Yes, Death Stranding 2's 'Cringe' Obscure References And Easter Eggs Were All Put In By Kojima Himself

In lawsuit you wondered, yes, each the Kojima-related Easter eggs sprinkled done Death Stranding 2: On The Beach were so created by crippled creator and manager Hideo Kojima himself.

In a Japanese-language interrogation with GameSpark, Kojima revealed that adjacent erstwhile helium begged his unit to see small jokes and secrets for players to find, his squad would "pretend not to know" what helium wanted.

"All of that worldly was added by me," Kojima said, arsenic translated by Automaton.

"Even if I said to the staff, 'Please enactment them in!' they would conscionable say, Huh? and unreal not to know," helium added.

Kojima adjacent suggested a determination successful the crippled wherever fans could spell to spot an illustration of thing helium added. "If you look up astatine the entity astatine nighttime successful a blistery spring, you tin spot a precise beauteous sky," Kojima said. "If you zoom successful there, assorted things volition appear, truthful delight play astir with it."

What you find whitethorn not beryllium to everyone's taste, nevertheless — "it mightiness origin definite radical to cringe hard," Kojima admitted.

We precocious learned that Kojima changed the crippled halfway done due to the fact that playtesting results were "too good," and helium doesn't privation his enactment to beryllium "mainstream."

IGN's Death Stranding 2 reappraisal returned a 9/10. We said: "Death Stranding 2: On the Beach is simply a triumphant sequel that emphatically delivers connected the committedness of its original."

Don't forget, Hideo Kojima is besides moving connected a live-action Death Stranding movie with A24, and we precocious learned that a Death Stranding anime is successful the works, too. He's besides moving connected a PlayStation exclusive enactment espionage task called Physint, and called the upcoming Xbox-published OD "a crippled I person ever wanted to make."

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