Death Stranding 2 Needs a New Setting

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Following Hideo Kojima's split from Konami, many fans were excited to see what Kojima could achieve as an independent developer, and his new studio's debut game did not disappoint. Death Stranding immediately captivated audiences from the moment its first teaser dropped, even to a re-release with Death Stranding: Director's Cut. The game blended the surrealism and somber beauty of a world drifting in the post-apocalypse with a hardy optimism for humanity's future by coming together, released at a time when Kojima saw the real world as divided and in need of unity.

A sequel for Death Stranding has been on many peoples' minds as they anticipate what Kojima Productions will deliver next. With the official announcement of Project Overdose between Kojima and Xbox, as well as rumors spreading about Death Stranding 2, many are hopeful about a return to the series. Depending on which ending players got, it seems humanity might be living on borrowed time in the Death Stranding universe. Whatever shape a sequel takes, there are a few things for certain — chief among them being Death Stranding 2's need to go big with its next setting.

Death Stranding 2 and Overdose May Define Kojima's Future

Death Stranding took players to the United States of America, only the country had been destroyed in the first stranding that preempted the game's events. The «states» had long since been lost to the stranding, and instead all that's left cities, leading to the in-game name being the United Cities of America. Death Stranding's core objective was for Sam Bridges to trek across the surviving landscape connecting «knots» into the chiralium network, bringing the country back together and leading to a community-led determination of the «strand» genre.

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