A Death Stranding Twitch livestream has kicked off ahead of the game’s reveal. After years of waiting and a bunch of trailer footage that an entire team of scientists couldn’t make sense of, we’re finally going to learn more about Hideo Kojima’s latest project.
#DEATHSTRANDING の新情報公開まであと1日！全世界で同時公開の5月30日（日本時間）です！楽しみにお待ちください！
Count down for #DEATHSTRANDING is on. Stay tuned -5/29 in US/EU, 5/30 in JPN time zone. Simultaneous reveal worldwide🌎
TOMORROW IS IN YOUR HAND！https://t.co/Og5Zy6trbp pic.twitter.com/xCkc2CkJNG— HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN) May 29, 2019
“Countdown for Death Stranding is on,” stated a tweet from Hideo Kojima. “Stay tuned -5/29 in US/EU, 5/30 in JPN time zone. Simultaneous reveal worldwide TOMORROW IS IN YOUR HAND!” The tweet also included an image with the text “Tomorrow is in your hands”, a likely tagline for this upcoming game.
If you’ve been living under a rock, Death Stranding is the next game from Hideo Kojima. It stars a number of popular actors and actresses like Norman Reedus and Léa Seydoux with expertly-crafted character models. More than a few trailers have been released in the last few years, but we’ve learned surprisingly little about the game in that time.
Here’s what we do know: Death Stranding will be an open world game. Norman Reedus is carrying a baby in a jar for some reason. There will be some sort of light world and dark world that you travel between somehow. Finally, there’s a bunch of black goop everywhere and super-creepy invisible creatures that are seemingly detected by these sort of flapper/flashlight devices attached to a robotic arm on your back.
The Death Stranding Twitch livestream is currently live, showing a series of images that are mostly obscured by blackness save for a constantly-shifting array of transparent handprints. The imagery in the pre-stream is consistent with earlier teasers posted to Kojima’s Twitter account:
https://t.co/crxaNwlAA7 #DEATHSTRANDING pic.twitter.com/yQFbxJIz2U
— 小島秀夫 (@Kojima_Hideo) May 28, 2019
While the Death Stranding Twitch livestream is certainly the big news for today, it’s not the only bit of info that’s dropped. Details of the pre-order bonuses for the game were accidentally revealed early and a quick-thinking gamer managed to snap a picture of what you’ll get for pre-ordering Death Stranding.
Hopefully, today’s stream will finally tell us what the game is all about. Then again, I’ve played through Metal Gear Solid 2 about half a dozen times and I still have no idea what’s going on in that game. You can watch the Death Stranding Twitch livestream below or at twitch.tv/playstation. Stay tuned for the big reveal later today!
