168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Death Stranding 2: On the Beach grows ever closer, with its June 26 release date hobbling towards us like Norman Reedus with a rigid, rectangular backpack. There’s still a few weeks before the sequel arrives and for many follow-ups like this, that would be more than enough time to get caught up, but I just don’t see it happ🌞ening for Death Stranding 2.
Not just for me, it seems like a bad idea for anyone. Not because the first game isn't good — I liked the five hours I played in early 2020 — and not because DS2 won't be worth the investment. Previews point to the new game being terrific and an improvement on its predecessor in every way. But 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Death Stranding is the exact wrong series to attempt this kind of ♎marathon catch-up with.
Hideo Kojima Doesn't Want Everyone To Love Death Stranding 2, And That's What Will Make It Special
It's kinda refreshing.
Open-World Games Are Worlds, Not Race Tracks
I talked earlier this year about how it would be a bad idea to try playing the other Grand Theft Auto game♒s in anticipation of GTA 6. In that case, I argued that there would be no real benefit and some major downsides. GTA 6 will have a standalone story, so you don't need to rౠefresh your memory. Meanwhile, the 🌄gameplay loop will likely be incredibly similar to past games, so you risk tiring yourself out with dozens, perhaps even hundreds of hours of missions.
Most of the time, when a new open-world game comes out, this is the case. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Ghost of Yotei, the sequel to the very plot-driven 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Ghost of Tsushima, stars a new character and is set 329 years after its predecessor. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Assassin's Creed, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Forza Horizon, Far Cry, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, and many other open-world series are standalone. Story elements and characters often recur, but new entries aren't direct follow-ups to previous ones. So, when a new game in one of these serie🎶s is set to release, there's no pressure to revisit (or play for the first time) the game that came before. There's no danger of being lost.
So Much Story, So Little Time
But Death Stranding exists at the exact wrong intersection: extremely open-ended while being narrowly plot-focused. This is the kind of game you really do want to remember the details about. Kojima games always focus heavily on narrative (often complex ones) and similarly de♉nse characters, so being up to date is essential.
But seeing the story, and only the story, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:still takes 40-plus hours has me feeling awfully discouraged. That makes it about 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:ten hours longer than GTA 5, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:ten hours shorter than Red Dead Red🐼emption ꧅2. Those are both games that I absolutely would not recommend blitzing through before a sequel’s release. If you try to rapidly play a game like that just for the story without breaks for open-world adventuring, you’ll burn yourself out. It’s like marathoning four seasons of a prestige TV show over a single weekend. If you try to rapidly play through the main and side quests in a couple of w♑eeks, then start the next game when it launches, there’s a good chance you’ll burn yourself out, too.
It also hurts that Death Stranding is a game that could uncharitably be described as tedious. T𓃲rying to shotgun frustration is always a bad idea.
No, it seems like the best approach to preparing for a game like Death Stranding 2 is to make peace with not playing it immediately upon release. Play the original, take y𝓡our time, enjoy the strangeness of its story and its tactile, tactical traversal. Let Hideo Kojima put you on to his favorite indie band. Enjoy the ads for Norman Reedus’ six-year-old AMC series about riding a motorcycle (which, come to think of it, has probably been patched out at this point — in which case, go w💦atch a few episodes for full immersion). Stop and smell the Monster Energy Drink (wait, that was patched out too).
Don’t rush. Because if Death Stra🍰nding teaches us anything, it’s that hurrying🦩 is a great way to fall flat on your face.
All Of These Death Stranding Ada൩ptations Are Missing The Point
Like The Last of Us Part 2, gameplay plays an inte🐼gral part in telling the story of Death Stranding.
