Death Stranding 2 feels a bit like Metal Gear Solid 5, Hideo Kojima says: "When you return to your bed on the Magellan, it's the same feeling as returning to the plant"

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And that's apparently not the only thing that feels familiar

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We already knew that Death Stranding 2 was going to be pretty different to its predecessor in terms of how it handles combat, but director Hideo Kojima agrees that the sequel actually feels somewhat similar to another one of his games, Metal Gear Solid 5.

In the latest issue of Edge magazine, 411, it's noted that the Death Stranding sequel feels a bit like a modern update to the 2015 Metal Gear Solid installment, and Kojima concurs: "I felt that myself when I played the game."

It's not the first time that Kojima has mentioned Metal Gear Solid when discussing the Death Stranding sequel. He recently noted that the idea of acquainting players with a gameplay concept in an initial game and then giving them more freedoms in the second – as Metal Gear Solid 1 did with stealth, before making it "a little easier to use weapons" in Metal Gear Solid 2 – has been implemented here.

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