Hideo Kojima compares Death Stranding 2 to the East India Company: "It's represented by the prevalence of weapons"

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While the first game was more representative of the Silk Road era

Death Stranding 2 PS5 screenshot
(Image credit: Kojima Productions)

If the first Death Stranding was trying to reconnect a broken world, Death Stranding 2: On the Beach is instead trying to show the possible dangers of such connectivity - and Hideo Kojima himself was trying to "conjure" up two different historical eras to drive his point home.

In an interview in Edge Magazine's latest issue, the iconic game director compared the difference between his two open-world delivery sims to the difference between the Silk Road era and the times of the East India Company.

Kaan Serin
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Kaan freelances for various websites including Rock Paper Shotgun, Eurogamer, and this one, Gamesradar. He particularly enjoys writing about spooky indies, throwback RPGs, and anything that's vaguely silly. Also has an English Literature and Film Studies degree that he'll soon forget.

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