Hideo Kojima Is Still 'Building' Death Stranding 2

May we have an official announcement for a release date soon. This is certainly my most anticipated release this year and I can’t wait to know when I’ll be playing it.

Also, it was obvious before this, but Kojima’s got great taste. Cool to see him plugging the Astro Bot controller. I would not be shocked if, in return for all the Kojima Easter eggs in Astro Bot, he returns the favor somehow in DS2.

@Reform @Oram77 Can you source where Kojima said that?

Grab your tin foil hats, my friends:
Also, how do you know Kojima and Konami aren’t still friends? There’s long been a theory that there is a ruse going on where Kojima has a better relationship with Konami that anyone thinks and that he’s been building a carefully curated misdirection campaign to return to MGS since V. For all we know, Physint may be the sequel to MGS4.

Exhibit I
“The moment zero becomes one is the moment the world springs to life,” as the Big Boss says. Physint may stand for Physical Integrity, ie the Nine Point Physical Integrity Rights Index, which measures the degree to which a person is free from political torture or governmental killing. It evaluates items at 0 to 1 scale.

Exhibit II
Kojima’s made references to this scale in practically every game. And now we’ve gone from Ground Zeroes to One as Kojima has practically talked about how much he appreciates his freedom by being an indie at every turn he can since the announcement of Physint.

Exhibit III
Project Ogre was a game announced prior to MGSV, which was not considered and open world, but a free world. According to the Japanese Ogre legend, and miniaturizing its concepts, it contains the story of a red ogre that sought to befriend a village that was terrified of it. It requested the aid of its friend the blue ogre to startle the town and the red ogre would battle it to save the village and become a hero in the process, even though the battle was simulated. Red ogre=Konami. Blue ogre=Playstation.

Exhibit IV
Analyze the Delta symbol in MGS3: Delta and compare it to the V in MGSV. It’s an inverted symbol. With a bridge between it. Hmm… Sam Porter BRIDGES. Two Kojima-tangent properties simultaneously releasing, huh?

Exhibit V
Physint
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The ramblings of an insane old man, am I sharing with you, no doubt. The double speak of someone that’s gone too far, seen too much, read too much. I could keep going. Lol

There’s been Kojima conspiracies for years now and they’re fun to read. The dedicated Kojima fanbase is very familiar with the themes of his work and some believe everything he does is intentional to the point that they’re breadcrumbs back to Metal Gear. As Eli’s jacket says very clearly, “Never Be Game Over.”