people together" narrative and not delivering much excitement.

    Any criticism of the game is met with snorts of derision    Amazing visuals and a beautiful soundtrack can't save this game from what amounts to a project that tries too hard to be different and left field and is just trying to be too clever for itself. The result is a 40+ hour bore fest that relies too heavily on its "connecting people together" narrative and not delivering much excitement.

    Any criticism of the game is met with snorts of derision from Kojima fanboys which imply that you're not intelligent enough to get the metaphor behind the game.

    Sorry Hideo but I don't play games to marvel at the clever meaning behind them. I wanted a fun and absorbing 3rd person adventure with interesting characters, a balance of action and puzzles and a gripping storyline. All I got was a hiking simulator in the rain.    … Expand
  8. Another_Gamer
    Dec 7, 2019
    2
    This product is a grinding disaster, a bad-open-world designed game and an undeserved punishment to the gaming community. Death Stranding goes as a prime example of how a good story and good graphics don't make up for bad-game design. Hideo still doesn't get the concept of open-world design quite right: it didn't work on MGSV and it certainly doesn't work in Death Stranding either; over7kThis product is a grinding disaster, a bad-open-world designed game and an undeserved punishment to the gaming community. Death Stranding goes as a prime example of how a good story and good graphics don't make up for bad-game design. Hideo still doesn't get the concept of open-world design quite right: it didn't work on MGSV and it certainly doesn't work in Death Stranding either; over7k negative fair reviews were deleted all of a sudden; all the fake and scummy positive reviews are intact.

    The product clearly wasn't ready to be shipped yet, at its current state it certainly lacks any game-design quality control or whatsoever. Yet another unfinished Kojima Production's release, yet another disappointment from a person who once knew how to deliver well-designed and well-paced games. So sad to see his reputation in the videogame industry to end like this.

    This probably shows one of the main reasons why Hideo was fired from Konami in the first place: he would blow out an entire production budget just to satisfy his crazy bad-game-design ideas and his unbearable cinematics.

    Sony's investors surely took a HUGE risk financing Kojima after he was fired from Konami. Hopefully, they've learn this lesson and will avoid any risky and reckless financing on the future.    … Expand
  9. Thatcriticguy
    Nov 19, 2019
    2
    This is a walking sim, not a game. It's long, boring, repetitive and a waste of money.
  10. Muk8b
    Nov 19, 2019
    2
    My experiencie make me view this game as a pshysics-based hiking simulator with good concepts but bad integration of them into the game such as a boring/lifeless open-world with an IA Pretty bad and dumb of the few mobs that you are gonna cross (just throw them some blood granades and thats it) the backtracking lacks too. Even so it could had been an interesting experience to play if itMy experiencie make me view this game as a pshysics-based hiking simulator with good concepts but bad integration of them into the game such as a boring/lifeless open-world with an IA Pretty bad and dumb of the few mobs that you are gonna cross (just throw them some blood granades and thats it) the backtracking lacks too. Even so it could had been an interesting experience to play if it wasn't buried by a pretencious and overly convoluted story that tryes so hard but fails so it gets buried in more stuff like a budget of 100M invested in an odissey of cutscenes,indie bands and monster energy drinks to make her look more appealing. But if the basic concepts and plot are superflous that 100M in cutscenes,ost and high quality animations it make it just worse and less appealing.
    This last days some people say that a game doesnt have to be fun to be good. I kinda agree,sometimes you are not playing a game and having "fun" but yet feeling enwrapped by another kind of feelings and emotions strong enough to keep you playing. So to finish this review i'll say that a good game has to be captivating to be good and sadly death stranding it wasnt captivating for me it was the opposite.
    Pd: sorry for tha bad grammar im not an english native speaker.    … Expand
  11. Humppa
    Nov 20, 2019
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. -Beautiful, but barren world
    -Extremely poor pacing, excessive travelling from excessive cutscene to excessive cutscene.
    -Unnecessarily over-the-top story, with a very basic message.(Nowhere near HK:s earlier work)
    -Social Media-aspect.(late to the party?)

    Verdict: "New Genre"=Desert Bus with cutscenes on Instagram    … Expand
  12. I_1ike_I3itches
    Nov 20, 2019
    2
    The music is good, The visuals are good, The story is ok but The game is **** boring. It feels like Kojima was high when he was making this game. A big disappointment.
  13. Grees
    Nov 20, 2019
    2
    Whilst I can see how a specific type of person might enjoy this game, its not for most people. There's simply too much walking, even for someone whos quite patient. Really wanted to enjoy this game. ) :
  14. beerjay
    Nov 21, 2019
    2
    didnt like it at all. missions are always the same... why is this a tripple A game?
  15. Flint01
    Nov 21, 2019
    2
    Il nulla mascherato da qualcosa. Un gioco vuoto, fatto di niente, che si carica di un nome e di una "regia" altisonante. Un gioco così fatto da un altro publisher e non da Kojima avrebbe mietuto recensioni agghiaccianti.

