Death Stranding: The Kotaku Video Review (by Tim Rogers)
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- I reviewed Death Stranding. How do you review a game with 900 trailers? Well, you make a one-hour video with three nested intros, you don't talk about the gameplay until about twelve minutes in, and you mostly use footage from the game's 900 trailers throughout.
If you just want my opinion: it's great. It's some kind of a masterpiece. Just get it and enjoy it.
I had an extremely specific Policenauts joke in here, though I cut it because it came at sort of a weird time. Now I'm thinking I missed out on some Policenauts-related street cred. So please talk about Policenauts in the comments.
2009: are video games art?
2019: are video game reviews art?
Shadow of the colossus is truly an artistic game. I want to try this game out too. Something new
Tim Rogers is the first Video Game Review Artist I've ever met
I scoop my poop up out of the toilet, and mold it into little animal shapes and play with them
@@justice7788 psml.. that's how I feel after playing this
Most definitely, guys like JonTron and PBG have been doing that for quite a while now, though they're more like stand up and Tim here is closer to prose especially given his knowledge of of art history...
Who would have thought that Tim Rogers was holding back when he did these Kotaku reviews?
I just watched a 6 hour review of boku no natsuyasumi.
I believe
@@Rob6990 too bad he vanished from thay channel after that
@@mmd3585 he'll be back
@@doubleeeeeeeany day now....
@@mmd3585 hes working on season 2 of action button. happy early christmas
Tim Rogers is the best reviewer you'll ever have. Pay him more.
Only reviewer whose opinion I care to hear even if I don't play the game.
This comment has aged well.
Aaaaand he's gone!
Patreon pays more 😎
This is the best comment.
Recently discovered Tim Rogers, came back to this review.
“What kind of world would it be if delivery people were, in indisputable fact, the bravest people in the world?”
Boy, it’s real weird watching this in 2021, huh?
It is now 2022 and I have a parasocial relationship with my local grub-hub and door-dash delivery drivers...
@@Sablus now it’s almost 2023, looks like I don’t have to feel guilty for making love to that Jehovah’s Witness
"Bravest People in the world" is a purely drama-queen bullshit take on delivery guys though, a farse, not even close to reflecting reality, then or now. Trans-queer black people who identify as Female, however, ARE.
Buddy you got no idea
"Death Stranding is the Gran Turismo of walking simulators."
Sold.
Getting some pretty bad Reviews IGN gave it a 6.8 and other reviews I've read call it boring with badd mechanics and gameplay
Also Tim, this might be my favourite video of yours. The last fifteen minutes were an absolute bonkers heckride.
"Death Stranding is like eating 60 pounds of vegetables at gunpoint."
@Christopher Simon i have seen all of the good reviews. one thing on most of them is they ether conveniently do not bring up the game play or use the story has an excuse to over look the game play
@Christopher Simon Because Kojima Stans are in the media
This is the most Tim Rogers review Tim Rogers has ever done.
It really feels like I'm watching a Tim Rogers review. 9/10
Death Stranding review by Tim Rogers will make you feel like being Tim Rogers.
It is indeed.
I think 80 hours of playing the game damaged his brain. :)
I'm glad my frist sit is at the top of the hill
29m in: 'You can make him remove his own bloody toenails.'
THANK YOU TIM, YES, I THINK I GOT THAT!
this is what made me treat the video as a podcast for the majority of its runtime. I did not want to resort to that, but the extraction of the toenails over and over again proved too much, I worried my constant flinching would worsen and become Restless Leg Syndrome which would most likely result in me being "kicked out" of society for this most debilitating of disorders.
“It is the aiming, not the shooting, that owns the noob.” Genius
Space Cowboy i don’tget it :(
@@lancekun you my sir are the noob
I literally had to pause the review to just savor that line for a few seconds.
Mi trabajo just an amazingly poetic way to say “git gud”.
"With Death Stranding, Hideo Kojima has finally made a game that is like eating 60 pounds of vegetables at gunpoint."
This is a GOAT line contender from Tim.
Huh, read comments after you watch the video you heathen
I was eating 60 pounds of vegetables as I read this comment. It made me slowly turn around. Luckily no gun.
@@CodeProvider don't go to the comments before you're done if you don't want "spoilers" you fucking mongoloid
Now seriously, did the game flop?
This was my favorite line, (in my favorite video game review of any video game, book, or film; about a video game; that I am now reassured will cause tremendous internal strife, debating if it is my favorite video game ever), that also caused a literal simultaneous lol + and a disheartening wtf moment. Even better, its at the top when I came to the comments.
