This game sort of has the opposite effect on me. I was never a big fan of the Metal Gear series, I’m too impatient. And a whole game set around doing deliveries seems boring to me, but it’s admittedly beautiful and has a lot of hype around it. Is it really a fun game?
I was actually kinda impressed by the walking part in Death Standing, at least initially, because it is actually kinda involved. Like you are forced with controlling your balance and choosing smoother terrain instead of just pushing the stick forward.
But it does wear off quickly and the first half of the game is admittedly rather dull. But boy does it get fucking awesome the further in you get. It deals with topics of death and loss in such a unique way, with rather unique gameplay elements to go with it, that it’s impossible to describe. You just have to muscle through the boring to get to the bizarre and beautiful.
I wish I had the cash for the new one. But I’m gonna have to wait on that.
I agree that it’s rather unique blend of a walking simulator and does explore death and loss through an extremely lengthy story that has some touching moments, however the slog of the “meat” of the game is absolutely not worth it to get to the core of it all.
If you’re interested, I recommend watching the “game movie” on YouTube, where they just show the dialogues and skip almost all of the walking, granted even then you’d probably want to skip/fast forward through a massive chunk of it all where it’s the same animations over and over again. (Such as the load/unload/qpid sequence, etc)
It’s so hard to describe the game without making it sound boring. There are very tense parts, there are very quiet parts, there are lengths of time when you don’t do much, but the weirdness pulls you back in.
I will say, the first one got the weird going quick, the 2nd one takes a bit to get to the weird parts. Watch some streams and see if it does anything for you. I absolutely loved the first one, and it’s one of the very few games I have played multiple times.
It is fun but it requires a lot of patience. If you didn’t like Metal Gear and don’t really have much patience then this game most likely isn’t for you.
It’s a very very slow burn, if the first is anything to go by. Like, there are high-action, combative moments but they are absolutely not the focus of the gameplay — majority is just planning routes, figuring the best ways to traverse the landscapes, and helping rebuild the local infrastructure for your Strand (the asynchronous multiplayer server shared with other players)
The main focus is on the messages, themes, and other literary merits of the story. Supposed to get you to think about things from new perspectives.
This game sort of has the opposite effect on me. I was never a big fan of the Metal Gear series, I’m too impatient. And a whole game set around doing deliveries seems boring to me, but it’s admittedly beautiful and has a lot of hype around it. Is it really a fun game?
I was actually kinda impressed by the walking part in Death Standing, at least initially, because it is actually kinda involved. Like you are forced with controlling your balance and choosing smoother terrain instead of just pushing the stick forward.
But it does wear off quickly and the first half of the game is admittedly rather dull. But boy does it get fucking awesome the further in you get. It deals with topics of death and loss in such a unique way, with rather unique gameplay elements to go with it, that it’s impossible to describe. You just have to muscle through the boring to get to the bizarre and beautiful.
I wish I had the cash for the new one. But I’m gonna have to wait on that.
I agree that it’s rather unique blend of a walking simulator and does explore death and loss through an extremely lengthy story that has some touching moments, however the slog of the “meat” of the game is absolutely not worth it to get to the core of it all.
If you’re interested, I recommend watching the “game movie” on YouTube, where they just show the dialogues and skip almost all of the walking, granted even then you’d probably want to skip/fast forward through a massive chunk of it all where it’s the same animations over and over again. (Such as the load/unload/qpid sequence, etc)
It’s so hard to describe the game without making it sound boring. There are very tense parts, there are very quiet parts, there are lengths of time when you don’t do much, but the weirdness pulls you back in.
I will say, the first one got the weird going quick, the 2nd one takes a bit to get to the weird parts. Watch some streams and see if it does anything for you. I absolutely loved the first one, and it’s one of the very few games I have played multiple times.
It is fun but it requires a lot of patience. If you didn’t like Metal Gear and don’t really have much patience then this game most likely isn’t for you.
It’s a very very slow burn, if the first is anything to go by. Like, there are high-action, combative moments but they are absolutely not the focus of the gameplay — majority is just planning routes, figuring the best ways to traverse the landscapes, and helping rebuild the local infrastructure for your Strand (the asynchronous multiplayer server shared with other players)
The main focus is on the messages, themes, and other literary merits of the story. Supposed to get you to think about things from new perspectives.