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Death Stranding is a game about a porter making deliveries in a post-apocalyptic world. It’s a game about the importance of connecting people with each other and how difficult this can be. And, being developed by Hideo Kojima, it’s also a bloated, convoluted mess.
The protagonist is Sam, a porter who travels around a barren, devastated landscape to collect and deliver supplies. He’s also the son of the President, and after one of his deliveries goes awry, he’s asked to meet her. President Strand asks Sam to help her make America whole again, but what she intends to do is build bridges instead of walls. She wants to “reconnect” the people in this [...]