Death Stranding

 PlayStation 4
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7.4

Mixed or average reviews- based on 18537 Ratings

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  3. Negative: 4,342 out of 18537
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  1. SpotOnTom
    Nov 8, 2019
    0
    Absolutely terrible game, waste of money. Story is so out of place and doesn’t make sense.
  2. Cruzeta
    Nov 8, 2019
    0
    Es un juegl muy aburrido lo unico que haces es caminar para hacer eso juego a pokemon go al principio decian que no era un walking simulator pero a la hora dee la verdad van y dicen que si lo es muy lamentable y pa caminar prefiero jugar al pokemon go
  3. Jrmonty
    Nov 8, 2019
    0
    This proves that games journalist for the most part are complete shills and have no integrity whatsoever.
  4. Zireael-
    Nov 8, 2019
    0
    very boring to play, do the same things for 30 hours, obscene combat system, non-existent AI and no difficulty. Boring, don't buy it.
  5. Dragonei
    Nov 8, 2019
    0
    A walking glorified simulator.. With great OST but 0 fun gameplay mechanics
  6. mimigaming
    Nov 8, 2019
    0
    furiously canceling my pre order when they announce this game for PC tard, in the end is all about money for kojima, never play this guy games since MGS3 i thought DS will be my starting point on PS4 but yeah
  7. IDoItForFree
    Nov 8, 2019
    0
    Kojimbles has been finally confirmed a hack he truly is. The game is essentially a walking simulator and a personification of Hideous Kojimbles' egoism and Hollywood fanboyism and should be made an example of.
  8. Godpower
    Nov 8, 2019
    0
    Played for 10 hours. The task was too complicated and complicated. There weren’t too many changes. The battle was also very monotonous. The delivery process was too long and affected the game rhythm
  9. Irabuzha
    Nov 8, 2019
    0
    Really disappointed. I don't what I was thinking wasting time and money on this game.
  10. zach45j
    Nov 8, 2019
    0
    Walking simulator. Boring gameplay. Combat is clunky. Avoid this game like the plague.
  11. Trezan
    Nov 8, 2019
    0
    Une bonne paires de chaussures de randonnée et une grosse dose de caféine pour pas s'endormir est fortement recommandé pour jouer a ce "jeu".
  12. smee_
    Nov 8, 2019
    4
    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.
  13. theTRUTHson
    Nov 11, 2019
    4
    Nice graphics. Good walking simulator. you walk walk walk walk walk walk wa
  14. yqp30002
    Nov 8, 2019
    0
    Story progresses through cutscenes.. and you are just walking in an empty environment to get to see the next cutscene, what a dumbass game. Maybe you shoul swithch to movies Kojima!
  15. Falcone
    Nov 8, 2019
    0
    A bad game from a bad game designer. Hideo was one of the most overrated person in game industry ever.
  16. Nima021King
    Nov 8, 2019
    0
    A pretty boring experience. All you do in this game is walk from point A to point B delivering packages and watching cutscenes. That's literally all you do. Don't forget to grab your pillow.
  17. Cloudthor
    Nov 8, 2019
    0
    Tiene muy buenos gráficos, y bastantes mecánicas novedosas, pero es aburrido a cojones, llevo ya muchas horas y no doy mas con la tortura, no puedo recomendar un juego en cual l prensa le realizo tanta publicidad y lo peor es que le dieran sobre 9 de nota un gran porcentaje por ser un juego de kojima... no gasten su dinero en un juego que se demora tanto, pero tanto para algo q apenasTiene muy buenos gráficos, y bastantes mecánicas novedosas, pero es aburrido a cojones, llevo ya muchas horas y no doy mas con la tortura, no puedo recomendar un juego en cual l prensa le realizo tanta publicidad y lo peor es que le dieran sobre 9 de nota un gran porcentaje por ser un juego de kojima... no gasten su dinero en un juego que se demora tanto, pero tanto para algo q apenas entrega "diversión"...… Expand
  18. pinkyfloo
    Nov 8, 2019
    0
    First of all: I don't want to do this
    Secondly: The Rocks and Moist on them has an "Amazing" LOD both on Slim and Pro.
    Third: The best of this game is the soundtrack, some heavily tesselated rocks don't amaze me as other people. The review: Sometimes art is something abstract, something that needs a deep understanding to be appreciated, something so weird that communicates and touches    First of all: I don't want to do this
    Secondly: The Rocks and Moist on them has an "Amazing" LOD both on Slim and Pro.
    Third: The best of this game is the soundtrack, some heavily tesselated rocks don't amaze me as other people.

