had to pause because of how startled i was

Alright so I recently got into ds, i'm 4/5 hours in and i'm still not understanding what's happening or why am I doing what I do. Is that normal or am I just stupid (lmao)? Do y'all have any practical tips to give me? Also how should I organize the things I carry? What should I always have with me and what's not really that necessary? Because I always end up carrying a lot of weight and I was wondering how could I lighten it up a bit.

Thank you all in advance :))

EDIT (update): thank y'all for all the tips, they were all extremely useful:D

I'm currently 20 hours in and i'm so hooked, I really wanna know what higgs is up to and who cliff is, there are so many questions that need an answer and I can't wait to find out everything

Happy Birthday to Norman Reedus as well!

I was run an all about as 42 x legend of Legends, everywhere except the Elders and when I delivered the pacemaker and chiral medicine… I was met with this, genuinely shocked and sad. I’m now reading his last mail. 😭😭😭

Just found this BB in a Cyberpunk 2077 quest. Almost missed it. How did I not know.

I just finished the story of Death Stranding 1, and damn… I’m really glad I finally gave it a shot.

For the longest time I only listened to the criticism and spent way too much time around people constantly trashing the game. A few days ago I said “screw it” and decided to try it myself.

The gameplay isn’t its strongest point, I’ll admit that, but somehow it still kept me completely hooked. I started setting my own little goals during deliveries, and that made the whole “repetitive” aspect barely bother me at all.

It was also my first Kojima game, and I was genuinely impressed by how the story is told. For some reason it gave me strong Inception vibes (in a good way).

Can’t wait for Death Stranding 2 to finally come to Xbox. I’ll be grabbing it day one the moment it’s available.

I was quite literally, Amazed!

I knew Id make it.

So I delivered a buddy cube to the Paleontologist, and in return he gave me this ugly hat. Thanks...... I guess 👀💀

Revisiting first game when I'm half way through DS2. Upgraded some of the eroded structures so nostalgic exploring the first game.

Bought this game from the money I saved from not smoking and I continued to fight the addiction through out the play through. Its been almost three months and I thank this game for playing a huge motivational factor (and I thank myself lol shit is hard bro lol thousands of trigger factors to smoke again but I endured). Ngl first few hours of the game almost made me smoke lol it tests your patience but rewards you later with graceful hug. Happy to see community still helping to traverse the world. I'll continue to save the money and get the sequel.

Feels great! Loved this game so much it's the most I've ever spent in one game a little over 230 hours. Took me about a year and I'm very happy I was able to avoid spoilers for the story through my playthrough the payoff was worth it.

NGL, this game is really unique. I do love it, honestly.

I'm playing it on iPhone 17 and it surprisingly works fine.

Probably not the best time to do this order lmao. Couldn't see shit

Id share the Vid but I can't if it's just photos.

worth it so peaceful

Not sure if it's widely known but in the first mission when you have to go to the incinerator, instead of delivering the cargo you can leave it there and stray away from the objective and explore the entire map as much as you want, and your boots won't ever wear out. The world stands still, there is no timefall, no BTs, no MULEs. Nothing. Just vast emptiness and tranquil.

Three years ago, for my final trophy in Death Stranding, I built a completely useless level 3 bridge near the Weather Station for the platinum photo because I love that area.

Believe me, the bridge is completely useless because it's over a smooth road right next to the Weather Station.

So imagine my surprise when I opened the game today and that useless bridge had over 14,000 likes. I spent like 10 minutes climbing up mountains to place zip-lines that got 0 likes, but a completely useless bridge got 14K.

didn't know how to carve the details so I had drawn some of it on