Death Stranding 2 - On The Beach | PS5/PRO | June 24, 2025 (Deluxe Edition), June 26, 2025 (Standard Edition) | Metacritic: 90 Opencritic: 90

[Gizmo_Duck]

Game really does feel like MGSV.2, i always avoided MULE camps in the last game, this one got me on the hilltop sniping fools like Venom Snake

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

@Gizmo_Duck Is there a GOTY thread yet
if not I guess we can start

1. Clair Obscur
2. Death Stranding 2
3. Ghost of Yotei

what else?

1. Clair Obscur
2. Death Stranding 2
3. Yotei
4. Split/Fiction
5. Donkey Kong Bananza
6. Hades 2/Silksong/Blue Prince

 

[Fani Willis fan]

They need to patch in homescreen music. Was expecting something epic given the OST.

 

[winb83]

Reviews are uniformly more positive than the original. Can I play the sequel without playing a nano-second of the first? It looked boring as shyt to me. UPS driver simulaton type shyt. This appears to be more action based.

The game is still about delivering packages from the reviews.

 

[FlyRy]

That opening last night was beautiful. I'm off today and the girls are out of school but the weather is hitting the 70s today. They're going outside and putting that pool to use this afternoon.

that is not pool weather

 

[Killer Instinct]

that is not pool weather

Muhfukka I live in Washington State. If It's 75 & sunny, it's pool weather.

 

[YakSpiller]

This game is about delivering packages?

 

[-DMP-]

Damn, everyone playing but me. Why am I still here, just to suffer?

 

[Th3G3ntleman]

Man when you actually read the contents of the reviews this shyt is fishy as hell to me.

 

[Killer Instinct]

Say what you will about Kojima but he never misses with the soundtrack.

 

[Killer Instinct]

This game is about delivering packages?

I've experienced more action in the first four hours than I did in the first ten in the first game, but if someone didn't like the gameplay loop of the first, they likely won't like this. It's a bit more intense this time with the added weather hazards on top of the bandit camps, BT's & Timefall, but at it's core, delivery is still the objective.

 

[-DMP-]

I've experienced more action in the first four hours than I did in the first ten in the first game, but if someone didn't like the gameplay loop of the first, they likely won't like this. It's a bit more intense this time with the added weather hazards on top of the bandit camps, BT's & Timefall, but at it's core, delivery is still the objective.

The best part of the first game was when you got to the snow part and had to fight through the mountains and the snow storm. Sounds like that this game is that part, all the time now

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

The best part of the first game was when you got to the snow part and had to fight through the mountains and the snow storm. Sounds like that this game is that part, all the time now

Yeah, the hazards add a lot of ‘texture’ to the traveling experience

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

This sequel is way more game-y, shyt got an actual skill tree to build out

 

[Killer Instinct]

The best part of the first game was when you got to the snow part and had to fight through the mountains and the snow storm. Sounds like that this game is that part, all the time now

A lot more oppourtunity for combat for sure.

I don't consider the porter titles as spoilers but I'll spoiler it out of courtesy

Spoiler

Your porter title reflects your style of play and delivery. I almost always prefer stealth over a shootout, and my title reflects that. I've seen other guys' out in the wild that play the polar opposite, and their title reflects that, too.

You're given the greenlight almost from the jump to go in guns blazing. A lot of early tools in the first few hours -- some new -- that it took a dozen hours to get in the first game. Kojima definitely wanted you to have fun with it this time. Add in the weather -- which affects you AND the enemies -- and yeah. It gets wild.