Denis Baldwin - Writer & Voice Actor

 Dear Reader, We're nearing the end of the year! It seems that a lot of websites and social media fronts are doing their end of the year wrap up with statistics, memories, and the like. There's also a few awards ceremonies going on to look back at some of the entertaining releases we've had in the form of books, movies, music, and video games, all of which seem designed to frustrate the masses as taste and awards generally don't seem to line up. Here's where I divert: Black Myth: Wukong. At the 2024 Video Game Awards Black Myth: Wukong was up for game of the year amonst a smattering of titles that all kind of seemed lackluster. At the time I hadn't played either Wukong or ReFantazio, but I had safely assumed that one of the other would take away the award. Astrobot won, and it has a lot of people confused and ranting about the wrong things. I had just finished Astrobot a few days before the awards, and even I was confused since the game seemed like a Super Mario...

 Greetings reader, As you may have guessed by the title (or not), I have just finished the video game Death Stranding. I'm a few years late, and in all honesty, had started playing it about two years back but would go months at a time without picking it up. It's weirdly a hard game to recommend even though I absolutely loved it. I'm going to talk a little bit about the game as if you (the reader) aren't in the loop.     Death Stranding is a video game written and directed by Hideo Kojjima (Metal Gear Solid series) for the Playstation 5 that has gotten a strange/bad rap for being known as a "walking simulator." While it's an ignorant label, it's not entirely far off the mark either. The premise of the game is you're Sam (played by Walking Dead's Norman Reedus), a cargo transporter in a world filled with evil entities/ghosts known as BT's and your mission is to deliver packages across plains, mountains, etc. without getting caught, slipping, ...