4/5 ★ – freightrain2099's review of Death Stranding: Director's Cut.

first video game ever with the lore term “locked in syndrome” the gameplay is great, it looks incredible, the dialogue is insanely corny, the story is a gorgeous mess and by the end the entire thing is held together by glue, sticks and a couple crayolas but you see everything it all leads up to and there’s genuinely no other way to describe this than an utterly stunning work of art. maybe more thoughts to come here mainly about why that man should learn pacing lessons before the best game oat drops.. okay yeah some thoughts in no order - why the fuck was episode 3 that long bruh it genuinely kept me there for a couple weeks while i steamrolled thru the last 15 hours just this past week 💀 - while i loved the game i definitely felt a bit of a disconnect with both gameplay and story when you get to the snowy mountains both some of the heavy exposition lore explaining scenes got a bit tiring and the snow deliveries are a bit tedious (by design i will say) but at least i got some heat off that by building a zipline network that allowed me to get from mountain knot city to the mountaineer in like 2 minutes 🔥🔥🔥 - holy shit did i get addicted to contribuiting materials for bridges lol i think i had nearly 200K likes by the end - episode 12 enemy/bosses placements are genuinely evil and so sooo fucking stupid like truly got a bit pissed off when i had to do the squid then the 3/4?? goop lions and then the stupid ass whale in like a 20 minute span what was he cooking man - lots of good performances here (qualley is especially good) but goddamn tommie earl jenkins as die hard man steals this thing, crazy good acting from him - incredible soundtrack obviously, im kinda pissed off at the spotify ban this has on ps5 but at least those needledrops are fantastic so of course my favorite (give up, almost started crying for no reason) was cut off by walking into BlueTooth territory too early - several scenes in this where lea seydeux glitches out and it reminded me of this one movie… - also LOL at the newly added P.T. actual jumpscare in the director’s cut scared tf outta me at 1pm on a weekday - kojima is still one of the most obviously bisexual directors to ever live bruh he’s like a 1940s director if he really got into computers 😭😭😭