The way you're firing out these Death Stranding videos is reminding me of the good old days of MGS V. This is why I subbed, Yong. Keep doing what you're doing.
I feel like we can get more for what Kojima has said. That death is going to be a game mechanic and not just a continue screen/respawn. I feel like you will move to a parallel universe when you die, that the babies are the key to coming back to life. Kind of a TPS with a dark souls respawn mechanic, but elaborated further. Like you die then you have to be reborn in a parallel universe (the babies) then recover the baby to go back. The E3 trailer to me seemed like a purgatory, which is why Normand is naked, he recently died in the game world and was reborn in purgatory and the only thing he took with him are the dog tags, and hand cuffs some devices that can go between parallel universes. Where Guillermo is in what looks more like a game world, because it has enemies. Also we learn that this going is going be co-op, maybe other characters will not always be in the same universe at the same time and if one dies the other has to bring the out of purgatory back into the game world, meanwhile one character will have to jump to another parallel universe to open a door n'shit like that, but you need strands to follow back into the original universe otherwise you will lose your co-op buddie, just like Kojima showed the buddies holding hands then the 1st and last tethered by a string. Mads smiling makes it seem like he knows Normand's baby form is close, and he's looking to destroy the baby before Guillermo brings him back into that world. I don't think the trailers are directly connected but this is what I got from watching them both, and reading up on what Kojima has said about the game mechanics.
Brian Medina I have something similar to yours but my theory is that both Norman and Del Toro characters are actually the same soul. What I mean is that Norman could be the first character and he sees these 5 "enemies" and he has to fight. He fights until he loses and dies, and basically this is where death plays a role. The soul then perhaps go to a new body and faces the same 5 enemies again but perhaps 100-200 years later. Del Toro might be a God knows what number body that faces the same enemies. So, the role of death is basically learning skill sets. Maybe in Norman, you learn how to craft things, setup traps etc. But the amount of skills you learn is based on how early or late you die. The later you die, the more skills you can learn. And you retain those skills to the next body. And you repeat in learning skills or enhance it through the eras. Which then leads to Del Toro, who even though was initially afraid but after connecting to the fetus, gained confidence and decided to see the villain who we know now is Mads. And that's probably because of decades or centuries of learning new skills over and over to the point where he finally knows how to beat Mads. The fetus or baby could be a conduit for the character to access the past memories or skills gained. After all, in the wheel of reincarnation, most of the time the person won't be able to remember his past life. Perhaps a tiny bit but that's it. Only a few select ones are able to remember their past lives. It kinda makes sense when you see how they react to the fetus. For the multiplayer portion, like you said, perhaps Dark Souls style but instead of having the respawn mechanic where you see past players "souls" attempting the mission, based on what i mentioned, perhaps a transference of skill is done. To put it in simple terms; you might be an assassin and the previous person might be a healer. The healer might then pass you a heal skill which can help you in the next mission or fight. And when you die, you pass your assassin skill, say silent kill to the next character, who might be a paladin. So what happens if you die? You'd rejoin back in the queue for the next one. I know there's a few holes in this mechanism but it might work if it's team based and some sort of arena style. Or doing an MMO style where you get to use your other team members skills when they're alive but at the cost of you and your members potentially being setback by long cooldowns. There's quite a number of potential ways for death to be a mechanic. I'd wager it to be perma death but more of passing the baton type. But then again, it's Kojima, we might wrong all along!
Brian Medina I have something similar to yours but my theory is that both Norman and Del Toro characters are actually the same soul. What I mean is that Norman could be the first character and he sees these 5 "enemies" and he has to fight. He fights until he loses and dies, and basically this is where death plays a role. The soul then perhaps go to a new body and faces the same 5 enemies again but perhaps 100-200 years later. Del Toro might be a God knows what number body that faces the same enemies. So, the role of death is basically learning skill sets. Maybe in Norman, you learn how to craft things, setup traps etc. But the amount of skills you learn is based on how early or late you die. The later you die, the more skills you can learn. And you retain those skills to the next body. And you repeat in learning skills or enhance it through the eras. Which then leads to Del Toro, who even though was initially afraid but after connecting to the fetus, gained confidence and decided to see the villain who we know now is Mads. And that's probably because of decades or centuries of learning new skills over and over to the point where he finally knows how to beat Mads. The fetus or baby could be a conduit for the character to access the past memories or skills gained. After all, in the wheel of reincarnation, most of the time the person won't be able to remember his past life. Perhaps a tiny bit but that's it. Only a few select ones are able to remember their past lives. It kinda makes sense when you see how they react to the fetus. For the multiplayer portion, like you said, perhaps Dark Souls style but instead of having the respawn mechanic where you see past players "souls" attempting the mission, based on what i mentioned, perhaps a transference of skill is done. To put it in simple terms; you might be an assassin and the previous person might be a healer. The healer might then pass you a heal skill which can help you in the next mission or fight. And when you die, you pass your assassin skill, say silent kill to the next character, who might be a paladin. So what happens if you die? You'd rejoin back in the queue for the next one. I know there's a few holes in this mechanism but it might work if it's team based and some sort of arena style. Or doing an MMO style where you get to use your other team members skills when they're alive but at the cost of you and your members potentially being setback by long cooldowns. There's quite a number of potential ways for death to be a mechanic. I'd wager it to be perma death but more of passing the baton type. But then again, it's Kojima, we might wrong all along!
