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Death Stranding - Endgame Review - Part 2

  Overall review. Here's comes the brutal part. First of all, the title of the game should be changed to reflect the contents or the game's plot more effectively. Instead of calling the game "Death Stranding", it should be renamed to something more appropriate such as "Social Media Stranding", or "Like Mongers Stranding" or "Delivery Boy Stranding". I think those names should be more accurate in describing this game to those who wants to buy it.  I have also noticed that this game has some of the most basic level "problems" which I was surprised to find in this game. I will list down some of these "amateurish" problems which I feel the game is suffering from. 1). Genre of the game. While it is true that Hideo Kojima San had (one can say singlehandedly) created the Stealth Genre in the game which other games adopted, I'm at lost at describing what genre Death Stranding belong to. Is it Online game or Offline game? B...

Death Stranding - Endgame Review - Part 1

 Death Stranding - Endgame Review Death Stranding is 2019 game from Kojima Production, and one which was eagerly awaited by fans of Metal Gear series largely due to the massive support to Hideo Kojima (who had given us one of the best series in PlayStation 1, 2, 3 and 4 eras which was Metal Gear Series. When I was about to write this review, I had promised myself not to compare MGS games with Death Stranding as Death Stranding is a fairly new game for Kojima San. Even so Kojima San had "invented" Stealth Game Genre, he had shown disinterest in wanting to continue onward (or more precisely being trapped in) a single game series (MGS) for too long. He had shown an interest in moving away from the MGS saga (or even ending it completely) when Kojima San was involved in another project in 2008 called Silent Hill PT which he worked with Guillermo Del Toro and Norman Reedus. The playable demo which they managed to  produce had peeked the gamers community interest but the project was...