{"id":1234141,"date":"2026-02-26T04:39:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T04:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/?p=608093"},"modified":"2026-02-26T04:39:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T04:39:03","slug":"sorry-hideo-kojima-but-everyone-is-going-to-like-death-stranding-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/sorry-hideo-kojima-but-everyone-is-going-to-like-death-stranding-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorry, Hideo Kojima, but everyone is going to like Death Stranding 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hideo Kojima is annoyed that people like Death Stranding 2: On the Beach<\/em>. In a recent interview with Edge magazine<\/a>, the video game auteur lamented that test scores for the new game were much higher than for the divisive 2019 original, which six out of ten testers said was terrible. \u201cEveryone seems to be positive\u201d about Death Stranding 2<\/em>, he complained. \u201cI do wish I was a bit more controversial.\u201d<\/p>\n

I know what Kojima is saying, but having spent some time with Death Stranding 2<\/em>, I\u2019m with the testers. It\u2019s a tour de force: a smooth, incredibly accomplished iteration on a true original that has lost maybe a little of its awkward spikiness, but none of its hypnotic power.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s despite the fact Kojima made changes to the game in response to the overly positive feedback, according to musician Woodkid, who worked on the soundtrack. Woodkid told Rolling Stone<\/a> that Kojima said the test results meant \u201csomething is wrong.\u201d \u201cI want people to end up liking things they didn\u2019t like when they first encountered it, because that\u2019s where you end up loving something,\u201d Kojima told his collaborator. \u201cYou have no idea how much he doesn\u2019t give a shit,\u201d Woodkid added.<\/p>\n

The quotes are funny, but they\u2019re hardly a surprise from a ceaselessly ambitious creator who has sometimes seemed frustrated by his own fame and popularity. This, after all, is the man who pulled a bait-and-switch on Metal Gear fans in 2001\u2019s Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty<\/em>, replacing the iconic Solid Snake as playable protagonist with a rookie agent named Raiden for most of the game\u2019s runtime. (True to Kojima\u2019s maxim, everyone ended up loving Raiden in the end \u2014 but it took a while.)<\/p>\n

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The first Death Stranding<\/em> was Kojima\u2019s declaration of independence from Metal Gear, which may be why he was so pleased it was divisive. A large part of the gameplay consists of hiking from A to B through empty, arid landscapes as porter Sam Bridges (Norman Reedus). Its post-apocalyptic setting is alienating and deeply strange, and Kojima\u2019s script is even more prone to loose philosophizing, arcane lore, and risible nomenclature than Metal Gear ever was \u2014 even at its most self-involved.<\/p>\n

But Kojima was onto something. The friction and daring flirtation with boredom of Death Stranding<\/em>\u2019s gameplay combine with lead artist Yoji Shinkawa\u2019s haunting imagery and Kojima\u2019s obsessively detailed simulation design into an experience that gets under your skin in a way more accommodating open-world epics can\u2019t.<\/p>\n

When the Covid-19 pandemic struck in 2020, Kojima\u2019s vision was revealed to have been unnervingly prophetic. In the game\u2019s world, a cataclysmic event known as the Death Stranding has torn down the veil between life and death. People isolate themselves in underground bunkers and appear at their front doors only as fuzzy holograms, while Sam labors to reconnect society through a kind of ectoplasmic internet known as the chiral network. Death Stranding<\/em> acquired a new weight. As the game was released on more platforms and in new versions, its reputation grew, and people came around to it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for Kojima, the would-be controversial disruptor, this isn\u2019t a process you can really repeat with a sequel \u2014 at least, not without pulling a Raiden. (At this point I should confess that after around 20 hours, I\u2019ve nowhere near completed Death Stranding 2<\/em>\u2019s storyline \u2014 like its predecessor, it\u2019s a massive game \u2014 and don\u2019t know what surprises it might have in store.) True to the director\u2019s fears after he saw those test results, On the Beach<\/em> is a familiar, almost comforting experience that slips down easily.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m not sure, though, if that\u2019s because the game has been dumbed down and made more welcoming, or if it\u2019s because Death Stranding <\/em>did such a good job of teaching us all to like it over time. Or, perhaps, if it\u2019s because gaming tastes have changed even over the past six years, and it\u2019s now more common for players to enjoy a game that pushes back and asserts its own identity over the traditions and commonplaces of mainstream gaming. In the years since 2019, Elden Ring<\/em> happened, Baldur\u2019s Gate 3<\/em> happened, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33<\/em> happened.<\/p>\n

In other words, if Death Stranding<\/em> was ahead of its time then, On the Beach<\/em> arrives at a perfect moment. In that context, it\u2019s actually a very traditional and unadventurous sequel. Kojima Productions has adjusted the gameplay mix, smoothed off a few corners, and thoughtfully elaborated on some of the many, many systems. The storyline is a direct sequel, extending Sam\u2019s quest to reconnect humanity into new territories (Mexico and Australia), and further exploring the weird cosmology of the Death Stranding and the backstory of Lou \u2014 the unborn baby he carried around in a little sarcophagus in the first game, then liberated and has now adopted as an adorable toddler.<\/p>\n

