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Death Stranding Director's Cut - Kojima's post-apocalyptic deliveryman simulator

Just Locus

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Hideo Kojima is one of those people that desperately in need of several editors to trim the fat and unnecessary parts of his writing, MGS4 had more cutscenes than gameplay, and Death Stranding while having an interesting world, constantly barraged the player with terms like "Time Fall", "The Extinction Factor" etc. not to mention most characters being exposition-filled nightmares that cram so much information with about as much subtlety as a nuclear bomb, I always hated the people who constantly go "sHoW dOn'T tElL!" which is more of a general guideline than a set-in-stone rule and there are absolutely moments where telling someone about something is infinitely better than just showing it (if done well obviously) but Kojima makes me want to argue for that rule lol.
 
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Kojima is one of those people who desperately need to stop making games or anything else
 

Just Locus

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Must've been too much gameplay for his taste.
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He should but he won't because this industry worships him
In this day and age dominated by reeetards movie critics would worship him too. He'd make another pseudosmart goo full of puddle-shallow phylosophy claptrap and Nintendo-related references and the Dunning-Krueger imbeciles would choke on his cock.
 

911 Jumper

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In this day and age dominated by reeetards movie critics would worship him too. He'd make another pseudosmart goo full of puddle-shallow phylosophy claptrap and Nintendo-related references and the Dunning-Krueger imbeciles would choke on his cock.
I'm sure there'd be a bunch of critics who would praise him, even if it's just to be contrary. But I think even most current era movie critics would ridicule a Kojima-directed movie. They would laugh at him. Death Stranding isn't even profound. All those movies, music and books Kojima has consumed over the years and the best story he can come up with is a fractured US that needs to be reconnected and made “whole” again? As I said in an earlier post in this thread, I honestly think Kojima is an example of someone who has consumed too much. I think too many influences can negatively affect creativity.
 

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There's also Kojima's handling of overall tone/mood, I find it can be extremely hard to tell when he's actually being serious and when he's taking the piss. I mean, do you seriously think he expected you to take a character that dies of cardiac arrest every 25 minutes only to be revived again in an endless loop seriously?? Or invisible tar ghosts that cause nuke explosions (because we didn't get the message the last 12 MGS games) due to touch deprivation that can be repelled by throwing piss and shit at them??? I could go on... the "Mario and Princess Beach" line is just the beginning. I was sitting there scratching my head thinking "Is this guy trolling...?" quite a few times during the cutscenes. I agree with janior, in that, I never really saw Kojima's writing strictly as good or bad. I don't think he's even trying to tell a serious story, but rather simply to entertain.
 

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I think it's a mixture of intentional cringe and unintentional cringe.

For example, the princess Beach line and the whole scene with them running on the beach together looking at each other was intentional cringe.

But also there are some scenes that I think Kojima intended as serious dramatic ones, but came off as cringe.

But he did say in numerous interviews that above all he wants to entertain people with his games.
 

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I'm sure there'd be a bunch of critics who would praise him, even if it's just to be contrary. But I think even most current era movie critics would ridicule a Kojima-directed movie. They would laugh at him. Death Stranding isn't even profound. All those movies, music and books Kojima has consumed over the years and the best story he can come up with is a fractured US that needs to be reconnected and made “whole” again? As I said in an earlier post in this thread, I honestly think Kojima is an example of someone who has consumed too much. I think too many influences can negatively affect creativity.
It's interesting to see the creative take of non-citizens on the US. Saw an interview from someone in Great Britain who was under the impression that the colonists and pilgrims traveled to America because they were hungry.

Kojima's take aligns with someone who at least partially views his world through a collective mindset. Reconnection would be an aspect of his solution to 'fix' a 'broken' country. Overall, it's reductive, especially as the America he presents comes across as homogenous in tone and outlook, if not in geography.

But I agree, Jumper. Too many ideas spoil the soup.
 

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