The pandemic had a big impact on plans for Death Stranding 2.
Hideo Kojima says that he"completely rewrote" Death Stranding 2 in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Speaking to, Kojima explains that the sheer scale of Covid-19's effect on the world made it impossible not to take into consideration.
"You can't pretend that something this big never happened," he says."While the games themselves are based on characters who are not bound by our reality, the players themselves have gone through the pandemic, and a story written before that experience just wouldn't resonate with them in the same way."
Kojima discusses the pandemic at length in the interview. Alongside its effect on Death Stranding 2, he also voices his concerns about the distance he believes the pandemic continues to put between people."I personally feel a sense of danger regarding the continued movement toward promoting remote work, leaving Tokyo, and minimising the amount of face-to-face contact required because of the pandemic," he says."Humans exist in a physical reality.
Kojima further believes that these issues of"isolation and division" affecting the world right now are not exclusively related to Covid. He doesn't specify what these other factors are, but it's reasonable to assume he's referring to the war in Ukraine, and possibly the rise of fascism in the US and Europe . In any case, Kojima believes entertainment can play a role in resolving these issues.
At the same time, he worries that technology will continue to have a distancing effect, both between individuals, and between people and art."I think gaming hardware platforms will ultimately vanish, and it will all be sharable anytime, anywhere and with anyone," he says."My concern, though, is that the world might become one where entertainment is brought down to us from above.
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