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In case you weren't aware, the Tribeca Film Festival is currently underway. Normally, we wouldn't be bringing this up, but Hideo Kojima and actor Norman Reedus were not only present at the New York show, they spoke about Death Stranding, one of PlayStation 4's hotly anticipated exclusives, and definitely its most mysterious.

Unfortunately, we didn't get a huge amount of new information from the pair, but there were some interesting tidbits to glean from the talk. Kojima explained that connection will be an important theme in the game. "There are so many things happening in the real world - in America, in Europe - everything is actually connected by the internet, but in a way we're not connected in the real world these days," he said. "I'm putting that as a metaphor in the game. The player will have to reconnect the world in the game. You're very alone, there's solitude, but you're trying to connect. The story and the gameplay, the key word is 'connection.' There are so many things in-between, of course, but the key is connection."

He continued: "I also threw in a really new idea. You're connecting the game, and everyone is playing it together, and you'll be connected, everyone will be connected together as well. I can't say anything because Sony will be very unhappy. I don't want to be disconnected from Sony."

Kojima also stated we'll be getting a lot of his trademark cutscenes to watch: "In Death Stranding I'm going to put every aspect of Norman in there... There's a lot of cutscenes, and there's a lot of long cutscenes. You'll see Norman as Sam in the game, and see his acting in the cutscenes, and you'll enjoy that."

Speaking of Norman, the star of the game also had some cryptic things to say. "It's a different way of thinking," Reedus said. "I have a teenage son, I've played some games where you just kill everybody. It's not like that. There's violent elements to it, but it's just a different thing."

Kojima also went on to talk about a hidden area in the game where you take control of a camera. "One more thing, I can't say where, but if you go somewhere in the game, you won't be controlling Norman or Sam, you'll be just controlling a camera. You'll see Sam/Norman, and you can kind of move the camera to see around, and when you look at him he might do something like wink at you. So you're actually playing as Norman Reedus as Sam, and in the drama part Sam will act to hit your emotions, but when you go into this special area you'll definitely love Norman. You'll be a Norman fan." Sounds like Kojima's take on photo mode.

So, Death Stranding connects all players, it's about reconnecting the world, it's chock full of cutscenes, and it has some kind of bizarre hidden camera mode. We're still none the wiser, but we'll take whatever we can get.

[source gamesradar.com]