Last week, we reported on some minor tidbits of information revealed about Death Stranding at the Tribeca Film Festival. It was reaffirmed that Death Stranding will be an open world game, which is certainly easy to wrap your head around, compared to the rest of what we?ve seen. Kojima noted that ?connection? will be a significant theme, as well. Today, Geoff Keighley, mastermind of the annual Game Awards ceremony posted a snippet from a talk he had with Kojima during a panel at the film festival.
Keighley asked Kojima about why it was important to have Norman Reedus? tattoos in-game, when presumably, we aren?t playing as Reedus, but rather the character, Sam Bridges. Kojima said the following through a translator:

In Death Stranding I?m trying to put every aspect [of Norman] in there, and you will see his ? everything, in the game. You?ll see Norman as Sam in the game, and you?ll see his acting, and you?ll enjoy that. You have to become Norman when you play. And Norman says a lot of things that you?ll probably feel, playing as Norman. So he?s Norman and Sam as the same time.
Reedus asked, ?So, they?ll play as me"? To which Kojima responded, ?No, they?ll be you.?

Hideo says that if Norman gets a new tattoo, he will patch it into Death Stranding as DLC. From our talk at @tribeca last week. pic.twitter.com/uQvPszCHSw
? Geoff Keighley (@geoffkeighley) May 1, 2019

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