Music has always been a big part of Hideo Kojima’s games, but that’s never been more true than with Death Stranding 2. Like the first game, it features both original music and curated selections from artists Kojima identifies with, such as Low Roar, Silent Poets, and Caroline Polachek. This time around, Kojima also worked with one of those artists, recruiting French singer, composer, and graphic designer Yoann Lemoine, better known as Woodkid, to create an immersive album that intertwines with the game’s world and story.
“What really differs from my records is that it's procedural,” Woodkid tells Inverse, “So I had to create these songs that sounded like pop songs, but then we had to reverse engineer them and strip them back so that the engine would be able to program them and develop them in a way that would be fully integrated with the gamer's experience and actions.”
