Demise Stranding 2: On The Seaside’s newest trailer is aggressively weird. In 9 minutes and 40 seconds, the video assaults us with speaking stop-motion puppets, sentient gloves wrapped round individuals’s necks, throat infants vomiting out spaceships, a samurai that appears like an toddler, and one way or the other, Higgs returned.
It’s so densely full of bizarre stuff that, upon repeat viewings, I truly needed to exit of my approach to pinpoint something remotely mundane. In a humorous flip of occasions, Demise Stranding 2 is so overwhelmingly odd that each eye-brow-raising visible factor is par for the course. Something that isn’t a black oil-covered tube child with a hilariously literal moniker voiced by Troy Baker is now the minority and, in flip, the “bizarre” stuff. They’re not simple to identify, so I took the freedom of doing it for you. Listed here are all the conventional/boring/remarkably tame parts the trailer has to supply.
Fragile’s Water Bottle
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Fragile makes use of this bottle to scrub the tar off a mysterious individual, which was encased in a cocoon-like shell early within the trailer. She may need crammed it with water blended with some dish cleaning soap. Possibly Daybreak, because the commercials say they’re good for cleansing oil spill victims. I used to be ready for the straw to do the macarena or for infants to pour out of it as an alternative of water, however since neither occurred (but), that makes it a refreshingly boring liquid supply system.
Weapons
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It’s type of shocking that weapons are comparatively typical on this unusual universe (poop grenades apart). Fight was my least favourite facet of Demise Stranding, so I’m not thrilled to see that Sam continues to be packing sufficient warmth to take down a military of ink monsters. I sit up for not utilizing them as usually as attainable; I would like extra room to hold my containers, anyway.
Timber
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The phrase “If bushes may discuss” has by no means resonated greater than now. I might love their commentary on what it felt like watching the U.S. deteriorate from “It’s fairly bizarre right here” to “We don’t even know if we occupy the identical aircraft of existence anymore, God assist us.”
Wall Pipe
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Maybe probably the most memorable second of this trailer is when Higgs (who now resembles The Crow if he had been a Cyberpunk 2077 character) makes use of his electrical guitar sword factor to battle an imposing samurai who makes child noises. You had been in all probability too busy absorbing all of that nonsense to note this completely common wall pipe that simply desires to do regular pipe issues and never get entangled on this foolishness.
Cooking Pan
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Given the close-up this pan will get, I’m truthfully shocked it wasn’t used as a branding alternative. Possibly some fan has already magnified the picture to disclose an OD launch date carved on the pan’s backside. If not, although, the pan itself appears uninteresting; what Sam is cooking with it, although, stays in query. He’s in all probability sauteeing these bizarre floating worm issues.
That’s it. That’s all I may discover. I can’t belief the rest on this recreation as a result of all the pieces is bizarre and possibly has a child within it. That desert? Seemingly a child. The enormous moon? It’s alive and possibly has Mads Mikkelsen’s face on the opposite facet of it (Kojima will identify him one thing cheeky like “Majora’s Mads” or one thing). The floating troopers signify each superstar Kojima has lured into his studio’s body-scanning machine; their souls at the moment are trapped inside the strand. Now we have to free them.
I don’t know what Demise Stranding 2: On the Seaside is. Hell, I nonetheless can’t confidently clarify Demise Stranding 1, and I completed it. I simply know that, no matter it winds up being, I actually, actually need to play it.