Death Stranding 2’s photo mode looks wild

The 2024 variation of Tokyo Game Show took spot implicit the weekend, and 1 of the highlights was a presumption from Death Stranding 2 workplace Kojima Productions. And it included a fewer absorbing details astir the weird-as-hell sequel, which the developer has helpfully divided up into a bid of clips successful lieu of a accepted trailer. They diagnostic immoderate of the caller characters joining the cast, immoderate dialog that makes small consciousness retired of context, arsenic good arsenic what looks similar a wholly ridiculous photograph mode to play astir with.

The archetypal includes immoderate returning faces played by Norman Reedus and Léa Leydoux, and besides provides a due instauration to 1 of the alien elements of DS2: a physic mean who has been turned into a marionette, who is evidently known arsenic Dollman:

Next up we person 2 of the characters manager Hideo Kojima has been teasing for immoderate time, with Rainy played by Shioli Kutsuna and Elle Fanning arsenic Tomorrow. (If you’ve played the archetypal Death Stranding, oregon truly immoderate Kojima games, those names are really beauteous normal.) It includes an unexpected sing-a-long:

Then there’s a abbreviated clip of Heartman doing immoderate mathematics and besides collecting his ain tears:

Those each supply a decent consciousness of the oddball satellite players volition beryllium exploring, adjacent if it’s inactive beauteous unclear what Death Stranding 2 is really about. But this adjacent clip shows disconnected however the photograph mode works, and honestly it looks beauteous fun, with the quality to drawback pics with tons of characters doing tons of poses. Also there’s a stuffed cryptobiote, a tiny but tasty snack from the archetypal game: