If you want to watch my full playthrough of Death Stranding, you can do so her eon the Stream Archive: kzfaq.info/sun/PLNsthUGBtGmBKm-Rc4ZilNwqf2VTqn5Jl

"I like Norman Reedus. Mainly because he looks like he'd rather be sleeping every time." Yes, that.

Kojimas next game : You play as Pierce Brosnan playing a character named "Victor Swells". The game is mainly about mowing lawns. 80% of the game youre mowing the lawn. The last 20% consists of war, the battlefield, genome soilders, guns, shooting guns and not a hero never was never will be

"It's supposed to be set in America, but it looks like it's in Iceland" lol

Higgs looks like he just listened to a 2006 fall out boy album and Jarred Leto is his favorite version of Joker.

2:00 The deer ran fast & made it a little distance before dying, he's there at 3:18

Spoiler : The imperial system caused the death stranding

“Goddamn that is one good performance” honestly the best part of this game is the graphics and the acting

Between Deadman, Diehardman, Heartman and the final boss rush, it sounds to me like Kojima really wanted to make a Mega Man game here...

"Higgs might as well be talking to the player" Those lines were actually meant to be a fourth wall break so uh, yeah, he was HAHA

I genuinely have no idea how you managed to compress 9 hours of cutscenes into 45mins

3:18 Oh look, there's that deer you were talking about.

It’s just so distracting to see Mads Mikkelsen and Léa Seydoux in this game because I’m just thinking back to their roles in the Craig Bond movies

"I'm expecting foot fetishism to be apart of Death Stranding." Dartigan

36:01 She said Princess BEACH

3:23 Oh look. A dead deer.

45:46 Theory: Lou is holding the necklace because Amelie brought her back from the beach making her a repatriate, just like she did to Sam. The necklace is a final ''good bye'' from Amelie

"Norman Reedus' meetus." - Dartigan 2019

One sin I don't agree with "there is no dead aged dear outside the cave" :and minutes later he looks straight at the dead aged dear outside the cave

2:00 - Actually the deer's corpse is found downhill next the first stream you have to cross. That being said, the body is really far away from the cave considering how fast timefall ages things. even if it fell off the cliff, it probably wouldn't have made it that far.

That description at the beginning (Oregon Trail meets Beyond Two Souls) makes so much sense when you think about it. You should sin Code Vein next!

It's a walking simulator me: walks around with 6 rocket launchers and machines guns in the end chapter/

5:08 actually, i believe deadman or someone else explains this later in the game...putting chiralium in the air so close to a city attracts BTs, it also implies this when you go and burn the president's body...the smoke enters the air, clouds form, an upside down rainbow appears, timefall starts, and BTs show up

"Norman Reedus's meatus" Yeah, you were proud about that one when you came up with it, I bet my soul on that.

35:05 Fragile: “Here’s a metaphor.” Dartigan: “What a coincidence, I paid $60 for one.” I’m laughing so hard.

I thought that Lou holding Amelie's necklace at the end implied that Amelie revived Lou the same way she did Sam and that this was her way of saying goodbye because she had closed off all of the Beaches

17:58 Actually, you do meet terrorists other than Higgs in this game. They have scans similar to MULEs, but they track ppl instead of cargo. Also they start to shoot you on sight. I dont know how you completed the game without encountering them, but good on you i guess because they are pain in the ass lol

Read the memory chip stuff, his unborn child was a daughter too, which he also shortened to Lou

94: I also thought about the rain falling on her face, but you can see that the few drops that drop on her are actually from the rubble, not the sky itself... and it is explained that after the timefall touches something, it becomes normal water, so yeah, she wouldn't age and could drink it safely... which is what she did

17:00 Amelie told him, pretty simple. The sniffing is just to intimidate Sam

Die-Hardman should have been played by Bruce Willes.

I'm so glad you took a sin off for Tommie Earl Jenkins' performance at the end.

