Death Stranding: the expectation and reality of being a video game.

Reality:-

Norman Reedus' character Sam in Death Stranding.

What separates video games from most other forms of art and entertainment mediums is that games don't have a concrete definition of how things should be. There are a huge number of possibilities, even more so because of the number of different kinds of genres and types of games available in the market nowadays. All of them, at the end of the day - whether it's an indie or a blockbuster AAA title -are all labelled as video games.

One can't find such huge differences in books or movies or other forms of mediums, because all of the others are portrayed in a singular fashion due to the obvious lack of scope and possibilities.

Video games, however, have the freedom of interactivity ,which in result, open up endless possibilities of portraying a story, a world, or even straight-up fun combat. Of course, not all of them can appeal to every gamer out there.

For example: not everyone can appreciate the beauty of titles such as "What Remains of Edith Finch" or "Life is Strange" because, to be honest, they are not really "fun" to play. Devil May Cry 5 is fun to play. Horizon Zero Dawn is fun to play. But, no one can say that walking around and interacting with different objects and characters offers any kind of fun element. One, however, may say that it provides a weird sense of satisfaction which is a completely different thing.

But, these games still prevail because they are trying to portray something, and it could have been done as, say, a movie - but then it wouldn't possibly have been able to immerse their audience as much as a video game. And, hence ,they continue to linger in one part of our mind because what they tried to convey has bound us to them forever.

Death Stranding is not going to be just another video game, out there to play and have fun with while you chill out with a couple of Beers. No, Death Stranding is here to prove a point, express itself in a medium as flexible as video games because it wouldn't have been possible anywhere else.

And so it may not really be fun to play, a lot of people may found it utterly boring. But there will be a vast majority of the audience who will appreciate its uniqueness and immerse themselves into its world in the foreseeable future.

Irrespective of everything, Death Stranding may turn out to be completely different and may appeal to the mass audience as well. But for that, we will have to wait till November 8.

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