I was really excited for this game back when the first announcement dropped, and I’m so glad I hadn’t had the money for a preorder. What I can gather from the gameplay; you leave one destination, you pick shit up, but ohhh don’t pick too much shit up, then you’ll have to manually balance your character with the triggers. Oh no! You’ve fallen and broken your merchandise! That is not good courier/pizza delivery boy etiquette!
So you walk around a sprawling, polished, nice looking, but utterly dead world. And when I say walk I mean walk, clumsily. Intentionally clumsily. Your character looks like he’s running around in a metal sumo suit.... with a baby attached to it for some reason. Oh and he pisses on things.
The combat (what little there is) looks like all the worst of dead space and all the worst of metal gear solid 4 combined, and that makes me very sad.
The story. What the fuck is the story? I don’t want to pay good money on a game where I’m going to spend the whole time slowly, ever so slowly, delivering packages and wondering what the fuck is even going on.
And the strand system, from what I’ve seen is.... what is it? I’m going to be completely honest here and say I have no idea what the fuck that is. Honestly not a clue. So you go from point A to point B to pick shit up and deliver it to point C, and maybe if you’re lucky some other Norman reedus in another parallel universe has left....something? To help you.
I’m honestly pissed. What the hell was Hideo Kojima smoking when he made this game? Upon watching the gameplay and seeing Norman reedus put 300lbs worth of boxes on his back, and then have the player to MANUALLY balance him while walking up a slight grade, My jaw literally dropped in disbelief.
In the first part, there is Norman, walking along a river bed, and he starts going through the river, and scanning it with his Norman vision, and parts of it are green, yellow, red (depth?) then he gets swept into the (ever so fucking slight) current and floats downstream helplessly while the player has to guide him to shore? Oh and then they have to pick up the package they dropped.
Sigh. Can anyone show me the silver lining here? I mean i saw hideo kojima’s name on this title and thought “well shit this is gonna be a masterpiece” but it looks like a clumsy, slow, boring, convoluted cluster fuck of a game.
Tl;dr - shocked by how shitty death stranding’s gameplay looked. Mostly just me ranting and explaining/discussing what I saw. Wondering if anybody can shed some light onto this to make me see why people seem to think it’ll be the best thing since sliced bread. To me it just looks like utter garbage. Am I missing something here?
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