At no point did I notice any graphical hiccups.
It was common to see the texture quality improve while approaching various objects and the sharpness of the visuals couldn’t match what the actual art direction needed.
Death stranding reviews pro#
While the original wasn’t ugly, there were noticeable drops in texture quality in parts that even the game’s branded PlayStation Pro couldn’t paper over. The graphical facelift shows effort as well as showcasing what the PlayStation 5 can do, even in its early days. The Director’s Cut features two major improvements over the original. If the player is someone who can get on board with some overwrought nonsense, though, there’s plenty of meat to accept the teeth. As this is a Kojima game, this synopsis is grossly oversimplified. Since Sam is a delivery person known to be reliable, and since he’s family to the President (among other reasons), he is tasked with using his superhuman “drop stuff off” abilities to convince hold outs to connect to the dead net and get them hooked up with 5G (hosts) service. America is still struggling, and the government has decided that the best hope is to unify everyone using an internet that basically passes all data through the afterlife. A dead body becomes a timebomb that will effectively obliterate everything in a wide radius. Rain falls from the sky that rapidly ages most everything it touches. The world has been torn apart by a metaphysical disaster known as the Death Stranding, an occurrence that severed all communication and killed the vast majority of humanity. Having played this new edition, however, I can say that time and the extra effort have both done this game a massive amount of favors, even if the points raised in our review of the original version still hold true.įor those who are completely unfamiliar with the original release, the game puts players in the well-worn shoes of Sam Porter Bridges, played by Norman Reedus, deliveryman extraordinaire. At the time, the original title felt ponderous, to put it lightly. Certainly, the last thing this game needed was more.
Thus, the announcement of the PlayStation 5 exclusive Death Stranding Director’s Cut was met with bewilderment, at least by this reviewer. What finally landed was a divisive, bizarre title that could best be described as a sarcastic retort to the folks who complain about “walking simulators.” It did well enough, but it wasn’t what fans truly wanted at the time. This was a title that was going to be something fresh, something special. The aggressively, almost confrontationally weird marketing videos and snippets of information provided pre-release served to solidify interest.
Death stranding reviews series#
A new title from the famed director of the Metal Gear series (not to mention his work with Zone of the Enders, Policenauts and others) was something to be celebrated. Back in 2019, there were few games more anticipated than Kojima Productions’ Death Stranding.
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