Death Stranding 2 – Pandemie inspired Kojima to play games “who are not still in the world”

Hideo Kojima has revealed his thoughts about the Covid 19 pandemic and the subsequent closures that were exhibited worldwide only a few months after the publication of Deathrail. In an interview with the Edge Magazine (via GameSradar) Kojima spoke about how the world of isolation between people who were shown in the original Deathrail.

“I felt that I might never meet someone again,” said Kojima about his experiences of returning to Kojima Productions' offices after recovering from a serious illness, just to find her empty because of the lockers. “Something was lost,” he continued, “we were no longer connected physically.” Kojima continued to talk about his time during the pandemic and said: “We organized drinking parties and school events, but now online, an almost exclusively digital existence.”

In general, Kojima said that such an isolated life during the lock, in which social assemblies only took place via the Internet about screens. He said that he wants to play games, “that doesn't exist in the world”.

These thoughts offer more context to what Kojima said Death bands 2 As early as 2022. In an interview, Kojima spoke about how the events of the Covid 19 pandemic had prompted him to rewrite the story for the upcoming sequel. In this interview, Kojima compared the pandemic shortly after the publication of Deathrail To publish Metal gear solid 2 happens at 9/11.

According to a report from the beginning of this week, Kojima also spoke about some of the topics of the upcoming Death Banding 2: On the beachthat while the Metal gear Series had severe themes about paternity, the topics of Death bands 2 will approach similar topics, but from a different direction.

“The loss of my father was a main topic in the Metal gear Series, ”said Kojima.“ These games examine the topic of how to exceed their parents. Deathrail Look in the other direction: they take on the parents' perspective and look at the child. “

Kojima also spoke about the unique narrative challenges that the players will face when they take on the role of a father figure, Lou in Lou in Death Banding 2: On the beach. He points out that the players had spent a lot of time with Lou during the first game, but did not know the character exactly. According to Kojima, the sequel will “question who Lou is”.

“You think you know everything about your son, but there are some things that you don't,” Kojima continued. “In the first DeathrailSam travels with Lou, but he doesn't ask who Lou is very much. This has changed in the sequel. It is the way an adoptive parent may not know everything about his child. You could have questions. This is the emotion that I wanted to cause. “

Death Banding 2: On the beach Will be released on June 26 and will at least initially only come to the PS5. Kojima Productions had confirmed at the beginning of this month that the game had become gold. At the beginning of this week, Kojima also announced that there will be at least one further trailer for the game before his start, which the director said that “a lot (of new information)” will have.