What Death Stranding Meant & Will Mean

I discuss how the meaning of Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding has changed for me over repeat playthroughs. I also talk about Stalker(1979), Roger Ebert, the nature of art, and a few other things. Check it out! Here I am on twitter (I’m going to try and post more often): https://x.com/gamearray Sources & Research: The Ebert Articles https://www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/okay-kids-play-on-my-lawn https://web.archive.org/web/20111010001841/http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010/04/video_games_can_never_be_art.html https://www.rogerebert.com/scanners/video-games-the-epic-debate https://www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/games-vs-art-ebert-vs-barker Stalker and Tarkovsky Stalker, in its entirety, is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3hBLv-HLEc Stalker: Meaning and Making (by Mark Le Fanu) https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4739-stalker-meaning-and-making Andrei Tarkovsky: A Poet In the Cinema: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEpkrrmXTAE Andrei Tarkovsky Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBgkcw1-4AA Danger! High-radiation arthouse! (by Geoff Dyer): https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/feb/06/andrei-tarkovsky-stalker-russia-gulags-chernobyl Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JRfeshEboI Kojima & Death Stranding Death Stranding Review (Matthewmatosis): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np4Jh1xcOEs Hideo Kojima | Games Lecture (BAFTA Guru): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIXk3TiD5O4 ‘We’re Not Thinking About Others.’ What Hideo Kojima Wants You to Learn From Death Stranding (by Matthew Gault) https://time.com/5722226/hideo-kojima-death-stranding Countdown to Death Stranding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TsLNmDj2VA Hideo Kojima And Yoji Shinkawa Break Down A Key Death Stranding Scene | Audio Logs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sMNtH21-JU Hideo Kojima 2012 Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvXE17Zsg60 The Art of Video Games- A Conversation with Hideo Kojima (Smithsonian): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZkfMwBBdM0&list=WL Death Stranding: Inside Kojima Productions | Newsbeat Documentaries (BBC): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjUpYlKs0nM Death Stranding Is Now One of My Favorite Games, All It Took Was Changing the Difficulty (by Nick Calandra): https://www.escapistmagazine.com/death-stranding-favorite-games-changing-the-difficulty/ Death Stranding Solves a Problem Open-World Games Don’t Admit They Have (by Patrick Lee): https://www.escapistmagazine.com/death-stranding-solves-a-problem-open-world-games-dont-admit-they-have/ Behind the Scenes - Death Stranding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faatWOs2c5c Metal Gear Solid 3 - Behind the Scenes and Beta Gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOWKxf7jQdY The Making Of Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons Of Liberty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkQC6sSK7HI Mechanics vs. Motif (by Christopher Totten): https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/mechanics-vs-motif The Story of Fumito Ueda: https://shmuplations.com/ueda Sorry MoMA, video games are not art (by Jonathan Jones): https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2012/nov/30/moma-video-games-art The Art History... Of Games? Games As Art May Be A Lost Cause: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/game-platforms/the-art-history-of-games-games-as-art-may-be-a-lost-cause Reinventing God Of War (by Cory Barlog): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIb-Lt7WX_s Pauline Kael on Writer's Workshop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SUmUnLMWYQ Buy Creative Gene on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Creative-Gene-inspired-creator-Stranding/dp/197472591X Buy Sculpting Time on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Sculpting-Time-Tarkovsky-Filmaker-Discusses/dp/0292776241 Buy Agency As Art on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Games-Agency-As-Art-Thinking/dp/0190052082 Buy Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Zona-Book-About-Film-Journey/dp/0307390314