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Some NPCs could live or die in Death Stranding based on your actions

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Death Stranding may just be the one horror game that deals with the subject that terrifies me the most: Socialisation. A game about creating connections between people and taking the time to check in on them, Hideo Kojima’s grand experiment and middle finger to Konami’s top brass is aiming for the emotional jugular in the story that the fan favourite game developer has been cooking up for several years now.

It’s a story with a wide cast that includes Hollywood royalty and Geoff Keighley (He knows Hideo Kojima!), but you need to be careful: Some of those people you meet along the way could meet their end thanks to your actions in the game. At the Garage Museum of Modern Art in Moscow last week, Kojima touched on this idea and how players will need to check in on their new pals from time to time. Cheers, Reddit:

We have a character who lives deep underground. He is sick and needs medicine, and Sam can deliver it. Since this happens at the beginning of the story, this is a must. After completing this quest, the player himself chooses the following actions: you can constantly go to the old man and carry medicine; can deliver other items; you can listen to his stories from the past.

Yeah but that sounds like hard wooooooorrrrrk. The problem here is that as the game goes on players will move further and further away from the starting location, making it close to impossible to courier some of those lifesaving drugs back to the ripping yarns location of the old man:

Since they have not carried medicine to him all this time, he will die by this moment. Through such actions, a connection arises with the character. We really hope that the significance of the connection between people – how it is formed, how it develops – will be revealed, and it will be interesting for you to play it.

Life or death situations based on courier actions? This must be what it’s like to work for Takealot’s PR department on the day a new game launches. It’s an interesting idea (alongside some truly WACKY ones), but as for how long its appeal will last in the grand scheme of things? Guess we must wait until November 8 to see for ourselves.

Last Updated: October 8, 2019

20 Comments

  1. Sounds like every other game I play. NPC’s survive only by my grace and kindness.
    Until I hit autosave and start kiiiiilllliiiing!!!!

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  2. HairyEwok

    October 8, 2019 at 10:36

    Reminds me of Dead Rising where you HAD TO get anti zombo meds or else your daughter/yourself is kaput, that was forced on you, it seems in death stranding you at least have a choice. I think this game is going to test some peoples morals XD

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    • Admiral Chief

      October 8, 2019 at 10:44

      I’ll probably spend 60% of my game time checking up on the NPCs. And enjoy it

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      • HairyEwok

        October 8, 2019 at 10:55

        Do the rounds before you head back to death baai.

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        • Admiral Chief

          October 8, 2019 at 10:55

          Heh, death baai

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  3. Raptor Rants

    October 8, 2019 at 11:05

    This would be a serious problem for me. I’d spend my time checking up on NPC characters and never venture so far that I can’t check back in regularly. I’d never finish this game haha

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    • HairyEwok

      October 8, 2019 at 11:05

      You really need to ask yourself the question, if the NPC had to check up on you, would they though?

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      • Raptor Rants

        October 8, 2019 at 11:06

        Now that would be irritating.
        Imagine you’re in the middle of a serious fight when suddenly you have this NPC calling to you from a little way off asking if you are ok.

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        • HvR

          October 8, 2019 at 11:15

          “Well what do think Susan, I’m fighting a tar ghost with a rejected abortion strapped to my chest…..”

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          • Raptor Rants

            October 8, 2019 at 11:25

            Words I never thought I’d ever hear anyone utter

        • Admiral Chief

          October 8, 2019 at 11:25

          DO YOU WANT TO GO BOWLING?

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  4. HvR

    October 8, 2019 at 11:25

    Ahh screw the old man, old people is a problem that take care of itself.

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