Death Stranding

Death Stranding is an action game developed by Kojima Productions and issued by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The game is released on November 8, 2019 for PlayStation 4.

This is the first game from Japanese video game designer Hideo Kojima and Kojima Productions following their disbandment by Konami in 2015. The cast Norman Reedus, Mads Mikkelsen, Lea Seydoux, Margaret Quayle, Tommy Earl Jenkins, Troy Baker and Lindsay Wagner are the participants in the video shooting, 3D scanning and voiceovers, and the film directors Guillermo del Toro and Nicolas Winding Refn also have their merits.

Summary

People created "Walls" and it became common for them to live in isolation. Death Stranding is a completely new kind of action game in which the player's goal is to connect isolated cities and a divided society. It is designed in such a way that all elements, including the story and gameplay, are a reference to the idea of connection. Your mission is to create bridges in a divided society, thereby creating new connections with other players around the world. Playing the game, you will realize the true importance of creating a connection with others.

Hideo Kojima

Gameplay

Death Stranding is an action game set in an open world, and also includes multiplayer options. According to Kojima, one of the key aspects of the trailer is the idea of the connection between life and death. It explains one of the main themes through the short story of Kobo Abe - the first tool created by man was the stick, used for protection, creating distance between its owner and "bad things", and the second was the rope, used to secure things considered important. Kojima compares the main "tools" in action games - punches, shooting and kicking - with sticks and that in Death Stranding he wants people to communicate through the game, the equivalent of a rope. The title is a reference to the phenomenon of cetaceans coming out on land, where "„beach“" is an alternative term for shore, but also for connections.

When the main character, Sam, dies, the player is sent to another world, similar to a mirror world, submerged underwater. Kojima suggests that when the player returns to the world of the living, anything done or destroyed when the player dies remains in the world, not disappearing. Another element that is mentioned is the existence of a type of rain that has the ability to age or change things it touches for the worse. Another part of the game is the player's ability to interact with the environment and move outside of the character's body, as well as to restore items when they die.