'We released Death Stranding before the Covid-19 pandemic, when the world was moving toward isolation and division'as with Brexit. The idea behind it was 'Let's connect. We'll face disaster if we don't connect.' The theme, the story, and the gameplay of the first chapter all revolved around that idea,' Kojima tells WIRED. 'After the release, just three months later, a pandemic broke out, and I was very surprised. It really felt like Death Stranding, in a way.' WIRED headed to Tokyo in April for a long and comprehensive preview of the game and asked Kojima about all the secrets behind Death Stranding 2's creation. The game is set to be released June 26 and will be available on PlayStation. 'In the real world, in the 21st century, we have something similar to the Chiral Network'the internet. It was different than, for example, the Spanish flu pandemic a century earlier. We survived the pandemic because of the internet and the fact that people were about to connect online. Now there...
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