2/5 ★ – pixelsaturn's review of Death Stranding: Director's Cut.

Date abandoned: 13/04/2022 Platform: Playstation 5 Time played: 13 hours I respect a lot of what Death Stranding is doing. It’s definitely unique and has some strong core themes and some good ideas. But, ultimately it’s frustrating, kinda boring once you’ve played it for a while, and WAY too weird for its own good. I mean, seriously? Piss mushrooms?! Fuck off man. Did anyone tell Kojima “no, dude, what the fuck?” at any point during this game’s development? Also the story is utter nonsense, half exposition from static images on screens and it completely fails to carry this game across its absurd runtime. I only got about 13 hours in and I was already wishing it was ending soon. I started off being quite impressed with this and enjoying playing something different, but that pretty soon wore off and I’m sorta feeling like I wasted the last few evenings playing it.