Death Stranding 2 Improves Player Experience by Addressing Stressful Elements

It was a strange experience for several reasons: primarily that it’s a very strange game, both frustrating and hypnotic, lucid and obtuse.

Hearing a baby crying from the controller speaker traumatized me in 2019, but in 2025 it doesn’t have the same impact.

But reviewing a game this big and unwieldy comes with its own stresses — and then Hideo Kojima went and