playing with my girlfriend, and this slaps. as good as i remember it. the way game manages around 2 players being too far away is a bit bad. levels and gameplay arent out of this world, but ffs its a lego game so lets ignore that. the characters are fun, i enjoy almost all leves. only really bad things are any level involving ships. they are just not fun.

It sounds amazing, it looks good and it plays good. The controls feel good, the level design is interesting and dynamic. I really liked it!

It is a beautifuly done game. Everything from the voice acting to the audio design is fantastic. I wouldnt mind the intro being a bit shorter, or rather a cut up and spaced a bit. I dont think there is a need to rush it so much. Also the world is a bit awkwardly explained, e.g. Deadman says that tears are an chiral allergic reaction, or the woman in the cave says that the rain ages stuff - I think the world would benefit either from some mystery or a more natural way to explain it. Them just saying this stuff upfronts feels fake. There are also things like the cuffs Sam gets. He was a currier before, how could he deliver without maps? I like how cuffs explain why he has a map, the menu exists, but it seems weird he didnt have it before. Even a worse version not made by Bridges. On the topic of mystery - the constant encounters with BTs etc. makes them less scary or intersting. I wonder if it could have been approached differently. I dont like how hes forced to join Bridges. What I mean is that: 1) Hes asking questions why should he deliver his mothers body. There is no one to do it and if no one does it they will explode. That is enough of a reason for a COURIER to do it. Why is he pretending to not understand why they want him to do it. 2) Why is delivering her body to the incenerator equal to joingin Bridges. They couldve done it in another way, either he reflects and joinsby himself, or hes actually forced to, as in at gun point or something. I understand the world is complicated and shit, but I dont like how everything is explained in detail like 5 times. The idea between connecting knots with qpids blah blah blah was told so many times. Best is when you go out of your room, die hardman explains this to you just to rexpalin it seconds later when you pick up your order. Why? Sam is not an idiot? Fucking christ. You bring the fucking qpid and diehardman once again says thank you for doin gthis, thanks to you now you connected capital knot city to westpoin right before that the guy wen on a tangent that omg man trhanks weve been disconnected but now were connected to the chiral network STOP I get it. calm down, no need to repeat evcerything a million times. i dont like the bt network. the game is sooo pretty. and i enjoy the gameplay a lot. just walking and delivering parcels is cool. i would enjoy more music though. its good, but it constantly turns off if something happens and then it doesnt resume. the sneaking mission is fantastic!!! adds a lot to the variety of gameplay i wouldnt mind actually talking to real people, and seeing they acxtually are alive, do stuff etc. might make m emore connected to the world. but im aware i barely started the game, so who knows, maybe it will happen or there wil be an expplenation legit everything they say is repeated like 3 times. you get lectured 5 times you can deposite materials and shit. like i get it, chill them constantly calling you and telling you what youre doing is a bit annyoing "hey sam, head to the foundation. deposti the materials required for building" 5 seconds later "hey sam, looks like youve found the site. deposite the meterials required to build' SHUT UP PLEASE. let me enjoy the sound. once they shut up and let me deliver stuff, this game is fire. LOVE IT. i still dislike bts, they just slow stuff down and i would prefer them being something rare, but truly scary, because of how often they appear they arent that mysterious or scary, just annyoing. mule orders are still best. and what... i woudlnt mind it if sam orders werent so random. i know you can deposit orders and then come back for them, but if i get 50kg in capital knot city to deliver to port knot and i ned to finish my orders befor then than and some orders you can do before going to any other station, but with 50kg its not that easy. I like how you can see where many players walk, the little foot paths that are made. This with the addition of other players buildings feels kinda warm. Other people helping you etc. Good stuff. I still hate how you can just combat bts with grenades and shit. Its not that scary anymore. i like how sam acts in the private room. its funny, but it also adds character. the way he smells himself then looks at you and points to the shower etc. the boss fights kinda annoyed me at the end of chapter 2. like reallyy??? i would prefer if bts were something lovecraftian. but well see. that were ust my expectations. im enjoying this a lot as soon as you get to lake knot city this game gets great. i love building roads, helping otbers. the feeling of cooperation in sucha lonely world is great. and the gampleay loopp is super fun. i enjoy walking. discovering new areas etc. good shit! altohugh i wouldnt mind more intersting terrain. something like getting the toolbox for the craftsman was great, because rarely do you walk through abondoned buildings etc. but it was so short:((( i still would prefer if it was more mysdterious, no need