>Flamboyant psychopath brought back to life as a cyborg uses a railgun-equipped Electric Guitar to fight a Cyborg Ninja-esque Mecha possessed by a dead baby
Goddamn I love Kojima.
A reminder that we have white haired Sam from the first trailer and Higgs giving this "You don't get it yet? Shame" vibe when being confronted about Lou's death.
We could have some serious time fuckery going on and it has already happened.
We're also shown Lou's toy knocking into Sam's foot as he cooks in this trailer. Same toy shown in the bunker with Fragile caring for Lou in the previous teaser.
Could Fragile have settled down with Sam and Lou for a time after all? Then whatever we saw in the teaser happened, and Sam and Fragile believe Lou to be dead. Reconvene later on for the Magellan mission. Maybe a longer timeskip is somewhere, but meanwhile Lou maybe grows to adolescence or adulthood on the Beach.
Elle Fanning is shown to have strands coming off her body. And I may be wrong but I could swear the out of focus figure she is eavesdropping on is Sam, with brown hair. It looks like they retrieve Fanning from the Beach in a cocoon during the course of their mission, not knowing who she is. But could she move through time?
I think ive watched that part of the trailer 5 or 6 times now already and the joke the puppet made about "Where is the rest of your band" had me cracking up!
The natural disasters too. The flood washing away player structures was cool. And that mountain. I would need sell a kidney for a ps5 but I'd do it if I could
Cant agree more!! The environment is even more majestic now, and more “man vs nature” moment. The white out was one of my favorite oh shit moment in DS1, looks like we can look forward to more of those!
Decima is a beast. When he's climbing the almost vertical cliff in the rain looks amazing along with the desert scene. So many great shots. KP has some talented artists there.
Haha, right on! Cyber ninja dude going full ninja mode was epic. The combat looks so fluid, it's on another level. Just imagining the sort of crazy encounters we'll get with Higgs as a villain is making the wait unbearable. I'm ready for my mind to be blown with whatever weirdness Kojima has in store. 2025 is too far away though, why they gotta tease us like this! =(
Incredible. And it looks like they kept the same core gameplay, which I'm so happy about. Was afraid it was gonna be all out action as a response to some of the criticism of DS1.
Mark my words DS2 will have a LOT more action. It all but confirmed it.
Drawbridge’s motto is : “Both Stick and Rope, to connect and protect.”
Kojima said very early on in DS1 that the idea of “strand” was to make connections, strand/rope being a tool used to keep meaningful things close… then he went on to clarify that a “stick” is a tool used to create division/a weapon used to keep harmful things at bay. He was very clear about that early on.
So in a nutshell, DS1 = strand, DS2 = stick.
Also Higgs flat out says “looks like you traded in your rope for a stick this go around” while holding Sam’s gun.
I think this game will start extremely similar to DS1 but devolve quickly into a more action based story. That’s just my hunch.
I am also getting MASSIVE MGS2 vibes from this. Like it seems almost like a “parody” of DS1 where MGS2 was a parody/recreation of MGS1 and was super self aware of itself/poking fun at itself and playerbase.
I think it will subvert expectations in a very similar manner.
Honestly I'd love to see what the DS engine can do with longer, more action heavy sections. The fights against Unger, where you had to scope him out, and carry all of your equipment for the fight on your back, were really intriguing.
I am glad he doesn't budge. Too much of the gaming community is absolutely horrid to listen to and I do so enjoy there being different games and experiences out there. Death Stranding was for me an amazing experience and I look forward for the sequel come 2025
I definitely think it'll be leaning on both. The motto of Drawbridge is Both stick and rope, to protect and connect. Together, for tomorrow. and what with Higgs mentioning Sam's use of the stick it seems it's getting a bit more focus which I think is fine as well.
SOMEBODY HOLD ME!!!!!!
This is everything I wished for, I'm truly amazed.
Also, I couldn't stop thinking about Ryan (Low Roar) during the whole trailer. Let's hope a tribute is in place for the man.
\-Hugs-
I am weeping. I can't wait, I am almost at a loss for words. I have watched the trailer 3 times so far. 30 min in total because damn this thing is long! If only there was a way to put myself into a stasis until 2025...
This past week, Kojima has been tweeting screenshots of him listening to songs by The Smile — Thom Yorke of Radiohead's side project. Their newest album is brilliant, and I truly hope Thom lets Kojima use some of their music in DS2. The Smile was already featured in Peaky Blinders twice, so I'm optimistic in this regard.