“Looks like he’d rather be sleeping”

Ok, theory: fragile and chiral artist grew up in secluded shelters with only their immigrant parents when they were learning to speak, hence the accents

This game gives me the impression that it was made out of a lot of leftover crazy ideas from MGS5's development that they thought better of using at the time.

The game actually makes the problem with higher chiralium VERY clear. Immediately after he incinerates the body, a crapload of BTs shows up at the incinerator.

I wanted to love this game. I defended the hell out of it. I played it everyday since it came out and desperately tried to not get bored with it. It has such neat, unique concepts but... Damn. I'm so sad this game wasn't what I thought it was going to be.

Sorry, you just don’t understand my “strand-type meme”

give me back my pp - Mads Mikkelsen

Couple more things I want to point out. When we see Sam go into the Beach for the first time, he's wearing the Q-Pid and the cuffs on him despite not personally seeing them in the real world. When he wakes up, they're gone. During the second visit to Amelie's Beach, you can see her dress change color. It's red in one scene, but then when we see her in her closeup, it's black. Whether this was intentional or not is anyone's guess, but seeing as how there's no real explanation for it, it's likely an error that wasn't spotted. MULEs are essentially what happens when you try to take the human element out of a service by replacing it with robots and A.I., and then clumsily put the human element back in, making them become hoarders. So what's the next best step in improving the delivery system? Putting in more robots that do deliveries for you while you do your own stuff. Fucking really? Yeah, I'm not gonna lie, this game's story has a whole mess of problems with its continuity, its narrative beats, and its overarching plotline. The Extinction Entities aren't even explained at all; they just simply are, and the best answer we can get is "because the universe hates us," and nothing is ever explored in that. Also, storage is laughably bad seeing how you have this techno-magical network that can make bridges, share structures, and deliver babies, but apparently it can't share the equipment that you yourself made?

Kojima’s version of Uber Eats 😂 this is what happens when an ego goes unchecked

45:20 It wasn't about the initials of his name though. Yea its still weird that Clifford called his son "BB"during the memories. But Bridget gave his son the name Same Porter Bridges/Strand long after Cliff died. Amelie told Clifford this when they met on the beach. Despite the game's faults, it was a charming and fun game for me!

I cannot wait until we get “America 4”

2:00 The dead deer is actually there at the bottom of the hill.

yo I watched this whole thing and I'm still lost

They all seem to have the bands that’s how they would know if someone died.

when timefall hits the ground or something the aging effect is gone, that's why mama is okay

Wait, you gripe about product placement, and then complain that there was no brand on the glasses he wore? I'm starting to think someone needs to create a "Everything wrong with Dartigan's assessments" line of videos.

5:03 The game says that BTs are attracted to chiralium and when chiralium is dangerous for humans as they cause severe mental problems.

I both hate and admire Kojimbo's writing. He manages to be mature, infantile, weird and painfully mundane all at the same time.

After seeing dartigan take down Kingdom Hearts and Death Stranding with videos way too long I'm still waiting to see him take down Persona 5 it'd be nuts. Please

I'm sorry. Kojima tried to pin all the previous mass extinction events on his made up mystical weirdness? That's amazing.

25:42 You got an S-rank for delivering broken goods because you delivered the plot in perfect condition.

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This game feels like something straight out of the SCP Foundation... Oh god, imagine if Kojima actually made an SCP game.

4:48 Unless they specifically meant human extinction, Death Stranding being the 6th extinction makes perfect sense because we have gone through 5 in our actual history. The sixth hasn't occurred but many scientists believe we're in the middle of the sixth.

Ngl i was expecting the biggest sin count on the cringey 'Princess beach' pun

2:00 actually there is 4:50 bts came after amelie revived Sam, that's how they learn to came to this world 5:00 chiralium makes time fall, that brings the bts, you know the rest 18:17 only can teleport to places with high levels of chiralium, the port only gets that levels after Sam activates the terminal 22:20 you can't kill what is already dead 35:50 c'mon, it was a good joke, I wish more games would do this 38:55 he already knew this

"Norm Reedus's Meatus"😂😂😂. Have a great holiday, folks.

