Trying to work my way through DS1 (Gaming)

by cheapLEY , Friday, July 11, 2025, 19:13 (1 day, 6 hours, 35 min. ago) @ Cody Miller

Cutscenes in DS2 incorporate the time of day. You could get it day, morning, sunset, or night. 10/10

I wanted an actual day/night cycle in Death Stranding so bad. I'm glad it's in DS2. But, like most video games, it doesn't even get dark. The Odradek has a flashlight function, but I couldn't tell you why.

I've finally encountered a little bit of what I've been looking for when the DHV Magellan gets sidelined a bit and you have to trek back and forth through the mountains. Recovering the cargo for the Phantom Smith in the mountains in a BT area was a genuinely cool moment, and it's one of the only areas I've seen where the cliffs are steep enough that you can just Skyrim your way up and down them without proper tools. It was neat, because it was one of the few places where it was a genuine pain in the ass, so I actually planned ahead and brought a bunch of PCCs with me to set up ziplines on my way down so I could just zoom back up. I'm not sure if it's the normal configuration most end up, but I ended up have to cross over one zone that wasn't in the network, but it was sort of skinny, so I was able to just set up a zipline tower on either side of the unconnected zone and zipline through it on the way back.

Even then, though, that challenge was self-imposed. I could have just grabbed a truck and drove right over the top and been done, or taken a Bokka Skeleton and had no worries about stamina.

It seems weird, given how much I genuinely love Death Stranding 2, but I am find myself really itching to go back and replay the first game and get the Platinum. But, even for all my bitching about overtuning the quality of life stuff in DS2, I think it might make it genuinely kind of annoying to go back to the first game. Also, DS2 is so damn good looking. It's going to be disappointing to go backwards. Death Stranding is still a great looking game, but it definitely had some uncanny valley in its characters. Death Stranding 2 has the best character models I've ever seen in a video game. The close up of Sam when he goes in the elevator to enter or leave the private room is so realistic, it blows me away every time I see it. I think it also might be the first time I've ever seen a baby in a video game that looks like a real human baby.