Death Stranding (2019) STORY & ENDING EXPLAINED

What's up guys? My name is Tim Bo and today we are talking about Hideo Kojima's latest game. Death Stranding. Kojima has always been known for having a distinct and quite strange style when it comes to games and Death Stranding is no different with tons of strange rooms. Wall-breaking moments, outlandish character names, and a naked Norman Reedus with a short baby inside all the

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s is the first game Kojima has created practically by himself with his studio Kojima Productions developing it independently for the first time. The end result was one of the most polarizing. things you'll never see with review scores across the board, from perfect tens: mediocre six point eight, this video is in no way a review, but for what it's worth, I thought Death Stranding was absolutely incredible.

I don't think you ever will. Playing a game like this is truly a unique experience. The opening hour of this game and the final two hours are essentially all cutscenes. There is literally an entire movie at the beginning and end at about 50 hours. of gameplay in the middle, that being said, this video is made for people who have played the game and are confused or for people who haven't played it but still want to know the

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despite this, just know that no matter how detailed it is , I'm nothing. It will be able to replace the experience you get when playing Death Stranding.

One of the most powerful aspects of Death Stranding is its

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, in typical Kojima fashion, it's a bunch of confusing information, but don't worry because I've got you covered. Today I will break down the story step by step and explain the

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. I know some people have claimed that there is more than one

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, but I can assure you, although the game is set up to give you a choice if you do anything that isn't exactly what Kojima wants you to do, you reach the ending screen. game, there is only one ending. If you found this video helpful, a positive rating is greatly appreciated and for more

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content on other games every Friday, be sure to subscribe to I won't miss any future episodes with all that out of the way, let's jump in the shower with Guillermo del Toro and let's find out and yes, you heard me right, that really happens in this game.

Shh, the kills start with some of the most attractive images I have. Have I ever seen Grace a PS4 seriously. I bought this about six years ago and had to think twice about how photorealistic it is after several animal

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s. Seriously, what the hell do we see our protagonist Sam crashing his bike and finding refuge in a nearby cave? Sam is trying to wait out time in an otherworldly rain that speeds up the progress of time with almost everything he comes into contact with. America's worst nightmare seems old, maybe the worst thing about the fall of time is what usually brings things stranded or BTS gets up close and personal with Sam, the fragile AIDS, Sam innovating on BTS.

The BTS are entities from the other side that have been stranded on earth after training kills and are one of the main enemies in the game, which I admit I am fragile about. I only pronounce it that way because that's how the game says it, quickly leaving the scene. Sam continues his delivery and enters downtown, not the city, only to be stopped by a guy named Igor. Igor tells Sam that a citizen just committed suicide in this world, this is especially not. Well, since the corpse is on the verge of necrosis 48 hours after cardiac arrest, the corpse, as shown in the game, will become necro.

When this happens, the deceased will become a BTW. If a BT eats a human, it causes a void which is basically a giant explosion that results in a crater. I know there are a lot of fancy and world-building terms to adjust to at the beginning of the game, but I hope you'll stick with me to avoid necrosis and the corpse disposal team being sent to transport. the body to an incinerator for proper cremation and you are probably wondering why the incinerator is so far away. The explanation is kind of sci-fi mumbo-jumbo, but basically the smoke emitted by the burnt, necrotic corpse is dangerous, so they can't. burn the bodies near the city, the team quickly discovers that they'll need a bigger truck because they end up stumbling right into the middle of a group of BTs.

Igor ends up having to kill his partner to prevent BTS from eating him. He then throws his BB to the ground and stabs himself several times to prevent the same thing from happening to him. Oh yeah, on that corpse, well, they couldn't exactly transport it to the incinerator in time. Good job bro, hold on, hold on, Abby. Here, where we see the first of many visions of Sam on the beach, the beach acts as a kind of limbo, a place between the living and the dead formed from humanity's self-conception of death. Each person has their own beach, which means that all beaches are not necessarily the same.

Unlike the living world, the Beach does not experience time, this allows for massive amounts of data and sometimes sending people back in time. It is revealed that Sam is a returnee, someone who has the ability to return from the dead in the world of death

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. When someone dies, his soul is sent to a place called the seam, which is basically like purgatory. The harvest attributes have the ability to guide his soul through the needlework and back to life. When Sam does this, he is left to stare into emptiness. half destroyed, not the city on a hard day's work, if you ask me, sam wakes up in the capital, not the city, and meets the dead man played by guillermo del toro. the dead man introduces himself as a bridge doctor, the company formed after the death

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to reconnect America's fractured society, what a sentence, the death stranding was a series of explosions that resulted in the worlds of the dead and the world of the living will connect causing drastic consequences for the ecosystem and human society.

