Is it different, immersive, obscure, non-congruent and relatively demanding?

Yanks will bin it.

Exactly. This isn't a Kojima worship thing.
This is a Western gamer criticism thing.

this is my first kojima game and i'm really infatuated with it so far. only about fifteen hours in but the gameplay is deeply satisfying, and the moments the vocal tracks hit are glorious. nice review

this game looks cool as fuck, ill probably never play it though. no consoles or gaming PC or anything like that. shit like this almost makes me want to get one.

Game of the year

It's irritating when people assume you are a "Kojima fanboy" when you are loving the shit out of this game. I've barely played any Kojima games, and couldn't care less about him. I'm more of a Souls fanboy, if anything.

Also, it's not the alleged "art", or the story, or any perceived deeper meaning or message, that are the reasons; it's primarily the gameplay. It's amazing. The story might turn out to be utter pretentious drivel (45 hrs in, but no idea where the story is going) and it will still be one of my favourite games. It's just totally captivating.

I love the MGS story despite how stupid it is, but I cannot stand Death stranding's story so far. Almost every scene is garbage, the characters are annoying, and Kojima still can't stop treating his women like garbage in his games.

I am only loving this game for the gameplay, and I'm glad the story has been staying away most of the time.

This game is fantastic. The ones calling it a walking simulator haven’t gotten past the first two chapters or haven’t played it at all. It’s so much more. Soundtrack is great too

Story is almost always the best aspect of Kojima's games tbh. (Besides the open world era of MGS.)

"It's irritating when people assume you are a "Kojima fanboy" when you are loving the shit out of this game."

It's not about how one loves the shit out of this game. It's about the way one decides to defend it.

Story has never been Kojima's strong suit, and that was especially clear in everything that came after MGS3 when he lost his cowriter. Kojima is first and foremost a good game designer. When it comes to narrative design, at best, he's just an ideas man. Otherwise his writing is bogged down with overexposition and poor pacing. He's not a brilluant writer.

people keep saying this is a divisive game but I've literally only seen praise for it aside from IGN - who keeps posting about how "divisive the game is" in order to compensate for the fact that they are insecure about the score they gave it.

haven't played it yet but it's sitting on the shelf and i'm excited for it.

the ads in death stranding hurt my soul... do they ever turn them around into some form of statement on future capitalism or it really that obvious of a product placement

After finishing the game, I can safely say this is the worst story of all time. I have never hated a story more. In any medium.

Album Rating: 4.5

lol our opinions couldn't be more opposite. i loved the story.

I have no idea how. I genuinely have no idea how anyone could even start to like such a dumpster fire of garbage, such lifeless and annoying characters, literally almost no plot, the entire story is 11 hours completely devised of pure exposition, the interviews and info logs are so dry and bland to read that it's a chore to actually learn anything if you commit the crime of actually being interested, the continued use of women for constant objectification or suffering, literally the exact same plot twists that have been used in almost every Metal Gear Solid game (which STILL suffer the exact same plot holes they always have)...it's just...awful.

Does anyone know how exactly it's chosen whose structures you see?

Also, only at Episode 6 (Deadman) and I've just decided to build roads, connected Lake Knot to South Knot and now Lake Knot to North of Mountain Knot. I get notifications that people are using my roads, but roads are never built for me...so is that NPC notifications or are actual players using my roads that I rebuilt?

Players are using roads you've built. You might just have some lazy players on your server. My server had plenty of patches of road built around the map, and most pavers had materials added to them from other people.

Thanks. Most pavers do have materials added, but they are never fully built. Guess I'm pulling the weight on the roads on my server.

lol this is maybe the most disappointing game i've ever played. what a joke.