If the first Death Stranding was trying to reconnect a broken world, Death Stranding 2: On the Beach is instead trying to show the possible dangers of such connectivity - and Hideo Kojima himself was trying to "conjure" up two different historical eras to drive his point home.
In an interview in Edge Magazine's latest issue, the iconic game director compared the difference between his two open-world delivery sims to the difference between the Silk Road era and the times of the East India Company.
