The game isn't Stardew Valley in its passivity, but Death Stranding makes it clear that killing has consequences, since those bodies could then be turned into deadly, invisible BTs. Additional enemies do show their faces eventually, like MULEs and Terrorists, but even then, Sam seems to be above weapons and prefers hand-to-hand combat and other non-lethal means.
Later on there are ways to deal with BTs more directly, but the early part of the game is very stealthy. Most of the time, we were sneaking around Metal Gear Solidstyle, avoiding the omniscient eye of any BTs we came across. Pressing both mouse buttons gets Sam to buckle down, center his load, and regain his balance at the cost of speed.Ĭombat is not really a thing that happens in Death Stranding. We fell down several times just by turning too quickly. Early in the game before Sam's "balance" attribute really starts getting upgraded, he gets off balance by stepping on rocks and uneven terrain, crossing a river, and at one point even a sidewalk. Remember, Sam is a courier and he's on foot, so that means he's carrying his packages in a backpack strapped to his back, and some of those packages are heavy. It'd be just as accurate to jokingly call the game a falling simulator, but there's a very good reason for Sam's clumsiness. Eventually you'll unlock vehicles to make the distance go by more quickly, but regardless of the transportation mode, Death Stranding leans heavily into this "lone wolf traveling across America" motif. The game even tells us how far we walked and the (usually sub-optimal) path we took to complete the delivery. The tutorial mission involves hiking across the wilderness to deliver a package to an outpost. Some of that is true Sam is embarking on an adventure across the United States from sea to shining sea, although it's not a full-scale model. When the game was released on the PlayStation 4, memes popped up and some reviews referred to it as a walking simulator. It would be easy to make jokes about Death Stranding's gameplay. Get used to hearing compliments like these Some of this could easily have been streamlined and shortened, but it can be skipped entirely as long as you're not interested in seeing how Sam's abilities are upgraded by his performance. Occasionally those are followed by more repeated cut scenes where Sam can fix terminals in cut-off areas and connect them to the Internet chiral network with his Q-pid, a USB-connected necklace. For example, every time Sam finishes a delivery, there's a lengthy recycled cut scene in which the recipient evaluates your performance.
We don't want to spoil the narrative, which YouTube and Twitch streamers have been doing for months, any more than it needs to be, but it's best to get our biggest complaint out of the way immediately: there's a ton of unnecessary talking. If only everyone's performances were so solid. Reedus is a solid actor, and his skills come across in the game. Sam is played by Norman Reedus, who is best known as as Murphy MacManus from The Boondock Saints movies and Daryl on AMC's The Walking Dead. This mild-mannered courier does freelance work for Bridges, a company with the goal of reuniting the fractured populace of the United States. The same can't be said for the crater left by a voidout, however. Sam is also a "repatriate", which means he can (handily) resurrect himself should he expire in combat. He's also afflicted with DOOMS, which is a condition that conveniently allows Sam to sense the presence of BTs. Others know him as a legend in the package delivery business. You are Sam Porter Bridges, who some call "The Great Deliverer". If a BT consumes a living being, they can cause a "voidout", a massive explosion that kills everything nearby. They're usually preceded by "timefall", a form of rain that causes whatever gets wet to age rapidly. The weakening of the divide causes invisible creatures, casually referred to as BTs (or Beached Things) to roam the land. In a near-future version of the world, a mostly-unexplained event called the Death Stranding caused a weakening of the divide between the world of the living and the land of the dead. We got early access to the game, and today we can tell you about our experience, which is probably best summed up as "wild." On July 14, non-PS4 gamers will get their first look at a post-apocalyptic world where, if one person dies, entire cities could be close behind.
If you've not been paying attention to the game, which launched in November as a PlayStation 4 exclusive, this title is about to make its jump to the PC. "Once.there was an explosion." So opens the oft-memed narrative of Kojima Productions' first post-Konami title, Death Stranding.
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