    The review:

    Sometimes art is something abstract, something that needs a deep understanding to be appreciated, something so weird that communicates and touches you deep inside, something to remember and to be remembered for, even if it's not appreciated in the present, it gets to grow as a hidden gem for the next generations, this is NOT the case, as a KOJIMABOY, I spent hours during the last months arguing with people on PS related groups and forums as to why this game would be awesome and how kojima won't show real mechanics on trailers, well my words did came back to bite me in the ass, exactly what you saw in the trailers and gameplay reveal it's what you'll get, once I got my hands on it, I thought the first hour (well, 2 hours, or 3? Maybe 4. 5, that's it) would be slow so you'd get used to the mechanics , but no, you're just a delivery guy trying to keep everyone alive, how so? By going from point A to point B carrying supplies, enemies are a joke, as well as their AI, and when you're interrupted during your delivery walk by a BT you'd get into a joke of a boss fight that can simply be skipped out, if you have the proper equipment, they're wack and ready to kill, thus vanishing the fear you'd feel, if you can skip battles and after 10 hours gameplay your pretty much ready to blast them out, even on HARD, so pretty much combat is still, inexistent or skippable, the only activities you do are deliver and watching loooooooong poorly acted cutscenes, a cheesy, plot hole filled story, cringy dialogues a la Watchdogs2 and the fact that kojima seemingly lost his way, if MGSVTPP was disappointing in some areas, this is the downfall of kojima, I think he would do better as a Washing Dead Director.
    That much money and time spent to make a mediocrity fueled "movie", don't would've better spent that money on bringing back some nostalgia filled tilted as the trend is going on, even Detroit is a better movie than this disappointment. I've just hooked my copy on eBay, for 20 bucks, and I feel like I'm ripping off the poor person who buys it.
    RIP KOJIMA    … Expand
  19. sockwave
    Nov 8, 2019
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Llevo dos horas jugando y es un no parar de correr, parezco un trastornado corriendo sin sentido alguno.… Expand
  20. Jeronimo2000000
    Nov 8, 2019
    2
    Its great exceptuando the time yo are watling... Wait...so annoying and borde the gameplay its so frustraiting
  21. Gamermasster
    Nov 8, 2019
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Game made to be a movie, how can a game that everyone said would be so fanatic to have such a boring game play, the experts said it was a masterpiece, but not a lie! I hope for games with the quality of God of war and not this cinematic deception!… Expand
  22. Coxy4454
    Nov 8, 2019
    2
    Amazing overall graphics and beautiful world, ruined by boring/repetitive fetch quests. The main game is literally the annoying fetch side quests you do in other games because you have to have that 100%.This is made worse by the awful, AWFUL, controls, turning boring into frustrating. After 6 hours I'm done, no way am I suffering through 50 hours of this for the ending. It plays likeAmazing overall graphics and beautiful world, ruined by boring/repetitive fetch quests. The main game is literally the annoying fetch side quests you do in other games because you have to have that 100%.This is made worse by the awful, AWFUL, controls, turning boring into frustrating. After 6 hours I'm done, no way am I suffering through 50 hours of this for the ending. It plays like someone tried to make a "highbrow" philosophy book of mashed up post modernism/existentialism and forgot they were actually making a game. If all you care about is trying to wow people with an edgy/weird/left field story and pointlessly cramming in as many famous people as you can THEN GO MAKE A MOVIE! 2 out 10 for overall graphics and a pretty world - just wish that wasn't it. Rent or pick up used if you really want to experience it for yourself, just make sure you leave yourself with a option to return (unlike me ugh). Huge disappointment for all the hype - AND SHAME ON CRITICS FOR RATING IT 9/10 OR 10/10 ITS NOT JUST MISREPRESENTATION ITS FLAT OUT LYING.… Expand
  23. Playbrasilfan
    Nov 8, 2019
    0
    Very bad game, bad physics, bad story, bad gameplay, standing still, it looks like a movie, if I want movie I subscribe to Netflix
  24. zafman
    Nov 8, 2019
    0
    Es un simulador de Glovo en el que tienes que ir de el punto A a el punto B caminando por un mundo vació en el que tú mayor enemigo es la ridícula cantidad de cajas que el protagonista puede llevar a su espalda sin que esta se parta por la mitad, 6 horas jugadas y creo que sería mas divertido sí esas 6 horas hubiera estado jugando a Tetris.
  25. CriticasReales
    Nov 8, 2019
    0
    Cinemáticas y gráficos decentes, pero el juego esta vació y te aburres de andar y tropezar con la nada porque el personaje parece que no sabe andar, la moto se atasca muy fácil y la tienes que dejar tirada, la verdad es que el juego salvo las cinemáticas es muy aburrido. no lo recomiendo.
  26. ReviewMaster500
    Nov 8, 2019
    0
    Created an account just to point out how overly pretentious and awful this game is. I've never played something more overrated and boring in my entire life and I started with Pong. Total GARBAGE!
  27. Vidagamer
    Nov 8, 2019
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Mal juego, y eso que no lo venden como una maravilla y resultó siendo una estafa de juego está muy mal aprovechado el juego tiene más cosas malas que buenas....… Expand
  28. Jiagui89
    Nov 8, 2019
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. 游戏地图空旷，背景音乐确实好听，玩法太单一，整个过程就是送快递，玩得人比较暴躁，快节奏的生活玩着这么慢节奏的游戏，身心疲惫。… Expand
  29. xEVELMANx
    Nov 9, 2019
    2
    Definitely a waste of $. Good graphics and odd cinematic, but everything else is boring and stupidly over complex. You'll spend more time managing inventory and traversing overly detailed, poorly explained menus than you will actually doing something other than hold R2 or L2 to walk. The idea of different terrain aspects impeding your traversal is interesting, but Kojima doesn't doDefinitely a waste of $. Good graphics and odd cinematic, but everything else is boring and stupidly over complex. You'll spend more time managing inventory and traversing overly detailed, poorly explained menus than you will actually doing something other than hold R2 or L2 to walk. The idea of different terrain aspects impeding your traversal is interesting, but Kojima doesn't do anything else with it other than make playing the game frustrating. So much with potential, yet the worse possible execution. This game seems more like a money grab so he can start his career making cheesy movies.