Bravo TR. And thank you Kojima, for letting me pay you money, to force feed me my veggies. There is little else I have looked forward to more.
When a review has a 10 minute tutorial
Thanks man. I am still laughing.
Fucking obnoxiously annoying...
Peter Lustig I know right, he’s outstanding
@Peter Lustig You probably don't even have a tenth of this man's charm and wit.
@Peter Lustig this is why mom doesn't love you.
Youngest looking 40 year-old I've ever seen.
He can't help that's he's a cutie pie
I comprehend his street cred and it checks out with him being 40 yet when i see him i cant help but think its all a lie. What even is reality anymore (im on hour 250 thank you, gotta perfect my zipline network)
Wow super surprised, a young soul
wait till you meet rivers cuomo
ruclips.net/video/sZHUY-nVXKU/видео.html
"Kojima looked at Amazon, UPS, DHL, and FedEx and asked: What kind of world would it be if delivery people were, in indisputable fact, the bravest people in the world?"
That would be 2020, Kojima
“What if Zelda breath of the wild was boring... on purpose”
i still don't bother playing them for years now and i had 2 copies....
but but... BotW WAS boring. But not on purpose. Easily the worst Zelda game out there.
Zelda botw was boring in a dungeons perspective. In a mechanically fulfilling perspective, it outperformed many things & was engaging.
Until you get all the korok seeds... :(
tsibosp disagree
@@tsibosp it is the second best Zelda ever. It is just behind Link's Awakening DX
I can't believe I'm only discovering this guy and I consider myself a major metal gear solid fan played all the games six times over. This video felt like ten minutes. Fellas a genius.
JAYTALITY please check out my playlist on this channel :-D
JAYTALITY Watch his E3 videos. Comedic gold. All of it.
Will do Tim
Will do Trigger
@@DIRECTORshane thanks for putting me on to his E3 stuff. Already watched all of his kotaku and action button stuff.
Tim Rogers has finally done it.
To anyone who questions the utility of this review: this review has, possibly more than any other ever written, educated me as to whether I, personally, should pick up this game.
This is a phenomenal comment. I agree wholeheartedly.
“Tarkovsky’s Mario Bro’s.”
The Film - The Video Game
As an film buff and Tarkovsky Fan this is joke is 100× funnier.
Dont insult a genius with this trash
This is a very good review, but *PLEASE* stop using that clip of the main character tearing off his toenail.
Yeah I have to look away every time. Tim man come on - toe nails falling off are gross.
I would have traded the toenail clips for more clips of Sam peeing, any day.
Was literally about to comment the same thing. Every time it appears I have to hide my eyes. That's one of my top skeeves.
I have to look away everytime as well.
Yeah it didn't bother me the first couple of times and then I had to look away every other time ahhh
I've never heard of Tim Rogers nor have I ever watched an hour long video review. Glad I found this. This was awesome and entertaining - thank you!
You owe it to yourself to watch his Devil May Cry 5 review then. It is poetry.
Kotaku may be a little too far on the left sometimes for me, but Tim Roger's writes these kinds of deadpan videos regularly on Kotaku and is an absolute pleasure to watch them . Will second the devil may cry video, even if you aren't a fan of the game.
@Modustollens1 I agree. Some of Jason's exposes on the industry have been both fascinating and frightening. There aren't very many people willing to rake some of these media giants over the coals while actually doing real journalism in the process. Totillo, Fahey and Heather I also don't mind.
@@mph8er Schrier's a clown. He's the worst of these "journalists" who just try to piss people off for clicks. He called an a game director a pedophile. His evidence was that the guy drew a woman with big breasts. It was the stupidest argument I've ever read. He can rot.
@@Theyungcity23 I have no idea whether what you're complaining about is valid or not, but please check out some of Schrier's exposés on the industry. There are so many excellent ones that this one article you're pissed off about is completely overshadowed.
I would expect Tim Rogers arms to be bigger because he is single handily carrying all of Kotaku.
This review of Death Stranding, from what I'm hearing, seems to be the Death Stranding of reviews about Death Stranding.
Perfectly said.
One big mind fuck.