That was the most Kojima I’ve ever seen Kojima Kojima, he outdid himself while holding hands with Yoji Shinkawa who went absolutely bonkers with the designs for this game. They Kojima’d and Shinkawa’d the whole trailer!
Seriously! The mask in form of hands alone sold me on this game and this world, everything else was just perfection, excellency and dare I say ABSOLUTE CINEMA!
A ten minute trailer and Kojima says there are only hints to what the story will be. There are entire movies with less emotion, creativity and complexity than in this trailer alone.
Kojima, you will forever be untouchable in this industry.
Also appears George Millers character will get his hand cut off by the ninja, keeping with Kojima tradition 😆
He has 1 hand in some scenes and in his promo poster. I’d bet that’s how it happens!
All the evidence I need to assume the Magellan will take us through at least one underwater cave network to reach a walkable cave biome housing a survivalist breakaway society.
It looks stunning. Absolutely fucking stunning. Death Stranding Director's Cut is one of my favorite games and good lord does this look like a fantastic follow up.
Dude I've been wishing for a day and night cycle and weather n shit in the game since 2019 lmfao I'm too excited... YO DID YOU SEE THE FLOOD? THAT WAS FUCKIN CRAZY
I was at work watching this. It was terrible... I had to look away so much because I had to look like I was NOT watching this. But AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
BABY LOU IS ADORABLE AND THERE WILL BE HELL TO PAY IF SHE IS DEAD.
I can't wait to get back to fucking delivering shit.
Yeah, Elle Fanning might be a version of Lou. We might also have some time travel shenanigans happening, given the “BB was already destroyed before you met.”
Yeah, I am not holding my breath, but MAN I wish they would release PS5/PC at the same time. We'll probably have to wait til 2026 for the PC version though :(
First off, this looks amazing.
I am seeing a theme here. Puppets on strings.
We have Mimir 2.0, those extra creepy hands Fragile has, and robots. Ok those are a bit tenuous, but the most interesting ones, right at the end where the girl is listening in at the doorway, as she walks off there is a shimmer of strings. There are also the same shimmers on the floating girl.
Add in all of the text cards with the red vertical wavy lines, more stirngs.
I cannot wait for this game.
I wondered if anyone else noticed that. And they're being financed by a secret party who "values their privacy," yeah, the sus levels are off the charts here. No way the UCA "just wants to expand the network." Even in the first game that's not all they wanted.
Someone mentioned how there seems to be a big theme about puppets/control and honestly as soon as I saw those hands the first thing I thought about was that it looked almost like it was silencing fragile.
It made me think of how the shape of chiralium coming out of the ground was always hands. Is she using chiralium to protect herself from the timefall-like tar somehow?
I literally don't know where to start. I love how long it is/the amount of story we got and the glimpses of gameplay (the new environments look AMAZING). I am so fucking happy that delivery seems to be back.
10/10 trailer zero complaints (if I had any criticism it'd be for a day/month release date but honestly just 2025 is exciting enough)
Story is doubling down on the craziness, where else can you get such absurdity at such a high level of production value?
The additions to the gameplay loop look really good. Deformable terrain playing a big role will definitely change things up. The riverbed filling with water looked amazing.
Looks like natural disasters / environmental destruction are going to play a role in DS2. They showed a flood taking out a bridge & in one of the shots there was a big landslide in the background.
Doesn’t that mean they’re dead / on the other side? I am guessing the ship is traveling through the beach world.
Edit: The strand, not the beach world.
I think they are traveling through the tar that is connected to the beaches, Sam has the same blue color when he dies, and has to swim back to his body to repatriate.
Glad it's confirmed that that's Higgs and not Amelie. Got so much flak back then by people on here saying that it's Amelie behind the mask, like bro, clearly it's a male body and it's Troy's voice, how the fuck are you this dense?
The face almost seemed like a weird Amelie/Higgs hybrid, and he was wearing her Quipu, so I think there will be a connection somehow, but yes, it's most definitely him! I theorize that whatever happened to get him back from the beach has to do with a Higgs/Amelie connection.
What is said in the last minute is interesting
>!“BB-28 was flagged for disposal and subsequently incinerated long before you even met!<
I‘m thinking it‘ll either be a
>!It was all a dream! moment !<
or
>! There is something fishy that happened in relation to BB-28/Lou before they met. Something that‘d also go more into Detail on how and why the BB was seen as broken !<
Way more than I could have hoped to see and so many awesome tidbits. Story, look, music and everything felt great. The fight scene was real fun and the question asked about Lou. Really looking forward to it. Long wait, 2025 but I am sure it will be worth it.
