★★★★★

Greatest game oat

I loved Death Stranding 1 and I've absolutely fallen in love with Death Stranding 2. Kojima San did it once more. He's added his iconic weirdness to this game that just clicks. Now I just want a fanfic fight between the Pizza Chef and the Guitar Goblin. This game is absolute Kojima

Death can't tear us apart.
We'll always be connected.
You will never, ever be alone.

DOLLMAN IS THE BEST, WE LOVE YOU DOLLMAN.

Allright heres a small review of mine.

Death Stranding 2 is a great sequel. It builds up from the first one. If you liked the first game, you will like this. Yes its quite surprising, i know. This game here is more "fast paced" than the original, you are given a lot of gadgets and vehicles very quickly, maybe even too fast? Anyway i personally liked the slower pace from Death Stranding 1 more but of course you get to choose what you use and when you use so it doesnt really matter that much. Nevertheless i feel like the sequel was made to be easier than DS1 and at the same time it lost some of its charm. I played on the hardest difficulty (to the wilder) and only challenges i found were giant BT fights where i was almost one shotted if i was too slow to dodge. Allright i admit some normal mech fights were also pretty hard because of overwhelming numbers, mix of melee and ranged units. Will i be writing more about these mechs? Nope. There is also a lot of variety to weapons and gadgets in this game, have you ever wanted to throw rubber pizza at someones face so hard that they go unconcious? Well you are in luck because here you can do that. You can throw robot dogs at enemies, you can deliver packages while surfing on a coffin, there is also martial arts involving...uhm...pizza making skills?

I have to say this somewhere, this game having so much gadgets and weapons managed to remove "spooky" aspect from BTs. Walking around with an arsenal on your back and you can blast your way throught everything. You could basically do it in DS1 too yes, but with a very limited weaponry. In first game you had to choose if you would take lethal or non lethal weapons with you. Some weapons worked against only BT's and some only against humans. In the sequel 95% of your weapons are non lethal and they work against pretty much anything, human, bt or mechs....No need to plan your approach regarding weapons. Its surprisingly hard to kill people by accident in this game. Sam the man has hit like at least 20 bandits with his mail truck and they all have lost just their consciousness and maybe some teeth? (Though im not sure what happened in DS1 when you did that.)

There is a bigger map than the last time, more buildings for you to make. New additions are mines and monorails. You can restore 9 mines, you can also upgrade them to produce a loads of materials for you. And you are going to need them while you are rebuilding everything. Monorails are also a great addition because with them you can transport your huge load of materials from the mine to somewhere else with no problems. If you loved the snowy mountain from DS1, you are also in luck because there is a mountain here bigger and badder than the first one. I still have fond memories while travelling that mountain on foot, zero battery, zero stamina, zero speed, zero chlorobiotes in my pockets, floating carrier behind me filled with 600kg of stuff and things. Oh right and because the mountain is so tall, the air is thin there and if you run out of oxygen youre going to pass out. Ahh yes...best hours of my life... (You can get an oxygen mask if you get some stars with one of the residents living in that mountain.)

BTs BTs BTs...There are new BT's in this game yes. New BT type is called gazer and they uhm...gaze at you. I really like the sounds that they make, they are kinda unsettling, and when they die the sound is pretty eerie and memorable. I feel like DS2 underutilizes BT's and gives the spotlight to the mechs. Then there are couple of giants BTs and then there are even bigger BT's. The word bigger doesnt really make them justice. I should probably mention here that at one point of the game you get an item that lets you capture big BT's and then you can summon them to fight against each other. Like some sort of pokemon battle.

Story wise i dont really know what i can write here. Its a great story, has peak cinema moments, weird kojima moments, great soundtrack, it has pretty much everything. This games story is a bit predictable which is weird to say about kojima game. Im sure that this story resonates more with people who have family and kids. Death Stranding 1 focused on the isolation and loneliness and this sequel focuses more on the connections that we create and how they last. Ending of the DS1 lives rent free in my head and now this games ending is going to live there too. Getting pretty crowded. Very epic and memorable ending, worth the journey.

For me it took like 150 hours to compleate but i was also trying to 100% the game. When i was embarking on the final mission i noticed that i had compleated only about 197/400 deliveries. So now that the story is over, im heading back to upgrade all of the roads, monorails, mines, well everything. "Why?" you may ask, well its because i just like the game and its gameplay loop.

If you are reading this it means that you somehow got though all of my yapping. Because of that i hope that you will have a wonderful rest of your day.