Death Stranding 2 dials back the most stressful thing about the first game

Death Stranding 2 dials back the most stressful thing about the first game

The first Death Stranding came out in 2019, and I reviewed it then. It’s a long game, and I spent a couple of weeks sunk into its world. It was a strange experience for several reasons: primarily that it’s a very strange game, both frustrating and hypnotic, lucid and obtuse. It was also eerily prophetic about the isolation of the Covid-19 pandemic that was then just a few months in the future. I had given myself the review as a little break from…