E3 Death Stranding trailer: What the hell is going on in Hideo Kojima’s new game?

Gaming auteur drops avant garde, oblique teaser

Christopher Hooton
Tuesday 14 June 2016 13:10 BST
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A beach is strewn with dead sea life. Norman Reedus awakens on it naked bar some glowing blue handcuffs. He is connected to a baby by umbilical cord. He cradles the infant and weeps. It turns to tar in his hands. An inverted crucifix scar is seen on his abandon. He stares at the horizon.

That is all we have to go on when it comes to Hideo Kojima’s new game Death Stranding, the trailer for which he debuted at E3 today.

"Has there been a more disturbing game trailer? I don't think so," an early YouTube commenter said.

Following a mysterious departure from Konami, the Metal Gear creator set up Kojima Productions and this will be its first game - artistic madness that comes instead of the Silent Hill game Kojima and The Walking Dead's Reedus were previously collaborating on but which got abandoned.

The very experimental trailer looks to be a bold departure, and though there isn’t even a hint as to what the gameplay entails, we can probably safely say that it won’t be simple, level-based stuff.

Metal Gear series designer Kenichiro Imaizumi is also on board for Death Stranding, along with PlayStation 4 technical lead Mark Cerny.

Kojima simply said “I’m back” after taking to the stage at Sony’s E3 press conference, and was met with rapturous applause.

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