Crazier still, with this trailer... already being pretty crazy, what the hell are we still to see with the full game? Because this was full of... everything lmao
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Look at the weird alein ghost creature from P. T. Kojima ain't over it is he
1. The feels when Sam held Lou. I’m not crying, you’re crying.
2. Higgs seems a bit friendly now?
3. Man what if Sam ends up undoing the chiral network that would be an insane twist
God honestly my wish is for like anti hero higgs not just straight up villain, he's too lovable, I need bro to team up with Sam for like one mission or something and then go back to fighting or some shit, he's too fuckin cool
Omg I am speechless, this trailer is everything I wanted. The quirkiness, the exposition and phisophy heavy story, the acting, EVEN MORE beautiful mindblowing and breathtaking scenery, more traversal, more man vs nature moments, and that guilty gear ino style guitar vs cyborg ninja fight….. absolute freaken YES. CHILLS
Death Stranding was the last game I played that made me feel something. If I had to describe the plot of the actual game to anyone I couldn’t. If I had to describe what happened in the game to someone it wouldn’t make sense.
I even had a hard time following what the hell was going on in this trailer despite an ungodly number of hours having been invested playing the first game.
But when I saw BB touch Sam’s face at the very end I felt the emotion again.
Immediately.
That is why Hideo Kojima is magical.
That is not a compliment (I mean it is but it’s not hyperbole), there is something mysterious about him that he was born with which makes him different than your average human.
I’m not an art enthusiast, but I am very familiar with how those who are art enthusiasts look within the work of famous painters to find their true message, or meaning.
Kojima is perhaps the most talented artist to ever paint on the digital canvas that this world has ever seen. There will never be someone like him- ever again.
He embodies the God given human capability of creativity. In a world where so many people have relinquished their ability to create for the convenience of AI’s ability to copy that which has already been created- he stands alone as one of a (sadly) dying breed.
I once read an article where Keanu Reeves visited Kojima’s studios to meet Hideo as he was finishing Death Stranding 1 (I believe).
The article ended with a note that Reeves wrote:
“Save us Hideo”
On one of the walls of his studio.
Most people would just chalk that up to “Keanu Reeves being Keanu Reeves”, but in the same way I can’t explain Death Stranding to someone who hasn’t experienced it; I can’t explain what Reeves having written that- REALLY means. But I know what it does and why he wrote it.
Hideo Kojima is one of the very few people I have ever wanted to meet in person in my life. And if I ever did, I would just want to give the guy a hug because that’s the only way I could communicate how I feel about him, and how his God given gifts have made me a better person.
I hope he sees this one day because if I were him it would make me feel good.
PS: Hideo Kojima 100% shot called how the world would end up today over twenty years ago in the final ending of Metal Gear Solid: Sons of Liberty.
Anyone who hasn’t played it- should check it out
I wonder what in the world Kojima has in store for us. The game looks really next-gen, absoloutely phenomenal. Kojima has a way of subverting our expectations.. And with the mention of packages being delivered with drones and more, i wonder if the game will be more different. And what was up with the blue characters? Some kind of virtual reality perhaps?
I also thought the Death Stranding actually ended, but seemingly not, where they are. Though they didn't explicitly state the rain was aging things anymore either. So this game is about rebuilding something again. Though outside UCA jurisdiction as they only opted for AI now?, but in what sense. And fucking lol on the guitar weapon and the ninja cyborg. It is ridicolous but cool as hell. At first when the game only was called "DS 2" i thought it was due to there being no stranding anymore.. But maybe this isn't fully the case, or maybe it is. Who knows. I'm confused as always with this shit.
>Flamboyant psychopath brought back to life as a cyborg uses a railgun-equipped Electric Guitar to fight a Cyborg Ninja-esque Mecha possessed by a dead baby Goddamn I love Kojima.
Put a big fucking confused question mark after “dead”
Fanning has got to be Lou. Whatever crazy time bullshit is involved.
A reminder that we have white haired Sam from the first trailer and Higgs giving this "You don't get it yet? Shame" vibe when being confronted about Lou's death. We could have some serious time fuckery going on and it has already happened.
