Death Stranding

Tarisk said:

I figured that was most games/stories for you.

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Dom said:

The concept behind the game is really intriguing, and will hopefully shine through the usual Kojima butt-sniffing. It could be something really great if the core gameplay loop is fun.

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Utnayan said:

This game didn't enter full development until 2017. That's less than 3 years from FD to launch. I wouldn't expect Metal Gear quality here.

Good news is: Reviews come out a week before hand.

Bad news is: Reviews come out a week before hand.

Hideo could walk into a Gamespot office (And about 80 other popular offices for reviews) throw a piece of dog shit in their console, crop dust the VP's office on the way out, and that experience gets a 9/10 supplied with a video review.

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Brikker said:

What is the concept behind the game?

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Kōbō Abe - Wikipedia

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As the postwar period progressed, Abe's stance as an intellectual pacifist led to his joining the Japanese Communist Party, with which he worked to organize laborers in poor parts of Tokyo. Soon after receiving the Akutagawa Prize in 1951, Abe began to feel the constraints of the Communist Party's rules and regulations alongside doubts about what meaningful artistic works could be created in the genre of "socialist realism."[5] By 1956, Abe began writing in solidarity with the Polish workers who were protesting against their Communist government, drawing the Communist Party's ire. The criticism reaffirmed his stance: "The Communist Party put pressure on me to change the content of the article and apologize. But I refused. I said I would never change my opinion on the matter. This was my first break with the Party."[5]:35[a] The next year, Abe traveled to Eastern Europe for the 20th Convention of the Soviet Communist Party. He saw little of interest there, but the arts gave him some solace. He visited Kafka's house in Prague, read Rilke and Karel Čapek, reflected on his idol Lu Xun, and was moved by a Mayakovsky play in Brno.[5]

The Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956 disgusted Abe. He attempted to leave the Communist Party, but resignations from the party were not accepted at the time. In 1962 he was forcibly expelled from the party. His political activity came to an end in 1967 in the form of a statement published by himself, his wife, Yasunari Kawabata, and Kenzaburō Ōe, protesting the treatment of writers, artists, and intellectuals in Communist China.[5]

His experiences in Manchuria were also deeply influential on his writing, imprinting terrors and fever dreams that became surrealist hallmarks of his works. In his recollections of Mukden, these markers are evident: "The fact is, it may not have been trash in the center of the marsh at all; it may have been crows. I do have a memory of thousands of crows flying up from the swamp at dusk, as if the surface of the swamp were being lifted up into the air."[5] The trash of the marsh was a truth of life, as were the crows, yet Abe's recollections of them tie them distinctively. Further experiences with the swamp centered around its use as a staking ground for condemned criminals with "[their] heads—now food for crows—appearing suddenly out of the darkness and disappearing again, terrified and attracted to us." These ideas are present in much of Abe's work.

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