{"id":731880,"date":"2025-11-21T23:07:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T23:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/GnPqzgja3ieTxCXvJL5E4L"},"modified":"2025-11-21T23:07:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T23:07:51","slug":"we-thought-death-stranding-was-peak-kojima-but-death-stranding-2-already-looks-like-its-scaling-new-heights-of-his-personal-wtf-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/we-thought-death-stranding-was-peak-kojima-but-death-stranding-2-already-looks-like-its-scaling-new-heights-of-his-personal-wtf-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"We thought Death Stranding was Peak Kojima, but Death Stranding 2 already looks like it&#8217;s scaling new heights of his personal WTF mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div class=\"youtube-video\" data-nosnippet >\n<div class=\"video-aspect-box\"><iframe data-lazy-priority=\"low\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6cs-A1rNvEE\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>If it doesn&apos;t make you say &#8220;what the fuck&#8221; out loud is it even a Death Stranding trailer? The marketing for the original Death Stranding was a masterclass in intriguing nonsense that everyone wanted to talk about even though we did not understand a lick of it. There were dead whales, blood urine, and a baby inside Norman Reedus. Also Mads Mikkelsen was there?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After 60+ hours of playing Death Stranding, finally all those things made sense. So you might think the sequel wouldn&apos;t have anything left to baffle us with, but no. In the nine-minute trailer that debuted at Sony&apos;s State of Play, Death Stranding 2 was almost immediately as incomprehensible as its predecessor seemed in those delightfully weird prerelease trailers. Here are the things we were most surprised and confused by.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"troy-baker-is-back-and-now-he-apos-s-electric-guitar-joker-6\">Troy Baker is back and now he&apos;s electric guitar Joker<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:3840px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"vbCNX5Ghwwdechkq5LeSk8\" name=\"Death Stranding 2 Trailer 54.jpg\" alt=\"Death Stranding 2\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/we-thought-death-stranding-was-peak-kojima-but-death-stranding-2-already-looks-like-its-scaling-new-heights-of-his-personal-wtf-mountain.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"3840\" height=\"2160\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Kojima Productions)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Jody Macgregor, Weekend\/AU Editor:<\/strong> Troy Baker played Higgs in Death Stranding, the mask-wearing villain I enjoyed punching repeatedly. Somehow he&apos;s back in Death Stranding 2, but with a harlequin makeover like he&apos;s one step away from subjecting Sam to a menacing monologue about dogs chasing cars. (Which is funny, because he did voice the actual Joker in Arkham Origins.)<\/p>\n<p>Given that Baker&apos;s guitar-playing ability was previously highlighted in that <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DrG6YY4d54o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">incongruous scene in BioShock Infinite<\/a> I guess I shouldn&apos;t be surprised by the fact his character has a guitar in Death Stranding 2. But there&apos;s no impromptu jam session in this trailer. Instead, he whips that axe around like he&apos;s in KISS and shoots lightning bullets out of it before engaging in a full-blown anime duel with a katana robot. Hideo Kojima knows writers who use subtext, and he murdered them all with that lightning guitar.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"fragile-and-sam-are-blue-sometimes-6\">Fragile and Sam are blue sometimes<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:3840px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"VLx4QuquEVTEHizuDYc6Q4\" name=\"Death Stranding 2 Trailer 13.jpg\" alt=\"Death Stranding 2\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/we-thought-death-stranding-was-peak-kojima-but-death-stranding-2-already-looks-like-its-scaling-new-heights-of-his-personal-wtf-mountain-1.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"3840\" height=\"2160\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Kojima Productions)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Morgan Park, Staff Writer:<\/strong> How very Kojima to cut from an autopsy of a tar-gushing freak to Fragile giving a tour of her airship while blue. Why are Sam and Fragile a deep shade of blue, and why is nobody commenting on it? [<em>I thought they looked blue-gray but let&apos;s not make this a &#8220;what color is the dress&#8221; issue. \u2014 Ed.<\/em>] When I showed the trailer to my partner she thought something was wrong with our TV&apos;s color balance.<\/p>\n<p>My best guess is that the ship is mid-travel during this sequence, and because Kojima likes to season his worlds in strange details, I bet turning blue is just what happens when you sail across the sea or fly too high in the post-Death Stranding world. Their skin and everything they&apos;re wearing turns blue, but the inside of the ship itself is somehow unaffected. Maybe it&apos;s a trick of perception? We&apos;re talking about the same world where a small percentage of the population have superpowers that make them cry when BTs are around, so I&apos;m not counting anything out.