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I have seen Death Stranding at Gamescom and I finally understand what's going on [GamesRadar]

DeepEnigma

DeepEnigma

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By Josh West 2 hours ago Feature

Death Stranding is easy to understand, once you cut through all of the bullsh*t

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I have seen Death Stranding at Gamescom, and I think I finally understand what the fuck is going on. Here's the thing, it can be all too easy to lose sight of a universal truth: every game starts as a simple concept. That's true of every single video game in the industry – yes, even those with Hideo Kojima at the helm.

As inherently political, purposefully obscure, and undoubtedly metaphysical as his games are, each of them has an idea that is easy to understand at the heart of them. That was true of Snatcher. That was true of Boktai: The Sun Is In Your Hands, Metal Gear, Policenauts, and what little we were lucky enough to see of Silent Hills through the lens of P.T. – may it rest in peace. Oh, and guess what, it's true of Death Stranding as well.

You have to cut through a lot of bullshit to find it, but it's there, nestled behind the messy themes of motherhood he seems so intent on exploring. To understand Death Stranding – the intent behind its narrative and the type of game that it is trying to be – you need to forget about the BBs, BTs, and strangely captivating urination systems.

Forget the famous faces with unfamiliar voices, and the whirlwind of conflicting science-fiction tropes wrestling for your attention at any one given moment in time. Hideo Kojima has long attempted (somewhat unsuccessfully) to explain that Death Stranding was a game about connection, and it has taken a new behind-closed-doors demonstration finally gave me a clear idea of the intent behind his laboured explanations.
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Death Stranding is actually about connection

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The thing that really stood out to me was just how simple this game is at its core. Death Stranding is a game about walking. As Sam Porter Bridges (or as you probably know him, Normal Reedus trapped in the uncanny valley), you are tasked with walking from the East coast of America to the West, reactivating various communication nodes along the way in an effort to spread a message of hope to a nation that has become fragmented and disconnected, taking the idea of unity to pockets of an isolated populous that trades in ambivalence rather than love. That is Death Stranding.

And so you will walk. You will retrace the steps of Amelie, daughter of the President of the United Cities of America, who embarked on her own East to West journey with a convoy sometime before the game kicks into gear. She did this in an attempt to establish a network of communication relays across the country, a network that could deliver a message of unity from her mother, Bridget, who also happens to be on death’s door. That message is that every problem in the world needn't be solved by force; instead, it is hope that can bring us all together.

This is necessary after Central Knot City was destroyed in a terrorist attack – through the use of irresponsible 'Void Outs', the act of coming back from the 'Other Side', from the game's central antagonists. This has pushed pockets of civilisation to disconnect themselves from the government and from each other in fear, choosing to instead go it alone in the wildlands.
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Off on the edge of the Pacific is Edge Knot City, home to a group being painted as a decentralised force – separatists and terrorists, the Homo Demens – who are intent on ensuring their own independence. It's on the road to Edge Knot City – on the road to building a bond with the most dangerous and disconnected portion of this vision of a fractured America – where Amelie was captured; she appears to Sam as a hologram projection in everything that we have seen so far, never ageing, looking to him as she did on "back on that beach". She's safe, she tells Sam, and she's free to talk to him and use the facilities as much as she likes – she isn't in a prison, she is keen to note – she just isn't able to leave the confines of Edge Knot City.

Connect the country up to the communication network, see if you can rescue Amelie from the Homo Damens and their leader, Higgs – the 'Man in the Golden Mask' played by Troy Baker – and spread the message of a dying president to halt the otherwise irreversible fracture of society. There's your story in Death Stranding; it's no more confusing than that. It's the drive to get you moving through the world and the core tenant to the gameplay.

The rest of it is all noise – a collection of gamification and esoteric sci-fi concepts to introduce conflict. Death Stranding is a game about a pilgrimage, about activating communication relays, and about delivering parcels to isolated corners of America in an attempt to establish social strands – building bonds with your fellow man in an effort to inspire hope in a dying society.
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I know about Sam's necklace

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I have seen Death Stranding at Gamescom and I finally understand what's going on

Death Stranding is easy to understand, once you cut through all of the bullsh*t
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jshackles

jshackles

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Wait I thought the whole game was an elaborate fake-out
 
Fbh

Fbh

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Seems like they weren't shown that much but just based on that article it still doesn't inspire confidence.
Take the parts of that article that actually talk about the gameplay and it's something like "it's a walking simulator where you try to reach certain areas that work like sync spots in assassins creed, while occasionally doing fetch quests for people"
 
Clear

Clear

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And Silent Hill 2 is a game about finding your (dead) wife by walking around an empty town :D.

And remember DS stranding is a game full of dead people who talk to you...
 
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DESTROYA

DESTROYA

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Will wait for reviews.
It seems like the type of game you will either love it or hate it. The connection can’t be the whole game premise.
 
MiyazakiHatesKojima

MiyazakiHatesKojima

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Moronic journalist finally understands Death Stranding months after Kojima posted a description of what the game is on his Twitter. More bullshit news at 11.

This game is gonna get ripped apart in 2019 because of the sheer retardation and cynicism that's plagued society nowadays. Just like RDR2, Death Stranding simply came out in the wrong side of gaming history.
 
EverydayBeast

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thinks Halo Infinite is a new graphical benchmark
MiyazakiHatesKojima said:
Moronic journalist finally understands Death Stranding months after Kojima posted a description of what the game is on his Twitter. More bullshit news at 11.

This game is gonna get ripped apart in 2019 because of the sheer retardation and cynicism that's plagued society nowadays. Just like RDR2, Death Stranding simply came out in the wrong side of gaming history.
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I think Kojima, developers of the game, etc. will feed off the negative energy you're predicting.
 
semiconscious

semiconscious

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DunDunDunpachi said:
Sounds like a timely theme. People are isolated from one another due to fear, terrorism, and mistrust of gov't.

Hero (messiah archetype) selflessly travels across a broken land thirsty for restoration, fighting inner and outer demons along the way.
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you forgot '& delivering mystery packages (not to be confused with loot boxes)'...
 
Guardian's Light

Guardian's Light

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Has someone wrote that Invictus Volitions First letters are IV? Just turn that, " V(olition)I(nvictus), VI"

Metal Gear Solid, same letters numbers as Death Stranding

Metal Gear Solid VI: Death Stranding

Lol I'm definitely going nuts hahaha
 
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