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Without posting spoilers, sam’s own attitude throughout the game sort of reflects how the player might be feeling at that moment.

At the start, Sam just sort of treats delivering as a job he has to do. Then he’s forced to fix everyone’s internet box, and he’s annoyed that he’s roped into all of this. This is much like how a player might be annoyed at the realization that they’re probably going to spend the next few hours (Christopher) Walking. Yet, overtime, Sam enjoys the job even more and the satisfaction he gets from it. The little speech he has near the end shows some insight into how he felt about the whole thing, and it made me one happy camper.

Sam follows the trend of a lot of Kojima’s protagonists, in which a part of you is with them (think of Raiden and Venom Snake). Very good analysis barry, now please deliver my dirty chickens magazine with 10 percent or so less damage. keep on keeping on!

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Good video. Just here to say that the rock idea makes no sense. Rocks don’t grow bigger with age, in fact it’s more realistic that it shrinks.

Yay, Barry! Infrequent, mayhaps. Significant? Indubitably!
A Barrycade of goodness. A Barrycuda of Barry-Kudos. A burble of Barries…hmmmm

This hit me: you are embarking on this journey to improve the quality of your life!! Not to let it take over your life!! So trueeee

Only thing I don’t understand: Why would the game tell you that it takes place in the USA if it’s CLEARLY set in Iceland? Why can’t it just be Iceland lol

It fits that Kojima, being a Marxist (or similar), created a game where people naturally create a kind of socialist mutual aid without prompting it.

Yeah some people are just like babies. If they are stopped by obstacle they just give up and blame the game. This whole game is about finding ways to overcome obstacles!

Question tho: Were you eaten by a ghost?

Also, I’d love a small scale actual coop mode where you take on particularly difficult deliveries with a buddy and have to divvy up the cargo to balance each other out or take a truck through heavy enemy territory

My main thing is that walking is the only challenge, and once you get vehicles and roads you realize that you are just going point A to B with no challenge.
Also the story and writing are so bad that i never got context to the gameplay.
So a game with so much work in voice acting and dialogue never made it clear what i was doing (not in a fun where is the mystery sense) and it was super cringy and dumb, AND you spent the whole game actively avoiding its main gameplay element.
Glad you liked it, fun to think about, but i doubt I’ll ever go back to it, and if i do ill beat it once and never touch again

My biggest issue with the game is the story. The monotony of the gameplay would have been more rewarding if each segment was split up by compelling story, but by the end I felt more obligated to finish because of how much time and money I’d already invested, rather than a genuine desire to keep playing.

Barry, I’ve been unsure on whether or not to play this game. Just didn’t seem like delivery boy was what I’d be doing in the year 3000. But your explanation of the intricate physics and subtle mechanics of the game reminded me of how I felt about Demon’s Souls years ago. And I’m one of those misfortunate orphans who gladly suckle onto the FromSoft teat.
The way you describe this game is what drew me into and what I loved about DeS all those years ago. So I’ll be heading out to pick up my copy here in a bit.
Thank you Stinky.

Edit: Update: Four hours later: Death Stranding is on PS4. I have xbox 1 and ps3. So, damnit.

Yeah uh.

Punished, bored, annoyed, beaten down, all into just.. Daddy kojimbo submission?

Stockholm syndrome.

Look. I don’t doubt.. We could call this an uh, experience. And that whoever lived through it don’t regret it. But I feel like, this is all too cynical of a life.

I’d rather prefer a game that didn’t think of it’s players as someone who either is so busy working 24/7 all life that the only thing they want coming home is “meditation.” Or as someone with so little productivity or meaning in life that they have nothing better to do than to go knee deep into this sunken cost fallacy.

I’d rather prefer a game that set out to be so positively engaging that it could rival a good day’s work. And y’know, realistically that’s rather damaging to a career, but this um, experience, is a bit too far in the opposite direction. If all you had after long days of hard labour, this game is what you get back to?

It’s like you have a birthday and you get to spend it eating plain pasta and drink water bottles on a claustrophobic cloudy night on a small apartment balcony with a narrow view into an ugly concrete courtyard and also you have dishes waiting for you.

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THERE I AM! NICE! Honored you enjoyed my insult, Mr. Barry “Removable Facial Hair” Kramer!

I got the platinum trophy and now, more than half a year later, i learn that there is a circle that shows your center of gravity…

I �� love �� these �� videos ��!!! I was always a fan of your humor and way of saying things but maaaan I can’t get enough of these well rounded and well explained ideas and thought!!! And the edit coupled with your art *chef kiss*, you inspire me to create more every time! KEEP ON KEEPING ON ��

Ok so even though I havebrang the bell and all that I was NOT notified about this video… But I was notified about the spider one, interesting

Barry: giving a very well thought out speech about his experience playing Dead Stranding

