Death Stranding
Hideo Kojima is the closest thing that video games have to a Quentin Tarantino. His games, like Tarantino’s films, are incredibly stylized and true to a singular vision, sometimes to their own detriment. And you had better not criticize either within earshot of a true believer, or you are really going to hear about it.
Of Sony’s unreleased exclusives, we know the least about Death Stranding, despite it having the most coverage in the form of trailers and interviews. If you look into it, you’ll find a random assortment of imagery and iconography seems designed to bewilder.
At this point, I don’t want to hear anything more about it until the team at Kojima Productions is ready to announce a date.
We do know that Hollywood types like Norman Reedus, Mads Mikkelson, and Guillermo Del Toro are involved in and completely sold on the project.
Del Toro, speaking to IGN, let it be known that even he doesn’t know what is going on with the game, so it’s safe to assume Kojima-san is playing this one close to the chest.
We still don’t have a release date for Death Stranding and aren’t likely to get one anytime soon. Personally, I think it’s going to be a 2020 game and launch on both PS4 and PS5.
It would make sense to take advantage of the increased power of the new console, and having such a mysterious game on the launch lineup would be incredibly tantalizing.