@@vtown7o774 I fear that this review will be the better death stranding, Stranding Room only indeed
I was playing Death Stranding and youtube recommended this video to me and now I want to watch Tim Rogers talk about Death Stranding more than I want to play Death Stranding. Help
“Death Stranding is hiking... for accountants”
I'm an accountant so I'll enjoy it
“Death stranding is the Gran Tursimo of walking simulators” NEEDS to be on the back of the box art
It's the best description I have seen so far. I use it all the time.
Box
"It is the aiming, not the shooting, that owns the noob."
00:00 - Prologue
08:11 - VIDEO Review
20:35 - PET Review
30:21 - FILM Review
38:20 - BOOK Review
46:02 - KOJIMA Review
56:56 - In Closing
How are you so sincere and funny while at the same time being so self aware and pretentious, you goddamn genius.
You can't be sincere and pretentious at the same time, my dude. They are diametrically opposed to each other.
@@trashl0rd no shit my dude. That's exactly why I posed the question. It's inexplicable.
It's impossible is what it is.
Being these are all abstract subjective states of being I think it's entirely possible to be funny, sincere, self aware and pretentious at the same time. Many would argue kojima himself does it.
I don't think any of you clowns understand the definition of "pretentious" at all. It's as misused as the term "literally" these days.
This was the first Tim Rogers review I ever watched, I remembered it being super super long. Upon returning to it I am simply amazed to find it is a poultry 1hr long
FR. I remember thinking, "holy shit a whole hr for 1 game?" Now, in 2023, I've watched a 6 hr review of a Japanese dating sim I have no interest in or ability to play at least 4 times 😂
🐔
I'm an accountant by trade, and I grew up in the Boy Scout system going on and learning to love hiking. Apparently, I have never been more ready to receive a game than now
YES
What did you think?
Patiently waiting for part 2 of this review.
Yeah we're gonna need a post release video discussion of some sort.
Saying that the most important part of the game is that there is so much of himself in it compared to any other game, such that whether it's "good," or "bad," becomes mostly irrelevant reminds me so much of a Neil Gaiman quote:
"Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be better writers than you and there’ll always be smarter writers than you.There are better writers than me out there, there are smarter writers, there are people who can plot better - there are all those kinds of things, but there’s nobody who can write a Neil Gaiman story like I can.”
From my perspective, if your art isn't divisive, I start to worry you're not being honest and open about who you are and what you really think and what you really want to say. That you're concerned about how your work, and by extension you as a person, will be perceived, and censoring and diluting yourself for public consumption rather than simply enjoying the act of creation and accepting whatever comes of it.
Pretty much every writer that's ever been hailed as a genius has also been denigrated as a hack. Shakespare certainly was, during his time. My personal favorite author, Gene Wolfe, certainly has been as well. His series Book of the New Sun has been hailed as a masterpiece and one of the most important pieces of scifi ever written. Le Guin called Wolfe "our Melville." He's been hailed by other prominent scifi writers and editors as not just the best scifi writer, but the best american writer alive, period (sadly not alive anymore). Speaking of Neil Gaiman, he revered him. When asked to name his favorite books, Gene Wolfe's Shadow & Claw was the first thing out of his mouth.
All this praise, and yet the first book in the series, The Shadow of the Torturer, has a 3.7 average on goodreads. Several of the most popular reviews, which show up on the front page, are one out of five stars. A lot of people fucking hate him, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
Let this be a call to all the artists out there: Be your goddamn self. As hard as you can. Be brave, be vulnerable, rip yourself open like a coroner performing an autopsy, look your critics and haters in the eye with a serene smile as their spears hover perilously close to your exposed organs, because _that's what art is_ .
Beautifully said, I couldn't agree more, thank you.
This guy is so good at this. He's on different level.
I totally just found him. Critique as art. Not a common thing nowadays.
Easily the most well crafted, beautifully scripted and delivered and entertaining review on RUclips. Thanks so much Tim!
My main takeaway from this review is that I want to thank you Tim, for influencing Hideo Kojima with your interview questions in 2004, so that we can play the fruits of those ideas you planted in a week from now.
I am twelve minutes in and this is already the single greatest video game / movie / book / pet / Kojima review of all time.
Dang, Tim Rogers is going farther than we deserve again.
funny how just four months later the world is almost in a situation where amazon delivery people really are the bravest people on earth
Tim, there is a single tear of joy running down my cheek as I weep silently when I see this video is one hour, fifty-seven seconds long.
atomicbrain9401 would you mind explaining that to me?
@@dsoundso his reviews are so good, that 1h of it dropping is like finding out you missed an episode of your favourite tv show.
