I can’t create art … while trying to be blind about it. According to him, all art, games including, is inherently political - our connections make it so. Video game creators are often reluctant to talk politics, but Kojima doesn’t mince words. The election of Donald Trump and the Brexit vote in the U.K. Indeed, Death Stranding’s biggest theme is connection, and Kojima sees a world in disarray. “You just can’t see them,” he says, “but you’re connected.” Kojima’s personal take is that the dead are never truly gone from our lives. The villainous Higgs believes death is beautiful and wants everyone to get there as quickly as possible. Heartman, a scientist you meet later in the game, stops his heart every 21 minutes to explore the afterlife in search of his lost family. Other characters have a similarly dysfunctional relationship with death. As the game continues, Sam gets covered in handprints where the dead have touched him. As Sam crosses America, he encounters ghosts, or “Beached Things,” that try to pull him into the world of the dead. It’s up to Sam to reconnect people by delivering packages and hooking them up to an advanced internet called the “Chiral Network.” It’s weird and I loved it, but I also know some players won’t enjoy the mix of metaphysics, surrealism, and hours spent climbing mountains and doing other mundane tasks.Īlong with loneliness, death is a core theme here. Ghosts roam the wastelands between the remnants of American cities. In the game, out now for PlayStation 4 and coming soon to PC, players control Sam (Norman Reedus), a courier in a world where death is broken. Thank you so much.”ĭeath Stranding is a little like an acid trip - you can try to explain it with words, but only having the experience for yourself can really convey what it’s like. That’s why I created a knot, so that I will never be parted from you ever. “What I want to say is that I’m connected to everyone and this connection I don’t want to lose. He tells the audience - a collection of Sony Music and RCA executives - about knots, of all things.
“The game’s about connecting the world,” he says, trying to explain what Death Stranding means. He stumbles over his words while he speaks under stage lights during an event feting Death Stranding, his long-anticipated, extremely weird, extremely Kojima game. “I had nothing around me,” says Kojima, 56, “but a dream and a passion to create.” As he worked to build Kojima Productions, the company he started after leaving Konami, he realized that, in fact, he had spent his life building connections with fellow creative types, like Guillermo Del Toro and F. The celebrated video game auteur had just left Konami, his corporate and creative home of 30 years. Nearly four years ago, Hideo Kojima felt alone in the world.
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