🪟 Death Stranding for PC is a powerful game for powerful machines

Being on PC only makes the game better... as long as you can run it. Death Stranding from Kojima Productions was a divisive game when it came out in 2019 exclusively for the PS4. It's long and meandering and the story is confusing and dense. These are all hallmarks of Hideo Kojima's past work at Konami, so the fact Death Stranding is so profoundly Kojima-esque isn't surprising. What was more shocking was that it worked at all. The game is huge in scope, both in terms of how literally big it is and the kind of story it wants to tell. You play an isolated man named Sam Porter Bridges (Norman Reedus) who delivers packages in an apocalypse where people in America are isolated to cities or forced to live underground. Your task now is to not only deliver packages to these bunkers but to also travel across the country uniting everybody. This is a lofty task considering you're being hunted by terrorists and the end of the world. The sheer size of the game worked well on the console. Despi... ...