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PC Gamer
Jody Macgregor

We thought Death Stranding was Peak Kojima, but Death Stranding 2 already looks like it's scaling new heights of his personal WTF mountain

If it doesn't make you say "what the fuck" out loud is it even a Death Stranding trailer? The marketing for the original Death Stranding was a masterclass in intriguing nonsense that everyone wanted to talk about even though we did not understand a lick of it. There were dead whales, blood urine, and a baby inside Norman Reedus. Also Mads Mikkelsen was there? 

After 60+ hours of playing Death Stranding, finally all those things made sense. So you might think the sequel wouldn't have anything left to baffle us with, but no. In the nine-minute trailer that debuted at Sony's State of Play, Death Stranding 2 was almost immediately as incomprehensible as its predecessor seemed in those delightfully weird prerelease trailers. Here are the things we were most surprised and confused by.

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