Really enjoyed your videos! Just some things tho You do find Higgs' terrorists, they're the MULEs that try to kill you once you start heading to Mountain Knot City. They even wear that black and gold signature Demens armour. Also in the beginning cutscenes of the game, right before you meet Bridget, they tell you that she was the one who raised Sam. It's not explicit, but I always thought from that that Sam wasn't her biological child.

I really love Death Stranding but I agree with a large portion of your sins. Kojima does better than most writers/directors when it comes to connecting dots but he does miss a few in this game and I think its simply because the story itself (everything in the Death Stranding world) is complicated. Still a great game but I fully understand and accept the fact that it definitely isn't a game for everyone.

This was clearly supposed to be a metal gear game.

I tried so hard to hate you. I really did but I have never laughed so many times to so many videos from the same channel. It's 5:20am and I have to get up for work in 40min. You are the reason I am going to be miserable all day from lack of sleep. I think you more than earned my sub. Keep up the great work, man!

You know about mama's cutscene... timefall is only timefall until it hits something, then it turns into ordinary rain after that. So if mama was stuck in the rubble, then the rain has already hit the concrete above and so isn't timefall anymore.

Also, no sin for the sly continuation of "What took you so long/kept you waiting, huh?" from mgs. Or the Higgs fight being mgs1 and mgs 4?

Fun fact: Kojima always wanted to make films, but settled with video games, because he didn't get a foothold in the industry. Explains a lot, doesn't it?

I fell asleep about 10 minutes in and woke up and im so lost theres beaches, blts and mario and princess peach

"he's never allowed in cities or shelters" You can literally enter prepper shelters to save your game

Die Hardman's real name is John blake McLane.

2:08 There is a dead deer nearby actually, just on the floor on your way to the delivery destination

3:18 Here's the deer you are looking for.

game sins: there is no deer out of the cave … go look at 3:20

2:25--yeesh, salt levels went though the roof on that one O.o

I love these videos, but half or so of the sins are explained later in the game, and you completed it to make this video, so you should know the explanations. Even a lot of the comments explain them.

In my opinion, this reminds me of Final Fantasy 2 and Knights in the Nightmare. Such as the somber atmosphere, tone, music, etc. Those two games may be considered an inspiration to Death Stranding.

I think the Extinction Entity knew her plan for Sam to "reconnect America" had massive inconsistencies.....yet I think so did Kojima and actually chose to implement the flawed plan into the story on purpose as a character device for Sam and Bridget. In at least one of the interviews for Sam done by his therapist, she notices Sam's attachment to Amelie is extremely unreasonable. As innocent as the relationship was, she believed his love for Amelie seems to be strongly related to his phobia and a list of other problems. Almost desperate, like a child clinging onto a neglectful mother no matter what. When Sam was presented with the plan, maybe the original idea was to have the player realize it could've very well have been a trap given how nihilistic the outcome seemed, but to also have the player realize there was something blinding Sam to the reality of the situation. The trek itself was a massive demonstration of his denial to the truth, that he never really had a family that raised him. Even though Sam was adopted by Bridget after what Clifford did, according to his therapist in a journal entry that's in the game, he was very much neglected by Bridget growing up and rarely saw Amelie. As an adoptee/former foster kid myself I've experienced this pain (and it still hurts like all hell), but compounded by becoming a man who lost the ONLY sort of family he tried to create in a supernatural explosion he barely understood at the time meant he was already quietly over the edge, running on a lie. "Maybe this trip would make it ALL worth it," he likely thought. "Maybe this trip will mean I can get at least ONE member of my family back," he likely thought. It was only in the end game where Sam was forced to come to terms with the denial he was fueling was it then did he realize (along with the player) he walked into a trap that should've been obvious to him but wasn't. It's not just romantic love that blinds us to the truth, it's love for people you thought were family that blinds you too. I've seen that happen a lot with kids and adults that were separated from even terrible, God awful parents. Usually when offspring realize or are being forced to realize their parents never really cared for them, it sends them into a spiral or leaves them devasted. So you could only imagine just how Sam could've felt at the end of the game, the depth of his sorrow must've been cosmic. As for what happened with Bridget when she was reconnecting the chiral network herself, I think she lacked an even bigger understanding on what it meant to be an EE and probably thought she had to bring about the end before a very specific time, a time she rushed to beat to prevent the end, and it therefore had her botch up a lot of what she originally wanted to do in the process, and created a lot of fucky-wuckys she didn't realize we're fucky-wuckys until she established Edge Knot City AND THEN realized "Oh fuck, I need someone to clean up after my mess. Oh hold on a sec, I have the PERFECT SIMP FOR THE JOB" and proceeded to lure Sam into a trap.

