Keep Running Up That Hill: An Analysis of DEATH STRANDING (Spoilers)

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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
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SPOILER WARNING! This video spoils Death Stranding's story.

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Death Stranding (Hideo Kojima's first game post-Konami break up) is a game I have many complicated feelings about, both positive and negative. To try and make sense of them, let's talk about absurdist philosophy and noise music as we take a spoiler-heavy look at one of the most complex, deliberately exhausting games about walking ever made.

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Sources:

Kojima Explains 49 Minutes of Death Stranding Gameplay (Now in English) (IGN) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JdEeGHEaNU

Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus (1942, translated by Justin O'Brien, 1955)

Friedrich Nietzsche - Twilight of the Idols (1889, translated by Richard Polt, 1997)

Metal Gear Solid V's nuclear disarmament cutscene (Rock Paper Shotgun) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8kIQ_neK6M

[Guide] How to obtain / steal a Nuke and dismantle it - Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (ElectroRage) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg7SgavIwFI

Death Stranding: Inside Kojima Productions (BBC Newsbeat) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjUpYlKs0nM

Kojima Famitsu interview translated by Reddit user damnlee - https://www.reddit.com/r/DeathStranding/comments/dg0n1f/new_information_for_death_stranding_kojima/

Norman Reedus discussing Death Stranding at ACE Comic Con (vgc2) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NZuzAFVffA

Twitter thread about MGSV nuclear cutscene integer overflow - https://twitter.com/thesnakesoup/status/959493879950127104

Mads Mikkelsen had no idea what Death Stranding was about after Kojima described it (Polygon) - https://www.polygon.com/2017/2/28/14761696/death-stranding-mads-mikkelsen-hideo-kojima

Konami explains MGS5 'nuclear disarmament' event mishap, apologises to players (Updated) - https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/the-mgs5-nuclear-disarmament-event-triggered-this-weekend-but-no-one-seems-to-know-why/

Hijokaidan footage - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k-XHlOFtlk

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Intro text by Draz - https://twitter.com/drazgames



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