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TopicThe Board 8 Discord #sports Chat Ranks Their Top 100 Respective Games
WiggumFan267
01/05/21 3:58:37 AM
#174:


#99. Death Stranding (PS4, 2019)
Honestly, I'm not really sure about how much I can say I "like" this game, but something about it is very satisfying and calming. Getting a package order, balancing it properly, and making a trek on foot across all kinds of terrain, while doing your very best not to fall over and also taking care of a baby while you're doing it, is about as Kojima as it's gonna get, and I appreciate that. I didn't really dig fighting the Shadow Realm monsters as you're never really well-equipped, but that's part of the point I suppose. You're supposed to get that UUGHHHHHH feeling whenever your magic backpack picks em up.
I like Daryl Dixon, so playing as exactly him was at least modestly appealing. Theres a few guest porters which is fun, among them Conan O'Brien and Geoff Knightly. All the acting jobs are great, Mads Mikkelsen and Troy Baker shine in their roles. Noting again, they look like them. Well, sort of. Fragile is a cool character too. Or at least she looks cool.
I have no idea what to make of the story. It makes absolutely no sense to me at all, and there's a crapton of spoilers, and I couldn't even spoil this game if I tried because I would have no idea what even to say. Maybe it's all pizzazz and no substance, but it's Kojima so it's perfectly fine with me. Enjoy your hour long final cutscene again. I did!

Anyway, the gameplay is what makes this very appealing to me, in it being an extremely unique experience, between the goal of just getting from point A to point B, but also the idea of the "network" and as you get a network online, you too, will become online, and other players structures around the world that they have built to help them in theirown games will start to become available to you. And you can leave likes and such, until they deteriorate over about 2-3 weeks in real time, unless you pump them full of more materials. Besides walking you cangraduate to a motorcycle, a truck, build roads,and eventually ziplines, especially to help through those tricky mountain segments, and let me say- THAT is the greatest feeling. That after dozens of treks up and down the damn snowy windy mountains with Shadow Realm creatures attacking you every 5 minutes... once you set up a full zipline network (aided by your network friends!) and just zip around past everything to pretty much wherever you want on the map- you feel great about it. Make sure to do the all of the pizza deliveries all the way through the end of the game!

But yeah, this game makes absolutely no sense and it's really not a good game, but I like it anyway.
Also it's probably the best-looking PS4 game I played



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