I skipped every Death Stranding cutscene and I’ll do it again

With fewer cutscenes, the game becomes funnier, and just more fun.

With fewer cutscenes, the game becomes funnier, and just more fun.

Cameron Faulkner is an editor covering deals and commerce. He joined in 2018, and served as commerce editor at Polygon until May 2025.

I beat the original Death Stranding, but please don’t ask me what happened in it. There was a cataclysm — not quite a Gommage — that made the US more divided than ever, and you play as a babysitter-meets-delivery-guy who has special awareness of invisible, hostile creatures called BTs that are “beached,” which isn’t as relaxing as it sounds. There are grenades filled with pee, poop, and

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