Kojima fans probably won't take kindly to this post but as a die hard MGS fanboy I can't delude myself any longer. While you shouldnt judge a game without having played it, I have watched hours of gameplay and read everything I could find about the game since it was revealed and I just can't continue on the hypetrain at this point. Don't get me wrong, I was first hooked as hell when I saw DS for the first time, but the closer to release the more I have come to take off my rose tinted glasses and see this for what it is: Death Stranding is a sci-fi walking simulator built around repetitive fetch quests and with a concept where its creator went a little too far up his own arse.
Gameplay: its a watered down walking version of MGS 5. You walk around an empty gameworld of mountains and grassy fields in a cumbersome, sluggish way with massive gear and a baby strapped to your body. You frequently fall and stumble around, simply climbing a hill can be a 20 minute battle with the controller. If you were one of the people that thought RDR2 had clunky movement controls, you are in for a horrible treat. You do all of this walking to complete very linear and repetitive fetch quests set in a "groundbreaking" story brigading life and death, a theme that has already been beat to death in Hollywood. You play possibly the least interesting character in the whole setting - you are a package mailman running around occasionally shooting, thats the gameplay. Death Stranding doesnt look like a good videogame, it looks like material that have potential to be a good movie that should have never been made into a videogame.
I can only imagine this is what happens when you let a creative "genius" go nuts and create whatever they like and said creator has a devoted fanbase that defends him no matter what. And the reason for the mixed reviews is that magazines feel obliged to give a good score since...it's Kojima the genious. This...thing, as a videogame, looks lobotomizing. And the CGI story scenes, baby in pods? Anime motorcycle scenes? The only redeemable thing I can see are stunning visuals, but thats it. I mean, women getting licked by the antagonist? This is edgy on a completely other level - its shallow. Death Stranding is a pretentious clunky walking simulator with pointless go from point A to point B type quests that is the result of its creator being given too much creative freedom. Yes, there is such a thing. That's unless you are into fetch quest walking simulators and you pray to Kojima every night before sleep. In that case, stay on the hypetrain, but I have to get off here.
BTW, Norman Reedus smug face and voice annoys me.
/rant
No comments:
Post a Comment