Hailed "Metal Gear Solid" creator Hideo Kojima reveals more about his new brainchild "Death Stranding" after it made a debut via a teaser in the recently concluded E3 event.
Wired featured an interview with the 52-year-old game developer where he was put to the hot seat to talk about the mysterious clip showcased in the event. The new game from Kojima Productions depicted in the footage was not quite as straight forward as his celebrated creation "Metal Gear Solid."
Apparently, the game is about people's connections as depicted by the umbilical cords tethering a baby and "The Walking Dead" character played by Normal Reedus as he walks crawls nude into a beach. Of course, Kojima did not reveal too much since it would defeat the entire idea of presenting a teaser, only explaining that the game is related to the term "strands" as used in psychology.
He promised that gamers will experience something different in "Death Stranding" though not immediately after they begin to play the game. When asked whether it would be a multiplayer game, Kojima said it is not as simple and proceeded to explain about a new system where players get to use ropes instead of the typical arms and guns.
According to Eurogamer, the game spawned plenty of fan theories as to what the game is really about and Kojima found joy in debunking some of them. "There are a lot of hints in there, hidden. The world having this discussion about what this teaser means was kind of the objective. That's what I wanted to happen," he admitted.
Kojima laughed at one theory which stated that the infant is a clone of Norman Reedus' character, saying: "I read that one! That one is off!" He also denied any allusion to Konami, the company that now profits from the "Metal Gear Solid" franchise, and said that he was not surprised that people linked the clip to them.