Simply put, people died in the explosions where the bodies went. through stages of necrosis and became BTS BTS consumed other humans and led to more voids. Death Stranding also introduced the substance Chi R to Liam into the world of the living. This caused many environmental changes, the biggest being the drop in time both ways. Dead man. asks Sam to deliver morphine to the dying president of the United Cities of America or you see a little plot twist, although President Brigitte Strand is Sam's mother, there Sam also runs into a tough man who is the director of bridges and was Sam's former boss.

Before leaving alone in the room with Sam, Bridgit pleads with him, trying to get him to bridge bridges again and help rebuild America. Sam wants nothing to do with it, so Brigette walks up to him, falls out of bed and dies. waiting for you on the beach, what a clumsy dead man and tough man, essentially for Sam to join bridges and assigned to transport Bridget's body to the incinerator that makes sure to keep Bridget's death anonymous. This must be done with the utmost secrecy. Sam arrives at the incinerator. and creams his body, but when the dead men tell him to get rid of Eeyore's BB, Sam refuses even though the bridge baby is marked for removal, Sam uses him to help him evade an incoming horde of BTS bridge babies. o Babies are babies that have been taken from a dead mother.

The womb of a dead mother facilitates a connection between the world of the dead and the world of the living, granting the British agents who establish a trance connection with the baby the ability to feel BTS. Sam RT has this ability through his condition known as dooms. Dooms sufferers have a chiral allergy that manifests as skin irritation and sudden release of tears. Most importantly, people with Doom have a greater connection to the beach. There are multiple levels of Doom and several characters within Death's training suffer from it, for example, Sam has level 2 Dooms allowing him to have the ability to sense being taunted, but he still cannot see them, which is why he uses a baby jumper. .

It's also the reason why he doesn't like any form of physical human contact after returning to the capital, not the city. Sam meets with his sister. Amelie Strand Emily tells Sam that she has led an expedition for the past three years through the remains of the continental United States, during which time she has been liaising with the remaining cities and settlements installing terminals that would allow them to connect to the chiral system. . network, a system that allows instant communication over great distances, however, upon reaching the last city on the edge of the west coast, not a city, a Malay was captured by an anti, you see a terrorist group called Homo demons explaining why she is a hologram, the homo demons and their leader.

Higgs had been holding her hostage, however, she still allowed him to communicate freely with the bridges over the network. A Malay tells Sam that he must follow the path of his expedition and use a special key called a cube to activate and connect the terminal he left behind later. To do this, he must rescue Amelie and bring her back so she can take Bridget's place as president of the UCA after some resistance. Sam reluctantly accepts the mission and heads out for the next few hours to focus on Sam expanding the chiral network that connects cities all confusingly similar.

The names help some of the game's supporting characters and learn more about the deaths that are left stranded while we get tons of rain and naked visions on the beach and interruptions from the militaristic spectral entity Clifford Unger, the first of which, although fragile , and Sam heads to a At the lake, not in the city, many of the townspeople comment on how fragile she is and give different opinions, some calling her a hero while others say she is evil and can't be trusted. Fragile is quick to shut down these accusations by omitting to Sam that she actually brought a nuclear bomb into the middle.

Not City but he was deceived Fragile Express's father was the founder of Fragile Express his delivery company When he died the torch was passed to her She eventually merged Fragile Express with another company run by a man named Higgs who, if you remember, is now the leader of the The homo demons from the beginning, the two were successful, but their time passed fragilely and it was realized that Higgs had gone from delivering medicines to guns and bombs. This is what tricked Fragil into bringing a nuclear bomb to the middle of the city, resulting in its destruction after this.

Higgs tries to go all out. Troy Baker attacks us by sneaking in another bomb, be careful, the contents are fragile, okay, after throwing it into the tar, fragile reveals the rest of his story when fragile discovered that Higgs was bringing a new one to the south, not to the city , he only managed to seal her away from them. to fall directly into the hands of the terrorists, he stripped her naked and presented her with a choice: save the city by running through time or leave the area and save herself, both Higgs and fragile have different levels of doobs, all higher than the which Sam allows.

