Geoff Keighley and Hideo Kojima can’t be in the same building together and not show off a video game. That’s just fact. So it’s little surprise that big Koj let the great unwashed bask in the majesty of his latest triumph at Keighley’s Gamescom Opening Night Live event.
Well, in reality, he just showed us some more Death Stranding, a game we still know bugger all about except Mads Mikkelsen and Norman Reedus get naked and a baby is in a jar. This is definitely exciting though, and this new footage does introduce some new characters with somewhat tragic backgrounds.
First, there was Margaret Qualley’s Mama, who has a maternal bond with a creepy invisible baby who was born on ‘the other side’, but is still connected by the umbilical cord. She can’t move from her location because she doesn’t want to lose her link to her child.
Next, the infamous Bridge Baby (the baby in a jar) gets an explanation of sorts, thanks to the avatar version of Guillermo Del Toro (Deadman) who tells us the baby needs to be synced to its ‘stillmother’, but tells Norman Reedus’ Sam not to get too attached to the sprog. Uh-oh.
Oh but that’s not all. Kojima then gave us a bit of fresh gameplay footage. Norman Reedus takes a piss that grows a mushroom… Yeah. Kojima explained that no matter how quick you turn the camera you can’t catch sight of the unsightly act, and urination is actually a weapon of some kind if other players choose to do the same thing in the same spot. Connecting the world through urine? Beautiful.
He then heads to a delivery point and interacts with another new character (who turns out to be Geoff Keighley in a cameo, voiced by Matt Mercer) then after falling, Sam placates his jar baby by rocking it. So delightfully odd as expected. Kojima promised there’s a lot more cameos throughout the game too.
Death Stranding is coming to PS4 on November 8, when maybe this will all make a bit more sense…or probably less of it. Excited either way!