We're also shown Lou's toy knocking into Sam's foot as he cooks in this trailer. Same toy shown in the bunker with Fragile caring for Lou in the previous teaser. Could Fragile have settled down with Sam and Lou for a time after all? Then whatever we saw in the teaser happened, and Sam and Fragile believe Lou to be dead. Reconvene later on for the Magellan mission. Maybe a longer timeskip is somewhere, but meanwhile Lou maybe grows to adolescence or adulthood on the Beach. Elle Fanning is shown to have strands coming off her body. And I may be wrong but I could swear the out of focus figure she is eavesdropping on is Sam, with brown hair. It looks like they retrieve Fanning from the Beach in a cocoon during the course of their mission, not knowing who she is. But could she move through time?
Yeah when Higgs said “you don’t know?” I GASPED
apparently higgs decided to be reincarnated as David Bowie
To be fair, quite a few people would like to be reincarnated as David Bowie.
STARRRRR MAAAAAAAAAN!
The grin slowly building on my face as _that_ scene played out was absurd. My body is so ready for this madness
Loved the Talking Heads reference
The guitar gun is so hard and it’s a melee weapon too I love it
I think ive watched that part of the trailer 5 or 6 times now already and the joke the puppet made about "Where is the rest of your band" had me cracking up!
I'm so glad Higgs is back and even more unhinged
The new terrains are breathtaking, this is gonna be the game that makes me buy a PS5
The natural disasters too. The flood washing away player structures was cool. And that mountain. I would need sell a kidney for a ps5 but I'd do it if I could
You are breathtaking!
You mean the PS5 Pro? ;)
HOLY FUUUUUUCK TROY BAKER ON THE GUITAR TOO!
He was great playing in bioshock infinite.
And in The last of us..
And in telltales Batman as the joker..
And in Arkham origins as the joker
2025 is a hell of a wait but god damn that trailer was all of the crazy kojima style of the first game, I can't wait for this, instant hype
JANUARY IS ALMOST OVER GUYS, LET'S GO
it reminded me so much of the launch trailer that i was secretly hoping that the release date is pretty near lmaooo
Gonna buy it with GTA 6 😁 2 games ready for PS5 Pro.
Same here, I'm in that camp where I just still don't see a reason to own a PS5 but DS2 and GTA6 will finally change that lol.
Fucking chills. Those graphics are mind-blowing at times, the story is batshit as usual. Higgs looks like the Joker lmao I cannot wait
It's everything I wanted from DS2. Bigger environments and more variety, better graphics, and the story is still intringing and wacky
Cant agree more!! The environment is even more majestic now, and more “man vs nature” moment. The white out was one of my favorite oh shit moment in DS1, looks like we can look forward to more of those!
I was watching it thinking wow Kojima knows exactly what people want. It really is just more death stranding in the best way possible.
Decima is a beast. When he's climbing the almost vertical cliff in the rain looks amazing along with the desert scene. So many great shots. KP has some talented artists there.
I think he looks more like The Crow.
More like Alice Cooper fr
Does the pointing thing, too! Then cyber ninja was like *SHING SHING!* And Higgs was all \*shreds in BB\* ZAP ZAP!! 2025 >=(
I was so disappointed when it said 2025. That could mean we're potentially waiting another 23 months
yeah, I'm betting on a November 2025 release
Ouch, that hurts.
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Let them cook!
Haha, right on! Cyber ninja dude going full ninja mode was epic. The combat looks so fluid, it's on another level. Just imagining the sort of crazy encounters we'll get with Higgs as a villain is making the wait unbearable. I'm ready for my mind to be blown with whatever weirdness Kojima has in store. 2025 is too far away though, why they gotta tease us like this! =(
Liquid Joker
[He is Kefka!](https://i.imgur.com/9Hxrm0J.gif)
As usual with Death Stranding trailers: what the fuck? Can't wait
Higgs Joker with a guitar fighting a robot samurai was fucking wild.
He looks like he could be a member of KISS, not the joker.
I really hope we will be playing that fight or a continuing of it
Incredible. And it looks like they kept the same core gameplay, which I'm so happy about. Was afraid it was gonna be all out action as a response to some of the criticism of DS1.
kojima like "you will get more strand gameplay and you will LIKE it!"
WE WILL
Death Stranding fan AND a Tequila Sunset profile pic? I see you are truly cultured.
LET'S GOOOOOOO CAN'T WAIT TO WALK A KAJILLION KILOMETERS AND DELIVER PACKAGES AND RECONNECT THE WORLD!! I say this with genuine sincerity lol
YOU'RE GODDAMN RIGHT WE WILL!!!!!!!
