Road-Building
The real heroes of Death Stranding are the roads. Once you set out in Chapter 3, the terrain is unforgiving and rocky, the MULEs are everywhere, and there are people scattered all over the place. It’s a mess.
You start building roads, and all of that stress disappears. The map doesn’t get smaller, but it certainly comes together. A highway that connects people (in Death Stranding, imagine that) makes the world flow.
You see all of the places that gave you trouble, the vast expanses you crossed on foot, and you see how big the world was. Then you reach the end of the road and… it just keeps going. The roads are a massive help, but they just let you scratch the surface. Even when you can move freely, there is always more.
The map in Death Stranding gets in your head. It isn’t America, it can’t be. I can’t actually walk from D.C. to Tennessee in 20 minutes, but in practice, it can feel like you did. The map isn’t as big as America, not really; it just tricks you into thinking it is.
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