I recently got this;
Death Stranding PS4 Pro Limited Edition
Honestly.. I've mostly just been playing Shenmue I.
I bought a bunch of games, and obviously Death Stranding came with the console with a bunch of special download bits and bobs for it.
I didn't even try the game for the first couple days, just played Shenmue. Then I played some others, started a Fallout 4 GOTY save, started playing MGSV Definitive Experience (irony?), I even started Duke Nukem 3D World Tour before I finally put Death Stranding in the machine.
Why? Well, I didn't know much about Death Stranding. I'd heard of it, but I'm not one of those people who keeps up to date on the video game news or latest happenings/games etc. I suppose I just knew it was going to be highly entertaining and unrelentingly-cinematic on the storyline side. I wasn't disappointed. Kojima games are just like that.
I also knew it'd be very confusing, and take a lot of your overall mind just to sit there and play it. Kojima games are like that. Plot lines that inter-twine, disappear and resurface again hours later and you're supposed to greet them with a higher understanding then when you last saw them, etc etc. Kojima games are like that too.
I played a couple hours of it in the end. I still have read no reviews on it or anything. Literally no idea what happens mid or endgame. I'll say this; it reminded me a lot of MGSV, just in the way it feels to play. I don't know if maybe that was my mind telling me that because I knew it was a Kojima game.
Regardless, it's high-quality stuff from a visual, artistic, yadda yadda point-of-view.
Then I realised that you're a rag-n-bone man. I've no idea if this changes later on.
It's definitely gonna be a slow burner for me. I've got other, more appealing games to play. But I can totally see why it's dividing people (if it is). Even I know IGN normally hand out 8s and 9s to big games, so yeah.