    Da evitare
  16. Andygamer19
    Nov 23, 2019
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. this game the most boring I ever played it only took me 2 hours to get sick of it and sell to GameStop best thing I did, your just amazon worker the whole time the story trash just like the gameplay.… Expand
  17. WilliamKotoco
    Nov 23, 2019
    2
    Gameplay boring, mechanics are horrible and the interface is the worst that I ever seen. The only good thing is the history and the characters. The gameplay is tiring, it seems like a postman simulator, the 90% of gameplay is deliveries for long places that makes you tired.
  18. Fakir23
    Nov 25, 2019
    2
    Bastante monótono y repetitivo. Tal vez hubiese sido una buena película, pero mo es un buen juego. Muy poca jugabilidad. En resumen, no es divertido de jugar.
  19. Mazx1313
    Nov 25, 2019
    2
    Played the entire game and nearly all the extra stuff. Game is annoying/infuriating at worst and once you get better tools you just skip the gameplay so boring at best. Was wanting to like it and gave it a shot, but by the end I dont see myself ever playing this again and not getting a sequel if one is made
  20. Kusen
    Nov 25, 2019
    2
    Death Stranding, as a movie, is fine, not great, no bad, just ok... But as a game? its one of the most boring as hell games ever made. Just a darn walking simulator delivery man, so darn slow movement that you will die in the boredom.

    Hideo Kojima himself said that he made the game not for gamers, but for film fans. And that clearly tell us why he didn't focus on a good gameplay,    Death Stranding, as a movie, is fine, not great, no bad, just ok... But as a game? its one of the most boring as hell games ever made. Just a darn walking simulator delivery man, so darn slow movement that you will die in the boredom.

    Hideo Kojima himself said that he made the game not for gamers, but for film fans. And that clearly tell us why he didn't focus on a good gameplay, instead of some stupid cinematic movie, but wait, not even that, the story itself is confusing as heck and not even in the movie campus it fits well.

    This game is an overrated piece of garbage, as a game, but as a movie, is ok for a certain public.    … Expand
  21. Altrovarius
    Nov 25, 2019
    2
    Aburrido, monotono, un juego de accion sin accion, tecnicamente muy bueno, musical y graficamente, pero como juego extremadamente aburrido, no recomendado
  22. Segmund
    Nov 26, 2019
    2
    A game cannot be based only on its narrative and on walking from point A to point B like a headless chicken, while you find yourself enemies that are repeated a lot and that are easy to win.

    The game catches you by its graphics and landscapes, but that kind of thing does not make a video game a good game. Death Stranding is Kojima using his name to sneak a poorly made action game    A game cannot be based only on its narrative and on walking from point A to point B like a headless chicken, while you find yourself enemies that are repeated a lot and that are easy to win.

    The game catches you by its graphics and landscapes, but that kind of thing does not make a video game a good game.