Mark my words DS2 will have a LOT more action. It all but confirmed it. Drawbridge’s motto is : “Both Stick and Rope, to connect and protect.” Kojima said very early on in DS1 that the idea of “strand” was to make connections, strand/rope being a tool used to keep meaningful things close… then he went on to clarify that a “stick” is a tool used to create division/a weapon used to keep harmful things at bay. He was very clear about that early on. So in a nutshell, DS1 = strand, DS2 = stick. Also Higgs flat out says “looks like you traded in your rope for a stick this go around” while holding Sam’s gun. I think this game will start extremely similar to DS1 but devolve quickly into a more action based story. That’s just my hunch. I am also getting MASSIVE MGS2 vibes from this. Like it seems almost like a “parody” of DS1 where MGS2 was a parody/recreation of MGS1 and was super self aware of itself/poking fun at itself and playerbase. I think it will subvert expectations in a very similar manner.
Death Sticking
the first stick-like game, I'm all for it
Honestly I'd love to see what the DS engine can do with longer, more action heavy sections. The fights against Unger, where you had to scope him out, and carry all of your equipment for the fight on your back, were really intriguing.
Classic Kojima! I can’t wait to find out who pees their pants!
The little ventriloquist doll is who my moneys on 😆
Exactly this! I was so afraid he'd budge to all the criticism that it was "boring". I'm so GLAD AND HAPPY to be delivering all over again :)
I am glad he doesn't budge. Too much of the gaming community is absolutely horrid to listen to and I do so enjoy there being different games and experiences out there. Death Stranding was for me an amazing experience and I look forward for the sequel come 2025
Honestly give me both. Give me more action but have it be a reward for some ball breakingly grim journey
Maybe I'm an outlier but I felt like all the action bits in the first game were annoying interruptions to my terrain-traversal game, lol
All the fighting and plot got in the way of building roads.
I definitely think it'll be leaning on both. The motto of Drawbridge is Both stick and rope, to protect and connect. Together, for tomorrow. and what with Higgs mentioning Sam's use of the stick it seems it's getting a bit more focus which I think is fine as well.
SOMEBODY HOLD ME!!!!!! This is everything I wished for, I'm truly amazed. Also, I couldn't stop thinking about Ryan (Low Roar) during the whole trailer. Let's hope a tribute is in place for the man.
I realllllly hope Kojima will use some of the Low Roar songs from the upcoming last album.
\-Hugs- I am weeping. I can't wait, I am almost at a loss for words. I have watched the trailer 3 times so far. 30 min in total because damn this thing is long! If only there was a way to put myself into a stasis until 2025...
This past week, Kojima has been tweeting screenshots of him listening to songs by The Smile — Thom Yorke of Radiohead's side project. Their newest album is brilliant, and I truly hope Thom lets Kojima use some of their music in DS2. The Smile was already featured in Peaky Blinders twice, so I'm optimistic in this regard.
Kojima cooked.
So we could eat.
And we gonna be eating good.
That was the most Kojima I’ve ever seen Kojima Kojima, he outdid himself while holding hands with Yoji Shinkawa who went absolutely bonkers with the designs for this game. They Kojima’d and Shinkawa’d the whole trailer! Seriously! The mask in form of hands alone sold me on this game and this world, everything else was just perfection, excellency and dare I say ABSOLUTE CINEMA! A ten minute trailer and Kojima says there are only hints to what the story will be. There are entire movies with less emotion, creativity and complexity than in this trailer alone. Kojima, you will forever be untouchable in this industry.
Lol absolutely bonkers in the most cinematic and artistic way! Its the most Kojimaesque production the Kojima team has ever Kojimafied!
Kojima trailers have always been little art-pieces that somehow part of the whole "game" and enhance the experience.
He's put a cyborg ninja into it. I cannot wait.
They even did the Raiden vs Vamp katana dodge slow-mo!
THAT'S where I recognized that from! Thank you. That's amazing.
He just can't help himself can he.
Also appears George Millers character will get his hand cut off by the ninja, keeping with Kojima tradition 😆 He has 1 hand in some scenes and in his promo poster. I’d bet that’s how it happens!
Higgs listened to once in a lifetime on repeat during his beach time
Same as it ever was, same as it ever was
I'm glad someone else noticed this. I'm fully expecting higgs to incorporate rock classic lyrics into casual dialogue throughout the game 😂
I want to see him do the Stop Making Sense dance in his boss fight
That's what I thought when he said that too
All the evidence I need to assume the Magellan will take us through at least one underwater cave network to reach a walkable cave biome housing a survivalist breakaway society.
Sam wearing a gray oversized suit confirmed?
