The first steps in Death Stranding 2, you in for something special. The sequel to Kojima 2019 game was an audiovisual spectacle throughout the 50+ hour story and endlessly replayable endgame. The engrossing narrative with the stellar cast and all the delivering arguably carrer best performance. The epic spectacles to the moments of the quietude between deliveries, the pace is the perfect and makes the follow up a drastic improvement over the original.
What is the Death Stranding 2 about?
Some time passed and the end of Death Stranding, when the Sam Porter walked off into the sunset with Lou, saving the Bridge Baby from it is the demise. The have found of a sort of peace in thier humble living the condotions, but world is still in the disarray due to the event of the Deadth Stranding. The peace is the short lived through the act to get through.
The job as an experienced porter is to reconnect Australia. The means travelling across the continent on the foot and in a range of the vehicles, taking the escort of goods with and delivering them to those in the need.
Death Stranding 2 assumes the knowledge though. This is not the type of the game you can jump into and expect the understand what was going on. The Death Stranding recap is the main menu, there are major story beats and character appearance which wont make sens if you are unfamiliar. The Kojima even throws some real deep cuts too, the reference and callbacks only those with the 100 hours in the first game will even recognise.
Subline Storytelling
Death Stranding 2 presentation is world class with the visuals among the very best and the game through the entire thing on a base model PS5. Kojima Production is up there with the Naughty Dog, the pinnacle of how the video games can look, sound and feel.
The detailed motion capture helps emphasize the captivating performance, the role of Norman Reedus in the first game is generic and he is famously gone on the record to say he was entirely certain what was going on in the first game.
He also appears to have much more of a grip on the narrative. He has all the scenes that are both heartbreaking and cheerful, masterfully displaying the emotions. Troy Baker returns as Higgs as a monster who majes the skin crawl, in what might be the best work . there are neil. Brought to life by French actor Luca Marinelli.
Improved Gameplay
When you play at brutal difficulty setting after finishing the story, it is clear gameplay has been in the ironed out so that the little feels frustrating or unfair in any capacity. You have all the tools the disposal.
Well if you did not like the first game, it is still the same game, most of the time is spent navigating the land, and the only stopping along the way for the occasional conversation, to pick up more goods for the delivery, ot to the fight against BTs, robotsm or the humans.
The Gunplay was much improved and the automatic weapons felt a bit flimsy and you use them in the last resort or even when forced on the few sections with the Cilff. The weapon are much easier to control and there are greater variety of weapons. The inventry is good you get shotguns, grenade launchers, snipers ,handguns, assault, rifiles, machine guns, rocket launchres and a great deal more.
In the Death Stranding, it is felt special when you overcame the odds, saw a haven on the horizon and some melancholic track from the Low Roar started blaring through the speakers.
In the Endgame
The hardcore Death Stranding fans, the endgame is where the real fun begins, it is all about the mapping the most efficeiecnt paths between the facilities in order to deliver packages insacthed and the time manner.
The main goal is to reach the Legend of Legends S-tier ranking on as many deliveries as the possible. The first scout the area,asses any hazards, lay out zipoline paths abd generally get a sense of how you will be navigating from the Point A to Point B.
Verdict
Death Stranding 2 is the phenomenal, it is the among the Kojima very the best work for the narrative but the near the limitless variety in the gameplay opportunities.
The very well end up being the final game in the series at the least with the Kojima at the helm, we can also hope someone eles can pick up the , mantle and continues to the iterate no one of the gaming most unique experience.