Board 8 > Aww Yeah Platinum #216 GET! - Death Stranding

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https://twitter.com/shineget64/status/1197441036508897280

https://www.truetrophies.com/game/DEATH-STRANDING/trophies?gamerid=5932&showall=1

The latest and greatest from Hideo Kojima. This feels like final version of the game he had been trying to make since Peace Walker. Sam Porter Bridges trek across The United Cities of America is fraught with all manner of natural hazards and supernatural twists and turns.

Make no bones about it the first 10 hours of this game is a test of your will and patience. You are given very little gear and asked to deliver packages across a very linear valley with no real way to defend yourself. Make it past that and you're reward with the massive 2nd map where all the gear, vehicles and weapons begin to appear and you're pretty much free to go about your journey in whatever manner you wish. You can beeline to each major city and just focus on the story or you can be like me and build roads and ziplines across the entire country, defeating the ultimate enemy known as logistics and reuniting america one strand at a time.

The game really feeds into my completion tendencies and every time it gave me a better and faster way of traversal I made sure to implement it everywhere. I really love the the fact everything other players build can appear in your world and really makes it feel you're working together to rebuild the nation.

The overall structure of the game reminds me of Final Fantasy XV. The first 8 chapters or so you're in that open world doing your thing, but then right around chapter 9 it's time for the story to kick into high gear and you're basically watching/playing several hours of what could be considered a lethal injection of Kojima and either you're going to be into that or you're not (of course I am into it). It's very much it's own story (although there's a ton of Metal Gear references) and Norman Reedus's role is like 10x bigger than Kiefer Sutherland's ever was in MGSV so no real worries there.

The Platinum itself requires the following

- Completing the story
- Maxing out all UCA facilities to 5 stars
- Fabricating all weapons and equipment
- Finding all 56 memory chips
- Reading 100 emails and interviews
- Completing 20 premium deliveries with a ranking of Legend of Legends in all 4 categories (so 80 total and they had to be on Hard mode)
- Build every type of structure and max out their level
- Reached Grade 60 in all Delivery evaluation categories

Pretty much everything else you'll get over the course of doing those things.

I'll have a few more weeks to consider where this goes in my 2019 GotY ranking but I also have a ton of other games to play so no time to rest.
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A very impressive platinum
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that's a lot of deliveries
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Sounds like I should play this game.
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https://twitter.com/HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN/status/1197757597442424832
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Did you really play like 7 hours every day?

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10-12 on my days off

4 on work days
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That's nuts. Congrats though very impressive. I'll be giving it a try next week when i get it from the library

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