Took a break from DS2 and just came back today and what do I get hit with? Ads. Inside the game. Are you kidding me?
And the kicker? It literally calls itself “the next-gen gaming brand.” I paid full price for this game. I’m not playing some free-to-play mobile slop. What is this corporate brain rot doing inside a Kojima title?
Oh, and it gets better, if you actually use the in-game branded item, you get a perk that reduces battery drain. So it’s not just an ad, it’s a pay-attention-to-our-sponsor-or-play-worse mechanic. Straight out of a F2P playbook, dressed up as “immersion.”
This is the same studio that made one of the most artistically uncompromising games ever, and now we’re getting Mountain Dew-tier product placement shoved into the gameplay loop? Genuinely lamentable. Really disappointed in Kojima Productions for letting this through.