Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding

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I have no idea what this is about, but it looks... weird.

First Norman Reedus, now Mads Mikkelsen?

That's a Kojima trailer for sure.

It's Stranding, not Standing

beanman101283 wrote:

It's Stranding, not Standing :D

I don't know what you're talking about...

When I understand what's going on in this game, will I be ashamed?

ClockworkHouse wrote:

When I understand what's going on in this game, will I be ashamed?

Probably better off just going in pre-ashamed. That way, you're covered.

Kojima joints are the gaming version of an ortolan. Put a towel over your head when you play it so God doesn't see your shame.

Heheh... if you play the two trailers side by side, the baby disappears from Norman Reedus and appears in Guillermo del Toro's world:

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I wonder if the gameplay is an evolution of MGS V or something entirely different? Either way Kojima hasn't disappointed me yet hitting masterpiece after masterpiece with the Metal Gear Solid series.

Love the trailer, this game has very interesting themes, plus cool looking octopus monsters on top of tanks!

ClockworkHouse wrote:

When I understand what's going on in this game, will I be ashamed?

It would be weird if you walked away from a Kojima gamed and weren't ashamed.

I'm essentially counting on it at least being interesting. Between the two trailers, adult males with umbilicals is a consistent thing. Norman Reedus has the scar over his belly button, Guillermo del Toro hooks up to the robo-womb with an umbilical presumably attached to his belly button, the baby doll in the second trailer has the same scar over its belly button that Norman Reedus has in the first trailer, and presumably Mads has a series of umbilicals he's using to control Stalfos-Militia.

I know it's stupid but it's really got me wondering what the Hell is up with all the umbilicals and where all the white women at women are.

I just caught the title of this thread out of the corner of my eye, and thought Kojima had suddenly died. That was a bit of a shocker.

Calling it now. Hideo Kojima will announce at E3 that the game will release with a special edition that will include a lock of his hair and a piece if his umbilical chord.

The Conformist wrote:

Calling it now. Hideo Kojima will announce at E3 that the game will release with a special edition that will include a lock of his hair and a piece if his umbilical chord.

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The Conformist wrote:

Calling it now. Hideo Kojima will announce at E3 that the game will release with a special edition that will include a lock of his hair and a piece if his umbilical chord.

I'm buying three copies so I can kill the moon and turn into a slug.

ccesarano wrote:

I know it's stupid but it's really got me wondering what the Hell is up with all the umbilicals

I dunno, but it reminded me immediately of a piece from the October issue of Unwinnable Monthly titled "Mother, Maiden & Crone" (which sadly isn't on their website):

All human societies have a conception of the monstrous-feminine, of what it is about woman that is shocking, terrifying, horrific, abject.” Barbara Creed’s now famous analysis of horror films applies Julia Kristeva’s psychoanalytic discussion of the abject – that which is repulsive, repugnant and must be rejected – to closely examine what she calls the “monstrous-feminine.” These are more than just female versions of male monsters, as “[t]he reasons why the monstrous-feminine horrifies her audience are quite different from the reasons why the male monster horrifies his audience.”
It is the female physicality of the monstrous-feminine that makes her horrifying.

Obviously Kojima is flipping the script slightly but I think the use of umbillical cords (or something very analogous) is on-point with invoking the above.

shoptroll wrote:
ccesarano wrote:

I know it's stupid but it's really got me wondering what the Hell is up with all the umbilicals

I dunno, but it reminded me immediately of a piece from the October issue of Unwinnable Monthly titled "Mother, Maiden & Crone" (which sadly isn't on their website):

All human societies have a conception of the monstrous-feminine, of what it is about woman that is shocking, terrifying, horrific, abject.” Barbara Creed’s now famous analysis of horror films applies Julia Kristeva’s psychoanalytic discussion of the abject – that which is repulsive, repugnant and must be rejected – to closely examine what she calls the “monstrous-feminine.” These are more than just female versions of male monsters, as “[t]he reasons why the monstrous-feminine horrifies her audience are quite different from the reasons why the male monster horrifies his audience.”
It is the female physicality of the monstrous-feminine that makes her horrifying.

Obviously Kojima is flipping the script slightly but I think the use of umbillical cords (or something very analogous) is on-point with invoking the above.

This checks out. Women are indeed terrifying creatures. ;-}

I guess they decided to get out in front of E3 instead of dropping this at the E3 they aren't going to be at.

OMFG, the women are named "Fragile" and "Mama", and the game is packed with spoOoOoky birth imagery. Not to mention the whole de-aging Lindsay Wagner so that she was closer to Kojima's ideal of her. This game is going to be so f*cking sexist.

EverythingsTentative wrote:

Looks incredibly wierd and I'm loving every minute of it. I do believe this may be the first game I pre-order in years. Cannot resist the Hideo obscurity!

ClockworkHouse wrote:

OMFG, the women are named "Fragile" and "Mama", and the game is packed with spoOoOoky birth imagery. Not to mention the whole de-aging Lindsay Wagner so that she was closer to Kojima's ideal of her. This game is going to be so f*cking sexist.

A Kojima game is horribly sexist?

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Right? And there'll be the industry to lap it up.

What is it with licking women's faces? Didn't get it in Return of the Jedi, don't get it now.

I think Jabba was licking his lips and she was just pushed close.

farley3k wrote:

What is it with licking women's faces? Didn't get it in Return of the Jedi, don't get it now.

I mean it makes as much sense as a giant slug having a thing for scantily-clad humanoid females in general.

(I believe some EU source attempted to excuse this by saying Jabba's fetish was considered bizarre even by other Hutts.)

Can't we talk about the sweet, sweet suitcase combat?

I have a level 3 samsonite!

farley3k wrote:

I have a level 3 samsonite!

It's a Samsonite!? Huh, I was way off!

farley3k wrote:

What is it with licking women's faces? Didn't get it in Return of the Jedi, don't get it now.

Lazy cinematic shorthand for "this dude is well creepy"?

Metal Gear Solid 6: Death Stranding?

farley3k wrote:

What is it with licking women's faces? Didn't get it in Return of the Jedi, don't get it now.

Name a fetish that isn't weird and we've found your fetish.

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