His abilities like teleportation and summoning Time Vault and BTS make the most of it, of course, because he is evil and fragile, he chose to save the city, his body paid a price for the south, not the cities, and he continued to survive before to send her into the rain. Higgs put on a mask. about her wanting her face to be a testament to those who crossed him fragile, tell Sam he can stop AIDS and when he does, she wants to be the one to deliver the blow no pun intended, get back to base. Sam is sucked into a massive tornado, placing him right in the middle of a World War I battlefield.

Sam encounters Clifford's hunger and after some trench warfare quickly dispatches him and escapes. Sam tries to make sense of what just happened, but Mom assured Sam that no time had passed. To investigate this, Sam visits Mom's land. Mom has mentioned to Sam before that she should always stay in her lab. The reason why this is definitely not what Sam expected. Mom explains to Sam that even though her baby is a BT, he is harmless. She tells Sam that during a terrorist attack she was trapped under rubble while waiting for a C-section. Unbeknownst to her, she survived giving birth on the other side, causing the baby to manifest as something stranded trapped for days.

Mom was eventually rescued by jumpers. but she can't leave the hospital because she and her baby were tied to the accident site. Mom then informed Sam that there was a malfunction with her Cupid in order to fix it, she needs to find someone named Lakhna. Sam does, but Lakhna is having none of it. This Sam then returns to Mom's lab where she tells him the rest of her story. Mom reveals that she and Lakhna are actually twin sisters born with Doom and the baby is theirs together. They made half of the chiral network. Mom, hardware and Lakhna.

The software they have equal genius and the ability to communicate with each other around the world made their bonds so close that they believed they were the same person in two bodies. Mom's ovaries could not fertilize and her uterusLakas was unable to carry a child to term. While they both initially accepted these circumstances, Lakhna eventually fell in love with a member of Bridges, however he died in an accident, leaving a lot to a depressed and suicidal mom who could sense this and want to help her propose to LACMA that they should have a baby wearing. The deceased sperm remained enclosed as eggs and mom's womb the two sisters were able to create Lakhna, a child that mom would carry to term due to the accident.

Mom's bond with Lakhna was severed by both fear and shame over what happened, Mom separating her from all communications separates the twins and probably the longest and most painful part of the game. Sam cuts mom's umbilical cord to her baby and tears her from her to reach Lakhna to make peace. Mom convinces Locknut to help Sam and join the Carol network. dies because mom could no longer live properly hiding her vital signs by leaving one of her twins off her wrist after trudging through the snow up the mountain, not the dead man in town tells Santa that something is wrong with baby , who has now been nicknamed Lou by SantaRemember when I said that taking care of Mom was the worst part of the game, well, I lied, as the next few hours of gameplay forced you to not only walk through piles of snow, but also do with tons of BTs around and no way to see them, thanks to the game.

During his deliveries, the dead man works to fix BB and to uncover more information about Sam's apparent trip to World War I. Once it's over, the dead man asks Sam to meet him outside the mountain, not the city, as another tornado called a supercell comes next. Probably the biggest mystery in all of the kill training is how the hell Deadman was able to transport his big loot up this mountain and I hate to say it guys, but I can't help you on that before we get to the top dead man and Sam is. This time he was dragged into another war zone, World War II, which if you've seen kill training trailers you'll probably be familiar with.

Sam is able to locate the dead man and tells him that Cliff is not after them, but he wants BB to send them battles and defeats. Cliff for the second time takes Cliff's dog tags with him into his private room. Sam confirms to the dead man that Cliff is the same man he has been seeing in his visions every time he connects with BB he sees dead men Cliff assures that these are just some of BB's memories and there is nothing to worry about conduct research on death training. Hartman contacts Sam, who is high in the mountains since Mom's body is not necrotizing.

Hartman wants to run some tests when Sam arrives. He realizes why Hartman has the name he has, since every 21 minutes he goes into cardiac arrest and only comes back to life three minutes later, according to his story, this during kill training Hartman was undergoing surgery, which forced the power to go out killing him. On the beach he saw many people including his wife and daughter. 21 minutes later the light returned and the defibrillators brought him back from the dead. Now he continues to suffer cardiac arrest every 21 minutes and spends his time on the beach looking for his lost family, This tragedy parallels that of Sam, whose wife and unborn child died during an evacuation, which is one of the contributing factors to his leaving Bridges many years ago.

