Death Stranding 2: On the Seashore, the sequel to Hideo Kojima’s 2019 hit Death Stranding, was well-received at launch. It’s “extremely thrilling and authentic,” and “daring work that deserves to be inspired,” not less than, based on our evaluation. In consequence, followers is perhaps hoping for an eventual third recreation in the collection. But for proper now, Kojima is not planning to make Death Stranding 3…despite the fact that he already has an idea written.
Kojima mentioned this in an interview in Riyadh, Saudia Arabia, as part of the Death Stranding 2 World Strand Tour. When requested by the interviewer about Death Stranding 3, he replied with the following:
“I am not planning to do this at the second, as a result of the ending of Death Stranding 2 was my finale of 1 and a pair of. But I already wrote the idea of DS3, so I’ve that in knowledge. I hope that somebody would create it for me.”
This is not the first time Kojima has recommended that another person may decide up the mantle of his video games after him. Again in Could, he mentioned that he’d been considering increasingly about his personal dying recently, prompting him to create a USB stick “form of like a will” that lays out the way forward for his studio, Kojima Productions, if he dies.
“I gave a USB persist with all my concepts on it to my private assistant, form of like a will,” he mentioned. “Maybe they might proceed to make issues after I’m gone at Kojima Productions… It is a concern for me: what occurs to Kojima Productions after I’m gone? I don’t need them to simply handle our present IP.”
Whereas we can’t be getting a Death Stranding 3 anytime quickly it appears like, there’s lots coming from Kojima’s thoughts in the close to future. Death Stranding is getting a live-action movie adaptation in partnership with A24, and Kojima is busy engaged on two totally different video games: horror undertaking OD, in collaboration with Xbox, and Metallic Gear successor Physint.
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