Hideo Kojima Presents: A Hideo Kojima Production - DEATH STRANDING

[Nyerp]

blasted through the rest of this. didn't love it and didn't hate it, but i was strangely addicted. peak of the game is figuring out how to break the traversal with ziplines and finding tons of helpful stuff from other players while on long journeys. however the story is really nothing special and it tries to hide this with good cutscene direction and by drowning you in endless exposition and technobabble keywords. also the boss fights literally feel like they're ripped from an entirely different game, in a bad way. overall: meh.

[Nyerp]

wtf i just realized this game steals a couple major story ideas from Ys VIII of all things. HACKojima probably thought he was being sly and tried to cover it up with pro-life overtones and exploration of his intense mommy issues

[nyamo]

Is Journey the first stranding game?

[Nyerp]

yeah probably

[TooB]

wtf i just realized this game steals a couple major story ideas from Ys VIII of all things. HACKojima probably thought he was being sly and tried to cover it up with pro-life overtones and exploration of his intense mommy issues

Elaborate?

[Nyerp]

it's spoilers

[TooB]

it's spoilers

So spoiler tag it.

[Nyerp]

play the game and you'll understand

[Nyerp]

you will regret your words and deeds

[Nyerp]

ok fine

MASSIVE FUCKING SPOILERS, READING THIS WILL RUIN THE ENTIRE GAME

the villain of both games is the concept of extinction itself. in ys VIII, this is tied to the cycle of evolution being ruled by an uncaring 'god'. in death stranding, it's presented as the universe trying to 'correct' the big gang, and evolution is an unintended positive result of the struggle to survive after each death stranding. in both, the real life reasons for extinction/evolution (environmental factors/gene selection/etc.) are ignored in favor of having a god or a vague concept of the universe randomly deciding that it's time for the dominant species to go extinct.

in each game, a random individual of the dominant species is chosen to become an immortal being and watch as the extinction happens. in ys, this is so they can explain to the next chosen individual what their role is. in death stranding, the person chosen is both an observer AND the source of the extinction event itself. in both games, one of these chosen people is a woman that the protagonist spends a lot of time trying to 'save' in some way. oh and they're both able to see into the future, either through premonitions (ds) or literal time travel (ys). also the one in death stranding is presented as an evil, literally two-faced bitch who loves aborting babies because hideo kojima hates women.

basically the story of death stranding is not much different from some random dumb jrpg

[don't let's]

Wow, spoilers

[TooB]

play the game and you'll understand

I would play the game, if it didn't suck lol. That's why I asked

[YPrrrr]

We need more abortion debates in video games

Sims 5 pls

[tommy_no_ice]

every japanese role play game has the same story

[C.Mongler]

good lord chapter 3 is fucking LONG