Jason Liang
Arcane
Finishing Act 2 and I'm impressed. Gameplay is so smooth it's almost therapeutic, the story is exciting and the setting well thought out. Even the cutscenes are not so cringe this time.
Something I'm really liking about the setting is that it ditched a lot of post-apocalyptic tropes and went with original (and poignant) ideas instead. For eg, I was annoyed at first that the surviving humans looked super clean and civilized and not the Mad Max-esque ragtag hobos we usually see in the genre.
Death Stranding takes placing *during* a still ongoing Apocalypse, not post-Apocalypse (which is why it's quite unique and cool). You are in a story while human existence is ending, not decades after near human extinction. People are going mad and suiciding, not struggling to survive and dying of radiation. It's more The Rapture, The Stand and Gehenna from VtM and not Mad Max.