The Death Stranding Episode
Kotaku Splitscreen
Kotaku
4.6 • 849 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2019
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Episode 204: It's Death Stranding time! Kirk, Maddy, and Jason spend some time talking about BlizzCon and Luigi's Mansion 3 before jumping into discussion of Metal Gear Solid director Hideo Kojima's new game (25:40), which all three of them have played. They talk about its slow start, why Jason couldn't play more than two hours, and why Kirk and Maddy are loving its weird clunkiness. The show ends with some off-topic talk (58:09) on Trick Mirror, Us, and the Legend of Gardner Minshew.
Music pick of the week: “The Other Side of Summer” by Elvis Costello from Mighty Like a Rose, 1991
To read: Death Stranding: The Kotaku Review [Kotaku];
What Happened to Deadspin, According to the People Who Were There [Slate];
The Future of the Culture Wars is Here, and it’s Gamergate [Deadspin]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Kitaku's Split Screen, the only podcast sponsored by Herbertlinger's fruit wine. |
| 0:13.7 | It's November 7th, 2019, and oh boy, it's finally time to talk about Death Stranding. |
| 0:18.9 | Maddie and I have both played a healthy chunk of Kojima's latest, and she and I both |
| 0:21.9 | like it despite Jason's skepticism. |
| 0:24.2 | We talk about the good, the bad, and the just plain weird of the oddball backpacking |
| 0:28.0 | traversal game, from bridge babies to delivery addicts to Dr. Mads-Michelson. |
| 0:32.3 | We also talk about last week's Blizcon, as well as the predictably delightful Luigi's Mansion 3 and close out with some |
| 0:37.7 | off-topic talk of Gardner Minchu, Trickmure, and Jordan Peel's Us, along with an Elvis-Tastic music |
| 0:43.2 | pick of the week. Stick around, it's going to be a fun one. |
| 0:57.2 | Welcome back to the show. |
| 0:59.2 | We're so glad, as always, that you have joined us. |
| 1:04.5 | My name is Kirk Hamilton, and I am joined by my two lovely co-hosts, Mr. Jason Schreier. |
| 1:05.3 | Hello, Jason. |
| 1:06.3 | Hello, Kirk. |
| 1:08.7 | And Jason and I are also joined by Maddie Myers. |
| 1:09.6 | Hello, Maddie. |
| 1:14.5 | Hello, Kirk, and Jason. It's so nice to see you both. Yet another week. Here we are. |
| 1:24.5 | Here we are. Back again. Here we are. Just a little tired, just a little drained, but here we are once again to talk about. I can imagine it's been a very fun couple of weeks for you too. |
| 1:28.0 | So fun. |
| 1:28.5 | Wait, did I say fun? |
| 1:29.5 | We're drained because of how fun it is. |
| 1:31.4 | That's why we're drained. |
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