Legendary video-game designer Hideo Kojima is showcasing the development of what fans speculate might be a sequel to Death Stranding.The picture Kojima posted on Twitter shows a studio set and four blurred people in the background. Fans have speculated that the man in a white shirt is Norman Reedus, who starred in Kojima Production's most recent game Death Stranding. Reedus previously admitted that the development team was in negotiations for Death Stranding 2 which lends some credence to the theory.
“Recently, I've been revising the plan and script, and experimenting with everything else,†Kojima wrote. What purpose these elements will serve goes unsaid, and details over Kojima’s experimentations are similarly vague. With Kojima Productions’ recent expansion into television, film and music there’s also a chance that this project might not even be a game.
There are also suspicions that the man standing on the red stool may be Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen. Kojima previously revealed that he had met with Mikkelsen and offered him the role of the main character for a project tentatively titled Mads Max. Kojima did not share specific details on the idea, noting that Mikkelsen thought the director was joking.
The cryptic message isn’t out of character for Kojima who is regarded as an auteur with a penchant for leaving hints and mysterious teasers for fans to discover. Despite the tweet’s obscure and enigmatic nature, it hasn’t stopped fans from analyzing every pixel on the screen in eager anticipation of what the director has in store. Kojima has yet to confirm or deny any speculations.
Hideo Kojima is a video game industry veteran best known for his work on the long-running Metal Gear Solid franchise. After parting ways with Konami in 2015, he partnered with Sony Computer Entertainment and reopened his software house, Kojima Productions, as an independent studio.
The reformed Kojima Productions’ first game, Death Stranding, was originally released in November 2019 for PlayStation 4. A Director’s Cut which included technical improvements and additional gameplay mechanics was released in September 2021. The game’s initial release garnered mostly positive reviews with critics praising its atmospheric experience, stellar voice acting and accompanying soundtrack. However, some players also complained that its repetitive gameplay and slow pacing were annoyances that stopped them from fully enjoying the game.
Death Stranding is available for PlayStation 4 and PC. The enhanced version, Death Stranding: Director’s Cut, is exclusively available for PlayStation 5.
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