i made the mistake of reading some critical opinions about death stranding and i remembered why i gave myself the policy of not reading any game crit ever

the state of game crit is pitiful because any time somebody makes anything remotely challenging (in terms of subverting design expectations) or interesting the entire critical apparatus turns their noses up at it. remember when critics panned dark souls and then it influenced every game designer on earth? lmao

its so FUCKING frustrating to me that a big budget game with incredibly strong theming and something to actually say finally comes out and the critical consensus is that it sucks because you dont feel like an epic super badass every minute of playing it

we deserve our reputation in games as trashy kid toys. fuck me

i havent read ONE critical opinion that points out the irony of the "private" room being the place where Sam's bodily fluids are collected for analysis and is constantly invaded by holograms of the other characters, and that Sam's relentless breaking of the fourth wall in that room and that room alone implies that he is aware of the fact that he is being monitored. you utter fucking morons

@dankwraith the existence of that room and what happens in it is the result of so many deliberate and considered choices you could write a pretty good essay

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@dankwraith another essay is the fact that Sam's name is printed on everything and he's only one of three or four real characters and everyone is a hologram that just uses him for cargo transport

@dankwraith not everything in the game means something deep or whatever but somehow this is a game where the director cared enough to bring an oscar winning director in to be a character called deadman, it's really easy to dismiss everything because it's like the phantom pain with all the fun removed but the phantom pain sucked and no other game now is focused on presenting you something totally unapologetically unique to whatever it was designed to be for better or worse

@friskywhiskers i unironically completely love playing the game. i think it finally beat MGS2 as my favorite kojima game

@dankwraith wooooof, heavy praise... snake eater was my fav but i am completely into death stranding

i think that somehow kojima games were received as weird stealth adventures in the us without much consideration of the cultural depth backing the cinematic influence of what is actually being presented

@friskywhiskers yeah and he was always laser focused on the idea of american imperial power and how it is projected

@dankwraith which honestly makes the localization process that much mind blowing because we're mixing so much Hollywood pop culture that if an American audience can't appreciate it what happens with the Japanese audience

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