I skipped every Death Stranding cutscene and I’ll do it again

I wouldn’t person seen the extremity if not for skipping cutscenes. | Image: Kojima Productions

I bushed the archetypal Death Stranding, but delight don't inquire maine what happened successful it. There was a cataclysm - not rather a Gommage - that made the US much divided than ever, and you play arsenic a babysitter-meets-delivery-guy who has peculiar consciousness of invisible, hostile creatures called BTs that are "beached," which isn't arsenic relaxing arsenic it sounds. There are grenades filled with pee, poop, and blood, and everyone who's anyone was motion-captured to beryllium successful the game. There are whales, Guillermo del Toro (in quality but not successful voice), immense pools of tar, and Geoff Keighley is there, too.

Sounds similar a silly game, right? It is, particularly if you skip each of the cutscenes successful the game, similar I did. And I program connected doing the nonstop aforesaid happening present that the sequel is here.

Death Stranding's agelong cutscenes repelled maine from playing done it, and I accidental that arsenic a longtime instrumentality of the Metal Gear Solid games. After 5 oregon truthful failed attempts astatine getting past the archetypal occurrence since the game's 2019 motorboat connected the PS4, owed to trying to play it "right" - which I thought required adjacent introspection of each connection and framework of this bizarrely written communicative - I conscionable said "screw it." I yet bushed the crippled connected my …

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