You should definitely try it. There's a key needle drop that happens a couple hours in, I tell people they owe it to themselves to get that far just to see if they actually connect with the game or not.

Oh I’ve got a lot of time with the first one, but I never finished. I got around 20 hours in before getting distracted by something else. Death Stranding is 100% my shit, I just have trouble finding the time for it