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"sam-porter-bridges-apos-newest-friend-is-a-sentient-vampire-puppet-he-clips-to-his-belt-6\">Sam Porter Bridges&apos; newest friend is a sentient vampire puppet he clips to his belt<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:3840px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"rmQfmvRhdG7w6q8JwEwLWh\" name=\"Death Stranding 2 Trailer 49.jpg\" alt=\"Death Stranding 2\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/we-thought-death-stranding-was-peak-kojima-but-death-stranding-2-already-looks-like-its-scaling-new-heights-of-his-personal-wtf-mountain-2.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"3840\" height=\"2160\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Kojima Productions)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Wes Fenlon, Senior Editor:<\/strong> I am immediately ready to die for this little puppet man, who appears in the Death Stranding 2 trailer sitting on Fragile&apos;s shoulder before joining Sam on his mission to build more bridges, or whatever it is, exactly, that he&apos;s doing in this sequel. What feels like it could be a throwaway gag from an SNL writer&apos;s room seems to have been given an incredible amount of attention here\u2014the puppet is animated at a lower framerate than the rest of the game to make him look stop motion, his skin and hair have a distinct plasticy texture different from the human characters, and he&apos;s of course voiced by <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fatih_Akin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a famous film director<\/a> Hideo Kojima is friends with. Fragile speaks highly of him, saying &#8220;his knowledge and experience will probably come in handy down the road,&#8221; which I assume means the puppet is actually some super genius whose body was dying so he transferred his consciousness into this little doll, or some wild nonsense like that.<\/p>\n<p>Also, he&apos;s a vampire? When electric guitar Joker torments him later on, the puppet pulls a sudden red-eyed, fangs out hissy face out of nowhere. I predict dracula puppet will be the first videogame character nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 2026 Academy Awards. And he will win.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"fragile-apos-s-hand-necklace-6\">Fragile&apos;s hand necklace<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:3840px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"q9aYALvQGGGrenxceVa9z4\" name=\"Death Stranding 2 Trailer 58.jpg\" alt=\"Death Stranding 2\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/we-thought-death-stranding-was-peak-kojima-but-death-stranding-2-already-looks-like-its-scaling-new-heights-of-his-personal-wtf-mountain-3.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"3840\" height=\"2160\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Kojima Productions)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Morgan Park, Staff Writer:<\/strong> I love that everyone in Death Stranding has to have a &#8220;thing.&#8221; Die-Hardman had his mask, Heartman had his handy-dandy defibrillator, and now Troy Baker has lightning guitar axe. It seems like Fragile&apos;s hung up her old &#8220;thing&#8221; (that cool teleporting umbrella) and traded it in for something way weirder: a pair of mechanical(?) hands that she wears like a necklace. We see it react to what she&apos;s saying, like making a &#8220;shush&#8221; motion, and then later light her cigarette with the snap of its fingers. Disturbing, a little goofy, and undeniably cool. I bet we&apos;ll learn halfway through the game that those hands contain the soul of Fragile&apos;s dead friend or something.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"what-apos-s-up-with-that-baby-cyborg-ninja-6\">What&apos;s up with that baby cyborg ninja<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Ted Litchfield, Associate Editor:<\/strong> Interrupting Sam&apos;s capture by Higgs partway through the trailer, we saw the ghost of Kojima past: a got-dang cyborg ninja doing all kinds of sick as hell cyborg ninja stuff in a duel with glam rock zombie Troy Baker. Kojima has always seemed to prefer we play as the gruff, jack-of-all-trades normal guy while the robo ninja serves as some kind of friend, enemy, or even frenemy, but Death Stranding 2&apos;s take on the archetype distinguishes itself by being positively <em>caked up<\/em> with legs like a champion powerlifter and\u2026 crying like a baby?<\/p>\n<p>Death Stranding 1 is still on my &#8220;to-play&#8221; list despite everything, so I&apos;m missing the cyborg ninja baby-related lore context that may or may not be found in that game. Whatever the case, I&apos;m on board\u2014I&apos;m sure there&apos;s a perfectly good reason for the caked-up giant red baby cyborg ninja friend.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/we-thought-death-stranding-was-peak-kojima-but-death-stranding-2-already-looks-like-its-scaling-new-heights-of-his-personal-wtf-mountain\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If it doesn&apos;t make you say &#8220;what the fuck&#8221; out loud is it even a Death Stranding trailer? The marketing for the original Death Stranding was a masterclass in intriguing nonsense that everyone wanted to talk about even though we did not understand a lick of it. There were dead whales, blood urine, and a baby inside Norman Reedus. Also Mads Mikkelsen was there?\u00a0 After 60+ hours of playing Death Stranding, finally all those things made sense. So you might think the sequel wouldn&apos;t have anything left to baffle us with, but no. In the nine-minute trailer that debuted at Sony&apos;s State of Play, Death Stranding 2 was almost immediately as incomprehensible as its predecessor seemed in those delightfully weird prerelease trailers. 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