Norman Reedus and the Friendly Fetus

Get the speed skeleton and stabilizer. The stabilizer sounds boring but is actually a fucking jetpack. You can then launch yourself across the map like you're on the moon, it's amazing.

Edit: here's a video (spoilers for some late game gear) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQDIzfmgmgg

Edit 2: this can only reach its full potential in the director's cut btw

I loved it. I can't wait to play the sequel.

Hol' up

Why am I just now learning Kojima was involved in this game?

Welp...

I guess I know what I'm playing after I get done screaming inappropriately loud after I get bullshitted for the 10th time in a row in Elden Ring DLC.

"Why is it always weak foe?"

I am a big fan of the post Konami Kojimbo, death stranding was interesting to me even before release and when I finished it for the first time I felt the sense of emptiness that it was filling. Incredible atmosphere and world not similar to anything. Characters that all have their own puny motivation, and the scene of

I am awaiting for DS2.

Watching my partner play through this in the early days of the first Covid lockdown here was a fucking surreal but kind of hauntingly perfect experience. Kojima is basically this era's Nostradamus.

The game came out when I was really into low roar and the vibes hit perfectly at the time. Game made me feel really emotional and i don't know why.

I've been looking for a reason to start up the directors cut version on a new save, sharing structures sounds like fun although I'll be all the way back at the beginning.

If you like this give mgs and zone of the enders a go. Death stranding actually helped me appreciate Kojima more in his other games.

Something people don't bring up enough about the game is just how amazing the controls and animations and sound effects are. Everything just feels so perfect. There are so many games that mess up basic keyboard controls (although the director's cut doesn't let you bind vehicle controls to arrow keys 🤬). It's one of those games that's just nice to play because you don't have to constantly fight the controls or wait for tons of stupid animations to play (although there is some of that).

I was playing Elden Ring recently and both the keyboard and gamepad controls suck. Simultaneously overcomplicated and too simplistic. I don't know how you can mess up game controls so badly and still get so much praise for the end result. The game has two different overcomplicated "shortcut" systems for using secondary items and they both suck and are difficult to use. I feel like I spend half my time just fighting the controls. In Death Stranding, not only is the equipment system decent (ok it actually could be a lot better still, pretty clunky), but it also has some animations and nice sound effects and animated UI elements.

Picked it up free on epic last year I think, but sadly the game kept crashing for me after finishing what I think was the tutorials (around 4-5 hours?) so I couldn't experience it.