Once again, Death Stranding <\/em>offers a haunting and hypnotic moodscape. Fittingly for the sequel to a game that made the former U.S.A. look like Iceland, Death Stranding 2<\/em> recasts Mexico and Australia as the moon, or Mars. These are harsh, denuded landscapes of rocky outcrops, ruins, and swelling rivers, dotted with monumental industrial futurist architecture.<\/p>\n

Your job, more often than not, is to load the sturdy Sam up with cargo and trudge across this treacherous terrain to your next destination, navigating the gangs of bandits, the corrosive \u201ctimefall\u201d rain that ages everything it touches, and the haunted zones where smoky, sticky black ghosts called BTs (Beached Things) float around or boil up out of lakes of tar. Once again, it\u2019s essential to plan your equipment loadout and your route carefully, balance your cargo, and watch your step. It\u2019s not for everyone, but rarely has any game made the act of the journey itself so dense and engaging.<\/p>\n

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The first Death Stranding <\/em>often gives you a choice between longer, more demanding hikes and shorter routes that might bring you into contact with human bandits, bringing the game\u2019s exacting stealth and combat into play. In On the Beach<\/em>, Kojima Productions is more inclined to parcel up its missions into examples of one gameplay style or the other, occasionally requiring you to clear out bandit outposts as a main mission goal.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, combat is much less frustrating, with eased difficulty and more interesting tools, whilst still deploying Kojima\u2019s signature brand of Metal Gear stealth. There\u2019s an excellent suite of training missions, too, in which Sam dons a VR headset, nodding to the old Metal Gear Solid mode. Still, I enjoyed the way the original game encouraged me to follow my own playstyle (which was pure hiking) and challenge myself, and I hope there\u2019s more openness in Death Stranding 2<\/em>\u2019s late game.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s an ease to On the Beach<\/em> that I would characterize as a game that is more comfortable in its own skin, rather than one whose design has been compromised. I think this comes through in the storytelling, too. As a writer, Kojima\u2019s gonna Kojima, and you are still subjected to unhurried cutscenes filled with long, extemporizing speeches that are somehow both loaded with exposition and leave you no wiser as to what\u2019s really<\/em> going on. But the game is definitely a little more character-focused and naturalistic than the first, and (as far as I\u2019ve played) more smoothly paced than the original. For an antagonist, it focuses on Troy Baker\u2019s sinister Higgs \u2014 who appears to have leveled up from terrorist to undead leader of a scarlet-robed techno death cult \u2014 and there\u2019s no equivalent to Death Stranding<\/em>\u2019s baffling Mads Mikkelsen subplot.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think I\u2019ll ever completely vibe with Kojima\u2019s storytelling style, but I felt a gentle tug of intrigue from Death Stranding 2<\/em>\u2019s plot, as opposed to the obstructive wall of abstruse world-building in the first game, or, say, the meta shenanigans and dreary sermonizing of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots<\/em>. The studio\u2019s actor scans performance capture is a genuine marvel \u2014 there\u2019s a subtle warmth and humanity to that few other game developers can touch. And I remain in awe of Shinkawa, a one-of-a-kind artist who never gets enough credit for his share in Kojima\u2019s authorship. His sleek technology designs, primal organic imagery, and hazy spectral visions create an unforgettable sci-fi dreamscape where industrial rationality and the deep subconscious collide in ways that are both unsettling and totally compelling.<\/p>\n

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I could go into far more detail on this expansive game; I could explain the new skill tree, or the talking puppet companion called Dollman who is also a sort of reconnaissance drone, or the fast travel via the tar-submarine base that Sam shares with Fragile (L\u00e9a Seydoux) and a pilot wearing the visage of film director George Miller. There is no end to Death Stranding 2<\/em>\u2019s systems, its idiosyncrasies, its solemn and silly little details. It\u2019s also huge; there are no less than three distinct kinds of subquests to engage with, not to mention the asynchronous social gameplay of helping other players out by delivering packages or building structures for them. (Servers were unavailable for most of the time I was playing the game.)<\/p>\n

But the key thing to understand about Death Stranding 2: On the Beach<\/em> is that it\u2019s a lavish, carefully considered sequel to a complete one-off that couldn\u2019t be imitated \u2014 not that anyone has even tried. You can\u2019t complain about its comfortable iteration on the formula when that formula remains startlingly original and absorbing, or the resurrection of a world that is so resonant \u2014 especially post-pandemic \u2014 and strange. I think Kojima misunderstood the feedback he was getting from those testers. Death Stranding is still Death Stranding. They were just telling him how glad they were to have it back.<\/p>\n

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Hideo Kojima is annoyed that people like Death Stranding 2: On the Beach. In a recent interview with Edge magazine, the video game auteur lamented that test scores for the new game were much higher than for the divisive 2019 original, which six out of ten testers said was terrible. \u201cEveryone seems to be positive\u201d about Death Stranding 2, he complained. \u201cI do wish I was a bit more controversial.\u201d I know what Kojima is saying, but having spent some time with Death Stranding 2, I\u2019m with the testers. It\u2019s a tour de force: a smooth, incredibly accomplished iteration on a true original that has lost maybe a little of its awkward spikiness, but none of its hypnotic power. That\u2019s despite the fact Kojima made…<\/p>\n

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