This aspect of the game is fascinatingly nuanced and complex. Not only will you spend a lot of time walking in death stranding you will spend most of your time walking in death stranding. Kojima and his team devote death stranding s first 10 hours to breaking up the walking gameplay with melodramatic cutscenes that seek.
Death stranding is a walking simulator in the truest sense. Obviously that must have been entirely coincidental and not intentional in the slightest because it s not like anyone out there has described death stranding as being nothing more than a walking simulator or anything. A game by the name of walking simulator looks suspiciously like kojima productions most recent undertaking death stranding.
It s the same as when i first brought out a. Death stranding is a new genre and unless people experience it personally they won t realize how the walking simulator comparison is ignorant. Hideo kojima addresses walking simulator comments 500 ps4 games on sale in one of 2020 s best playstation store sales yet.
That doesn t mean there aren t repetitive elements though especially when it comes to the sheer amount. Many critics and gamers have praised death stranding for its unique gameplay as well as how it defined a new genre. A death stranding parody game called walking simulator is a hilarious look at life on a post apocalyptic earth after world war iii and the coronavirus devastated the planet.
Because of this the creator is aware that some would reductively call death stranding a walking simulator a term that refers to narrative based games where you unravel the story simply by. It really is about the journey rather than the destination just like the. In death stranding though walking is everything.
In fact simply pressing your control stick forward puts you into a full run. In other games walking is the last thing you want to do. Death stranding however is a walking simulator in that it simulates walking.
Hideo kojima s latest game death stranding is being referred to online as a walking simulator the term which is typically used as a pejorative one implies that all you do in the game is.
