Sadly, the OG Death Stranding has been fully replaced with Directors Cut, I have over 100 hours in the OG. Just like most people I had bandwagon on the concept of the game when it was announced, Uber Eats delivery guy at the volcano, Norman biker man, monster energy and the tube baby. Silly Kojima I thought. I had then eventually bought the game for the PS4 but shelved it after about 2 hours of play. I would say I was not in the right head space and mood for the game, it was not grabbing me. As I shelved I had thought again, silly Kojima.

After it was released on the PC market, I had grabbed it again and thought once more, silly Kojima, sure I will try your game again. Oh boy, was I hooked. Yes the concept is a bit silly, some times even nonsensical, but it didn't matter. The gameplay and the progression really is the hooking part. Who knew that a delivery game had me do work when I came home from work.

The managing of items and how you delivery them was a fun part, sorting out and building yourself for the optimal approach to getting your delivery done. It was until I had the truck then it just became Mud Runner to Snow Runner gameplay. I defiantly felt like a mailman in my world, I would get into the game and just put on a podcast and off I went into the hostile world.

I think the genius comes from the multiplayer aspect of the game. In the world you are alone but its counter balanced by when your vehicle is running out of juice and you see in the distance a charging pole, left there by a player. That's what the multiplayer mechanics are, useful structures being left by players and to aid a delivery man by a delivery man. The lonely world doesn't feel so lonely after all. The game tracks footpaths from most players and starts to slowly create the path itself on the maps. Building roads, ramps, bridges, are all part of the fantastic multiplayer concept that plays with your world and theirs too. People leave "likes" as an indicator of thanking you or thanking them back. This also goes for the system of lost cargo, players like me in the early game have lost cargo, but other players cargo can appear in your world and you can collect it and return it to them. This is also upgraded by a donation system, where in main hub areas people leave gear for other players to access. I have yet to see a game so far expand on this great multiplayer formula that ties itself for your world.

There are so many aspects of the game I can keep talking about it, the route planning of your cargo, the combat, the many tools you use to get around obstacles, the varies amount of structures such as the slingshots which make traversing the maps super fast, but this is exactly what makes this an amazing game, however though a word of caution is how well would it stand once the player base is lacking to create those elements. I think that's the one major problem with the game is that all these elements and gameplay are crucially connected to the world with everyone else but if player base is lacking, would the person still get the same experience that I had when the player base was thriving. Hard to say, maybe they would implement some system to integrate just fake players.

The story for itself is also crucial, some game journalist expressed the cringe or child like elements of the game, I disagree. I wont touch on anything as the story was also part of the experience of the game, great characters and a good story overall as you piece it together. If you like Kojima stuff, then you will have no issues here.

I think the cherry on top of the whole thing was extra details added to the game, like Mads Mikkelsen in game saying happy birthday to me. :)

Kojima Molested me and forced me to make a good review of this game :(

Amazon delivery simulator made me cry my eyes out