I don't know how many songs are in there but he's definitely on the list, as for the soundtrack, I'm not the type of guy who even know who CHVURCHES were before DS but I fucking love everything I've heard in this game so far, what's better is you get an MP3 player like function to listen to your own playlist. A certain character's theme in the game I've listened to a lot outside the game too even!
I reinstalled Death Stranding last night, after writing it off early on. (I needed to make Sam do a poo, but he refused to stand up. That's not a problem I need in my leisure time.)
I had been trying out Skull and Bones after it landed on PS Plus, and god that's a depressing game. It's Shareholder Meeting, the Videogame: Focus Group Edition. Every box mind-numbingly ticked, every system developed separately into some terrible Frankenstein's monster whose only aim is to make money.
The sheer calculated awfulness of it all made me reinstall Death Stranding. Because whatever I think of Kojima, here's a game that exists because its creator had a story to tell. A game that has no target demographics, skin packs and season passes. A game that, last night, made me spend 5 minutes packing someone's bag for them, and then immediately restart when he fell over and died.
On second thoughts, maybe lootbox pirates aren't so bad.
Okay I'm sorry but I'm absolutely hooked on Horsegirl Gacha aka Umamusume: Pretty Derby, it's unlike any gacha I've played before, perhaps scary in how addictive and low effort it is but god damn I'm invested now, not just the game but the lives of these horse girls. Each one seems to have their own unique career mode storyline and also the random events from your support cards have me really rooting for their goals and dreams.
My favourite so far is an (android?) horse called Mihono Bourbon, I like how her story has her struggling to understand sarcasm and whatnot, oh Mihono. 
Watching your horse absolutely haul ass with a burst of shoneome resolve to win a race is gacha rush I haven't experienced man.
Who were the Death Stranding Truthers on here? cav and Felt? I think if you liked DS1 you should like this quite a lot. It's not gonna' convert many people IMO (it all depends) but it just keeps getting better and better.
I thought DS1 was astonishing (and I like a bit of Kojima bullshit - MGS4 being my personal highlight). I just didn't enjoy the core gameplay loop much. DS2 is pretty interesting, I might dip when it hits PC.
I think extending this into a megathread might make sense, but won't it drive traffic even lower? I appreciate no forum is getting new members anywhere (rllmuk is in a slow death spiral too) but fresh threads are the lifeblood of any forum.
If not a monthly PWB - maybe there need to be a few more repeatable threads that generate traffic. Or maybe we need a Play, a Want and a Bin thread.
I think extending this into a megathread might make sense, but won't it drive traffic even lower? I appreciate no forum is getting new members anywhere (rllmuk is in a slow death spiral too) but fresh threads are the lifeblood of any forum.
It'd be nice if people started threads for specific games, as they always drive interest and conversation - like Death Stranding for instance. But they always seem to get absorbed into PWB.
I don't think it matters where we are posting as long as we are posting. Maybe we will get more discussion without PWB. Let's give it a go.
We've all been here for at least fifteen years, we all post when we've got something to say. I expect we will all keep ticking along with occasional flurries of activity when something interesting happens in videogames.