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7

It's campy as shit. It thinks it's way deeper than it is. The dialogue is pretty bad. For every profound moment there's an equally dumb one. Despite all this, I think it excels at telling its story on its own terms, which is basically hammer its themes in as loudly as possible while being entertaining and weird and off-kilter. Its terms are kind of bad! But if you take the massive grain of salt it wants you to, it's a fun ride. Death Stranding does not really care what your idea of good storytelling is and I find that much more interesting than most games. And it does it so confidently that most of the time I don't even mind.

This is also a weird one to rate because Death Stranding is bigger than the sum of its parts. The gameplay and game design reinforcing the narrative is doing a lot of heavy lifting here, but it's only fair.

While I'm at it:
MGS2 - 9.5

Probably Kojima's best story I've played but unfortunately only his second most predictive. The turnaround time on getting to Death Stranding's dystopian future was pretty insane.

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