We get the Geoff Stranding joke now.
Listen, we knew Death Stranding was going to be an absolute mind-mess of an experience. Developer/Producer/Director/Evil Genius Mastermind Hideo Kojima hasn’t really given us anything to understand, apart from babies, Norman Reedus, invisible monsters, and death… stranding. The famed creator took to his creepy stalker Geoff Keighley’s stage at Gamescom 2019’s Opening Night Live event to finally discuss more details about the game.
Sort of.
Maybe?
Naw. We at least saw more gameplay, which shows us more of the “Mothers” concept, and why the babies are so important (hint: they can detect the invisible monsters). Should a baby get upset or hurt, as shown when Reedus’s character Sam Porter Bridges falls down a cliffside, then the player needs to rock it back to calmness using the PS4’s Dualshock motion controls. Cool. One of the characters, Mama, has an invisible baby born on “the other side” that is connected to her via some sort of umbilical cord. Hey.
Even more bizarre is the game’s “urination” mechanic, which has players peeing in specific spots in the game world, allowing mushrooms to grow in those spots. If enough players (in the game’s connected, online side) pee in that same spot, the mushroom gets bigger and more powerful to, uh, do stuff we guess?
Who knows.
Finally, as players traverse around the map they are given quests via holograms that appear in different spots. These holograms are based on real people that Kojima has befriended, so if you’ve happened to cross paths with Hideo in the the last 5 years, then you’re probably in the game whether you like it or not. During the Opening Night Live show, it was revealed that an extremely giddy, happy, overwhelmed with joy Geoff Keighley was one of the characters who are holograms, so expect a completely unbiased opinion of the game come Game of the Year selection time at The Game Awards this Winter.
The game comes out in November, at which point our brains will slowly leak out of our heads, forming puddles in the middle of our living rooms for some glowing anteater to lap up.
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