I'm going to be controversial
the game is a clear upgrade to the original in term of gameplay, even if it's way too easy. but in term of story and presentation I'm really disappointed, it has some good moments yes, but some are just weird for the sake of it, it's wacky for the sake of wacky, it almost betray the original game, the ending feels like some Marvel movie and is completely rushed (when I saw the part with Lou I thought it was going to continue here but no.. The president AI basically goes nowhere and feels like a bad version of the Patriot AI, Die-Hardman just is a funny guy now when he gave the best performance of the original? Speaking of performance, quite a few characters feels worse than the original, including Sam and Fragile. Thank god Troy Baker was here to actual give his best as Higgs. Kojima said he made Neil to be better than Cliff but in the end I felt nothing with him compared to Cliff. Also he basically had no reason to look like Solid Snake, it was just some empty memberberry, same for all Metal Gear in the game. I loved the first death stranding a lot more than this one.
Higgs boss fight was kino as hell though even if it was goofy it was just too kino.
But yeah I would not trust Current Kojima to work on Metal Gear if he wanted to do with with the franchise, I hope Physint won't be like this. Death Stranding 2 is still a good game but probably my least liked Kojima game.