Death Stranding is not about carrying cargo from on place to another. Saying that is just absurd. It's about opening roads, creating infrastructure, opening new paths, and maintaining them. The cargo delivery becomes secondary when you realize that. Now one thing i find very important is to actually play the game offline. Having other players structures is too detrimental to the experience in my experience. Death Stranding Is about making logistical decisions on how to reach a destination the most efficiently, the fastest, and the safest. And after 90 hours, not a single time have i felt like it was repetitive because, every new destination is a new challenge to open roads, find safe paths, sometimes you don't take cargo. Very often, when a new destination appears, i go on recon first, i take some materials to build if needed, and i take that opportunity to also take a non-lethal rifle and clean any camp i come upon to get their data chips and maybe even recover stolen cargo to the destination i am heading to. If i come upon BT area, i take that opportunity to fight the BT to farm some chiral matter. And not to mention the simple pleasure of exploring a map that is filled with wonders for those who can see....There is so much more to Death Stranding than 'it's a game about carrying cargo from A to B'.
As for the story, it's actually not confusing. The first impression gives you that vibe that it's obscure and weird. But as you progress, and find data, and read your mails, you can very quickly get a proper picture of what is going on. One thing i like about the game is that, it never overwhelms you with countless details like a desperate writer trying to show you how deep and complicated their world is. In fact, it's so well made that you get to naturally be driven to want to know more and the game delivers at your own path. It's a really good story as far as i'm concern. It took a few hours to actually begin to care about any of the characters, to be honest. But once it ticked...oh boy...i am so hooked....I thirst for every single bit of lore i can come upon and note every single detail that the game delivers. For example, i haven't found anything saying directly when the Death Stranding event happened. But you get countless bits of info here and there that will actually tell you, once you use your reasoning, when it happened. This game is just so fascinating. Weird, yes. But impossible to understand ? Absolutely not. In fact, it's a very easy game to understand....I had more difficulties in understand, or even wanting to understand the lore of your typical fantasy game that throws at your face so much lore about factions and kings and stuff that just makes me lose total interest in the first hour.
TL;DR
I absolutely recommend this game, even though Death Stranding 2 is out, you need to play this game first. The director's Cut provides tons of fun stuff, and the story is really well written. But play offline for a pure experience.
