The Myth Of Death Stranding | Story Explained

The Myth Of... series explores the mythical structure of modern games. The story of Death Stranding follows the Hero's Journey, sometimes referred to as the "monomyth." This formula was developed by Joseph Campbell after studying thousands of myths. Contemporary screenwriters and authors use this formula to craft blockbuster hits like Marvel's The Avengers and Iron Man. By studying the Hero's Journey, we hope to better understand what makes these stories meaningful.

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Chapters
Introduction – 0:00
Hero's Journey – 0:56
Ordinary World – 2:47
Call To Adventure – 3:15
Refusal Of The Call To Adventure – 3:52
Meeting The Mentor – 4:15
Crossing The First Threshold – 5:06
Tests, Allies, And Enemies – 6:02
Approach To The Inmost Cave – 8:45
The Ordeal – 9:26
The Reward – 10:33
The Road Back – 11:12
Resurrection – 11:48
The Return With The Elixir – 12:35

Death Stranding is an action game developed by Kojima Productions. It is the first game from director Hideo Kojima and Kojima Productions after their disbandment from Konami in 2015. It was released by Sony Interactive Entertainment for the PlayStation 4 in November 2019, and is scheduled for release by 505 Games on Microsoft Windows in July 2020.

The game is set in the United States during the aftermath of the eponymous Death Stranding, which caused destructive creatures from a realm between life and death to begin roaming the Earth. Players control Sam Porter Bridges (Norman Reedus), a courier tasked with delivering supplies to the fractured and isolated colonies that remain and reconnecting them via a wireless communications network.

In an apocalyptic United States, where a cataclysmic event known as the "Death Stranding" caused "Beached Things" ("BTs")—invisible creatures originating from the "Beach", lands thought to be unique to each person that are typically visited during near-death experiences and are said to be the link to the afterlife—to begin roaming the Earth. BTs cause explosions known as "voidouts" when they consume the dead by necrosis, and produce rain known as "Timefall" that rapidly ages and deteriorates whatever it hits. These events damaged the country's infrastructure, leading its remaining population to confine themselves to remote colonies known as "Knot Cities," which form the remaining "United Cities of America.
These colonies have since relied on the services of a company known as Bridges, whose porters brave the BTs, bandits, and terrorists to deliver supplies to the cities. Bridges also performs various governmental functions on behalf of the UCA. If they achieve a mental connection to a "Bridge Baby" (a "BB")—a premature child reflecting a state between life and death—it is possible for a person to sense the presence of a BT. Porters carry a BB with them, which is stored in a pod simulating a mother's womb. A condition known as "DOOMS", depending on its severity, also allows a person to naturally sense, see, or even control a BT, as well as granting a variety of powers, such as teleportation or travel to other people's Beaches. There are also individuals known as "repatriates" who can travel back from "the Seam"—a place between the world of the living and the Beach—upon death. As such, these individuals can effectively return from death, though their deaths will still cause voidouts if killed during contact with a BT.

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