Death Stranding 2: On the Beach is definitely one of this year’s contenders for best game. We gave it a score of 9 out of 10, calling it one of Hideo Kojima’s finest works and a major milestone in open-world video game design, thanks to the masterful use of the Decima Engine.
The game is so beautiful that it’s hard not to daydream about doing deliveries or rescuing lone adventurers who stray from the path. But there’s one character in the game who’s sent the community into a frenzy, and that’s none other than The Adventurer.
Played by S.S. Rajamouli, the highest-grossing director in Indian cinema, The Adventurer stands out in the world of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach. He’s joined by his son, S.S. Karthikeya. Rajamouli is best known for his award-winning films, including the recent Academy Award-winning Bollywood film, R.R.R.
Hideo Kojima has never been shy about including prominent film directors in his games. Fatih Akin, director of The Edge of Heaven, and George Miller, known for Mad Max and Babe, are also in this game as Dollman and Tarman, respectively.
While S.S. Rajamouli’s presence might seem like a typical celebrity cameo, players have grown frustrated with The Adventurer’s repeated rescue missions.
In Death Stranding 2. When Sam Porter Bridges is not hauling cargo or delivering pizza to survival bunkers, he’s saving lost adventurers and bringing them home. The Adventurer’s role usually involves him being unconscious or stranded in the middle of nowhere, and Sam is forced to rescue him again and again. He’s essentially Kojima’s running gag that has gone on a bit too long.
Not even my well-planned monorail and road networks are enough to save this guy. He always ends up lost in tricky parts of the Australian mountains or surrounded by thousands of BT Watchers. It’s a hilarious yet frustrating bit of quest design that clashes with Death Stranding 2’s usually therapeutic pace, bogging players down with busywork.
Still, this is the kind of challenge players expect, and even want, in a game like this. Besides, S.S. Rajamouli’s character isn’t even the toughest part. Another celebrity cameo, featuring the RackaRacka brothers Danny and Michael Philippou (directors of horror hits Talk to Me and Bring Her Back), presents Sam with far more demanding quests, from tightly timed deliveries to high-stakes cargo recovery missions.
This isn’t really a complaint from the community, it’s more of a lighthearted joke that occasionally gets under their skin. These missions aren’t as brutally difficult as something in a Soulslike like Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, but for a game like Death Stranding, they still bring a surprising level of challenge.
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