Overview:
The world has been destroyed by the Timefall [rain which accelerates time] and by BTs [Beached Things which are dead souls bent on bringing you to the afterlife with them]. When a person dies, their body starts going through a rapid change in which they basically become a massive city destroying bomb. Got all that? Cool! Now, go deliver packages from one hologram to the next. Also, make sure you don’t fall over, or you’ll lose all your shit. HAVE FUN!
Visuals:
Even though the premise of this game is zany it is a gorgeous game. For something that was made for the previous generation [PlayStation 4] it looks amazing with all the characters being highly detailed and lifelike. The only thing I really have qualms with is the world. I understand the world is supposed to be reverted to a primordial state, but they could have done more than making it look like Iceland. The environments do change throughout the game but never drastically going from Iceland to Jamaica or anything. There are also some trippy stuffs that do go on in the latter portions of the game, but I can’t really explain them.
Audio:
I love the audio of this game. The soundtrack is banging. The environmental sounds are on point. Everything is just as it should be. There was a video that came out with Hideo Kojima doing an explanation of this game in which he said when you’re going to the next city, and the music starts playing he would want you to be moved to tears with it. While this didn’t happen in the game, it did happen to me when driving home from passing one of my architecture exam tests. A song from the end started playing and I must admit it made me super emotional. Well played Kojima.
Completion:
I FINISHED THIS GAME! I first tried this game out on the PS4 because why not. I bounced off of it after an hour. Fast forward to its release on Xbox and I bought it because I thought, “This will be a chill game where I can just deliver things from one place to the other. It’ll be relaxing.” And then I got hooked. I wanted nothing more than to just deliver and build the world out. Everything you get to improve your world just makes the game better. When I got the roads, it was over as all I wanted to do was to build roads so I could deliver more and more stuff. And then I got my truck, and it truly clicked. The ending of this game was so full of emotion and bittersweet it made me super pumped up for a sequel.