What simply occurred? Hideo Kojima took the stage throughout The Recreation Awards final night time to speak briefly about his subsequent venture. A four-minute-long teaser trailer for Loss of life Stranding 2 (working title) was proven earlier than Kojima and a translator got here out for an trade with Geoff Keighley. The host jumped proper in by asking how DS2 could be totally different from the unique.
Kojima stated he couldn’t be particular proper now, however pointed to the trailer that simply debuted and hinted that there are a number of clues ready to be found in it.
Keighley identified a few the sport’s forged members in attendance earlier than asking how the pandemic impacted Kojima’s storytelling and the theme of the sport. Kojima stated he had the story written earlier than the pandemic however after experiencing it, he rewrote the entire thing from scratch. “I additionally did not need to predict any extra futures, so I rewrote it,” he quipped.
When requested what was subsequent, Kojima stated he after all has DS2 within the pipeline and one different title that’s utterly new that he’s engaged on in addition to different visible tasks. He hopes to disclose extra quickly on these fronts.
Loss of life Stranding dropped in 2019 for the PlayStation 4 and was Kojima’s first sport after leaving Konami just a few years earlier. The motion sport stars Norman Reedus (Daryl Dixon from The Strolling Useless) as Sam Porter Bridges, a courier that delivers cargo to remoted cities and helps join them to a communications community. The sport was ported to the PC in the summertime of 2020 earlier than discovering its approach to the PlayStation 5 in September 2021.
As for the brand new teaser, it options Léa Seydoux and a a lot older trying Sam. The remaining might be finest left in your personal interpretation.
Kojima did not share a launch date and contemplating Reedus stated again in Might that they’d simply began manufacturing, Loss of life Stranding 2 – or no matter it finally ends up being referred to as – may nonetheless be a few years away.