

As of this article, Death Stranding holds a fairly high 83 score on Metacritic, but differing opinions are indeed strong. But it doesn’t appear as though he is claiming that Death Stranding is better than the FPS genre. According to them, Kojima said, “In America, there are a lot of FPS fans, maybe those fans are saying this is like a different game and are not rating it very high.” In either case, Kojima does seem to be saying that a cultural preference for shooters in the US may be skewing the reviews for Death Stranding.
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Americans are some of the biggest first-person shooter fans and Death Stranding isn’t that.” In a follow-up, a representative from Sony also provided a translation of Kojima’s final line in the quote. Given the right specs, the PC version of Death Stranding can look and run much better than it did on the PS4 Pro (I played using a Core i7-7700K CPU and RTX 2080 video card). The game features Fragile and Sam Bridges, many years after the events of the first title. Perhaps it’s a game that’s difficult to understand for a certain type of critic and some of the public. Death Stranding 2 is the sequel to Hideo Kojimas open-world delivery adventure game. Also, numerous textures glitch during the cutscenes, and framerates drops under 30fps.

There are many intertwining threads to its plot.

Only deliveries missions, and cringe plot cutscenes with terrible writings. In our original review, which you can read here in full, Kallie Plagge awarded it a 9/10, saying that 'Death Stranding is a hard game to absorb. Here in the US, instead, we’ve had stronger criticisms. The worst game Ive played in the recent years. “I must say that the game has received some enthusiastic reviews, above all in Europe and Japan. Here is our independent translation of Kojima’s answer. However, IGN’s version of the quote finds that part to be inaccurate. Movement in Death Stranding is effectively the antithesis of the empoweringly fluid parkour of Assassin’s Creed or Marvel’s Spider-Man. The main game is literally the annoying fetch side quests you do in other games because you have to have that 100.This is made worse by the awful, AWFUL, controls, turning boring into frustrating. Summary: From legendary game creator Hideo Kojima comes a genre-defying experience, now expanded and remastered for the PlayStation 5 console in this definitive Director’s Cut. An original translation of Kojima’s response also suggested that Death Stranding was better than a shooter. Amazing overall graphics and beautiful world, ruined by boring/repetitive fetch quests. Mixed or average reviews based on 853 Ratings. Death Stranding is the definition of a divisive title, one with a plodding story and cumbersome menu system, but if you’re looking for something that challenges your perception of blockbuster. In an interview between Hideo Kojima and Italian game website TGCom24, Kojima says that the American preference for first-person shooters may have affected players’ response to Death Stranding.