Basically, it's 1h quality entertainment. And you don't even have to pay a subscription for it. Time spent watching one of Tim's reviews is usually, if not always better than consuming what he's reviewing
"Tim Rogers has done it again." - Some RUclips Commenter
this review is a masterpiece. you recreating death stranding irl with ur little buddy had me weeping.
I really, REALLY love the cuts to the 'live in-studio' Tim commenting on his own videos. Just perfect. *chef's kiss*
Those god dang cuts were the god dang best
This is the best review I’ve ever seen for a video game.
Congrats, man, you nailed it.
I gotta square up with whoever thought it’d be a good idea to keep showing that toenail bit!
That'd be Tim Rogers, the writer & editor of this fine piece of...I'm still working on my dissertation of what this is, so we'll go with "media". You got a problem, take it up with the man bellowing above you.
U kant fight
The range between the two comments above are a perfect explanation of this review.
Traditional Artist Lol and you can’t spell
This review, like the game is a masterpiece that will only gain in public opinion as time goes on.
“With death stranding, hideo kojima has made a game that is like eating 60 poinds of vegetables at gunpoint”
Tim Rogers is quickly becoming the most creative and well-spoken game reviewer on the internet. His reviews are as fascinating as the thing he's trying to review.
"Sam Porter Bridges is an Uber Eats driver, in a world where cars are made of al dente pasta..."
That's a good one.
"if this was anymore on the nose it would be ON A NOSE." lmao
best shitpost ever. i give this review five monster energy drinks out of five.
I love Monster 🔥🔥🔥
This has to be the best video game review of all time. Hats off to you, Tim. You are very good at this.
Tim Rogers. The Best thing to happen to Kotaku.
Kojima. The Best thing to happen to Gaming.
This Video. The Best thing to happen to RUclips.
We have reached peak content with this one folks.
Kojima is far from the best thing to happen to gaming! He is a self righteous twat.
@@dazuk2630 With that answer, you're the same.
You cannot piss anywhere you want, no freedom. 2/10
You get it...
You get it
Tim warns us there will be flagrant and repetetive unrination scenes, but fails to mention the flagrant and repetetive tearing off of toenails. Tim Rogers has done it again.
I just finished Death Stranding last night, I did cry. Today i woke up and immediately put this video on my tv. I loved both. I was compelled to wrote my own review of Death stranding for fun but ive never reviewed anything before so it ought to be a fun exercise. I think it will end up being more influenced in style by tim rogers than it wont be as i often find myself recently expressing myself that way But oh well i dont think its a bad thing i cant even contemplate something better that this!
Here, watching the review 3 years later. Thanks for the disclaimer.
I just watched a one-hour video game review featuring Russian literature and film references split into five parts. I loved every second of it and now will proceed to play the game! Tim, thank you for this review.
The “gotta take a dump,” patch is coming day one.
This was the first Tim Rogers review or video I’ve ever come across when this was released.. am now working my way through his Kotaku video playlist. The guy is fascinating and hilarious in equal measure.
"In summary, Death Stranding is basically Andrei Tarkovsky's Super Mario Brothers: The Movie: The Video Game"
"Death Stranding is hiking for accountants" - we must protect Tim at all costs.
"Your shoes are the rubiks cube" I don't even know what he means.
Have you ever hiked for hours up a bouldery mountain, trying not to fall down and scrape yourself to bits?
The puzzle is in keeping your footing lol 😝
1 hour of Tim Rogers? Yeah, I have time.
I have an impossible, intangible emotional connection to Clair de Lune and cry every time I hear it, regardless of context. The book review was my favorite because it made me cry for no reason.
Same, but because of Polygon's Car Boys series. Which if you haven't seen, I highly recommend
I just finished this game.
Kojima played my mind and emotions like an instrument...and he played a psycho-core mellow gospel balad with it.
This is the best review that Tim Rogers has ever written, the best video that he has ever edited, and the best thing that Kotaku has ever released. Thank you.
This is a game review to end all game reviews.
Over half way through this review I have never felt so strongly to replay The Last Guardian.
Bruh
ah yes, the only review that matters
2:19 before playing the game: how is that possibly a “sheer cliff”
After playing the game: TIM GET OFF THAT CLIFF THIS SECOND YOU’RE GOING TO FALL
This is the best review of death stranding even if it was off about EA's Fedex.
Very funny how Tim spoils a major twist from the very end of the game in a very subtle way while insisting he will not spoil the game.
