Death Stranding - Heartman Explains The Beach // Heartman Origin Story 

When Sam said " *Yeah boyee* " I felt that

What if, You wanted to go to heaven, but Kojima said, BEACH?

Wait this cutscene was 21 minutes? Felt like 5 to me I was so captivated

What if you wanted to go to the heaven But God said "ADMINISTERING SHOCK, STAND CLEAR"

18:00 I love how this game can just break the 4th wall so casually

I love that the video is 21 minutes too 😂

Heartman is listening to Frédéric Chopin's Piano Sonata No 2 in B flat minor, Funeral March. Seems fitting.

So basically Death Stranding is "Us" living with the constant fear of dying that's why we stay on the beach bordering life (shore) and death (water) and those going in the water are people who died and moving on.

This segment of the game was mindblowing to me, so unexpected and I love Heartman's groovy bachelor pad.

My favorite part about this scene is that Sam reset's Heartmans hourglass @21:05

Cool how Heartman became death-obsessed, with skulls and a general dark atmosphere, but it's subtle.

14:25 Breaking the 4th wall like a pro

Top ten quotes from video games Number 1: *Yeah Boyee*

The one gripe I had with the story was Heartman not getting any closure. Just stuck on his endless search for his family on the Beach. Edit: I finally got the "What became of Heartman" interview. He gave up on his search and decided to move on. Also met a Hispanic woman named Samantha.

The saddest part is that there's no way he'd find his family again, because they already passed to the other side

7:50 His glasses actually have proper optical effects, the blurry background of the crater is in focus.

21:15 he just have to do it, didn't he? lol

As a Cardiac nurse, this is interesting because typically shocks are only given when you're in a shockable rhythm. So, the standard asystole (flat-line) that most people associate with being dead wouldn't be medically corrected with an AED like Heartman's is. It's probably just videogame magic, but if Heartman's heart doesn't flat-line and goes instead into these other rhythms, then what is the marker for death as far as going to your Beach is concerned? IRL you can have 2 patients with the exact same heart rhythm, can shock them both if the medication doesn't work, but one can be awake and talking to you while the other is completely unresponsive. Obviously, the awake person wouldn't go to their Beach while the unresponsive person would be considered dead. Give us the deets Kojima D:

I love Mama, Lockne, and Deadman but Heartman is by far the most dedicated character in the game going above and beyond. Thats why he's my spirit animal.

Oh cool. The cutscene was 21min, just like the time that Heartman can live before every one of his cardiac arrests.

The end was great lol

This is the man who truly took dark souls to heart. To die and come back...again...and again...and again...

If some one doesn't like or stand this cutscene, then this game is not for them seriously, this is not anyone's average game, this is work of pure art So just mind before calling it a walking sim Or if anyone have played and understood Kojima's previous works properly, only they can understand the depth of this game Or anyone with a great and thorough perception

Heartman: "My body may be present, but my soul is on the Beach. I'm already dead..." Sam: "NANI!?"

Video is 21 minutes long and his heart stops every 21 minutes.. nice kojima..

3:46 that scene was beautiful. The camera work and the soundtrack. Gotta get this game

This game was a masterpiece if I ever truly had to define a game. This game was truly a wonder. I was captivated every step of the way and played it for days upon days on end. Best outbreak activity I have ever done.

It's just that... this can't be good for your brain. All of these cardiac arrests.

7:29 So the beach is what one would call a limbo.

Okay so Heartman dies 60 times a day. He has died approxamately 218,549 times. This means that he started doing this approximately *10 years ago*

21:16 ＹＥＡＨ　ＢＯＩ．

Heartman we love you, but give up your search on that accursed beach and continue on amongst the living

I don't get it. Why is he searching for his family when they were clearly walking in the water to move on to the afterlife?

Heart attacks hurt like hell. It's pretty much the second most painful thing a human can experiene, since it is the most important muscle in the entire body you have an absurd amount of nerves there to tell you if there's ever anything wrong. Cause yakno, if something is wrong with yer heart your body kind of wants you to stop doing whatever the hell you are doing and just stop. The most painful is, in theory, your back and lower back being tortured. This because, once again, your spine is important as hell. As such there are recorded cases of people dying from the pain/shock that to much trauma to the back area can cause say from whipping. It basically just overloads the nerve-endings etc. to the point that they burn out and the body gives up.

Funeral march from Chopin... Interesting it weight down the mood when heartman is about to come back.

absolutely my Favorite character on the game , you can feel his wisdom & knowledge & sadness in his words & voice .

Lol at the end of the video

Idk even know what this game is but this by far one of the most intriguing and coolest characters I’ve seen in a video.

❌ Send her to the ranch ✅ Send her to the beach

Somewhere in that scene where they walk onto the beach, I hear Pirate's of the Carribean music in the background.

Yeah boyee!

yeah boyee

I've always loved the intro to the vids

Well it wouldn't be a Kojima game without some side characters with weird and usual afflictions. #jakehunter88

Yeah boyee is my favorite part xD

The visual style at the beginning, especially the purple lighting, is so incredibly similar to Nicolas Winding Refn’s post-Drive visual style. That has to be intentional.

