Topic: Death Stranding OT

@themcnoisy If the story is solid, I will give it a go eventually but from what I am reading the story is very marmite.

I've never had a crash so far (30h)

That's nice. I haven't thought about doing that. Gonna try.

I'm obsessed about building roads. I can't go further without making sure I'm completing them.

@themcnoisy beautifully put with the Lotr analogy, glad i bought the game 80 hours so far, premium deliveries are crazy in heavy BT zones on hard (gotta get them trophies).

@ZeD As with any Kojima game, there are stories in stories, stories about each item and there's a big nod to popular culture and some amazing characters.

The overarching story is a bit weird. It's very cynical at the start although it improves at various points. Heartmans section in particular was very classy.

I wouldn't say its marmite, in fact if the opening few hours story was less cliche and jargon filled with more emotion it would be an easy recommend in that department. It completely falls flat though and I did not care for the people in the story, that's changed a tad but its certainly not the last of us.

@MightyDemon82 good luck mopping up. I haven't looked at the list yet. I'm on just over 50% Trophies atm, somewhere near 75% and that's me done!

Since today it's my birthday I jumped in DS for a few minutes to see what Kojima planned and I got three surprises.
Does anybody know if I should look for something else before midnight?
1) mail from Bridges staff
2) birthday cake in the private room
3) Clifford cutscene

@andreoni79 pretty cool. Kojima thinks outside of the box.

Massive spoiler territory here

@themcnoisy Please use the spoiler tags!

@andreoni79 sorry mate.

@themcnoisy just because I scroll up and down on the phone and in that way I easily miss a written spoiler alert

Woah the whole ending. Amazing. Totally makes sense why Sam is a jerk at the beginning and the story is really shaky. Crazy. I won't spoil it but it's boss.

@themcnoisy yup it's still stuck in my head, after almost a week, truly a fantastic experience overall!

@MightyDemon82 I had an inkling what or rather how the end game would play out. The way all the main characters are tied together is fantastic.

The twist was decent, the explanation is a masterclass.

I hope Kojima keeps working on games, there's no way DS could translate to a film and have the same impact.

The game FREAKED me out!!

I was in the snow mountains and I saw from the distance the Tallneck the Giraffe looking robot from Horizon!!!!!!! I didn't capture it I only took a screenshot but I found this video where a player found it on another location

Got the Trophies for trading with another porter last night and the 700 items delivered. Focusing on premium deliveries to get those two trophies, my star is purple and red still need to do several more of miscellaneous and timed before they pop! Nothing worse when doing a timed delivery and you swerve to avoid mules only to fall down a ravine, reloaded the game so many times till i got that right.

So I'm in Port Knot City, and I have to take a boat. I got a warning about not leaving stuff behind. Am I leaving this area for good, or can I return and do the rest of the missions later?

@Octane that warning is actually really silly. Not long into the next chapter you can go back to the first area.

Top tip. Don't be hasty in going back. Try to box off chapter 3 and 4 first and venturing back to mop up will become quicker with your pathway upgrades.

@KratosMD @themcnoisy Cheers! It sounded like some cut-off point in the game. In that case I'll leave the remaining orders for another time. I don't really fancy tracking back over that mountain now that I'm in Port Knot City. I had to leave my bike behind as well. Poor thing, hope it survives the timefall.

I'm on chapter 3. I've put 40 hours.

@KratosMD That makes sense. Another reason I'm taking so long is that I'm trying to get as many stars as possible before moving out.