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Death Stranding - Review Thread (see staff post for discussion guidelines)
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This may be the most glaring example, but many of the very high scores had similar comments about tedium and such too. This was a 9.5/10 review summary from https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2019/11/01/death-stranding-review-metal-weird-solid-ps4/
that quote is obviously glowingly positive dude?
I guess if you cut out 90% of the quote and disguise the meaning of two sentences you can get a negative pullquote from it?
"Death Stranding is not a "fun" game You'll be bored at times and downright frustrated at others"
The quote you copied is taken out of context. It mostly seems like the reviewer is trying to convey that it is a challenging game but than goes on say it is very rewarding. He validates his score through the review.
And this is one review, I keep seeing comments saying "all" or "most" of the high reviews say it isn't good and don't justify their score yet I have yet to see one. Only people taking quotes out of context.
As good as watching cars pass you by while being stuck on traffic.
The game has great sound design and frequently contrasts the solitude of walking with big musical swells -- listening to audio while you play would seriously undermine all of that.
If you don't care though, yeah, it's a game of doing careful tasks in silence mostly the mechanics are a great fit for listening to something else.
Are you going to play the game? There's no giant mystery what this review means. We have tons of glowing impressions in the main thread.
That makes it sound like a good game to not play while playing better games instead.
Well, the quoted paragraph contains the words "slog", "bored" and "frustrated", even if they mention the payoff is well worth it, though not sure that's what I want in a videogame. I find it somewhat worrying when I compare with other reviews that say that the game takes quite a few hours to get started. Also, I just read the Edge's preview and well, it's pretty brutal, saying that the game often feels like work, among other things. Still, given the range of reviews, it seems it's the kind of game one should at least try.
that's fine, having played a little of it, it is absolutely not for everyone. The reviewer quoted clearly thought it was what he wanted in a videogame though! He wrote that glowing paragraph about it.
This is the most predictable thing ever. I said a year ago that if reviews were bad Era would throw a celebration and parade the narrative through the streets. And if scores were good, they would claim that corrupt games journalism is blindly worshipping at the altar of cult leader Kojima.
Anyone who says that is an idiot.
Plenty of people dislike Kojima as well but I'm not about to start blaming the negative reviews on that
Can you site the other "many" "very high scores" review that have said such things? Because it's literally only this one single review that keeps being brought up. Surely with "many" such reviews to choose from people should have no problems citing other reviews.
Yea if its one of those games that requires my undivided attention. I'll probably just wait until its lower in price before dipping in
That guy went into the OT to tell people all the psoitve impressions in there must be crazy and whacky to enjoy such a game.
Guy clearly has an agenda and /or is 12
I think a negative Jimpression is just about the least surprising thing out of this entire ordeal.
uh oh
at least it looks like he won't finish the game which means no review score from him.
This was never going to be a surprise based on his BOTW review (which had valid criticisms)
Jim doesn't really give scores that often and even so, the "finish the game" mandate was specifically based around posting reviews at embargo last week.
Yup. If there's one thing Jim hates (beyond microtransactions) it's repetitive tedium. His Division 2 video was preamble for this.
oh? i thought anyone who got a review code had to finish the game if they wanted to publish a review, regardless of when they want to do it.
From what I can tell, Edge simply didn't want to write an incomplete review. Their "we don't want to finish the game so we're not going to formally review it even after the embargo expires, here's some impressions instead" thing was more of a philosophical/ethical thing than an outright requirement from Sony.
In my experience as a professional reviewer, publishers CAN'T force you to finish a game to write a review - if you knowingly don't finish it and write a shitty review they may rethink their stance on sending you advance copies in the future, but if they send you a game most of the embargo is simply based around when and how you're allowed to release the review. They can't stop you from publishing a review once the game is formally released.
No, completing the game before reviewing it was an explicit requirement as part of the game's NDA/embargo agreement.
Did he say 7 out of 10 at the end? That seems surprisingly generous, given his comments.
Yes. As in you would need to do that to post a review at the embargoed time. They can't exactly stop you once the game is actually out.
Of course, they cannot stop you once the embargo has lifted at all. But pre-release, it was definitely a major clause.
I dunno if it's disingenuous, but it does serve as a self selecting way of weeding out some of the potential lower scored reviews.
Yeah, that was the point I was making. Edge said they didn't want to finish the game, so they didn't post a review at embargo. They then decided not to post a LATE review. There's nothing legally prohibiting them from posting a review now, they just didn't want to because they don't want to finish the game.
I kind of wondered when someone would bring up the 'respect your time' thing. I mean that was HUGE for people for a while...and I've played very few games that 'respect your time' less than this one.
I remember in the Inside Gaming review mentions about if you hated RDR2 you'd probably hate a lot of what Death Stranding does, so it really shouldn't surprise anyone that Jim not only deeply disliked it, but that he even outright compares it to RDR2 in his review
I wonder if he got a code back when the media or influencers did or if he bought the game himself.
If he bought the game at retail and he's already fed up with it...... LMAO!
Not sure if Sterling was serious or making a botw joke but he said 7/10.
He got a review code.
Given how much he criticized it I'm surprised it was that high, I thought he was going to give it about a 5/10 while watching his review. So yeah, probably a reference to his BotW review.
At the end of the review Jim says:
"It is boring, and when it's not boring it's fucking irritating".
I literally laughed out loud multiple times watching this, great stuff. More power to those who find enjoyment in any game including this one, but I definitely will never understand wanting to literally hit buttons to balance yourself walking constantly as a core gameplay mechanic in a game.