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The latest trailer for Death Stranding 2: On The Beach is aggressively weird. At 9 minutes and 40 seconds, the video assaults us with talking stop-motion puppets, sentient gloves around people’s necks, throat babies that spew spaceships, a samurai who sounds like a baby, and somehow Higgs come back.
It’s so full of weird stuff that after repeat viewings I actually had to do my best to identify anything remotely mundane. In a humorous turn of events, Death Stranding 2 is so overwhelmingly weird that every eyebrow-raising visual is the same. Anything other than a tube baby covered in black oil with a literal hilarious Troy Baker voiced moniker is now the minority and in turn the “weird” stuff. They are not easy to spot, so I took the liberty of doing it for you. These are all the normal / boring / remarkably tame elements that the trailer has to offer.
Fragile water bottle
Fragile uses this bottle to clean the tar off a mysterious person, who was encased in a cocoon-like shell at the beginning of the trailer. I might have filled it with water mixed with a little dish soap. Maybe Dawn since the ads say they are good for cleaning up oil spill victims. I was hoping that the straw would make the macarena or the babies would pour into it instead of water, but since none of that has happened (yet), this makes for a refreshingly boring liquid delivery device.
pistols
It’s kind of surprising that weapons are relatively conventional in this strange universe (poop grenades aside). The combat was my least favorite aspect of Death Stranding, so I’m not thrilled to see that Sam still has enough heat to take down an army of ink monsters. I hope not to use them as often as possible; I need more room to carry my boxes anyway.
Trees
The phrase “If trees could talk” has never resonated more than now. I’d love his comment on how it felt to watch America deteriorate from “It’s pretty weird here” to “We don’t even know if we even occupy the same plane of existence anymore, God help us.”
wall pipe
Perhaps the most memorable moment in this trailer is when Higgs (who now looks like The Crow if he were a Cyberpunk 2077 character) uses his electric guitar sword to battle a towering samurai who makes baby noises. You were probably too busy absorbing all this nonsense to notice this perfectly normal wall plumber who just wants to do normal plumbing stuff and not get involved in this nonsense.
Cooking pan
Considering how close-up this pan is, I’m honestly surprised it wasn’t used as a branding opportunity. Perhaps some fan has already enlarged the image to reveal an OD release date carved into the bottom of the pan. Otherwise, however, the pan itself seems uninteresting; What Sam cooks with it, however, remains in question. It’s probably skipping those weird floating worm things.
This is. This is all I could find. I can’t trust anything else in this game because everything is weird and probably has a baby inside. That desert? Probably a baby. The giant moon? He’s alive and probably has Mads Mikkelsen’s face on the other side (Kojima will call him something cheeky like “Majora’s Mads” or something). The floating soldiers represent all the celebrities Kojima has lured into his studio’s body-scanning machine; their souls are now trapped within the thread. We must release them.
I don’t know what Death Stranding 2: On the Beach is. Heck, I still can’t safely explain Death Stranding 1 and I’m done with it. I just know that whatever it is, I really want to play it.
Source: gameinformer.com