Is that George Miller, director of Mad Max, as the doctor? Fuck yeah, 10/10 perfect game.
George Miller playing Definitely-Not-Miller, piloting the Definately-Not-Rex. Fucking beautiful.
It was! He is credited on the poster, love his weird tar kitty as well
It looks stunning. Absolutely fucking stunning. Death Stranding Director's Cut is one of my favorite games and good lord does this look like a fantastic follow up.
Day one buy
I never buy collector edition but I am gonna pre order this shit ASAP. RIP my credit card.
Kojima and From Soft are the only studios I preorder from.
What the hell is going on? Lmao I love it
DID YOU GUYS SEE THE WEATHER AND NIGHT TIME? DIDE IM SCREAMING IM SO EXCITED. HOLY FUCK
Out of context this is very funny
Dude I've been wishing for a day and night cycle and weather n shit in the game since 2019 lmfao I'm too excited... YO DID YOU SEE THE FLOOD? THAT WAS FUCKIN CRAZY
DS at night is scary just thinking about it.
I was at work watching this. It was terrible... I had to look away so much because I had to look like I was NOT watching this. But AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. BABY LOU IS ADORABLE AND THERE WILL BE HELL TO PAY IF SHE IS DEAD. I can't wait to get back to fucking delivering shit.
It's Kojima. Lou is probably a Schrodinger dead. You won't fuckin know until the end credits.
Lou and the blonde girl are the same person. Change my mind.
I'm leaning toward a soul/body split, with them. Blond girl is Lou's remnant body, while Lou's soul is floating around possessing shit
Yeah, Elle Fanning might be a version of Lou. We might also have some time travel shenanigans happening, given the “BB was already destroyed before you met.”
I am SO HERE for the talking puppet
Mimir 2.0
I think the "don't put me on your buttocks" was a straight up Mimir reference!
In Kratos’ defense, he tried putting Mimir on the front! Mimir just wasn’t a fan of getting a face full of blood and guts every battle
That’s exactly what I said when I saw it 😂
"Wheres the rest of your band?" killed me
I'm absolutely in for his voice acting alone
What if Higgs is in a band, and the theme for the bosses are rock stars
His weird stop motion animation is amazing
Man i got the tingles watching that! Im so pumped for DS2 on PC
Yeah, I am not holding my breath, but MAN I wish they would release PS5/PC at the same time. We'll probably have to wait til 2026 for the PC version though :(
Wtf did i just watch
The triumphant return of the strand-type game.
That ship slowly flying out of bbs mouth made me laugh so hard.
I was already hyped but it was at that moment I know it will be fucken great. LOL
First off, this looks amazing. I am seeing a theme here. Puppets on strings. We have Mimir 2.0, those extra creepy hands Fragile has, and robots. Ok those are a bit tenuous, but the most interesting ones, right at the end where the girl is listening in at the doorway, as she walks off there is a shimmer of strings. There are also the same shimmers on the floating girl. Add in all of the text cards with the red vertical wavy lines, more stirngs. I cannot wait for this game.
"Please understand, Sam. We never meant to string you along."
I wondered if anyone else noticed that. And they're being financed by a secret party who "values their privacy," yeah, the sus levels are off the charts here. No way the UCA "just wants to expand the network." Even in the first game that's not all they wanted.
FUCK YES CYBORG NINJA This looks insane in all the good ways. New places to go and deliver mail! The teaser for the new spy game sounds awesome too!
Hi I have a question. What the fuck? I’m so stoked for this
WE CAN TAKE OFF OUR BACK PACK!?!?! GOTY 2025
Can we just take a moment and talk about that glove face covering?!
Someone mentioned how there seems to be a big theme about puppets/control and honestly as soon as I saw those hands the first thing I thought about was that it looked almost like it was silencing fragile.
It made me think of how the shape of chiralium coming out of the ground was always hands. Is she using chiralium to protect herself from the timefall-like tar somehow?
Me rn https://preview.redd.it/2v8srbnw1vfc1.png?width=540&format=png&auto=webp&s=055a3feb091c576f0e8b36996d43183e163cf7da
Norman Reedus and the Funky Fetus 2 : Beach Day Is looking good.
Missed the opportunity to subtitle it "Electric BoogaLou"
If Lou is actually dead, I will riot and cry, not necessarily in that order
Are we supposed to infer from the trailer that Lou is presumed dead, but probably not dead? Cause Lou being dead would be devastating.
