If you have any knowledge about 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Death Stranding at all, you ought to be familiar by now with the rather overt product placement throughout the game, particularly of the very brash-looking product Monster Energy Drink. It also seems like people haven't been making as big a fuss over it as would be expected, which just adds to its weirdness. Seriously, we should really talk about this. Death Stranding takes product placement to the next (uncomfortable🐼) level, but Kojima seems to get a pass.
Kojima's latest big title is generally very strange, so on the one hand pulling this kind of move might not be entirely unexpected. However, this fourth-wall-breaking technique might be a bit too effective - too garish even for Kojima et al. That's certainly what some players feel, like :
It’s . . . weird. I find it very immersion-bre🍬aking and a little gross.
It is evident that Kojima is , and that he His Metal Gear franchise exhibits this in its frequent and shameless placement of products from popular brands such as Apple, Sony, and Doritos throughout its games. And then there's that starring Metal Gear's Snake. So agai💞n, not entirely unexpected. But is that enough justification for having such jarring, immersion-breaking advertisements in a game that otherwise is so immersive in its ethereality and other-worldiness? No, and yes.
An interesting thought experiment is to imagine if this stunt was pulled by someone other than Kojima and his team, say, by EA or Take-Two Interactive. It's lik𒊎ely that in those cases, people would be utterly roasting them for slapping su🎶ch blatant advertising on top of a $60 game. Somehow, when it's Hideo Kojima pulling the strings, many just chalk it up to his signature weirdness. Classic Kojima, and all that.
It's exactly that though - his act of string-pulling - that turns this whole argument on its head. and his apparent obsession with hidden messages and meanings (did someone say P.T.?). So what if this is yet another one of those cases? Perhaps it is a satire of itself, a nud♕ge - or push, rather - towards the absurdity of consumerism or of the for which Monster Energy is frequently representative of?
Monster Energy also appears to have quite the scandalous tra🎶ck record thanks to its and a smattering of against . In general, the company seems to be somewhat of a , making it both a curious and a not-actually-that-surprising choice for this kind of in-your-face marketing. Still,
Even so, the partnership with Monster Energy looks like a grotesque commercial imposition on an otherwise beautifully ꦍcrafted game, seemingly motivated more by profit than by aesthetic considerations.
Perhaps it is too generous and naïve to consider all this to be a satirical comm♔entary on the consumerist system at large more so than an act of surrendering to it. Regardless, it is yet another way that Kojima has drummed up mystery and ambiguity through his work.
Or maybe Death Stranding is just one big, incredibly obscure, massively-over-funded♏ Monster Energy Drink advertisement.