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Its a Kojima game stripped down to the most fundamental gameplay experience possible. Everything works exactly like you think it should in a Kojima game, and the narrative is astronomically better than the competitors in its field.

Whether you enjoy this or not will entirely depend on how much you enjoy the core of the almost immersive sim-like gameplay. It isn't nearly as much of a hollywood movie as metal gear, but very intentionally so. This is by far Kojima's most artistic game to date, and I'd seriously urge anyone to at least give it a try. I used to be one of the people that thought that Kojima games were like the "film snobs" of video games, and while its hard to deny he certainly has an ego on him, his games truly are an incredible achievement in storytelling by proxy of intentional gameplay design, and Death Stranding is by far the most 'connected' in that regard.

I can't say I loved it more than Snake Eater, but Death Stranding might be the most objectively beautiful game Kojima has ever produced.