>Is Phantom Pain 2Not really what I wanted from a Death Stranding sequel but it's fun
Death Stranding 2: On the Beach is not a video game. It's Kojima's $100 million excuse to hang out with Hollywood celebrities while you hold the left stick forward for 40 hours. Almost every location has a flat path straight to it. You can make any delivery by holding forward or driving a truck. Congratulations, you just experienced "gameplay." The game throws numerous tools at you that you absolutely never need. It's like being handed a Swiss Army knife to eat soup — the equivalent of playing Doom where enemies fall down without you ever pulling the trigger.But the crown jewel — the absolute proof Kojima doesn't make games — is the "Pretend You Won" button. Die to a boss and the game literally asks if you want to skip it. Pick it and you get a SLIDESHOW of how the fight would have played out. The results screen reads "Imaginary Victory" with a drawing of Sam sleeping. Even the protagonist doesn't care. No game should let you skip core combat. That's not accessibility — that's a confession. That's Kojima saying "gameplay doesn't matter, just watch my movie." The single greatest evidence he's NOT a game developer — just a film director accidentally given a dev kit instead of a camera.Did this cinematic walking screensaver win GOTY? NO. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 — an actual VIDEO GAME with actual GAMEPLAY — bodied Kojima's celebrity meet-and-greet simulator at The Game Awards, Golden Joysticks, DICE, and GDC, racking up 291 GOTY wins in 2025.But don't worry — his own game taught us the solution. He can just Pretend He Won. Skip the awards, read a little slideshow that says "Kojima won GOTY" with a picture of him sleeping. Imaginary Victory. Kojima — put down the controller. Pick up the camera. Stick to making movies. You clearly want to. You were never one of us.
>no lethal sniper riflesI seethe eternally
Completed the game couple of days ago and the final few chapters made me kek so hard.
>>737736471I was spoiled about die hardman being in the game but I knew nothing of his dance. Pure kino.
pick up your shit, you disgusting pigs.
>>737736436You can make every weapon lethal, anon.
>>737737661Why are you playing on low graphics anon
>>737737853Not the tranq ones, only MP ones. Sniper rifles were cucked with only tranq versions
>>737735590I like that it's phantom pain 2 because it shows that Kojima still can do "pure gameplay" stuff, he just decides not for the sake of being unique....... hopefully someone will tell him to just go full gameplay on Physint
>>737736436wait for the director's cut
>>737737913Ah shit, didn't know that.
>>737737853pizza man's code doesn't work on tranq weapons
>>737737940It better bring back armor pads and robot porters, both of which are already in the game. The former is functionnal but only on enemies and the latter appears in cutscenes>>737737941I really thought we'd get a proper MP sniper rifle later when everybody started rocking helmets, so that it could pierce the helmet and one tap them at the cost of killing them. This sucks, I really like sniping in vidya gaems, it was great in MGSV. That lethal one that pierces everything is pure sex
>>737738190>bring back armor padsDoesn't battle skeleton take the place of armor from 1?
>>737738418Battle skeleton is discount armor pad. It doesn't use battery (except for boosting) but is nowhere near as effective for protection
>>737735590Kiss on the forehead is the gayest shit ever, no child ever asked for a weird suction on the forehead.
>>737735590I was begging steam to refund it after 2 weeks but they refusedI regret buying this it's not worth it if you thought the first one had a good story that didn't need a sequel
I just got the 5* BPAS upgrade so spear chucking is probably more effective now.
electric traps are also really good and am looking forward to using them more.
>>737739447>electric trapsI kinda forgot they existed after I got them. How good are they ?
>>737739573You get 4 per pack and it's an instant KO on TTW. Drop one in the path of a truck and it'll zap them all. Then when someone comes to investigate it'll zap them too. It's also good at protecting your flank if you get into a big firefight and are holed up behind cover.
>>737739447Trap knocked out Sam? I've only been using the grenade pistol and machine gun this whole time.
>>737739917I think it was my own spear. No worries though, came back to clean them up.
>>737740480>>737740696Alright I'm sold, I will use them. Thanks for the webms
