#Death Stranding spoilers

[lab-gr0wn-lambs]

The fact that you fight Higgs with lost cargo containers, a piece of string and your bare fucking hands is insanely satisfying. I'm the fucking mailman. Die.

[gimme-my-hat-back-jordan]

I’m so weirded out by how everyone in Death Stranding who works for Bridges is codenamed after their trauma. “Deadman” is a synthetic body with no soul (at least in the physical sense). “Heartman” has a heart condition and has to defibrillate himself every half hour in between wandering purgatory looking for his dead family. “Mama” is a failed surrogate for her sister and has the ghost of her stillborn baby still attached to her.

Like imagine if your employer made you present yourself with a code name like this.

“Hi welcome to Outback Steakhouse, I’m Sevendifferentfosterhomesman and I’ll be taking care of you today.”

[m-rooster]

Love that if you look really closely at DS2 Higgs’ hands in the trailer, you can just barely make out these robotic tendons inside. It’s especially clear on his thumb. Like his hands aren’t solid, they’re full of mechanisms letting him move 👀

Yoji Shinkawa’s mechanical design owns so hard

[conscydraws]

Order 38. Undelivered.

[kagoutiss]

a new world with a new sky

[villainsposting]

Higgs' design being completely changed for Death Stranding 2 is so funny to me. Dude's defeat and lengthy stay at the beach knocked him out of his dark moody emo phase straight into becoming freaky cybernetic rockstar Joker

[rubensmuse]

so i went into Death Stranding the same way i go into most AAA games: with plenty of story spoilers, but absolutely no gameplay spoilers. and DS throws a surprising number of complications and flavor into its otherwise straightforward gameplay; i 1000% underestimated how much effort went into shaking up the long-haul deliveryman routine. genuinely, it never gets boring for me.

anyway here's the expression i made the first time i ambled into MULE territory and heard the distant rev of a fucking car engine

[elfpylon]

I think it’s narratively brilliant and tragic that Higgs ends up likely spending the equivalent of eternity in isolation when growing up in pain and isolation is certainly what made him malleable to the E.E.

and of course the other layer of tragedy is that he managed to crawl out of that childhood hell, still fucked up inside but willing to try living and connecting with others; the first rebirth.

even so, something would always be missing.

that missing part of his soul festered like an open wound, and was exploited.

the story of Death Stranding is on a planetary, likely cosmic scale. but Higgs and Amelie and the concept of extinction in this game also seems like a personal, human metaphor for the internal debate that happens in many people during suicidal ideation.

I think Higgs in DS2 is depicted as absurd as he is to contrast his previous catastrophic, suicidal nihilism. absurdism is arguably the ultimate antidote for nihilism.

maybe something happened to him on The Beach that triggered a second “rebirth”, and he went even more insane in an absurdist way, not in a “mass murderer who sees himself as a mercy killer/angel of death” way. so he possibly circled back around to being a kind of anti-hero.

but who knows how this fits into the still murky and mysterious lore…?

[sarrai]

I'm not the only person who, upon starting the Higgs fight and going to equip my strand, noticed that the penis was still equippable and proceeded to try and whip it out in front of Higgs, right?

Like, Sam wouldn't do it. I wasn't even surprised Sam wouldn't do it. But it was there, so I had to try it.

[astrandofgold]

I watched The Crow, and ooooooh boy.

[cfangi-art]

We’re so back ☔️👶

⚠️Death stranding spoilers ⚠️

[likopinina]

dumb memes i made during my time in death stranding (spoilers)

[spacecadetdana]

Tomorrow is in your hands

[owlbebackhoothoot]

I wanted to know what would happen if I slammed a thermonuclear device into the skull of a MULE.

Pissbaby's getting a pizza to the skull next time.

[villainsposting]

I am not typically into hero/villain pairings but Samhiggs is something else. They were both used by a superhuman entity destined to bring about the end of the world and tricked into playing particular roles in her plan of resolving her own indecisiveness. There is hardly anyone in the world they can relate to except each other.

Also Higgs Monaghan lived in a yandere basement. I guess that's also worth mentioning.

[zombie-bait]

Finally reading through more of the reports/data entries from Death Stranding and what do you MEAN that one tweet (^) is just like...... an accurate representation of his therapy sessions with his future wife. Sam, girl, jesus christ. I'd argue that "forever change your bond and the trajectory of your lives" might even be a bit of an understatement considering literally everything that happens after this.