8 Convoluted Video Game Narratives NOBODY Understands

2. Death Stranding

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I think that if one were to look up Hideo Kojima in the dictionary they may well find THE definition of a "cheeky whippet" as this man is an absolute meme lord through and through.

From having a gas at fans with the reveal of Raiden as the central character over Solid Snake in Metal Gear Solid 2, to pretty much every interaction with Johnny the solider, he just loves having a laugh at his audience and shattering their preconceived notions of what a video game can be.

That being said, maybe someone should be hired to tell him "no" every once in a while because when it came to penning Death Stranding, having the reigns of studio meddling taken off really didn't help establish a coherent plot. In an effort to make a new genre of games, Kojima threw everything at a wall, then took that wall and threw that at another wall, and repeated the process until he stood amidst the rubble of countless ideas and said "wait what was I doing again?"

This is the only explanation as to why we got moments that didn't make sense even within the very loose confines of the game itself and go some way to explaining why in an interview with VG 24/7 that he said "Even now I don't understand the game".

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