Hideo Kojima has confirmed that Death Stranding 2 will have more action than the original in the most Hideo Kojima way possible.
The original Death Stranding did have a lot of action in it, but throwing jugs of your urine and feces at goop monsters was a far smaller part of the puzzle than the more peaceful elements like traversal and making deliveries. Kojima in the past has cited Kobo Abe's novella Rope, which talks about the first inventions of the human race being the stick and the rope (with an excerpt being the first thing you see when you launch Death Stranding).
