Agreed. It looks nice, and I like the BotW-style world that has empty, relaxing spaces that are not saturated with busywork... but the lack of concrete gameplay details and the mediocre combat sequence they showed in the last trailer makes me wonder how this game will be at the end. I hope that Sony releases a big gameplay sequence a month or so before the launch.
Hopefully two things:
Remember all those complaints about MGSV's open world feeling empty? Well, I feel they'll (justifiably) be making a return when Death Stranding launches. Don't get me wrong, the prospect of exploring a desolate and broken world utterly transformed by the Death Stranding really excites me but I realize this isn't the kind of thing for everyone. We've had a solid grasp of the gameplay loop for a while now which is more about HOW you go from point A to point B to deliver things while surviving and bracing the horrors of the land. It's about engaging you with the environment and you coming up with your own path. You could walk to your destination but you're more likely to come across BTs that way. Driving around makes you more susceptible to ambushes by the Homo Demens etc. Walking in the footsteps of other delivery people to ensure the route you're taking is not dangerous, that kind of thing.
The point is how you get from A to B, and what happens during the journey. You'll have to make your own way, hide from the undead/ghost presence, fight off the other corporations chasing you... It's (hopefully) going to be full of little events, as with MGS.
Plot I agree with but we already have a decent amount of knowledge on gameplay systems
