Before the release of the game Death Stranding was launched game reviews issued a week before the official launch of everyone has got the game varying ratings and put a lot at a loss of confusion it got ratings between 63/100 and 100/100 with an average rating of 85/100 Via Metacritic site.
This disparity made many confused about the decision to buy the game, but what about the game developer and maker Hideo Kojima?
Kojima said in an exclusive interview with the PlayStation Access channel that he expected these mixed reactions even from the public after the launch of the game, adding that this happens when introducing something new, whether in video games or even movies.
“So my expectations are always the same. In terms of how I feel now where the audience is playing Death Stranding right now - I think there will be positive and negative reactions. This always happens when you are trying to do something new even in movies or games.
He continued by saying that he wishes to receive support from his fans and fans of the game and of course the positive will spread in the end, he said, and there are players returning to experience the game again or for the first time after 5 to 10 years when the idea of the game and the new classification and then I will think In the second part of Death Stranding.
As for the new classification of the game, Kojima said that he is not trying to make a new classification in the world of video games and all he wanted was to provide a new gaming experience and likened it to the first game Metal Gear, where he said that all games were based on the idea of fighting and docking, but he wanted to change This introduces the idea of avoiding fighting by sneaking and dribbling in Metal Gear and one of them came to be called Stealth Genre.
He continued to talk about the online system in the game, which is different from the other online games that support direct communication while Death Stranding will be indirect communication between the players and also the game gives you a chance to give a positive impression to other players by thanking them to give Like and there is no Dislike in it and I deliberately I did that and I hope to see a new rating for this type of game in the future.
Death Stranding was released on PlayStation 4 last Friday 8 November