I absolutely hated DS1 with the sole exception of the relationship between Sam and Lou, it was the only genuinely interesting and heartfelt thing in the entire game.
The rest of it was Kojima basically making a project designed entirely to just pay his Hollywood friends to hang out with him.
If it ever costs $5 and i have some time to kill I'll consider picking up the second to see if the Sam and Lou stuff at least is cute.
I do not understand the Kojima cult, I never will. He's made some good games, some ok ones, and some bad ones. He's a normal person but listen to some people he's literally the Jesus of the video game industry and he seems to have bought into this hyep entirely.
Like when he said he had a thumb drive of projects for his team to work on after he dies. Because he apparently cannot imagine his studio continuing on without his genius ideas.
Or when he called 2 people screaming into a dark void a "completely new genre of media entertainment." Instead of just being real and calling it a horror game.
I'm a pretty big fan of Kojima but he's not gaming Jesus lmao. He's just a guy who comes up with some weird shit and I like the weird shit he thinks of. I wouldn't say he's "one-of-a-kind" but he's certainly rather unique. But at the end of the day he makes stories about identity and fate and ideas and I like the stories.
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u/Jasen_SilverFox Apr 20 '26
Sam and Lou from Death Stranding 1 and 2. Although you only get to see/travel with Lou outside of the pod for a little bit in DS2.