Death Stranding an interesting action video game
Death Stranding once again sees Hideo Kojima pushing the boundaries of what video games can be, and the result is a breathtaking and uncompromising - if at times willfully baffling - experience. There was perhaps no bigger moment in gaming back in 2016 than legendary director Hideo Kojima walking out onstage at the Shrine Auditorium shortly after his departure from Konami and declaring I'm back!” to an audience fervently awaiting what he would make next and when they'd get to play it. Cue the screens above him showing ghostly hand-prints pressing into black sand as Norman Reedus makes his debut as protagonist Sam Porter Bridges to the tune of indie band Low Roar's I'll Keep Coming” and two thoughts raced across my mind: Video games have never looked better and what in the hell is Death Stranding going to be? The relationship between Sam and BB mirrors my experience with Death Stranding, the latest epic game from enigmatic director Hideo Kojima, who is best known for his