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[Death Stranding 2] More Stranding, Spoilers & Speculation
Dark Raven X
Laugh hard, run fast,be kindRegistered User regular
Laugh hard, run fast,be kindRegistered User regular
https://youtu.be/Tr2yB93pIGwThe first strand type sequel.
So. Holy shit, huh? Of all the games I never expected to get a sequel, Hades is the number one. But Death Stranding is a very close second!
Oh brilliant
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Favourite bit was that procession of red armoured people. Looks like some areas are a more bright white sunburnt salt plane which looks very cool
I want all new stumble mechanics. A complete next gen falling over simulator
After initially assuming that intro was a flashback to before Fragile's Timefall injuries, I'm uh, now pretty sure that was indeed set after the first game, and that bebe was indeed Lou. Which... oof, rage inducing. But hey, Fragile's skin is back to normal, guess the age wore off after Timefall was fixed. Though I am very curious why Sam's hair is suddenly gray - maybe they traded time somehow?
Other big possibility is we have indeed had a big timeskip, Sam's just older and maybe Elle Fanning is playing a grown up Lou? But then why does Fragile look the same age?
The villain appears to be some weird amalgamation of Higgs in Amelie's body... Somehow? She doesn't have a physical form at all, we burned Bridget's body... so what the hell is that thing playing a keytar!?
Nanomachines.
Now, if they release a second trailer and it introduces an actual editor for Kojima's writing? Then I'd have some interest.
Let me stop you there.
EVERYBODY WANTS TO SIT IN THE BIG CHAIR, MEG!
Well holy shit, A24 is doing a Death Stranding movie.
Not sure if that's a criticism or not.
Seriously though, I would appreciate just... 20-30% more coherency on the story. All extra weirdness past the original game is just gravy. Mostly I just want a lot more sweet landscapes to walk around in while listening to some chill-ass music. I'm already appreciating that despite the devastated world, humanity is doing what it would actually do: rebuild and recover, not sit on its haunches and rot while lamenting the old world.
Oh, and if something has happened to
Low frame rate puppet bro and Samurai robot powered by ghost baby vs. zombie cyborg glam metal Higgs got two.
So much for hope of Fragile being the MC this time.
I'm wondering that low framerate thing is supposed to be a bizarre affectation by the puppet dude or a temporary graphical issues? Because when Higgs touches it, its motion is totally smooth and normal but when it chooses to move, it has that whole stop-motion thing. Also, what the fuck is the deal with that puppet? And demon-goo-cat? And handy-dandy hand-collar-things? All some kinda "companion AI" thing because the world population density is so low now?
And goddammit Higgs, actually electric electric guitar/actual ax ax isn't quite enough to get me over the dumb bullshit luggage-throwing fight... but it's a damned good start. Keep it up. I look forward to our eventual absurd redux showdown, but this time make it weird instead of dumb.
Time to play I think.
edit - first impression - this game is gorgeous. I know it's running on the Horizon engine but wow. The prologue environment is one of the most real looking landscapes I've seen in real time in a game.
Also does this control better with a gamepad than keyboard and mouse? Because he's very unresponsive with KBAM.
The music is so good.
To an extent, the gameplay never gets particularly deep. However, once you know the tools in the game, I found it enjoyable to keep improving how I reached certain locations. First time I went to locations without a vehicle, I always had some ropes and ladders with me to set up some shortcuts.
Possibly the single best tool in the game is the hover carts. They can hold a lot of weight and not worry about balance, plus you can set them down if you have to do something (like fight or set up structures) so you don't have to worry dropping a ton of crap and picking it all back up. If I remember right, I think you can even climb ladders and stuff and they follow if attached to your belt. Oh, and even when you do get vehicles you can simply stand next to the vehicle, open the cargo screen, and quickly swap all the cargo from the cart to the vehicle, quick and easy. I always kept at least one on me, if not two, just in case I came across some heavy valuable stuff by surprise and needed some extra carrying capacity.
Most importantly, you can ride them like a hoverboard. Doesn't do you much good going uphill but until you have vehicles handy, they're wonderful for getting downhill quickly.
This is a world where if a BT manages to get its hands on a dead person, it creates, in essense, a nuclear explosion capable of levelling a city.
And Sam thinks it's a good idea to knock out and hogtie humans and just... leave them there. Hogtied, waiting to die.
Look at the map of the U.S.A. when you get a chance. See all those craters? People do die in the world of Death Stranding under less than ideal circumstances. All the time. Humanity has just had to adapt to the idea that each person's death is capable of setting off a matter/anti-matter nuke.
And just like the Metal Gear series, there's a difference between "stunned" and "unconscious" enemies. If you tie up a stunned enemy they'll wake up shortly and start wriggling free, then get up in a minute or two. If you knock them out completely, then they'll stay reliably tied up.
Nothing stops the mail. Not even nuclear corpses.
Though the voidout craters they show on the map of the US would be impossible as some of them are large enough to punch right through the Earth's crust, which would probably depopulate a whole hemisphere if not the whole planet.
[stands up in alarm, sits down immediately]
Objection sustained.
Funnily enough, I've played through the game twice, once the Director's Cut, and never personally had a voidout happen to me. Never killed a raider and never died, at least not outside sequences where dying means means simply a reload with no other option.
Avoiding death isn't that hard though. Stay topped up on blood and blood packs, don't drop too low before you refill, don't leave home without max blood packs, watch for blood packs dropped during boss fights.
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