    Death Stranding is Kojima using his name to sneak a poorly made action game like a mystical walking simulator. It doesn't sneak into me.    … Expand
  23. TT64
    Dec 4, 2019
    2
    I don't think it spoils anything (especially if you are a Kojima fan) to say that the game ends with nearly 3 hours of cutscenes. Which would be somewhat excusable if they were even mildly interesting. While rendered beautifully, it speaks to just how awful the story telling is that such graphics can't even save the cutscenes. Characters talk in circles about meaningless nonsense that isI don't think it spoils anything (especially if you are a Kojima fan) to say that the game ends with nearly 3 hours of cutscenes. Which would be somewhat excusable if they were even mildly interesting. While rendered beautifully, it speaks to just how awful the story telling is that such graphics can't even save the cutscenes. Characters talk in circles about meaningless nonsense that is given so much screen time it's disgusting. The complete lack of self- awareness on Kojima's part would be amusing if the cutscenes weren't so tedious, having to listen again and again to characters plodding over the same nonsensical plot points.… Expand
  24. Ivsn
    Nov 27, 2019
    2
    No importa que tan ambiciosa pueda ser la historia, estas vendiendo un juego. Es un j u e g o.
    Hay casos de exclusivos de ps4 también donde el juego tiene gran jugabilidad y una buena narrativa (horizon, god of war 4,uncharted) por hablar de algunos. Pero lo d este juego me parece atroz. Con el precio que tiene, que me vendan una experiencia tan vacía hasta te hace agarrar una bronca    No importa que tan ambiciosa pueda ser la historia, estas vendiendo un juego. Es un j u e g o.
    Hay casos de exclusivos de ps4 también donde el juego tiene gran jugabilidad y una buena narrativa (horizon, god of war 4,uncharted) por hablar de algunos. Pero lo d este juego me parece atroz. Con el precio que tiene, que me vendan una experiencia tan vacía hasta te hace agarrar una bronca terrible. Si quiero solamente ver una buena y complicada historia me voy a ver alguna película de fynch. No lo recomiendo. Piénsenlo en frío y van a ver que se queda muy lejos en realidad de lo que nos quieren vender.    … Expand
  25. Xboxgamerxxx
    Nov 28, 2019
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Game is pure garbage! It plays horribly. It’s confusing. It’s like a fedex delivery simulator.… Expand
  26. TheDragonbornDM
    Dec 6, 2019
    2
    Playing Death Stranding is a very disappointing waste of time.
    Repetitive gameplay, Boring upgrades, and annoying cutscenes galore.
  27. SporadicDeviant
    Dec 16, 2019
    2
    This game is ponderous, tedious, and just not fun to play. The game is under the delusion that it's telling this deep, complex story, but it instead it's pretentious and disjointed. The game thinks that it's innovative when its actually a (poorly done) "Journey" type game only you play as a pregnant Amazon deliveryman.
    Since Kojima likes to think of himself as a film maker, as opposed to    This game is ponderous, tedious, and just not fun to play. The game is under the delusion that it's telling this deep, complex story, but it instead it's pretentious and disjointed. The game thinks that it's innovative when its actually a (poorly done) "Journey" type game only you play as a pregnant Amazon deliveryman.
    Since Kojima likes to think of himself as a film maker, as opposed to a game creator, I'll summarize my thoughts on Death Stranding with movie references; This is what happens when Michael Bay pretends to be Stanley Kubrick.    … Expand
  28. Macmenos
    Dec 5, 2019
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Gráficos bonitos porém o jogo é extremamente chato e entediante. Quando o clímax aumenta. O jogo quebra a continuidade com mais de uma hora de caminhada sem nada mais para fazer. Menus muito confusos e o logotipo do produtor do jogo em todas as cutscene enchem o saco.… Expand
  29. GodKratos
    Dec 5, 2019
    2
    Time to review Death Stranding now that all the hyp has come to pass. The result is not very good. I have seen, heard some people and friends telling me to get this game, because of how original and revolutionnary it was. I listened to them, even though many others told me that it was going to be awful, but I bit the bullet.

    Well, the thing I can say is that it enlightened me on what    Time to review Death Stranding now that all the hyp has come to pass. The result is not very good. I have seen, heard some people and friends telling me to get this game, because of how original and revolutionnary it was. I listened to them, even though many others told me that it was going to be awful, but I bit the bullet.

    Well, the thing I can say is that it enlightened me on what you should not do in a game. The UI is atrocious, the gameplay horrible, repetitive as hell and I have never seen such a bad physics engine in a game. All the things apparently revolutionnary, you could already find them in other games. Giving advices and likes to people ? Dark Souls already did that. Building things together ? Well Minecraft is here for you and much more complete. I wanted to be able to build more infrastructures and cities, instead of just generators, highways and bridges.

    The game is giving improvements for your equipment, but it harly changes anything. You are always limited by the physical engine and the battery. Sometimes, you think something will happen annd immediatley right after, the developers take that away from you. It is not fun, it is so easy without any challenge and the boss fights are laughable.

    What I will give to this game is that it has an excellent score, a good direction overall and a good art-style. However, the writing is really inconsistent and it truly lacks some motivations behind it. Yes, some characters background are a little more detailed, but it is not something I have never seen before and it doesn't add to the main plot at all. Normally, a game tend to do that in excellent quest companions or side quests, not during a huge part of the main plot. Some dialogues are also a bit cringy and I can see why people would think some aspects are intelligent. You have to play more games to understand that while the form is good, what is behind has already been done in much better ways.

    Some people told me the story takes off after some times ( 20-25 hours which is already too long ), but the reality is that it never takes off, without spoiling. The cinematics are good, but only Mads Mikkelsen is really doing something.

    Overall, I was not impressed. It is a new IP and yet it takes so many things from other games. The story is tedium despite a good direction and the gameplay is abysmal and drag the whole game down. Not a good experience at all.    … Expand
  30. powertaff
    Dec 6, 2019
    2
    Worst kojima game so far. You walk and... thats all for 85% of the game. But you not just walk, you MUST decrypt the menus which are just garbage. Can figure out how nobody saw it before release and even who made these **** menu? Fire him and fire the QA too.
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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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