10 Video Games That Got Really Good When You Stopped Playing

It's well established by now that Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding is simply not for everyone. Casting the player in the role of a post-apocalyptic delivery man, the game is, essentially, a hiking simulator. A hiking simulator with spooky ghosts, survival elements and a wholly unique form of pseudo multiplayer, but the bulk of the gameplay is spent navigating the terrain. It's understandable that it's a little slow for a lot of people. But the interminably slow pace by which the game doles out new features and player agency doesn't do it any favors.

It isn't until well into the game's second area that you realize you've been playing an unbelievably long tutorial thus far, spoon-fed new mechanics well beyond the point when the player should be able to grasp them on their own.

By the time you've finally unlocked most of the game's core tools, weapons and vehicles, you realize how little you had been challenged up to this point. Death Stranding shines in the creativity it allows the player to progress and work with other players to rebuild the world, but for hours this potential is only teased or hinted at.

Hopefully Death Stranding 2 won't waste so much time.