{"id":3314,"date":"2025-07-02T16:40:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T16:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tearsforaudrey.com\/?p=3314"},"modified":"2025-07-03T16:49:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T16:49:13","slug":"3-reasons-why-death-stranding-2-is-far-superior-to-the-first-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tearsforaudrey.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/02\/3-reasons-why-death-stranding-2-is-far-superior-to-the-first-game\/","title":{"rendered":"3 reasons why &#039;Death Stranding 2&#039; is far superior to the first game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/tearsforaudrey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/3-reasons-why-death-stranding-2-is-far-superior-to-the-first_5hyu.640.jpg\" width=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" \/>The latest from Kojima Productions is a stone cold banger.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2019, I didn\u2019t really know what to make of <u><i><a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/death-stranding-review\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Death Stranding<\/a><\/i><\/u>, the first post-<i>Metal Gear<\/i> project from game director and friend-to-all-celebrities Hideo Kojima. <\/p>\n<p>Its message of connecting people fell sort of flat, at least until five months after release, when COVID-19 took hold in the \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest from Kojima Productions is a stone cold banger. Back in 2019, I didn\u2019t really know what to make of Death Stranding, the first post-Metal Gear project from game<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tearsforaudrey.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/02\/3-reasons-why-death-stranding-2-is-far-superior-to-the-first-game\/\" class=\"readmore\">Continue reading<svg class=\"icon icon-arrow-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"img\"> <use href=\"#icon-arrow-right\" xlink:href=\"#icon-arrow-right\"><\/use> <\/svg><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">3 reasons why &#039;Death Stranding 2&#039; is far superior to the first game<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tearsforaudrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tearsforaudrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tearsforaudrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tearsforaudrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tearsforaudrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3314"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/tearsforaudrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3318,"href":"http:\/\/tearsforaudrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314\/revisions\/3318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tearsforaudrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tearsforaudrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tearsforaudrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tearsforaudrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}