Death Stranding - New Trailer

Gabriel Phelan Lucas wrote:Gameplay I guess will be like a finished version of MGS5 but doubling down on the supernatural stuff this time. I'm not so keen on having famous faces for the characters as I prefer original character designs, but they've shown suit designs the characters will likely be wearing so that compensates. I'm intrigued but I'll wait for gameplay to be invested.

Death Stranding is MGS5 2: Pod Baby Boogaloo Starring Norman Reedus. Guessing most of the verisimilitude crap is completely ignorable (expect tons of shortcuts, routes and tricks to trivialize encounters with Action Chads running around nekkid outside weapons). Weight seems to be the resource management for inventory size. In typical Kojima fashion, there's tons of songs to play ingame (which will almost certainly have gameplay value) and cosmetics that grant bonus (baseball hat reduces stamina usage). Blood seems to be a big motiff like in BB, most of our weapons make use of it to the point of being able to trade our health to conjure up grenades.

The robit arm sends out a signal that reveals every item in the immediate area. When Daryl gets serious his robo hood goes up (amusing). Wish Kojima would drop the open world garbage, it's so much unnecessary downtime. Weapons have levels and crafting is sadly in. There's a lot of 'towers' we have to find. 'Postboxes' are basically Item Boxes/DMC Time God statues (letting us change our layout and manage inventory). Most of MGS's special traversals (walking a tightrope, rappelling) are now available in item form. Have exoskeletons which are likely the 'camo' equivalent, one showed let us run faster and jump further (lot of jumps and a slide, but no roll/dive seen yet). Looks like there's drone allies, one displayed can carry our crap or be used as a skateboard.

Looks like the two enemy classes are humans and BTs (Lovecraft ghosts). We can chuck the supply cases we're carrying at mobs (wonderful). Have an item slot for grenades (grenade pouch). Seemed to have a hybrid smoke/frag grenade and freezing grenades. Saw something called a 'Stun Bomb'. Looked like MGS2's coolant returned. Bola Gun looks to be the new tranq pistol (default nonlethal weapon). Had some kind of weird ray pistol that looked like it needed to lock on (seems like they're trying to make all weapons at least somewhat exotic, which is fine by me). We can use a rope ('Strand') as a weapon to garrot and slam people to the ground (instant knockout), along with supposedly parrying attacks (not shown). CQC looks further improved from MGS5, had multiple options open finishing the PPK string. We can stomp on people on the ground (delightful). Vehicles are in (showed a jeep and bike).