@Pedro: yes exactly the review score makes no sense when reading the content of the review

@Bread_or_Decide: Yes the animations are slightly different at best.

How is DS not a violent game? Isn't it a third person shooter where Sam fights off people and supernatural creatures with guns or stealth? I don't think "not violent enough" was one of the criticisms of the game. Heck, the newest Call of Duty made reviewers uncomfortable, and that game wasn't that much more violent than usual.

Here we are. Again. A thread full of fanboys criticising a game they haven't played. I can't even begin to tell you how different playing DS is from watching it. It's freaking night and day to say the least. The game is strange, enigmatic, fascinating, and if you allow yourself to become immersed in the world on display you will have an experience unlike with any other game you have ever played. That is a guarantee. From the atmosphere, to the story, to the intricacies of the gameplay and how it eventually, a handful of hours in, makes you oddly satisfied come together to form this incredibly surreal, lonely, and frankly unforgettable whole. Seeing the tips and such that others leave for you in the world augments the loneliness in a paradoxical way. It's like those other players are there, and yet they are not. They're like ghosts--living ghosts. Sheesh. I could go and on. Suffice to say the community that is building around this game is involved in something truly unique. DS elicits emotions you wouldn't expect, and maybe even some you never knew you had, all while making you feel like you're in some kind of desolate yet gorgeous (and terrifying) dream. You guys can talk sh_t on the game all you want, but it won't stop it from being played and discussed for years to come. The thing is, if you actually put the time in and play it enough to form a solid opinion, and end up not liking it, that's totally fair, as I've said before. The game is out there conceptually, to a degree that a good chunk of gamers dismissing it is essential in that it simply comes with the territory. You can't bring forth a vision this abstract without turning people off, let alone inviting backlash. It's going to happen. Plenty of people will be into it, and plenty won't. So it goes. Kojima knew this from the start, and is on record saying as much.

Also, yeah, the translation of a translation of a translation is probably a bit effed up. Such is life.

Most people don't have a xbox one x or even a PS4.

Yet console gamers act like they can play red dead redemption.

See how dump that logic is.

You think everything Nintendo does is amazing. :P

Well it could entirely be possible that it’s a mistranslation but regardless I can’t say that I disagree with him. I love my shooting games as much as the next person but from what I’ve seen and heard about Death Stranding I do think that it “aims higher”, “flies above”, or whatever compared to those games. I think the game looks fantastic and I am very intrigued to experience something like it myself. There’s an absolute flood of your “typical” game-like experiences out there and I feel the gaming industry is a much better place with people like Kojima making the kind of stuff that he does. Love him or hate him it just seems silly to want him to go away. You could simply just play any one of the very many games out there if you don’t enjoy the ones that he makes.