What was the typo?

In the "Interviews" menu, the third one on my list, "Timefall". Last few lines say:

Perhaps, in time, the Death Stranding will come to be seem as the phenomenon...

instead of "come to be seen as the phenomenon".

And hot damn, I just got three trophies all during the same mission results screen. I use the trophy acquirement percentage as a means of gauging how far behind I am xD

All three were roughly 30% or so, IIRC.

Not story related (Mission 7+)

I'm enjoying it so far, although I understand why reviews are on extreme ends of the spectrum.

What is the punishment for death? Mission #9 is next for me (although I finished #10 already), but so far I haven't died or lost cargo. I was very curious about what would happen. I'm assuming there's no fast travel (at this point in the game at least; would rather not know if it's going to be available later) so you'd have to make your way back to the start of the mission maybe? Or does it put you back in capital knot? Ew if that's the case.

I am really liking the game so far!

It's impossible for me to properly assess what my end take will be at this early stage, but so far, about six hours in, I really like Death Stranding! I've been hearing that the story really picks up about ten hours in, but it's already gotten pretty interesting to me!

If slow-paced game play really bothers you then this game may not be for you, at least based on what I've played of it so far. The tedium of it seems to be part of the point though, not something accidental, and that's what has enabled me to power through points of frustration easily so far. It's super easy to see that this game is from the heart. I'll probably have more to say about it when I'm further along.

I'll wait for the PC version. I heard it's more of a cinematic experience than a regular game, and I'm not against that. In fact, the graphics and the setting are looking really good.

But in games like that, I must really enjoy the plot and the characters in order to keep playing.

Yikes, not sure if I wanted to have read that. Not sure what Chapter I'm in though. I thought I was in Chapter 2 already, but probably not. I think I've completed 11 or 12 main missions now.

I just turned off the game for the night, so I don't know about the animation skipping. I haven't used the feature much myself but maybe at some point I will get tired of watching the same thing. Maybe check the options. I went through the list of options before starting my playthrough but I don't remember if there was anything about animation skipping.

I stayed up way too late and got way too little sleep the past couple nights. Before exiting the game I decided to finish up everything I had to do in my private quarters so that when I play tomorrow night I will be ready for another mission. But after doing so, one of the BB cutscenes played and I nodded off for a few seconds while it was playing.

I've been very adamant on paying very good attention to cutscenes and dialogue, so I quickly reset the game and loaded my file. It put me right outside the private quarters, so I had to go back in and re-do everything again to trigger the BB scene (this is the one and only time I've used animation skip).

While doing this I forced myself to stand up so that I wouldn't microsleep, and it helped, but twice during this time I started to nod off while standing up and woke up in the process of tipping over and getting my balance back (DS IRL).

I did manage to finish what I was doing and watch the cutscene fully this time though, and then I turned everything off. Going downstairs to get some ice and water woke me up enough to spend a bit of time on VGC.

DS is really good so far.

11h in! Still loving the game!