Death Stranding 2 Lets Players Skip Boss Battles For An Easier Time

Hideo Kojima has revealed a new feature in Death Stranding 2, promising a more accessible experience for newcomers to action games.

[gold_drake]

ehm okeeey.
i guess i get it, but shouldn't be a difficulty setting be the solution and not a skip feature?

[StoneTitan]

That is the difficulty setting ^^

[Knushwood Butt]

Love the first game but the boss battles were crap, especially the Cliff ones. All Cliff encounters are exactly the same, only in different environments. Furthermore, you have to do the same thing 4 times! No different forms, no different patterns, nothing.

[-Foxtrot]

I mean that's a nice thought and all but if you are going to get the sequel to this I'm guessing you are going to be one of those fans who managed to do the boss battles in the original.

I don't think this is going to bring in new fans or ones who didn't like the first one in general.

I understand if it was a brand new story with new characters where you get a clean fresh slate to try and bring in everyone again but a straight up sequel...it has it's fans and I bet they managed to get through the first game no problem.

[H9]

A weird idea for a sequel to have, since players need to beat the bosses of the first game, unless he plans on making the bosses more complicated this time around which I highly doubt. Honestly it's a horrible feature, for a game about the struggle of going around to deliver things, to let you skip fighting which is a part of the struggle.

[DefenderOfDoom2]

I like the way DOOM Eternal did boss battles . If you died a bunch of times, when in a boss battle. They gave players the option of having a extra armor , but players still had to beat the boss.

[PRIMORDUS]

There should have been a god mode setting instead only for boss battles, where you can toggle it on or off in the game settings.

[Kyizen]

2nd play through I put all the dream combat missions on easy cause dying was so frustrating

[Knushwood Butt]

I hear you. That whole process of having to find Sam's body? Not exactly difficult, but time consuming and pretty tedious after you've done it once.

2nd play through I did entirely on hard and some of the boss battles were pretty challenging, especially the giant BT. At least that continues from the point you die: the Cliff and Higgs fights all reset to the beginning if you die. Ugh.

[anast]

Fix the combat

[jznrpg]

I would never consider doing that

[Azurite]

Like South of Midnight.

[Pedantic91]

"The new option will serve as a skip button, giving players text and image descriptions of the battle and its events."

Why not make it a VN at this point, why even stop there, let's remove other gameplay loops & segments because we wanted to chase the accessibility crowd, journalist crowd and the popcorn chewing movie binger crowd?

[DarXyde]

Why in God's name would anyone skip a Kojima boss battle...?

Those are peak.

[Vithar]

i need a "skip deliveries" button, loved the story of the first game but the game loop bored me to death