This week’s usual leaks, most likely from this week’s Famitsu magazine, included comments from Masahiro Sakurai on Death Stranding.
Masahiro Sakurai praised Hideo Kojima’s latest game, mentioning how there are very few games who manage to be this original and yet this interesting. Sakura added that Death Stranding definitely isn’t for everyone, but that he loves it to the point of losing track of time when playing.
Sakurai also praised how well the game is built. Like how you can only unlock the benefits of the Chiral network by overcoming obstacles, and how rare it is for a game to mix this well it’s new possibilities, its story, and its gameplay.
Sakurai mentioned that Death Stranding isn’t perfect though. He cited the controls which can be difficult as they include a lot of button-hold commands, the UI, and the small size of the text. An update will be correcting the text size soon.
Masahiro Sakurai ended by saying that playing Death Stranding reminded him of how talented Hideo Kojima is, seeing he managed to make such a great game in such a short time. He added that he believes many game developers like himself are shocked and amazed about the game. Sakurai finished by mentioning Death Stranding goes over common sense and brings its players to a new world other games didn’t explore yet.
Personally speaking, I’m not surprised Sakurai praised Death Stranding this much, as the game is genuinely good and a nice experience overall. Sure it might be overrated, or rather over-discussed simply because it’s “A Hideo Kojima Game”, but it’s definitely a great game standing on its own. Many of my favorite seiyuu who worked on the game like Akio Otsuka were moved about it too.
Death Stranding is currently available on PS4. The game is coming to Steam and Epic Games Store in Summer 2020. We also recently translated comments from Sakurai regarding games awards and ranking games in general.
Famitsu Magazine is releasing in a few hours as I’m writing this. We’ll be updating the article if more interesting tidbits weren’t in the leaks.
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