Oh my god. I just became a fan of Tim, and I believe I saw this literally a few days before I preordered. I freaked out when I played it. And I only watched up till the moment he said it was an instant classic. Tim I feel like you should make another one of these. They're the best quality vods I've seen in a while.
He's made a few on his Action Button channel. All are fantastic.
By far the best video game review that I believe I've watched ever in my entire life of nearly half a decade!
This made me buy the game. Then I spent 150 hours with it.
I dont think I’m ever going to play this game.
But I watched this entire video.
Tim Rogers forever.
TheBucket86 Same, but something tells me. I will definitely like this video more then the actual game. 😂. Though I think Death Stranding was made so this review could be made. ❤️
You really should play the game. Best 93 hours I've had since I was a child.
Coming soon:
- FedEx 2020 by EA
- UPS 2K20 by 2K Games
- Metal Gear Solid: Delivery by Konami
Enzo Heavenly lmao i would NOT put it past konami to make an MGS delivery game
@@kotaku The game's quote would be "Delivering the weapon to surpass Metal Gear"
This might be the most amazing review of all time. Tim Rogers, you are a treasure.
This review has aged incredible well
Fun fact ( or maybe fun alt-fact), the duration of this video equals to duration of all the Death Stranding trailers combined.
I thought I would buy this game day 1 because of Kojima, but then I watched other reviews first, and I was done with the idea of buying period, but then Tim Rodgers did a thing....
I'm buying, thank this man Kojima
In late 2019 it would have seemed odd to see someone trudging down the street wearing a backpack strapped down with jumbo packs of TP and Count Chocula, whilst wearing a small dog across his chest. By late 2022 it is such a familiar scene no one even notices it anymore.
By the sound of it, you've done to reviews what death stranding did to gaming. And the complicated emotions came across. Clever. Very, very clever.
in my opinion. most of his reviews are similar to this and just as groundbreaking.. its his style of writing and his grasp of the english language , plus his stellar interpretations of video gaming as an artform, and how it relates to our culture is a skill and\or talent severely lacking by other gaming journalists..one of the best
Death stranding review:
the metal gear solid review by Tim Rogers.
That original video footage with the Death Stranding style backpack thing was hilarious
If this was anymore on the nose it would be a nose, is perhaps the best way to sum up kojimas entire catalogue of games, and the older and wiser I get the more I love that fact.
New favorite video game.
New favorite video game review.
New favorite RUclips video.
Holy damn 2019.
Amazing Review! Love your work Mr. Tim Rogers! What would be cool though would be to have all this mentioned Films and Books in the description of the video or something. Im interested in reading some of this stuff. Maybe i have to watch again and write down what i need.
I remember when i was ,,finishing,, MGS 4. it was 3 at night.I was very sleepy and tired,but i said to myself -Its a awsome game i need to beat it tonight.I ve crawled this damn corridor,beat ocelot.Awsome! now i just watch final cutscene in im going to sleep..... I went to sleep 2 hours later...i regret nothing
"With Death Stranding, Hideo Kojima has made a game that is like eating 60lbs of vegetables at gun point."
07:21 Oh my, that's the BEDTIME ISLAND shirt he later released as something you can buy during 2022's mammoth review of Boku No Natsuyasumi, here shown early in 2019. He really is a master of foreshadowing isn't he?
"In summary, Death Stranding is basically Andre Tarkovsky's Super Mario Brothers: The Movie: The Game."
--Tim Rogers, Kotaku 2019
This is, and forever will be the best review of the game.
34:06 It is the aiming, not the shooting, that owns the noob. - Time Rogers
This review above all else proves to me that - like many of you, will listen to Tim wax poetic about literally anything for any amount of time.
The most hilarious review of a game I've ever seen. Please do a ton more.
Woah the bedtime Island shirts 3 years ago
The origins of the Bibby Babbas. Finally I know. SHE CALLED ME BUBBUS.
He really put that picture up for about 2 frames.
"Sam porter bridges is an uber eats driver in a world where cars are made of al dente pasta" this review is a masterpiece
I have watched all the reviews. This is my favorite! Well done...Son.
I've watched this several times and I'm now only realizing that you referenced Jon Bois. God damn. I love you, Tim Rogers.
"in the spirit of hideo kojima, allow me to attach an epilogue to my spoiler warning"
Tim Rogers has become my favorite part of the Kotaku YT channel. Jesus Christ, I love every second of these!