During our playthrough, it felt very much like Death Stranding was a multiplayer game despite the fact that players can't team up in real-time. To that end, players will often find themselves completing tasks that seem menial with the threat of extinction hanging over humanity's head: transporting keepsakes or, in some cases, pizza, in order to bring a bit of happiness to the bleak grays of humankind's death rattles.Īnd maybe it has. Much of the game is about bringing together a society that is divided, whether that's on a grand scale - an entire country - or a smaller one, like families or lovers. For a game that only gets more complicated the longer its tale gets, that's an impressive feat.Ĭonnection is at the heart of the story of Death Stranding, and it is the channel through which all other elements of the game travel as well. Nearly every major character in Death Stranding resonates and settles the complex, sometimes ridiculous narrative into something that still evokes emotional responses at each turn. It's a superstar cast and it shows before other juggernauts like Mads Mikkelsen even turn up. From there, things get decidedly weirder, somehow: there are multiple dimensions, a new spin on the acid rain convention, and characters intimately connected to death.Īlong the way, other characters make connections with Sam, from the sublimely-portrayed Deadman (Guillermo del Toro) to the mysterious Fragile (Léa Seydoux). Things begin to unravel quickly, with the realization that the technology used by humans to combat supernatural forces - BTs, or Beached Things - involves half-dead, half-living babies called BBs that can detect their presence. That's about as contained as the story ever gets. America has been shattered, the rest of the world presumably in a similar state of disarray, and humanity is barely clinging to its last vestiges of life. Players take on the role of Sam Porter Bridges (Norman Reedus), a deliveryman who treks across a hellish, ghost-infested post-apocalyptic landscape to bring packages to the few remaining humans that have found shelter across the country. There's a lot going on, and most of it doesn't get unpacked for the player until the game is approaching its climax. The story of Death Stranding is not ideally experienced while distracted.
Related: People Want Death Stranding Content So Bad They're Praising Its Title Screen It’s a must-play that manages to leave a lasting impression, in spite of - or perhaps due to - its stumbles. In fact, Death Stranding is one of the most important video games released this decade. It is by no means a perfect game, but Death Stranding is an important one. Whether or not Death Stranding has effected the sort of change consumers expected it would is entirely subjective, but after playing through the game in its entirety, it feels impossible to come away with anything but the lingering sense that something in gaming's paradigm is shifting.
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