Oh boy oh boy oh boy Christmas came early. Check the vid and it is pure kino. Kojimbo has done it again. Made a game that might finally surpass MGS 5 as his crowning achievement.

Let us take a deep dive:

1) 00:08 - 00:30 - the graphics look like pure kino next gen. Remember that Death stranding 2 is an open world game so this is really extremely amazing graphics for an open world game. The middle eastern guy looks so good graphically. The white guy looks less real and less detailed. One thing I noted was that the graphics look better than the previous death standing 2 trailer where the skin of the characters looked slightly more video gamey which shows that Hideo Kojima actually improve the graphics in the time between the two trailers.

2) 00:31 - 01:18 - New foid character. Haven't seen her ever before. The conversation about brain dead pregnant women being smuggled suggests some very serious dark themes as part of the story, something that Kojima excels at. The acting is also pretty good so far and the tension between the characters feels real. Has Kojima finally overcome the curse of Japanese video game characters talking like not real people? Crazy progress if yes.

3) 01:19 - 01:42 - Main character looks alright. The mountains look beautiful. Environment design is 10/10 here.

4) 01:44 - 01:49 - The rings of floating bodies over the beach look kino. I love it. The beached whales are the weakest graphics I am seeing in the trailer so far. Their skin looks a bit fake to my amateur eye. Wonder if that is just accepted graphics hardware limitation or he will fix that too before launch.

5) 01:51 - 01:54 - pretty nifty trick of mixing stop motion styled animation with fluid normal animation cutscenes. Interesting addition to the game.

6) 01:57 - 02:01 - some pillars stacked together with what looks like pilgrims walking towards it. Not that interesting but okay.

7) 02:04 - 02:07 - ship rising up. Nothing interesting.

8) 02:10 - 02:12 - okay so these are just a bunch of gifs stacked together since 01:51. got it.

9) 02:15 - 02:18 - random something. Art slop.

10) 02:21 - 02:24 - giant wall of black goo.

11) 02:27 -02:30 - random stu- wait holy frick is that underwater? Really cool if that is the guy standing underwater. Hard to tell.

12) 02:31 - 02:34 - baby.

13) 02:37 - 04:32 - Music starts playing reminiscent of his use of music for his MGS 5 trailers. We get a look at different environments in game. Rocky terrain looks really good. Character walking by the water, water ( or is that Oil? ) looks average? I have seen better in other games. Snowy environment looks nice but not 10/10. The suit in snowy environment looks kino with the blue glow orbs over the leg. Grass Terrain reminds me of the forest in in Forza Horizon 5. Rainy mud terrain looks good. Floating box tech looks cool. Environmental effects appear such as what looks to be flooding, fire, dust storm, and the black goo explosions. The bike looks kino. 10/10 bike. Driving vehicle variant 2 also looks good. Snow storm looks good. THEY GOT AVALANCHE WOOOOOOO! Cutscene looks kino. Asian guy hologram looks kino. Short hair foid looks good graphics. She had a bike crash but saved baby in her arms. Can teleport apparently but cannot take the baby because she can only teleport equipment with her and cannot think of baby as equipment? She manages to teleport baby by only teleporting baby and looks like letting herself get shot by guy with gun who was chasing her. Baby transported to crib and red suit guys uh...walk into another dimension?

14) 04:32 - 06:50 - Now back to main character. Montage of monsters in the game. They all look great. More detailed than death stranding 1 oil monsters which is impressive for putting more details on humanoid blobs of oil. The monster that tears out of some skin cacoon thing was a cool monster reveal. GIANT MONSTERS PUNCHING EACH OTHER JUST LIKE MY HECKIN GODZILLERINO!!! Masked man enemy. Floating robot enemy. WE GET A GUN THIS TIME TO SHOOT THINGS!!! OUR BIKE HAS GUNS TOO!!! Long highways to drive on. Split face monster looks cool. ABOVE THE CLOUDS MOUNTAIN PEAK STANDING VIEW KINO!!! Meh nebula picture in the sky. GIANT MOON!!! Fighting and transport gameplay mix. WE CAN HANG RIDE ON A RAIL!!! A lot of shit that I am not even sure how to describe. Gold face. Cargo lane hanging on. Vehicle variant 3? Winged oil cat. Oooohhhh the winged oil cat graphics are so good. Video games generally suck a whole lot at rendering animal fur and textures realistically. We have almost crossed the threshold to realistic looking highly detailed animals. Characters montage. The eyes on fragile look so so good. There is a guy literally called TARMAN. Tomorrow ( Elle Fanning ) character looks Amazing. There is a doll named dollman and oh god the lighting on him is so fricking good. LMAO Charlie. I cannot explain this one you just gotta look at Charlie you will understand. LOL. ROBOT SAMURAI!!! They got that black woman who is in all video games now. Holy frick that on the top of the ship guy standing scene looks so fricking real. Shits crazy. ROBOT SAMURAI TRANSPORT VARIANT! Looks cozy and kino. Lots more random mood setting quick cuts between scenes.

15) 06:51 - 07:10 - Main character making out with the dead teleportation foid? Romance slop.

16) 07:14 - 07:26 - Man with tentacles inside is trying to exterminate humanity.

17) 07:26 - 08-16 - cute puppet raise hands to get help putting seatbelt on. Spaceship? launches into the sky. Crabs on black pillars. Holy frick all the oil monsters we saw earlier in the video fuse into one giant oil monster. The head monster was the head, the spider monster was an arm, and the giant monsters that fused from all the other monsters also have giant wings! Flying ship faces the giant monsters. There are multiple of those giants.

18) 08:21 - 09:50 - Time is wonky? Or just watch is wonky? THE MIDDLE EASTERN GUY PUT ON A SOLID SNAKE BANDANA AND HAS A SQUAD OF SKELETON SOLDIERS!!! KOJIMBO HAS DONE IT AGAIN HE SPIRITUALLY BROUGHT THE CHARACTER LOOK ALIKE OF METAL GEAR INTO HIS NEW FRANCHISE!! main character uses VR. Another character takes over a ships controls and fuses as the head with a giant oil monster to fight other giant oil monsters. Video ends with sound of baby.

My takeaway:

Game looks kino. Best open world graphics I have seen till date. Cutscenes look like high quality movie CGI. Some of the scenes have lighting so good it could make a visual effects enthusiast cry. Animal skin graphics have never looked so good before. Human eyes and skin looks amazing. Environments look amazing. The monsters are more detailed and look awesome. They got a guy who looks like Solid Snake from the Metal Gear Series leading a skeleton soldier squad. The game is filled with weirdness but the acting and script appears to be top notch. Holy shit I think this might actually be Kojima's Magnum opus. There is so much good stuff in there even based on the trailers alone. Who knows what more is there in the actual game itself.

I love it.

10/10 would trust Kojima again.

Would recommend the game, and I didn't really care for the first death stranding. Kojima cooked and I have never seen something so unique and story focused look so good and worth the time at the same time.

Also remember to check the trailer out yourself as well because I am sure I missed a bunch of stuff in there. The trailer is very heavy in terms of details and very light in comparison to what the entire games released plot is probably going to look like.

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