We’ll see Death Stranding on PC in June, Kojima Productions announced this week, however that doesn’t matter any extra. Today noticed the launch of Walking Simulator, a free game about roaming the post-apocalyptic wastes of the near-future, delivering packages and chugging vitality drinks. If you squint, think about Norman Reedus’s locks brushing in opposition to your ear, and huff the gasoline from an previous fridge, it’ll be virtually precisely such as you’re enjoying Death Stranding. Walking Simulator is clearly some kind of piss-take, however even after enjoying I’m not fully certain what’s joking and what’s damaged.
There you might be, simply one other fella with an orange tube strapped to his stomach, despatched out to ship parcels between bunkers within the ruins of the longer term (right here ravaged by that there new coronavirus). Stack ’em up excessive in your again, gather further deliveries you discover alongside the best way, keep away from individuals who need to steal your packages, ship your haul to gather Likes, then spend these Likes on new automobiles and vitality drinks.
Except our lad right here doesn’t want to fret about steadiness, he can leap round with a teetering tower of containers on his again no trouble. Kojima Productions should be kicking themselves for not determining program Death Stranding so Norm wasn’t all the time stumbling and tripping.
Though… typically our nameless postman does get into physics bother. I’m genuinely unsure whether or not this was a glitch or a joke.
Why not each?
I gave up when my snowmobile and myself ended up six kilometres away driving on an invisible aircraft excessive within the sky, however the rating leaderboards and trailer counsel there’s extra to see. I think about you simply carry on delivering packages to new locations and getting new automobiles? Hoping you don’t get ruined by the physics? Sadly no, I’ve not seen any bizarre cutscenes. You can’t copy that a part of a Kojima joint.
The primary menu exhibits the builders, Pugscape plan to make two extra Acts, together with one with a panorama trying an entire lot like Death Stranding, however who is aware of how severe they’re. I half-assume it is a wee joke to assist promote the opposite game they’re engaged on, GuildBound?
I ought to say that following the strict Alice & Pip Rules Of Walking Simulators, Walking Simulator shouldn’t be really a strolling simulator. Too game-y with these deliveries and the stabby NPCs. I believe Death Stranding itself may qualify as a hardcore subgenre of strolling simulator if it weren’t for all its game-y bits and fight. Too unhealthy. I actually can be effectively up for a finicky physics-simulated stroll throughout blasted wasteland. I’m undoubtedly eager to have a play when Death Stranding hits PC, thoughts. I’ve heard good issues from my PlayStation buddies, I like panorama, and I do take pleasure in Hideo Kojima’s distinctive mixture of massive imaginative and prescient, consideration to element, technononsense, and fawning over manufacturers.
Walking Simulator is free on Steam. What else do it’s a must to do till June 2nd?
