With Death Stranding 2 (which is only a working title, by the way) recently announced, it can be interesting to think what Kojima Productions could possibly add to a game that felt so well-realised on the first run. If anything, it might be best for it to jump in a totally different direction rather than trying to one-up its predeces If industry insider Tom Henderson is to be believed, the project Kojima Productions is busy with is titled Overdose , and it is a horror game. Henderson also claims...

Death Stranding 2 DLC Stranding's unusual depiction of America proved to be prescient in a number of ways. A country that many of its citizens perceived as invincible was proven to be just as vulnerable to disease and contagion as any other nation, and a country that proclaims itself to be "indivisible" has never been more starkly divided. Civil liberties such as reproductive rights for women, once thought unassailable, have been stripped away, and still more hang in the limbo of future jeopardy...

It’s a misunderstood masterpiece, and one that has experienced a critical reappraisal in recent years as new players stumble upon its brilliance and find it to be a strangely refreshing execution of an open world genre that has long grown stagnant. Yet it also felt like the beginning of something, and outside the story many of its excellent mechanics were stitching together a world that ultimately felt empty, even if this melancholic loneliness happened to be a deliberate thematic decision it re...

Central to the themes and gameplay of Death Stranding was Timefall. It functioned like rainfall but caused anything touched by it to rapidly age and degrade. It was key thematically, tying into the ideas of extinction, but just as important in gameplay, deteriorating your gear and any cargo you were carry In the game, players take on the role of Sam Bridges, a porter who must forge through the rough post-apocalyptic American wilderness to deliver packages and supplies to isolated outposts. With ...

Central to the themes and gameplay of Death Stranding was Timefall. It functioned like rainfall but caused anything touched by it to rapidly age and degrade. It was key thematically, tying into the ideas of extinction, but just as important in gameplay, deteriorating your gear and any cargo you were carry In the game, players take on the role of Sam Bridges, a porter who must forge through the rough post-apocalyptic American wilderness to deliver packages and supplies to isolated outposts. With ...

For example, following Reedus’ comment in an interview with men’s lifestyle site Leo Edit in May 2022, Kojima's humorous tweet addressed Death Stranding 2 by telling Reedus to go to his " private room ," a reference to Death Stranding ’s __ safe rooms. The playfulness of Kojima’s response (which included a photo of himself threatening Reedus with a Negan-esque, wire-wrapped baseball bat à la The Walking Dead ) suggested to some observers that rather than an accidental slip, Reedus’s leak might h...