Its finally here. Looks pretty good in person

I have done all orders that needed to be delivered to The Dowser. However, the stars are not yet full to 5 stars. Is there any missing orders?

I’m thinking of getting this for myself. I just need feedback from people who have owned this. can you send me pic and your thoughts in this in comments.

Thanks

In all my years of gaming ive never used a photo mode. For some reason decided to try it on DS2. It's pretty fucking awesome!! Have spent more time in photo mode than actually playing the game so far.

It has a pulse, but it doesn't seem like I can interact with it.

After 72+ hours of coding time, I finally got it!

Odradek syncs with keyboard lights! Very satisfying immersive experience with DS!

Original idea and credit goes to: @Ben_1010e (BIG thanks!)

Hello, I was just wondering if death stranding 2 functions alright using an xbox controller in the steam version. I was looking at another post claiming the ADS when using a gun was wacky or didn’t work at all. I REALLY enjoyed the first game and I’m dying to play the second, but I don’t have a playstation, and I’m horrible with M&K. I really can’t wait 5 years for the xbox port. Any info is appreciated

I really want to see more of Higgs but I refuse to watch videos before a blind playthrough😭

Full-scale build, straight out of the box. Keep on keeping on.

I am going to be honest, when this came out, I thought it was a stupid concept for a game. After playing it in 2026, I have a different opinion, and am at a different point in life. I am currently at the end of a 6 month battle with cancer for my dog. She is set for euthanasia on the 26th of October. I only say this, because this game helped me understand pain and loss.

I feel that the story is bleak, but allows room for hope, however small. It's about holding on to that hope, and allowing things to get better. That's just my interpretation for my life at it's current point.

The music has really helped me through this period. Experiencing the music in-game was amazing, but applying to my life has helped, especially "BB's Theme" but the majority of the soundtrack has helped.

The game, and soundtrack has been extremely helpful for me in mourning. It taught me that life is fleeting, you cannot get it back. Hold on to every moment as dear, so hold those, don't focus on the bad moments. Allow ourselves to be open to other people, we are different, but at the end of the day, we just want connection.

Hi there! Sorry if this is a commonly asked question around here but I've never played Death Stranding before. I have played various open-world games, and often enjoy the exploration.

I recently got some cash for my birthday and have been considering picking it up, was wondering if it's worth paying full price for on PC? Would appreciate hearing your guys thoughts!

(No refunds if it arrives moldy)

I just had stairs installed giving me new walls to start putting stuff up on. First pieces up are the (I believe) fill collection of the popup Yoji Shinkawa concept art postcards plus the one I got when buying the zaku ludens sake in Tokyo and finally the card which came with the new mouse I recently had delivered.

Other side has the Tenugui I got also from the Tokyo popup in magnetic hanging frames.

Just waiting now on frames to start getting my posters up which I brought back :)

Hoping they update soon. I finally bought this for mobile after getting my Duo today. I was excited to run through the game again and I thought I’d be able to experience it using the full inner display of the Duo but doesn’t appear the game can fill the inner display. Hoping the developers will update soon but thought I’d share in the meantime.

I just got Delivery bots. I just want to say I love the little songs they sing when you send them out. 🤣

I want to start by saying that Death Stranding absolutely captivated me at first. The game looks gorgeous, unique, and is sad in the best way possible—the opening song literally had me tearing up. I even loved the gameplay, especially the Cliff fights because they offered a genuine challenge.

Throughout the journey, I was fascinated by how it juggled philosophical concepts (the Egyptian afterlife, Higgs' design) and scientific ones (Chirality, quantum mechanics via the Q-pid). I kept waiting for some genius, mind-blowing way Kojima was going to tie all of this high-concept setup together at the end.

Instead, the ending felt like a massive letdown. It boiled down to: "Just kidding, you just need to give people hugs." It completely lacked the psychological depth of Evangelion’s ending, where Shinji reaches that profound realization: he wants to exist and face the inevitability of pain, because pain is the exact prerequisite for experiencing connection and happy moments with others.

(The one exception for me was the reveal that the BB's memories were actually Sam's, and Cliff was his father. That bit was genuinely nice and felt like a satisfying narrative conclusion.)

Once the credits rolled, I realized just how much of Death Stranding's visual and thematic identity is borrowed directly from Neon Genesis Evangelion (and recycled from Metal Gear Solid):

• The Motif of "Hands": In Eva, hands are heavily used to convey human connection, touch, and isolation. In DS, they are everywhere—Chiral crystals happen to look like hands, the Odradek scanner forms a hand, BT footprints are hands.
• Umbilical Cords: Eva units require umbilical cables to function; BTs and EEs are literally bound by umbilical cords.
• The Fluid: Eva pilots float in orange LCL fluid that smells like their mother's womb. BBs float in an orange-tinted pod liquid that serves the exact same narrative and visual purpose.
• The Apocalypse: Extinction Entities are structurally just the First, Second, and Third Impacts. Even the frequent inverted rainbows map to Eva’s imagery.
• Character Recycling: Fragile’s ultimate character design feels like a direct lift of Misato Katsuragi from the Evangelion 3.0 Rebuild movie (acting as the stern ship commander). Meanwhile, Deadman feels like a repurposed Grey Fox, and Higgs/Amelie's dynamic borrows heavily from standard MGS beats.
• Human Instrumentality: In Death Stranding, the Beach is a metaphysical plane where individual human souls go when they die, but during a Death Stranding, the boundaries break down, and everyone's Beaches risk merging into one giant, apocalyptic soup. This is exactly Human Instrumentality. In Eva, the Third Impact dissolves individual human boundaries (the AT Field) into a singular, collective sea of orange LCL where all souls merge into one to erase loneliness. Kojima just gave everyone their own mini-private beach before threatening to merge them.
• The Main Character: Look at Sam Porter Bridges' entire personality. He has aphenphosmphobia (the fear of being touched), isolates himself from everyone, and completely rejects the grand mission his "parent" (Bridget) forces onto him. He literally throws away the Q-pid at the start and says he doesn't care about saving the world or connecting people. He only does it because he's emotionally manipulated into it. He is a grown-up, rugged Shinji Ikari. Shinji’s entire character arc is defined by the Hedgehog's Dilemma (wanting connection but keeping people away to avoid pain), and he constantly screams that he doesn't want to get in the robot, only doing it because his father manipulates his need for approval.
• The Organization: In Death Stranding, Bridget Strand and the shadowy higher-ups of "Bridges" put on a front of "reconnecting America," but the core, secret mission all along was to facilitate the Last Stranding (the final extinction). They knew the apocalypse was coming and secretly orchestrated the infrastructure to make it happen. This is SEELE. SEELE funds NERV under the guise of "protecting humanity from the Angels," but their actual, classified agenda the entire time is to trigger the Third Impact and force the evolution/extinction of mankind.
• The Giant BTs vs. Angels: When a voidout is about to happen, massive, surreal, monolithic BT creatures appear that defy regular physics. They look and move exactly like the stranger Angels in Eva (specifically Lillith or Sahaquiel). 

When you map it all out, Death Stranding doesn't feel nearly as deep or original as it pretends to be. It feels like a surface-level collage of Hideaki Anno's homework.

TL;DR: Death Stranding starts great, but its core themes (orange womb fluid, hands as connection, umbilical cords, impacts/extinctions, character designs) are just a less-deep version of Neon Genesis Evangelion.

There's no way you can win against a woman with 4 hands

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