Don’t get me wrong, I think the core gameplay loop of Death Stranding is solid and the process of building up a network of roads, safe houses, zip lines, and charging stations. This is my first Kojima game and I’m aware he’s known for being “a little eccentric” and exposition heavy, but I’m amazed that this game is as well received as it is.
That being said, I believe I’m approaching the end of my first play through and I have to say, while I’m still enjoying playing the game, I think it’s criminally overrated as a story experience, and that the story and specifically it’s characters are the worst and least compelling parts of the entire game.
No one has anything interesting or important to do except Sam, who is a boring wet blanket of a protagonist benefiting primarily from being cast as Norman Reedus and not much else.
No one else except Fragile really feels like they have any agency in the story, and what “story” there is hamfistedly shoehorned between delivery acceptances and completions makes me hope that the Golden Cult guy from Lake Knot succeeds in whatever he was doing; at least he had the decency to be interesting and not waste my time.
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