Hartman sends Sam to do more work on Bridges while he investigates, and at this point, he'll probably arrive. the best part of this whole game after doing some more work on amazon prime, sam returns to hartman who has come to some sort of revelation and begins to tell sam about a being known as a dying entity or i.e. a dying entity is said to be the omen. of mass extinctions is a big surprise there and is the bridge by which eight fatal strandings occur. The reason EE causes mass extinction is unclear, but they are said to be a natural part of the cycle of life and death.

Herman gives Sam, but perhaps even a more shocking explanation. The revelation states that there have been five other death strandings in the world's existence, this EE being number six, and subsequently the world is altered to allow new forms of life to emerge, unfortunately this time, although this EE is set to trigger a known event. like the last stranding which is basically the extinction of all extinctions total annihilation final death of every living being with every terminal connected finally the time comes to head to the outskirts of the city and rescue M Lane crossing the tars Sam arrives in the city only to be stopped by Higgs after walking through BT spots that remind me of Spongebob's Queen Jellyfish.

Sam connects to the edge, not the City, completing the chiral network. Yes, this achievement soon turns bad when Higgs arrives with Emily and tells Sam what the latest stranding is. comes no matter what he brings, a giant BT that Sam takes down as a total boost on retreats. Higgs shoots and kills Sin taking Amelie, but don't worry because Sam is a true patriot and simply returns to the world of the living. In the sand of the beach he receives help from a frail who sends them there. Sam encounters figs again and the two prepare to go head to head one last time, the boss fight is divided into three stages involving classic mr. freezes Batman Arkham sneaking away and ending the whole mortal combat looking for punches in slow motion battle to the death Sam defeats Higgs and rescues Amelie leaving Higgs to take care of the fragile and her, a request for the two of them to have this jog I really miss just the beach. so Amelie tells Sam to hold back while she climbs some rocks and this is when the mine starts to melt.

Sam does the same only to see staunch men pointing a gun at Bridget the Frick, she's supposed to be evil when AG comes out and then the cliff comes. He emerges from the water and refers to Hardman by his real name John before things get worse. Amelie comes out of nowhere and sends Sam into the water pushing him back into the world of the living in her private room. Sam sees a hologram of Deadman. and the others tell Sam that they are all back in the capital, not in the city, as fragile as he is, he has become too weak to send him there as well or back to the beach, which means that the game will it literally pushes back across the entire map for the entire distance.

You have traveled during the last 30 hours of gameplay. Kojima says that now he returns without equipment. What an incredible genius during this Trek. Deadman chimes in several times talking about Cliff and BB's experiments. This part is kind of important, but it's basically all you need. What I know is that Bridgette was up to some shady things. It is when Sam reaches the halfway point that another supercell forms and sucks him into another war zone with Cliff, only this time Cliff responds very differently than before, as in the end he

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to Sam that he simply wants Sam to B come back to the other side Sam relays his information a dead man didn't feel like he was trying to hurt us, it felt like he just wanted to talk this turns on the dead man to show a message that Hartman left before heading to the beach, in it he raises some pretty accusations interesting.

Minh goes on to mention how all of Amylase's team members were killed, meaning anyone who had physical contact with her is dead. She discovered how Britta's cancer made her unable to have children and then, most shockingly. of all the dead, Hartman believes Amelie to be the brittle extinction entity and then comes to confirm this information by telling Sam what Higgs told him before he died, according to Higgs, Amelie originally approached him to lead the homo demons who They gave him his ammunition and, obviously, Sam's sentence. she doesn't want to believe it, she continues back to the capital, nope and after fighting the final boss, who literally just flies in the air and does nothing, Sam delivers her final, too fragile package, which is cryptographic bytes to help her recover health.

Hartman tells the group that Amylase Beach is on another plane, comparing everyone's Beach to capillaries, while Amylase is the heart. While there, Sam will have two options: he convinces a Malay man not to be in the world or he can kill her, but doing so would mean he would be stranded on the beach forever. Sam continues to be a super macho hero and accepts the mission, leaving Lu with The dead men don't spend much time on Beach's homilies before she confronts Sam, soon revealing to him that Bridget and Amelie are not mother and daughter at all but are the same person Bridget is the physical body in the world of the living Emily He is the only person who lives on the beach at all times.

