There’s no need for a so-called Director’s Cut, and Kojima has stated exactly that. The first release was his vision, the one he wanted to make.

Kojima built the studio, wrote the story and had complete control over the production of the game. Does anything need changing? Not really it’s a damn near perfect experience already, which begs the question why there is a ‘Director’s Cut’. Everything I mentioned in my original Death Stranding review still stands, from the outstanding performances by Lea Seydoux to rather odd cameos that includes Conan O’Brien dressed as an otter. Or maybe a giant lion, while a ruined city rises from the ground and it rains fish.ĭeath Stranding is as mad as a box of soapy frogs and I still love it. Get too close to them and you will be dragged half way across the land, lose your cargo, and be forced to fight a whale in an oil slick. Because reasons, dead people now explode with the force of a thermonuclear bomb, and those that have in the past hover around the landscape as ghostly apparitions. There’s an awful lot of strategy hidden away in this, a joy that comes from planning your routes, equipping the right gear and tweaking your load outs so everything is optimised to let you travel as fast as possible to your destination.Īlong the way you encounter areas of land occupied by rogue porters who will try and steal you cargo, and then there are the BT’s. As the game progresses you get more options on how to travel, including bikes and trucks, and you can construct ramps, exoskeletons, zipwires and other devices to help you move across the terrain.

Clambering round rough terrain with a box of CDs or some wheat seeds. You travel from one point to another, usually covering a great distance on foot, and you deliver a package. When you write it down, the main game loop of Death Stranding sounds incredibly tedious.

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