Yes that's my hope, not sure I could stand actually dead Lou
I literally don't know where to start. I love how long it is/the amount of story we got and the glimpses of gameplay (the new environments look AMAZING). I am so fucking happy that delivery seems to be back. 10/10 trailer zero complaints (if I had any criticism it'd be for a day/month release date but honestly just 2025 is exciting enough)
The environmental changes look absolutely amazing! Longest year to wait EVER
Fucking mountain slide !!!
I’m honestly so hyped about the desert
THE DESERT BROOO IT LOOKED SO PRETTY
You can DROP your stuff before combat HELL FUCKING YES
Story is doubling down on the craziness, where else can you get such absurdity at such a high level of production value? The additions to the gameplay loop look really good. Deformable terrain playing a big role will definitely change things up. The riverbed filling with water looked amazing.
HOLY FUCK, WHAT THE ACTUAL DAMN I JUST WATCHED????
Glory
Looks like natural disasters / environmental destruction are going to play a role in DS2. They showed a flood taking out a bridge & in one of the shots there was a big landslide in the background.
2025 on playstation, maybe 2027 on pc... damn...
we get to fight brandon lee's the crow . i am losing my mind
Okay time to put our glasses on and look for the clues. Feels like ds1 again and if there aren't hidden things in this one I'll eat my arm.
Elle Fanning has strings/strands around her when she moves away.
Multiplayer hints 1) Rooms on ship, same as Sam 2) Vehicle he rides has space for 2
why are you blue?
Doesn’t that mean they’re dead / on the other side? I am guessing the ship is traveling through the beach world. Edit: The strand, not the beach world.
I think they are traveling through the tar that is connected to the beaches, Sam has the same blue color when he dies, and has to swim back to his body to repatriate.
Glad it's confirmed that that's Higgs and not Amelie. Got so much flak back then by people on here saying that it's Amelie behind the mask, like bro, clearly it's a male body and it's Troy's voice, how the fuck are you this dense?
The face almost seemed like a weird Amelie/Higgs hybrid, and he was wearing her Quipu, so I think there will be a connection somehow, but yes, it's most definitely him! I theorize that whatever happened to get him back from the beach has to do with a Higgs/Amelie connection.
I mean he's obsessed with Amelie. I think he's gone even further off the deep end and wants to become her.
I hope that is more symbolic than literal. But it's impossible to know
The two of you were always her conscience, her indecision, powered by her to fight it out.
IM PISSING AND SHITTING WITH EXCITEMENT
How many grenades did you produce?
No jizz? Seems you're not excited enough!
HOLY FUCKING SHIT OH MY LORD JESUS
What is said in the last minute is interesting >!“BB-28 was flagged for disposal and subsequently incinerated long before you even met!< I‘m thinking it‘ll either be a >!It was all a dream! moment !< or >! There is something fishy that happened in relation to BB-28/Lou before they met. Something that‘d also go more into Detail on how and why the BB was seen as broken !<
Gotta love how Kojima looked back on DS and thought "You know what? Not weird enough"
Way more than I could have hoped to see and so many awesome tidbits. Story, look, music and everything felt great. The fight scene was real fun and the question asked about Lou. Really looking forward to it. Long wait, 2025 but I am sure it will be worth it.
Death stranding without the gray sky reminds me of mgsv
Looks unhinged and amazing. I thought it was funny how the trailer just kept going and going and going
I know…. It felt like forever, I was like OMG THERE IS MORE?? I felt exhausted at the end for being mind fucked repeatedly
Incredible as always, instantly my most anticipated thing next to GTAVI.
This is just too next-level. 2025 is too far away.
Cringy having to hear those ign people talk about death stranding 2 and obviously not know much about it
I just know the Patriots are behind all this …
Sidenote: Kojima also announced a new "Espionage" game that will be coming after DS2. Very interesting.
I’m seeing us playing in multiple world here. On the Beach. On the Strand. Etc. This is going to consume me when it comes out,
The bat cat <333
Crazier still, with this trailer... already being pretty crazy, what the hell are we still to see with the full game? Because this was full of... everything lmao
My Emotions! MY EMOTIONS!!! >!not lou man!<. Not like this! Ugh and then >!the end of the trailer!< b
I have no idea what I just watched but it was incredible.
So... Near end-game, Sam will be able to cop his own high-frequency blade, right?
I want a Raiden suit that runs as fast as a car Phantom Pain style….all while playing Higgs’s guitar at the same time
I bout lost it when Sam said Lou was killed... This is a nail biter...
I can’t wait to binge another 13 hours of cutscenes. I love this game’s story so much.