Me: hmmmm Norman Reedus cute heh ��✨��✨✨����✨

Jokes aside, i do want to play this game and hope to do so in the near future, thanks for another amazing video!
I was (not) getting tired of watching the kingdom hearts explained, spoiler alert, I still don’t understand it

imo, death stranding is a logistics simulator (a la euro truck simulator, or moreso snowrunner) for the most part. it has its own unique additional wrinkles plus various action elements, but that is the genre id put it in. i like that kind of gameplay and death stranding hooked me immediately, it wasnt a “gets good after X hours” game to me (which is a very japanese thing, imo. it happens so often with so many JRPGs and animes). it was legit one of the best gaming experiences ive had in this decade at least, top to bottom, end to end, and even saying that i wouldnt recommend it for everyone. one of the major sticking points ive seen with people who didnt like the game, aside from stuff you covered in the video, is that they tended to be the type of people who just want to skip cutscenes and get the most GPM (gaming per minute) out of any game, whether because they had little time to spend on gaming (imo DS demands a lot of your time, all in big stretches, to be “properly” enjoyed. though thats not to say you cant enjoy it otherwise) or because theyre simply impatient. i also think death stranding is as much about the repetitive liminal rituals between the gameplay as it is the gameplay itself, maybe more. dropping off the packages, seeing the “customer” accept them, waiting for the results to progress past, and heading out to your next destination is one such ritual. descending down into the safe house and doing all the various self care things down there is another. if you find yourself mashing buttons and raging because you cant skip these quickly enough you will probably hate this game. not just because these things are plentiful, but because they are important. theres a specific name for these types of rituals in media but i cant remember what theyre called. some examples from other things are the boss doors in megaman x, and the transformation sequences in sailor moon/super sentai shows. theyre kind of a reset button to the action, but they also build anticipation, give you a second to “rest”, and let you know whats coming, among other things. death strandings rituals also mimic daily rituals like getting ready for work in the morning (pretty literally with the safe house stuff), which appeals to some (especially people like me who work from home and dont necessarily have those rituals in their daily life) and not to others.

i also played the game for 170+ hours and have watched 2 complete blind lets plays, and never once, until barry pointed it out here, noticed that that circle is your center of gravity. i think i kind of intuited it, but honestly i never really noticed the circle was even there. i also tripped and fell very rarely, like single digits in all 170+ hours rarely. but from watching lets plays, id say for most people the tripping comes down to patience and paying attention. but i have seen some people struggle with it so much that i legit, not exaggerating for effect or trying to insult them, got worried that maybe there was something wrong with them mentally, but in the end i assume theyre just too well trained (and ingrained) in the standard type of character controller that is just a box or capsule that either effortlessly slides over obstacles or immediately gets stuck on them that they just cant wrap their heads around one thats physically modelled out as well as death strandings is. and just as a personal gripe, i find it funny that most of the people ive seen that try to call this game a “walking simulator” meaning it as a derogatory term are the ones most likely to have this kind of trouble of not even being able to control the characters walking.

Wow, this is fascinating. Thank you Marisa. I always thought I was just an emotional eater. I see now I have some habitual eating habits and some very strong destructive eating habits. Perhaps more so than emotional, as its a subconscious thing. Things I know now to work on ��

As someone who made trails in the woods a ton as a kid, Death Stranding scratched a DEEP itch. The feature I’m convinced a sequel/DLC needs is brush clearinghacking your way through vines and undergrowth with a machete

My favourite food at macdonelds is a chicken sandwich meal nuggets all large and a chicken select meal all burgers �� and everything

Am I the only one who didn’t get instantly turned off by the walking?
I found it really refreshing, most games don’t really consider walking as a legitimate mechanic, something you can… Fail at (ie fall on your goddamn face), and that alone makes traversing stuff in this game infinitely more engaging for me than it would ever be in a different game.
In DS when you approach a mountain, you’re actually thinking about how you’re going to scale that thing and not just horse-glitch the slope skyrim-style or whatever, the only other game that used terrain in similar fashion I can think of was Breath of the Wild, and even in that game it was fairly simplified.
The game WOULD BE extremely boring and uninteresting IF the walking was made like in any other triple AAA game, instead, here it’s a balancing act of actually navigating the uneven terrain and keeping your stuff unharmed.
I personally was having a lot of fun, even in the early hours, precisely because of that mechanical depth.

Thanks Marisa for this amazing video. There sre so many chemicals in our food and keeps people overeating. I really didn’t know about the categories of overeating. Thanks for sharing and I thank God for you. Love you and thanks for all you do.����

as a new follower, youve totally inspired me. my question though is beverages, i do like my adult beverages at night.( i work at a wine store on the off nights) during the day, what is recommended otherthan water?

You nailed this on the head for me. I literally picked this up a week and a half ago (for the second time) and I’m now just two achievements away from completing it.

The first time I played when it released I didn’t “enjoy it” just like you say in the video, but I was super interested. Something did not click.

I restarted my save this second
time and almost sped run through the opening because I had done it once before and it immediately felt better. And then I got to roads and BAM I fell in love. Like you say the tedium allows for mechanical nuance early and then it just becomes this meditative flow through both gameplay growth and story. I actually get a similar feeling from early mid to late mid game (and then post game) death stranding that I get when playing minecraft. And I love it. In fact in this regard, my biggest complaint is that I cant put the fire soundtrack on loop while grinding deliveries in the overworld.

You don’t mention it here and I think, just like gameplay, the story is really good but not for everyone. Im not big into convoluted stories to the extreme and this is one… but the individual moments are just so gripping (CHAPTER 5 JESUS H CHRIST) that I just got more addicted to see more.

Anyway, this video came at the perfect time and I agree wholly with everything you say!

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