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(artist is @hatelephant on Twitter)
It's been a crazy year since Death Stranding released.
The game seemingly predicted how we might carry our babies in a pandemic world:
The USPS (United States Postal Service) bringing us (speaking as an American) together:
And despite what Kojima says about not being a prophet, he certainly has an eye towards the future, with this not being his first game to "call it" on aspects of our current day life:
As for the game itself, while I never finished it, I loved it and might've been my GOTY if not for Control. Despite being attracted to the game by its premise and story what kept me was the gameplay. 60-80 hours of delivering packages, uniting folks, and trucking while listening to Eastbound & Down (not even joking lol). My favorite memory was looking at the clock say 12:30 A.M. and deciding I'd build a section of road before going to bed. Next thing I knew I'd connected the northernmost point of the second area to the southernmost and it was 3:00 A.M. The moment to moment is not exhilarating as other games but god damn was it entertaining keeping an eye to the ground and horizon as I moved, sneaking through BT infested lands, and my favorite:
What did you think of Death Stranding? Was it truly "Kojima unleashed" as people joked before release (IMO it actually is)? Did it disappoint or surpass your expectations? How will it be remembered, if at all?
(artist is @hatelephant on Twitter)
It's been a crazy year since Death Stranding released.
The game seemingly predicted how we might carry our babies in a pandemic world:
The USPS (United States Postal Service) bringing us (speaking as an American) together:
And despite what Kojima says about not being a prophet, he certainly has an eye towards the future, with this not being his first game to "call it" on aspects of our current day life:
As for the game itself, while I never finished it, I loved it and might've been my GOTY if not for Control. Despite being attracted to the game by its premise and story what kept me was the gameplay. 60-80 hours of delivering packages, uniting folks, and trucking while listening to Eastbound & Down (not even joking lol). My favorite memory was looking at the clock say 12:30 A.M. and deciding I'd build a section of road before going to bed. Next thing I knew I'd connected the northernmost point of the second area to the southernmost and it was 3:00 A.M. The moment to moment is not exhilarating as other games but god damn was it entertaining keeping an eye to the ground and horizon as I moved, sneaking through BT infested lands, and my favorite:
What did you think of Death Stranding? Was it truly "Kojima unleashed" as people joked before release (IMO it actually is)? Did it disappoint or surpass your expectations? How will it be remembered, if at all?