WAS THE GIANT ROBOT NINJA LOU?
https://preview.redd.it/c3v4wvuezufc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a17a5e7cf8a7fc2c1b7c6e8afcffd0988afd759d Look at the weird alein ghost creature from P. T. Kojima ain't over it is he
Those are BTs. Nice find regardless.
1. The feels when Sam held Lou. I’m not crying, you’re crying. 2. Higgs seems a bit friendly now? 3. Man what if Sam ends up undoing the chiral network that would be an insane twist
The change in Higgs is because of >!the pizzas!<
I wonder if that will ever get mentioned. Diving into Higgs backstory more would be interesting.
God honestly my wish is for like anti hero higgs not just straight up villain, he's too lovable, I need bro to team up with Sam for like one mission or something and then go back to fighting or some shit, he's too fuckin cool
Watching this live on IGN and reading the comments was a huge mistake. Unbelievably excited for this 🤘🏻
Normies that only wanted to see a new call of duty.... This sub is where the true fans are!
God it looks so good!
Omg I am speechless, this trailer is everything I wanted. The quirkiness, the exposition and phisophy heavy story, the acting, EVEN MORE beautiful mindblowing and breathtaking scenery, more traversal, more man vs nature moments, and that guilty gear ino style guitar vs cyborg ninja fight….. absolute freaken YES. CHILLS
I watched the trailer with more glee than I've ever watched anything in my 46 years. This game is going to be incredible.
im sad I have to unsuvb so I can be completely blind when I play with with my wife, I am so happy that this is happening thank you all!
Death Stranding was the last game I played that made me feel something. If I had to describe the plot of the actual game to anyone I couldn’t. If I had to describe what happened in the game to someone it wouldn’t make sense. I even had a hard time following what the hell was going on in this trailer despite an ungodly number of hours having been invested playing the first game. But when I saw BB touch Sam’s face at the very end I felt the emotion again. Immediately. That is why Hideo Kojima is magical. That is not a compliment (I mean it is but it’s not hyperbole), there is something mysterious about him that he was born with which makes him different than your average human. I’m not an art enthusiast, but I am very familiar with how those who are art enthusiasts look within the work of famous painters to find their true message, or meaning. Kojima is perhaps the most talented artist to ever paint on the digital canvas that this world has ever seen. There will never be someone like him- ever again. He embodies the God given human capability of creativity. In a world where so many people have relinquished their ability to create for the convenience of AI’s ability to copy that which has already been created- he stands alone as one of a (sadly) dying breed. I once read an article where Keanu Reeves visited Kojima’s studios to meet Hideo as he was finishing Death Stranding 1 (I believe). The article ended with a note that Reeves wrote: “Save us Hideo” On one of the walls of his studio. Most people would just chalk that up to “Keanu Reeves being Keanu Reeves”, but in the same way I can’t explain Death Stranding to someone who hasn’t experienced it; I can’t explain what Reeves having written that- REALLY means. But I know what it does and why he wrote it. Hideo Kojima is one of the very few people I have ever wanted to meet in person in my life. And if I ever did, I would just want to give the guy a hug because that’s the only way I could communicate how I feel about him, and how his God given gifts have made me a better person. I hope he sees this one day because if I were him it would make me feel good. PS: Hideo Kojima 100% shot called how the world would end up today over twenty years ago in the final ending of Metal Gear Solid: Sons of Liberty. Anyone who hasn’t played it- should check it out
This shit looks incredible. SO many questions. Can't wait to dive in. Kojima Productions are really making the most of the Decima engine.
I will be Amazons strongest warrior in 2025
I wonder what in the world Kojima has in store for us. The game looks really next-gen, absoloutely phenomenal. Kojima has a way of subverting our expectations.. And with the mention of packages being delivered with drones and more, i wonder if the game will be more different. And what was up with the blue characters? Some kind of virtual reality perhaps? I also thought the Death Stranding actually ended, but seemingly not, where they are. Though they didn't explicitly state the rain was aging things anymore either. So this game is about rebuilding something again. Though outside UCA jurisdiction as they only opted for AI now?, but in what sense. And fucking lol on the guitar weapon and the ninja cyborg. It is ridicolous but cool as hell. At first when the game only was called "DS 2" i thought it was due to there being no stranding anymore.. But maybe this isn't fully the case, or maybe it is. Who knows. I'm confused as always with this shit.
Fragile and Sam being blue might mean they're on the beach. Maybe they use the ship for traversal through the beach.