In the beginning of the new Death Stranding teaser, we get an opening very similar to its reveal trailer from E3 2016: a panning shot of dead sea creatures scattered around in the mud. This time, we get a much clearer shot of the strands of black wire running across the sand and directly into the abdomens of a number of dead crabs.
In an interview at E3 this year, game director Hideo Kojima told IGN that Death Stranding will be played not with “sticks” like in most games — guns or other weapons — but “ropes.” We’ll see this manifest quite literally later in the trailer, but for now the wired-up crustaceans act as cryptic foreshadowing. They also call to mind Gyo, Junji Ito’s sci-fi horror manga about an invasion of technobiologically reanimated sea creatures.
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In an interview at E3 this year, game director Hideo Kojima told IGN that Death Stranding will be played not with “sticks” like in most games — guns or other weapons — but “ropes.” We’ll see this manifest quite literally later in the trailer, but for now the wired-up crustaceans act as cryptic foreshadowing. They also call to mind Gyo, Junji Ito’s sci-fi horror manga about an invasion of technobiologically reanimated sea creatures.
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