    The scenery is essentially 1 color pallet per region of the same things; funky terrain in green, magenta, grey, or white. I never knew the US had so many mountains... Many of the predetermined animations for movements locks your character into a path even when you try to change directions. This leads to janky movements, odd traversal, and stupid collisions that could have been easily avoided. The world is really empty, beyond the idea of feeling alone. You never run into other couriers, even though they say they're out there. There's a deer in the opening cutscene, but there are literally no animals in the game. There was more to the world in MGSV than there is here!

    In terms of NPCs, there are "characters" in the game that you'll experience through cutscenes, but there's no one to actually interact with beyond holograms of people holed up in a random bunker. the game tries to convey a sense of being alone, but you're constantly interrupted by everyone chiming in. I guess it was too hard to animate actual interactions with NPCs. If it weren't for the few predetermined cutscene/encounters, all of the enemies could be easily avoided and overcome. The enemy AI is near non-existent, even on hard. Pretty much the entirety of quests are all the same overall; be a delivery man. Yes, there are some unique "challenges", such as not getting an item wet, or keeping it "flat". However, it's still the same crap over and over again. Very little variation, which is disappointing and adds to the tedium. Don't expect any unique quests or side storylines.

    Overall, the game get kudos for its rendering of mossy rocks and always shiny looking skin. The story is just so cheesy, and not in an artistic way. If this game didn't have the Kojima name behind it or essentially a Sony console exclusive, it wouldn't have gotten any attention. The hype was fake with this one! Keep your money and buy a game from developers that actually care about their customers.    … Expand
  30. Valhura
    Nov 12, 2019
    0
    This guy should have stopped after MGS3, how anyone who enjoys games gave this tedious borefest a perfect 10 is insane, I mean how far up your ass does your head need to be to give a 10 to this deeply flawed game. If HK wants to make movies he really should and stop forcing his B movie crap into games with terrible mechanics. MGS 1 and 2 are in my top 10 games of all time so this reallyThis guy should have stopped after MGS3, how anyone who enjoys games gave this tedious borefest a perfect 10 is insane, I mean how far up your ass does your head need to be to give a 10 to this deeply flawed game. If HK wants to make movies he really should and stop forcing his B movie crap into games with terrible mechanics. MGS 1 and 2 are in my top 10 games of all time so this really saddens me to see this… Expand
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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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