for that muchplot too much talking and way to fucking many mails, notes and shit for no reason vehicles are fun, it feels great to be able to transport such large amounts of stuff quickly, altough i wouldnt mind more difficult to accesss terrain. for example the elder in the central region is great - you have to go on foot. but its the only location that works this way and getting to him is pretty easy, you just need to be on foot. i would like something you actually have to build stuff to get. some clever ladders etc. bro i go to the weather station, the engineer tells me i can see weather forecast using my cuffs, than die hardman comes and tells me word for word the same shit. WHJY there are a lot of additions that seem useless. safe houses, postboxes, rain protectors, the bola gun, the variety of grenades you have - all of them have no reason to be in the game. especially the auto deliveries. why? for likes? jesus i think that there is too much depth in so many things. this is a game about delivering packages. the focus should be on land traversal, not on the combat. you have like 4 different grenades, blah blah blah, and for what? you shouldnt want to fight bts no? they are big and scary and they do bad things etc etc and somehow the games make it as if youre a bt killer. dumb! why is there an option to place cargo manually if you can just do it automatically? just do it automatically without asking, really no reason to do that. only the pizza order actually required me to place it in a certain way, so why even bother. vehicles are too effective and make the game boring. make some areas inaccesible to vehicles and great to explore on foot. and remove mules. they are fun when you go into their territory, but when on your route they are just bothersome. you run to their camp and steal a truck, you stale as much as you can or you just traverse it with a bike. noreason for taht. the world feels a bit too full. mules and storm cover 90% of the map so you never are truly alone, and there are so many fucking structers, lost cargo, materials etc. laying everywhere. its just too much. the cargo is uselss, legit no reason for it to extist. it gives you nothing, it adds nothing etc. if yous hould add it, add way less. so its rare. same with vehicles and other players structures. some being in the world is fine, but if there are 5 vehicles in one lace it loosk fakee. death stranding feels good when youre lonely. the world war 1 chapter is questionable? there is too much going on. so complex for no reason. its a game about delivering, dont add so much story and data. this game wants to be deep, complex and mysterious, but since the complexity of the game is added everywhere but into the gameplay and the mystery is just randomness, because instead of making the plot mysterious, they opted to explain everything, bombard you with data and on top of that they added random stuff. this makes the game overwhelming more than interesting. i love the gameplay. everything around it though fucking sucks. i know for a fact that if they focused on the gameplay alone and made everything else simpler this game would be a 10/10 for me. i still enjoy it, but i get annoyed way too often. after some times mules and rain are just a hindrance, not a danger to you. you can ping mules and just ride through them. at worst you get stopped by spears which is boring, slowing effects in games are always frustrating more than anything. especially since i dont see how youre supposed to dodge them. thus deliveries should focus on having an intersting environment and not being dangerous/ too many deliveries that just require you to move stuff from one place to another. this sounds dumb because most of the game is about this, but it should require some challenge. the most interesting ones are the pizza deliveries, one of the only times you have to manually organize your cargo. at the same time there is not much depth besides that. then there are huge orders like the one from lake knot city to the weather station - it requires you to explore and find a way to use the truck in the rocks. thats intresting. i wish there were more deliveries that were unique and instead of moving one thing to another place or going somewhere and retriving some cargo and coming back. there are so many of identical orders. and for what? there are so many of interesting areas that are empty and you never go there. why not make them challenging to navigate and put an order requiring you to do something. look at the first order from craftsman to retrieve stuff from the abondoned workshop. it's an intersting area nowehere else present. similarily retriving packages from the waterfall is amazing, you get to go to somwhere you would never go by yourself. but then there are af ew orders reqireing you to doing exactly the same thing at the waterfall and at this point most of the orders are forgetable. for a game of which the main point is walking, the walking is pretty terrible. more precisely you fall on things you shouldnt, you can run on stuff youi shouldnt and sometimes you run in place instead of falling face into sometehing. its comical how sam falls over sometimes, how vehicles stop in place in front of a rock while at the same time ignoring so many othre things. it feels bad and its weird i hate how underused is the music i still cant gt over how bts and timefall are terrifying but beacause fo gameplay they are mere obstacles