
“I’m involved as a character,” del Toro said in a recent phone interview. But del Toro tells IGN that he isn’t creatively involved in Death Stranding. teaser game, were getting the band back together. Many speculated it might signal that del Toro and Kojima, who shared directorial control on the bite-sized P.T. Sam’s goal in the game appears to be to connect the isolated and abandoned communities of a post-apocalyptic United States, moving from the East to the West Coast.Fans took notice when director Guillermo del Toro turned up in the recent trailer for Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding that was shown at the Game Awards in December. In describing the game, Kojima has said it is a new genre, what he calls a Strand game, referring to the game’s goal of linking people and characters, or strands, to form connections. The overarching plotline and gameplay still largely remain a mystery. Kojima followed up each scene with explanations of the Death Stranding story that revealed very little. In the Deadman clip, del Toro’s character explains to Sam how the Bridge Baby allows him to sense the predatory BTs around the world. In the Mama clip, Qualley explains to Reedus’ Sam character how her daughter was born “on the other side” but that she remains linked to her by an invisible umbilical cord. Kojima also introduced two new characters in the Death Stranding game, showing clips featuring Once Upon a Time in Hollywood actress Margaret Qualley as Mama and Oscar-winning Mexican director Guillermo del Toro ( The Shape of Water) as Deadman. The remaining few minutes of gameplay showed Sam climbing to a station to help a stranded prepper (a cameo by opening night host and Games Award creator Geoff Keighley) before he falls down a cliff and then, in a surprisingly maternal scene, rocks the Bridge Baby he is carrying to sleep. The deliberate anti-climax drew a huge laugh from the crowd (which grew louder when a giant mushroom sprouted just where Sam had urinated). And what did they see? The Walking Dead‘s Norman Reedus, who plays lead character Sam, waking up and taking a pee.
