Death Stranding Review: Sadly isnt a game of the year

When Hideo Kojima first announced this game it got so much hype and confusion to what this game is actually about, when the game first came out it got alot of stick with it being a walking simulator which let's be honest this is basically a walking simulator.

60% of the game is basically delivering Packages to its tending destination trying not to damage the packages along the way, which you basically walk alot of the 60% when some time you can use vehicles. 10% of the game you get a few action gameplay while you dealing with BT ( Breach Terrestrial) that hinder your passage and can sometimes be annoying, especial if they grab you, you end up being Drag 3 miles to a Mimi Boss battle which if you dont have defence grenade it best to try and run from it, because if you get caught the game actually does Void out leaving a creator in the ground which can cause game over if you need a Network building.

The 30% is basically game cut scene story, so to say this game isnt walking simulator would be a dumb statement to make. While this game is Visual stunning and the story is great ive playing 70 hours of this game already sadly the hype is over for me with this game due to serval problems this game seriously has.

If you playing the game just for fun than these issues really arnt the problem to you, but if your playing the game to get the platinum then this game really is a problem, Mainly with trying to get legend of legends rank on delivers which amount to around 80 delivery in 4 stats, Condition, Quantity, miscellaneous, Time focused which you need 20 of each to get these trophies which can only be got in hard mode.

Now i'm no stranger to a challenge, I like a bit of a challenge, but sadly this game is not optimized to the level of transporter you are in the game when it comes to your skill level, Seraval time ive come across a Time delivery on premium that requires you to get Legend of legends rank by completely the delivery in under 25 mins which you might think ya easy.

 Here the problem with this, alot of the time these deliveries asking you to carry a large number of packages that are "Large packages" that you have to deliver across the map which are way above your weight carrying capacity, yes there are floating carriers you can use by trying to carry 30 packages, across rocky terrain in 25 min but sorry its just inpossible to do in the time limit without a vehicle especial on foot when to get Legend of legends rank you have to do the delivery in under 3.00 mins which is inpossible on foot. 

You might well think use a Vehicle then, ya, here another problem there are areas in this game that a vehicle are inpossible to pass through the area, like from Center south of lake knot city to the Weather station. There is no road to cross, you have to cross the rivers and rocky terrain on foot which is inpossible to do in the time limit to delivers on Premium delivery to get Legend of legends. Serval times ive come across this with a large amount of delivery with way too many packages that you cant carry especially when they come in Small, medium and large packages.

The small and medium packages aren't the problem, it when you get stupid amount of package that require you to deliver 15 to 16 packages that above you weight capacity making that delivery in Premium pointless to attempt because you have to leave behind more than what the delivery is asking for and you cant make two trips because of the time limit you have on Speed delieverys to get a Legend of legends rank. This is why this game is Flawed when it comes to delieverys it no optimized for the Player skill level, make it complete frustrating to play for the trophy hunters.

This isnt the just the problem with this game, the bandwidth of the network is very limited forcing you to delete structures in order to get more bandwidth back, which defeats the object of this being a Slight multiplayer where you can leave structure like zips lines, shelter, generator for other players to use.

 Having to delete them to give you more bandwidth just so you can 5 star the places in the mountains in chapter 4 because you seriously do need to the Zipline which cost around 500 points of the network bandwidth it feels selfish that you have to delete them when those could helping some other player. Having to delete these objects you might as well of made this game a full single-player game and not a slight multiplayer.

Other time I find that Balance thing stupid as well as when you still holding the R2 AND L2 button to keep balance you still manage to fall over regardless when making it absolute points pressing them, serval times this have happened to me punishing the player for absolute no reason and damaging the packages, Again the same thing happens with the vehicles which are the most flawed vehicles in the game ive ever seen, especial when trying to get up a hills.

The vehicles decide to slide the opposite direction you want to go in making the vehicles frustrating to drive and you rage quitting because the vehicle gets stupidly stuck somewhere because it slides, ya the vehicles work great on flat suffers especially when you need to make a quick delivery from A to B but alot of the map is not vehicle passable or friendly making the game way to much of a grind just to get 80 legends of legends rank in 4 stats especial when the Time delivery are rare in this game is just not balanced out enough.

This might feel like a rant of the game thinking that oh I just hate the game, no I dont hate the game, I hate the unbalance feel of the game which makes it unplayable at times, you find yourself getting very bored quickly with it. Especial when you dont have an optimized balance Package delivers to suit your level of skill as a Transporter because your getting delivery that way above your skill level and way above the weight carrying which show this game is massively flawed when it comes to balance.

Everything esle is Fine, it's just the flaws in this game that Drag this game down, which is a shame because the story and music that accompanies this game really set a tone for the game.

Sadly wish I could give this game an 8 or 9 out of 10, at best this game a 6 out of 10 and not the best ive played as it needs to be optimized better maybe in a patch or something just to iron out these flaws.