7/3/25

Death Stranding 2: Tarman's Backstory

Tarman's history lands in this session as the game's acknowledgment that everyone in this world is someone's kid, was once the person someone was hoping to impress or protect or simply not disappoint. The self-assessment is not pride. It is the complicated calculation of a life measured against what someone who loved you would make of it — the specific judgment that is harder than any outside verdict because the judge is someone whose opinion you cannot dismiss.