Bro you make a sin that people got depressed by not talking to their fedex guy.. I work at FedEx and the number of people who talk to you every single time you delivery to their house would surprise you

David Cage had become the Dark Souls of video game developers

Dartigans about to go in on this game with these 46 minutes. Good luck Kojima

3:09 by the time you get to the mountain cities, Getting to the next city is such a pain I was always glad when that music started playing, it meant I wasn’t gonna get stuck in some stupid stealth rainstorm

In this game,you play and face hardships,but then you make roads and pathways for other players so that they dont have to face the same.In short,"I had to walk,so you could run".

36:00 Princess BEACH, it's not a metaphor, it's a joke.

Death Stranding, surprise villains with extreme and unnecessarily convoluted master plans reliant upon most uncertain of actions or reactions by the hapless hero, typical Kojima, mixing up his Batman villains with Umbrella Corp.

I'm surprised nobody has done the math on Heartmans's visits to see how long it's been since the event began, or at least how long Heartmans has had his condition

While I know better than to trust you for 100 percent accurate information on games, its amazing how much, just like Neir, the amount of pretentious bullshit comes through. At least Koji doesn't pick themes he doesnt understand though, unlike Yoko.

The deer was definitely there I seen it a little ways down from the cave

4:35 - I'm legit eating a pizza alone, right now... :(

That sunset over the reddish ocean scene near the end is damn gorgeous. Eyegasm.

God everyone’s are exactly what their quirks are. BB is “baby” how did I not think that? And this game is literally about a deliveryman

19:09 I KNEW someone would make a Postman joke about this game!

So I did the math, this guy spends 21 hours a day alive and 3 hours dead, I'm confused on if he would need sleep or not seeing as how he literally dies every 21 minutes

should've used Sam's record scratching & 'Yeah Boyee' for the Sin Total count, but nice work Dart. Love the game and enjoyed you streaming it.

Love your gaming sin videos. They often point out weird stuff I noticed or interesting things I hadn't thought about. This one was especially fun since Death Stranding is already a bit unique in the story it tells and how it does so. You should read some of the interviews if your interested. They often give some background information. For example: Sam's child was going to be a daughter that they were going to name Louise but Sam called her Lou for short. Cheers mate. Look forward to watching Horizon Zero Dawn after I've bought and played it next.

Death stranding is just a very intense postman pat reboot. *Change my mind*

Hold on how have you not sin that wierd umbrella looks like it it's just pieces of glass metal and plastic that aren't even connected properly the only time they look like they're connected is directly above it and that's just an optical illusion if the rain started pouring from One Direction and The Wind carried it towards another the time fall what fall straight through the umbrella and wash over her making that umbrella essentially useless am I the only one who noticed that?

I really gotta commend you for being able to make sense of this clusterfuck of a game, let alone give over 40 minutes of critique of it.

The plot of this game just went over my head.

Kojima really has a thing for high class actors with no facial expressions, who grumble every line in the same monotonous voice. Not that I hate them.

LOL Great vid! Your explanations helped alot, thanks!

After watching this video my brain still hurts from all the mind fucks and confusion