Here’s eight minutes of new Death Stranding 2 scenes, posted chopped up and context free on social media as Kojima intended

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Here’s eight minutes of new Death Stranding 2 scenes, posted chopped up and context free on social media as Kojima intendedPromotional Clipman

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Dollman has a sing song in Death Stranding 2.

Despite his cinephile tendencies, one thing you can’t accuse Kojima of is being precious about how people experience his work. Would Scorsese release eight minutes of a film chopped up into two minute chunks on Xitter, to be experienced fractured and contextless to anyone who didn’t tune into theTokyo Game Show? Would Scorsese have the chutzpah to call a character Head Viceman or Tempted Christman? I doubt it. Irishman doesn’t count. It’s Dollman’s time now anyway. Let’s have a look at the newDeath Stranding 2scenes then. Watch them on your phone foradded kino.

Here’s the “first public release of game footage,” say Kojima Productions,via X.

#TGS2024PlayStation Presents “DEATH STRANDING 2” Special Stage!First public release of game footage.Part1: Dollman & Tarman Member Introductions.#DeathStranding2pic.twitter.com/ci2QP57CbR— KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS (Eng) (@KojiPro2015_EN)September 29, 2024To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings

#TGS2024PlayStation Presents “DEATH STRANDING 2” Special Stage!First public release of game footage.Part1: Dollman & Tarman Member Introductions.#DeathStranding2pic.twitter.com/ci2QP57CbR

This one shows Norman Reedus’s Sam and Léa Seydoux’s Fragile in a grimy boat, meeting a skinsuitted George Miller as Tarman, who has an inky cat with wings sitting on his shoulder. I played and liked theopen worldofDeath Strandinga lot, but I can’t remember any of the proper nouns, so you’ll have to forgive me for not using them. The ship’s dashboard is so wonderfully intricate I give it two weeks before Microprose make a game about it, and the ship’s wheel itself is a crisp projection that contrasts starkly with the decaying interior.

They have a chat about voyaging through the tar, and Fragile lights a cigarette with the hands on her top, which seems like an incredibly specific use for such an elaborate garment. We’re then introduced to floating puppet Dollman, who’s animated at a lower framerate to evoke old practical effects. I don’t use Twitter these days, although I’m almost tempted to sign up just so I can post about how the doll’s framerate ‘looks like a PS2 game lol’ and see how many people I can annoy.

Dollman insists he’s not actually a puppet - he’s alive! Alive or not, he certainly enjoys singing, as we’ll soon find out.

#TGS2024PlayStation Presents “DEATH STRANDING 2” Special Stage!First public release of game footage.Part 2: Tomorrow & Rainy Member Introductions.#DeathStranding2pic.twitter.com/ElGZ62zSEQ— KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS (Eng) (@KojiPro2015_EN)September 29, 2024To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings

#TGS2024PlayStation Presents “DEATH STRANDING 2” Special Stage!First public release of game footage.Part 2: Tomorrow & Rainy Member Introductions.#DeathStranding2pic.twitter.com/ElGZ62zSEQ

#TGS2024PlayStation Presents “DEATH STRANDING 2” Special Stage!First public release of game footage.Part 3: Heartman TGS2024 Special Video.#DeathStranding2pic.twitter.com/F0QlEPC6Dg— KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS (Eng) (@KojiPro2015_EN)September 29, 2024To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings

#TGS2024PlayStation Presents “DEATH STRANDING 2” Special Stage!First public release of game footage.Part 3: Heartman TGS2024 Special Video.#DeathStranding2pic.twitter.com/F0QlEPC6Dg

This one features Sam meeting Hartman from the last game in a spooky lab full of goop statues. I’m really starting to curse my memory at this point. Hartman flips a hourglass over, then collect a tear in a dropper. I remember this all being significant and interesting but I can’t remember how. I foresee many ‘explained in 10 minutes’ videos in my future.

Ah, I do remember this place! It’s Hartman’s house in the mountains, the trek to which was a prime example of the sort of delightful ballache that comprises much of Death Stranding. Hartman has a new device that lets him fall over at weird angles and contorts to support his body, which looks brilliant amounts of fun.

The last two clips aren’t really cutscenes. One is anexcellent looking photo mode, and another is a music video featuringmultiple dancing Dollmen. I like what I see! But I would like to see Sam climbing a thing next, please. There’s only so many musical numbers I can take before I vow to only play Death Stranding 2 through goggles made out of toilet paper tubes, as Scorsese intended.

If you haven’t been keeping up, we last gota trailer back in January, alongside the announcement of a 2025 release window. Matthew Castle (RPS in peace)reviewed the original Death Strandingin video form, calling it a “brilliant take on open world exploration; a full body cleanse of the genre’s worst habits.”