Hideo Kojima says 60% of Death Stranding playtesters thought it "was a terrible game," but he thinks that's "a good balance"

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Hideo Kojima says playtests for the original Death Stranding were pretty bad, with up to 60% of testers saying it "was a terrible game."

In an interview with Edge Magazine, Kojima explained that "I did a lot of monitoring tests for the first Death Stranding. I'd find that four out of ten people would love the game, and six would say it was a terrible game."

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