This explains why Bridget had health complications when she was younger, as her body and soul were literally split in two. worlds, this also explains why Emily is always a hologram and she never seems to age, which is mentioned several times throughout the game. It's been 10 years since they've seen each other well and in all that time she's got an age. Nowadays, Bridget's anomaly is confirmed to be an extinction entity prepared to cause the ultimate stranding, a male confronts Sam with two options: sand the beach with her and end all existence now in an instant or release Amelie and her beach preventing the latest stranding from invading their world, doing so would disconnect Amelie from everything and give the world of the living an unknown amount of extra time, since it is inevitable that extinction will occur at some point, expressing it as the humanity may live to die another day in the end, Sam chooses a nice warm hug while Amelie can't leave.

Sam convinces her to disconnect her beach from the rest of existence Sam-I-I'm the beach and I must stay here and make sure extinction happens even if it takes tens or hundreds of thousands of years later Sam is brought back to his own beach watching the other five dying entities floating in the sky, which, if you remember, has happened a couple of times throughout the game since the credits rolled, you think the game is already over, but Kojima has tricked you because there are An hour more of scenes to see the dead man takes Sam from his beach explaining that after a month they were able to find him through the gun that Amelie gave him, the same gun that he liked to die hard and cliff to the beach of Amélie, which should make more sense.

Before long, Hartman takes charge of the bridges and gives a formal speech to the newly connected nation, but Sam disagrees and leaves after this. Hartman confesses to Sam that he was the one who killed Clifford Unger and as he does so, Hartman confesses to Sam that he was the one who killed Clifford Unger and as he does so, he has a complete mental breakdown. Sam needs reinforcements with dead men who have bad news. BB has died and the dead man tells Sam that he must take BB to the incinerator to prevent necrosis. Sam thanks Deadman for everything he has done and overcomes his fear of him. human touch in doing this so we can is before leaving, Sam runs into Fragile, she asks Sam to work for Fragile Express but he rejects Fragile and then tells Sam that she didn't kill Hicks and instead gave him a In the end, Hicks chose death.

After being stranded on the beach taking his own life, Sam takes Baby to the incinerator and when he connects it for the last time he begins to have more visions, many of these are instances of the same memories of Cliff that are seen throughout the game, but in Instead of taking place in the perspective of B B's capsule, they are all seen with complete cinematic realism. Clifford Unger served in the US Special Forces for many years and explains why he always comes back in various war theaters, he was known for always bringing his unit back alive, in particular.

John, who was nicknamed tough man Cliff, and his wife Lisa Bridges, were expecting a child when tragedy struck, leaving Lisa brain-dead and desperate to save her family. Cliff took them to Bridges, not knowing what Brigid planned to do with them. He put Lisa on life support to prevent necrosis while her unborn child was placed inside a tank of amniotic fluid which, unbeknownst to Cliff, made her unborn child a prime candidate for death. bridge baby program. The tough men or John, who now works in bridge security, warned Cliff that Bridget plans to move Bebe to another facility despite her loyalty to the country.

John didn't want Cliff to suffer anymore and gave him the chance to escape without hope. Cliff killed his wife and tried to escape with Bibi. This quickly got worse. since despite John's help, Cliff was cornered and riddled with bullets in an attempt to save Bibi. Bridget ordered John to kill Cliff, which he did well. Bridget seemed to help a little by doing so and accidentally killed Bebe, who was knocked out of his pod by cliff. To counter this, Bridget went to the beach as Emily and brought the baby back to life, stepping over Patrick and vertically allowing B.T. crossed over from the other side, completely setting the kill training into motion with their connection severed andso useless as a bridge, baby, Bridget decided to raise BB as her own son, which means that in all this time Cliff never wanted Lou, he wanted his own son.

Sam Bridges, is it me back in the world of the living? Sam doesn't dare to cremate. Lu, instead, burns his cufflinks and pulls Lu out of the capsule after pleading and struggling. Sam can resurrect Lu. The game ends with a time storm that ends with Sam getting the family he always wanted and the human life he continues to live after the credits roll. We see Sam referring to Lu as Louise, confirming that she is indeed a girl and that the boys are the full story and ending of Death Stranding explained. Wow, that was a lot. Did I leave something super important out?

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