I’ve been playing through Death Stranding again on ps4. I had beaten the game a few months after I originally got it after day one of release. After realizing that there was just continued play after you beat the initial game. You travel the continent and pick up lost packages and fish loose-end orders. After a few plays trying to rebuild roads I decided to just start over and play through the game with the knowledge that I had from beating it. Maybe to make better sense of the story and give myself a few “oh now I get it” realizations playing through the game again. So, I had played it for a while and then dropped off after getting to Lockne story arc in the game. Then put it down for almost half a year. I just picked up again after having some spare time to play through again. So here is where I am now. (SPOILERS AHEAD) Mama died, merged with Lockne, lost BB, faught Cliff Unger, got BB back, met Hartman face to face, and now I am (hopefully) wrapping up orders in the snow covered mountains. The all-terrain eco skeleton makes travel much easier in the snow, but I try and keep a PCC on me so I can build zip lines once I make it across a particularly long trek. The game overall has long stretches of relaxing walks, but that eventuates the moments of stress and excitement when they do happen. Kojima and Del Toro’s story is so weird and there aesthetic/environment design is familiar yet so different. The sense of completion after accomplishing a task like delivering an order over a long and difficult journey is different in this than most games. I have to say that my favorite accomplishment in the game is building a road. I wish I could get more help with that from other players though. Maybe the next time I pick it up, I’ll make the effort to research how to connect with players and build these roads faster.
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Anywho, this is the first blog I’ve written in a while. Maybe even over 5 years since I created this website.
I hope to keep writing them, maybe in an effort to keep you all up to date on current projects.