Hosts Alex and Andrew explore the land beyond Lake Knot City after crossing the crater lake while discussing their adventures so far in the first main missions of Death Stranding's Episode 3: Fragile. Compare your experiences, opinions and expectations for what's next. Everything is expected to start heating up from here. Mysteries abound in this unique sci-fi world and we can't wait to continue. Let's find out what awaits.

Stay tuned for next week's episode to discuss the final third of Death Stranding's Episode 3 and where Fragile's chapter of the journey leaves us before we move on to Episodes 4 and 5.

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• (00:00:02) - Death Stranding 2
• (00:00:54) - Death Stranding 2: Episode 2
• (00:02:38) - Post-Order: 9 Orders For The First Half
• (00:03:55) - The Last Battle of Lake Knot City
• (00:04:14) - Blender 2: Fragile Explained
• (00:06:43) - How to Survive On The Uca
• (00:09:56) - Blazeman 2
• (00:14:16) - John Wick vs
• (00:17:18) - How to survive on a mule
• (00:20:48) - Pizzas For Like in '
• (00:24:07) - Riding a Trike in
• (00:28:54) - Star Trek: The Chiral Network
• (00:29:48) - The Auto-Deliver Bot
• (00:32:17) - Riding a trike through the rain
• (00:37:10) - How to get to her safe house in
• (00:41:55) - How to get your safe house stuff out of the locker
• (00:43:36) - How To Deliver cargo to Timefall in '
• (00:46:59) - Death Stranding 2.3 Easter Eggs
• (00:50:24) - Conan O'Brien As A Hologram
• (00:51:52) - Farmstead Episode 3
• (00:55:29) - Challenging the Chiral Maze
• (00:55:53) - Breath of the Wild: Ending Fragile's Chapter

Join Andres and Alex as they discover more about the current stakes of the world of Death Stranding in Episode 2: Amelie. Compare your notes with their thoughts, opinions and analyses. Death Stranding only gets more unique than other video games from this point and everything in Episode 2 expands on that principle and then some. Will we learn more about what BTs are or what exactly is going on with Sam's BB? Let's find out.

Stay tuned for next week's episode to discuss the first two thirds of Death Stranding's Episode 3 and what Fragile has in store for Sam Porter Bridges.

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Alex and Andrew jump into the beginning of Death Stranding, discuss their thoughts, opinions and analyses of the Prologue and Episode 1 of the story, subtitled Porter and Bridget respectively. Death Stranding is a game that quickly sets up plenty of unique lore and introduces many key concepts and characters, but it will only accelerate from here. The intro was short but has us intrigued to learn more and theorizing plenty of ideas.

Stay tuned for next week's episode to discuss Death Stranding's Episode 2 and wherever it takes us.

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Hosts Andrew and Alex invite users to join the "book club" style conversation group The Gaming Backlog "Book Club", where one video game from an extensive backlog will be chosen to play through as a group, with everyone advancing to a prespecified chapter breakpoint or section each week, meeting up to discuss anything and everything related to the game up until that point, and chatting about expectations for the next week's chapter. The first video game of The Gaming Backlog "Book Club" podcast is Death Stranding by Kojima Productions. Death Stranding 2 will release on June 26, 2025, so there is no better moment to pull this game out of your backlog.

Before diving into Death Stranding, the hosts introduce themselves, walk through some of their favorite video games of all time, what they're playing now and their most anticipated new game releases. Join Alex and Andrew in starting Death Stranding this week and stay tuned for next week's episode to discuss Death Stranding's opening moments.

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