You regularly unlock new tools and equipment that you can use to aid you in traversal, and they’re usually inventive and effective, and have a tangible impact on the way you play. Moving from location to location and making deliveries isn’t just the narrative context for your actions in the game, it very much defines what you’re actually doing in the game for the most part.Īt first, walking and traversing terrain is all there is, but Death Stranding keeps throwing new elements and wrinkles into the mix to keep ramping things up. Death Stranding is, as I’ve mentioned, immensely focused on traversal, fittingly enough for the game’s central premise. It starts out fairly simplistic (and in the first few hours, even somewhat dull), but as you play more, and the mechanics are allowed to breathe and grow and become more fleshed out, the game really comes into its own. Like the story, Death Stranding’s core gameplay loop is something else that follows a constant, gradual upward trajectory from beginning to end. " Death Stranding’s story is a slow burn, with more things getting revealed to you gradually and on a constant basis, as pieces of the puzzle slowly and consistently fall into place." Hopefully, this is material that is being saved for a sequel, because a lot of these are questions that I was really excited to discover the answers to- answers that Death Stranding doesn’t give. Some things are hinted at but never resolved, while many fundamentals about the state of the world are never even tackled. And though the game does a solid job of wrapping up most of the more small-scale and character-specific arcs, many of the larger questions are left unanswered. It follows, then, that how much satisfaction one will get from the game’s story will depend on how well those mysteries are answered. Death Stranding’s very premise is predicated on the existence of some big mysteries. The storytelling is not without its issues, though. The likes of Troy Baker and Tommie Earl Jenkins in particular really knock it out of the park with their roles. Convincing voice acting and performances for all major characters across the board make it all that much easier to get invested in. The game’s opening and closing five hours are a lot heavier on narrative and storytelling than the meaty chunk in the middle, but it never feels like it goes too long without anything eventful or interesting happening. It’s a slow burn, with more things getting revealed to you gradually and on a constant basis, as pieces of the puzzle slowly and consistently fall into place.
Death Stranding’s story covers a lot, and it has a lot of things to say, and for the most part, it does it all pretty well.
ALONE WITH YOU GAME PC
This review will, of course, discuss the additional features and options added to the game in its PC version.ĭeath Stranding has a huge emphasis on storytelling, which shouldn’t come as a surprise, considering the mind behind the game.
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ALONE WITH YOU GAME PS4
As such, this review will be a modified version of our Death Stranding review when it came out on the PS4 in 2019, which you can read through here. NOTE: Given the fact that Death Stranding on PC is a largely similar to the game’s PS4 version in terms of mechanics and gameplay, our impressions of both versions have a lot in common.
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