👍❤(if its Higgs asking you to wait there,he would serve you with some crab rangoon)

Love the DJ part followed by a deadman's thumb up.

Heartman is probably my favorite character in the whole game

This game is so high quality regardless of the unorthodox gameplay

218549/60 = 3642 days = 10 years

"Agog". Nuff said. From the beginning, I strongly believed Heartman would turn out to be a villain, or at least, an anti-hero. His interest in the Death Stranding seems unnatural and over-the-top considering all the deaths and pain it has caused. He was the only one who seemed OK with the situations. He cared too much about how the DS could help humanity evolve, adapt, etc. Classic well read, British, (how did he get there?!), tech-loving, pseudo-villain motives. Even his ringtone screams "BAD GUY". But after his backstory is revealed, he turned out to have one of the most tragic stories, in my opinion at least. His story is easy to relate to, compared to having two souls trapped in different bodies, or being made from dead parts (?!!) I kept waiting for the final betrayal but he is truly a good guy. Second most realistic character (ALL THINGS CONSIDERED) after C. H. "Most convincing", let's say.

How would you even sleep if you were dying and reanimated twice an hour?

The irony of this video being 21 minutes I imagine Heartman can watch this once a trip

7:24 "The beach is just a corridor" So... Why do you keep looking for you family there? They re NOT there. To be a scientist this one slipped his logic

This fucking game has me tripped..Best it 3 days ago and have spent three days on RU-vid watching videos and what I can to piece together what I just did...still only understand someone died and went void causing others to die and a huge mass explosion happened and now we are here..

While I like the sequence at 15:20 from a visual standpoint, was it explained why Heartman is more aware/confused than the other dead people there?

21 minutes in that world is 9 minutes in the real one.. so in order to hear how they talk, we should set playback speed at less than half?

the whole cinematic is 21 minutes, cool

Brain Damage just aint a thing in this universe is it.

Love this whole sequence. Only Kojima can pull off cutscenes like this

2:52 ohhhhh you just couldn’t help yourself could you Kojima 😂

Yeah boyee

The story is sick af

I just love the character names :>

I DEFY YOU, HEART MAN.

This is how I live....This is my life... FELT THAT!!! 🖖🏽

I like that the player in this is wearing the otter hat

Did Heartman ever find his family? It kinda felt like that point was just brought up and dropped for no reason.

The man who dies and dies again

the poor man in all the game

Why does he even bother? Wouldn't his family have crossed to the other side by now? People may come and go from the Beach, but nobody comes back from whatever exists after.

His heart is literally heart-shaped bruh

where does he actually explain it i think i missed it

I hope DS2 will shed more light on everything. I've been wondering how the "beach" works in itself. What happened to those you see walking into sea? When Sam enters the "sea" he floats underwater, lost and unresponsive until he repatriates. So its my belief (though of course I can't prove anything) that those who are trapped on the beach enter the sea, are the one's that get stuck and become BT's. They are stuck in the "underwater" part like Sam, but can't repatriate, nor can they swim up to reach the beach again. They are stuck there and their existence in this state is what we perceive as BT's in the living world. The real question remains, if the stranding was not happening, what would it take for a soul to move on to the higher plane? Would they instead have to walk away from the sea and move beyond the dunes of the beach? What even is beyond the Beach? (I doubt its heaven and hell) The weird part is Heartman in his flashback got dragged away from the beach and ended up in the land of the living again. So perhaps the only way towards the next world is instead crossing the sea without going under? What more I want to know about the beach experience from Heartman's perspective. Its been stated that every beach is unique, but to what extent? Are there beaches that don't even resemble a beach at all? How radically different can they get? We have already seen the war-zones, but what about other types? There is already contradicting information, saying that every beach is unique and only for one person. Yet Clifford Ungor's Beach has sucked in other souls as well. And Heartman has a cut-scene showing him and multiple people on a singular beach. So its possible that beaches get intermingled.

YEAH BOYEE!!!!!!

There names are like rappers names, there real name doesnt matter at all

I tell someone to tell me what happens in the dialogue if I actually get to die 218.550 times before speaking to Heartman

someone please explain the last scene?

2:36 to 9:15 was a VERY fast 21 minutes

This guy is the real MVP

damn, Heartman is a classy boy; Chopin FTW

Anyone know the classic music that are playing on the records?

Princess Beach

yea boi

Lmaao.. 21:17 😂😂😂😂

I can't wait for more wacky stuff in 2nd game❤

Why it quite sound like Ajin ?

7th? I dunno man what does it matter...

What piano song is playing in the background?

Heartman: I die 60 times a day for 3 minutes just so I can find my family in the afterlife. So I can pass on with th- Sam: Yeah boyeeee

how does a guy with such a condition end up living out there alone in such a sweet pad. eh dont think about it

Game’s batshit nuts

so what was up with the old woman who poked him

I’m sorry Kojima, I’m stealing the explosion in he head of the story teller

You did not distinguish between myth and history. Too late. It will be some modifications.

This story is fucking awesome. Well worth playing a walking sim

Yee Boyee

I dont give a shit this Video was enough toconvince me, im buying aPS4 pro to play this, not for everyone i can totally understand but it fits my taste perfectly!

4:10