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I have played roughly 60 hours, and I’ve been entranced the whole time. It is also propulsive, soothing, and immense. What I can say is that Death Stranding is still preachy, plodding, and indulgent. It adds extra missions and helpful tools to the game’s arsenal, but I can’t say whether they improve the overall experience because, well, I never had much of an experience to begin with. It explores the importance of community and social ties. This time, I saw the closing credits.ĭeath Stranding: Director’s Cut is a strange game about an insouciant messenger delivering cargo to dozens of outposts across a fractured, post-apocalyptic America. 24, 2021, Kojima Productions will release Death Stranding: Director’s Cut. I promptly deleted it from my PlayStation 4.

it was a plodding, preachy, indulgent mess. I played the role of an exhausted man transporting boxes to a bunch of jerks scattered across a decimated U.S. I played it for 15 hours and didn’t enjoy a single one of them. 8, 2019, after three years of nebulous trailers and confusing gameplay demos, Kojima Productions released Death Stranding, its first project as an independent studio. This isn’t just a review of Death Stranding: Director’s Cut.

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