re: Death Stranding Discussion Thread (Official)

Many of the 10/10 reviews are over the top to the point of comedy. They seem to be praising it far more as a work of "art" than a video game, by their own admission. I mean these are directly from some the 10/10 reviews:

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Death Stranding is not a “fun” game, but it’s an important and meaningful experience

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Death Stranding will surely be the most divisive game of this generation, there is no arguing that it offers new ideas on pushing the medium forward and shows that games don't always typically have to be "fun"

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Death Stranding does belong in an art gallery more than it does sitting on consoles next to more traditional "games". As I sit here to write this, I am fully convinced that there are going to be plenty of reviews from my peers that veer to the other extreme as far as their scores go. And fair enough, because as a “game” Death Stranding doesn’t do much.

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The consensus points across all the reviews I've seen:

1. It's very slow paced, particularly at the beginning.

2. It's trying to do something different than traditional games, which will be very divisive.

3. Lots of different types of game play genres come and go: action, stealth, exploration, survival, gunplay, etc.