Dying Stranding 2: On The Seashore’s newest trailer is aggressively weird. In 9 minutes and 40 seconds, the video assaults us with speaking stop-motion puppets, sentient gloves wrapped round folks’s necks, throat infants vomiting out spaceships, a samurai that appears like an toddler, and by some means, Higgs returned.
It’s so densely filled with bizarre stuff that, upon repeat viewings, I truly needed to exit of my solution to pinpoint something remotely mundane. In a humorous flip of occasions, Dying Stranding 2 is so overwhelmingly odd that each eye-brow-raising visible ingredient is par for the course. Something that isn’t a black oil-covered tube child with a hilariously literal moniker voiced by Troy Baker is now the minority and, in flip, the “bizarre” stuff. They’re not straightforward to identify, so I took the freedom of doing it for you. Listed here are all the traditional/boring/remarkably tame components the trailer has to supply.
Fragile’s Water Bottle
Fragile makes use of this bottle to wash the tar off a mysterious particular person, which was encased in a cocoon-like shell early within the trailer. She might need stuffed it with water combined with some dish cleaning soap. Possibly Daybreak, for the reason that commercials say they’re good for cleansing oil spill victims. I used to be ready for the straw to do the macarena or for infants to pour out of it as a substitute of water, however since neither occurred (but), that makes it a refreshingly boring liquid supply system.
Weapons
It’s sort of shocking that weapons are comparatively typical on this unusual universe (poop grenades apart). Fight was my least favourite side of Dying Stranding, so I’m not thrilled to see that Sam remains to be packing sufficient warmth to take down a military of ink monsters. I sit up for not utilizing them as usually as doable; I would like extra room to hold my bins, anyway.
Timber
The phrase “If bushes might speak” has by no means resonated greater than now. I might love their commentary on what it felt like watching the U.S. deteriorate from “It’s fairly bizarre right here” to “We don’t even know if we occupy the identical aircraft of existence anymore, God assist us.”
Wall Pipe
Maybe probably the most memorable second of this trailer is when Higgs (who now resembles The Crow if he had been a Cyberpunk 2077 character) makes use of his electrical guitar sword factor to battle an imposing samurai who makes child noises. You had been most likely too busy absorbing all of that nonsense to note this completely common wall pipe that simply desires to do regular pipe issues and never get entangled on this foolishness.
Cooking Pan
Given the close-up this pan will get, I’m actually stunned it wasn’t used as a branding alternative. Possibly some fan has already magnified the picture to disclose an OD launch date carved on the pan’s backside. If not, although, the pan itself appears uninteresting; what Sam is cooking with it, although, stays in query. He’s most likely sauteeing these bizarre floating worm issues.
That’s it. That’s all I might discover. I can’t belief anything on this recreation as a result of every part is bizarre and doubtless has a child within it. That desert? Doubtless a child. The large moon? It’s alive and doubtless has Mads Mikkelsen’s face on the opposite facet of it (Kojima will identify him one thing cheeky like “Majora’s Mads” or one thing). The floating troopers characterize each superstar Kojima has lured into his studio’s body-scanning machine; their souls are actually trapped throughout the strand. We now have to free them.
I don’t know what Dying Stranding 2: On the Seashore is. Hell, I nonetheless can’t confidently clarify Dying Stranding 1, and I completed it. I simply know that, no matter it winds up being, I actually, actually wish to play it.