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<\/picture><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n Play it on:<\/strong> PS5 Oh, hi. It\u2019s me again. So after wrapping up some much-needed venting through the perilous violence that is The Last of Us Part II<\/em>, I\u2019m gonna need to wind down and start envisioning a reparative future. And thank heavens Sam Porter Bridges has just such a task ahead of him.<\/p>\n I came to adore the original Death Stranding<\/em> after a few playthroughs. It\u2019s a dense piece of video game fiction if there ever was one, and there\u2019s so much I still don\u2019t understand about it, but in a good, mysterious way. I look forward to a new chapter of this wonderfully weird, sometimes too <\/em>weird, Kojima fantasyscape. <\/p>\n The first Death Stranding <\/em>did a remarkable job of fusing large, real-life themes such as human connection to its own wonderfully outlandish concepts like extinction entities, using them together to explore how our efforts to defy or control death can lead to unexpected consequences. That\u2019s exactly the kind of thoughtful, stimulating, grounded yet escapist thing I need right now given what\u2019s going on in my life and frankly, given the horrors of our world, too.<\/p>\n Hideo Kojima has repeatedly spoken about how he had to rewrite Death Stranding 2<\/em> after the pandemic, this time with a script that\u2019s more focused on asking, \u201cShould We Have Connected?\u201d <\/p>\n It\u2019s a question I\u2019m asking myself a lot. I don\u2019t know if Kojima\u2019s going to give me the kind of answer I want to hear, but I\u2019m certainly in need of spending some time in his mind right now to think about it. \u2014 Claire Jackson<\/p>\n And that wraps our picks for the weekend! Happy Pride and happy gaming!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Current goal: <\/strong>Start repairing connections<\/p>\n
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