Hideo Kojima had to rewrite Death Stranding 2 due to the pandemic

Death Stranding 2 was revealed this week, and according to Hideo Kojima himself, the crippled was rewritten owed to the pandemic.

When the archetypal Death Stranding launched successful 2019, immoderate thought that the enemies you occasionally faced obsessed with stealing packages from 1 of the fewer remaining transportation drivers successful a post-apocalyptic America was a spot implicit the top. Then a pandemic deed successful 2020, retroactively making the crippled an incredibly prescient one. So contempt Kojima having had the communicative written anterior to the pandemic, helium had to wholly alteration it erstwhile helium experienced it.

"I had the communicative written earlier the pandemic, but aft experiencing the pandemic, I rewrote the full happening from scratch," Kojima told The Game Awards big Geoff Keighley pursuing the reveal of Death Stranding 2. "I besides didn’t privation to foretell immoderate much future, truthful I rewrote it."

Death Stranding isn't the lone clip Kojima has seemingly accidentally predicted the future. Fans person antecedently noted however Metal Gear Solid 2 somewhat covered the ways successful which misinformation tin dispersed connected the internet, earlier it was arsenic large of a occupation arsenic it is now.

That was the bulk of what Kojima had to accidental connected the crippled though, arsenic he's keeping beauteous tight-lipped astir it for now. Talking astir the trailer, Kojima did enactment that helium "put a batch of things wrong truthful I privation you guys to speech astir it and find details successful it," which I'm definite galore eagle-eyed viewers volition person done successful the days since the crippled was revealed.

Death Stranding 2 follows connected from the archetypal game, with what looks to beryllium an older Sam Bridges (Norman Reedus) and a scruffier-haired Fragile (Lea Seydoux). There's besides octopus babies, mechs, and elephantine floating sculptures, each of which feels beauteous modular for a Hideo Kojima game.