Ever since its haunting reveal at E3 2016, we?ve laid eyes on four ? count ’em, four ? teaser trailers for Death Stranding, and we’re still no closer to understanding the minutia of Kojima Productions’ maiden title. Not that Hideo Kojima would have it any other way.
The latest arrived during Sony’s somewhat eclectic E3 showcase earlier this week, where we caught a sneak peek of Death Stranding gameplay running in real-time on Guerilla’s Decima engine ? the same tech that powered Horizon Zero Dawn. But we’re a ways away from Thunderjaws and talk of the Old Ones.
Because while Aloy’s mystifying adventure finds beauty in the apocalypse (or post-post-apocalypse, as Guerrilla points out), Death Stranding is all about Sam ‘Porter’ Bridges, a delivery man who must journey across a vast, primordial landscape in order to “reunite the shattered world one step at a time.” Or so says the official description for trailer #4, which is arguably the most revealing and indeed substantial one thus far, not least because it proves Death Stranding is much more than just some abstract, half-formed dream from the creative genius behind Metal Gear.
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Also, full disclosure: I have now had the pleasure of writing three speculative articles concerning Death Stranding for PlayStation LifeStyle (one?s here; and the other?s there) and I?m beginning to feel like Charlie Kelly ranting and raving about the Pepe Silvia...