Wait... Norman (Daryl) in The Walking Dead blinks alot in the latest episodes. There are theories that he is giving morse code signals to Rick. This is reinforced by the Morse code tablet in the show too. Could there be a key in the walking dead about Death Stranding?
what if...... hear me out..... Kojima keeps mentioning "player connections", right? well.......... what if........ you start the game up, and you are "connected" to another player, and you help each other complete the game by playing in your respective alternate realities? like.... whatever you do in one world will affect the world on the other players end. interesting to think about.
maybe that's the "Stick" option YOU will go for then? remember this whole "stick and rope" mumbo jumbo kojima kept talking about? maybe it's up to you on how you wanna approach this game/experience. but i feel RW : V is onto something.
bluebile That would kinda explain why in Norman's trailer the baby is moving and crying alot, in the way that Guillermo is moving and has alot of facial expressions, while the baby in the artificial womb is not moving much in the way Norman's character moves slowly.
+Beaucoup Rivets They can actually make genetically target viruses though. It's scary but it's scientifically possible. So yea everything else is ridiculous but that one you listed is actually possible, lol. I agree with your overall point though. Kojima's always done some crazy shit in the past, lol.
It's funny that you call it Upside Down back then, because it is in fact pretty much the same as the Upside Down world from the Stranger Things. You have seen in the future!
I have a theory. What if the umbilical cord connects people to different worlds. Which is why Norman keeps spoting invisible prints of hands. They connect with different worlds through connection on the cords.
I was thinking here.. Maybe Mikkelsen's character is somehow an "evolved nanomachine man". Just remembering that nanomachines are used to control or restrict the host's actions (maybe the game's universe is bein controlled by them). This scar on Del Toro's head can also be a clue to the "intracranial nanomachines" mentioned in MGS2, and that somehow, were removed from him. Could Death Stranding's story be a sequence from Metal Gear's universe?
Actually, Metal had never explored WW II for gameplay, but for story porposes as seen in MGS 3 about the Philosophers conception. Perhaps Kojima this some kind of "unofficial" alternative MGS storyline without the characters but keeping the concepts. The United Cities of America and its Web Insignia got me curious.
Damn Yong. This is like the definitive version of comparison, and there is still an analysis video coming? My mind can't keep up, and I like it like that :)
The baby in the artificial womb opens one eye. That baby doll twitches the same eye. The baby doll also has the same cross stitched it on the stomach as Norman.
My Theory: The baby/fetus is a being of great power. Notice how in the first trailer, we see the Norman Reedus character seemed to survive a great calamity that killed of many sea-creatures, while chained to the baby. In the second trailer, Del Toro is ENTERING a danger-zone, with tanks and undead-soldiers patrolling the area, so how will he ATTEMPT to survive the up-coming dangers? He "summons" the baby/fetus.
Oh my god I think I know now what the game might be based off of! Anyone here seen the movie "Edge of Tomorrow" with Tom Cruise? The game mechanic some keep theorizing is that if you die, you're "reborn" as the baby to attempt to respawn. Maybe thats what this is, if you die (Norman Reedus), you timetravel back to when your character was the fetus, and try to change the course of your death.
he might not have a belly button but it is connected to something inside him, what that is we do not know look at mads mikkelsens character where the umbilical cords are drawn in... maybe he doesnt have a belly button either
Looks to me like it's all about opposites. We see Norman who maybe has no idea what's going on, while GDT seems to have an understanding. GDT has a minus sign scar, Norman has a plus sign scar. The figures float in the open sky above the water, the figures walk in an enclosed space on the water. The figures seem almost godlike, the figures are humanoid. The most intriguing thing about this trailer is the doll. And I think the doll represents Norman. Just a thought.
And if you rotate both trailers 10 degrees to the right and sync them up with Dark Side of the Moon on the 4th of July during a hailstorm, you'll notice that you've accomplished absolutely nothing.
One character is portrayed by an actor known for his onscreen presence. The other is portrayed by a director known for his actions behind a camera. Also in the first trailer, the famous actor (Norman) is protagonistic. In the second, the famous actor (Mads) is antagonistic.
The parallel multiplayer hypothesis makes total sens to me. If somehow, for some reason, babies were scarce in this multiverse. Guillermo and Norman find the same infant (extra life?) but Guillermo claims the baby for himself by linking with them with his umbilical cord. He seems very reluctant to do so, almost as if it was a last resort, but he proceeds to link with the baby anyway because he knows danger is close and he might die (then the baby is a chance at resurrecting, preserving the character's stats like in a rogue like). However, that puts Guillermo at odds with Norman, whom baby's was stolen from, and might seek revenge, maybe by invading Guillermo's world, a la Dark Souls.
Yong is Mads the middle floating character? notice in the E3 the middle one stays with its arms crossed floating and the other four descend to earth, same way Mads lets them go and stays.
ThirdEyeVision well mads did say in a interview with ign that he saw that trailer before he started working on the project. But considering how early development is he could definitely change antagonist
Blballerboy he did see the trailer before signing on but the character he is playing was conceived before the e3 trailer came out I'm sure. Plus the monologic figure looks so ambiguous perhaps done so that Kojima could cast anyone
Blballerboy DojoMuppet AA99Fuck Yes, but dont miss the point. it has high significance considering the wormhole theory they are exactly the same on both universes or planets. as Yong said Opposite yet Parallel
Guys guys the important question here isn't whether Mads' pixels were literally in the E3 trailer, lol. The important thing is whether that center figure turns out to be Mads' character or not. Just because he wasn't cast yet doesn't mean he wasn't cast as one of those figures afterwards. Who the hell knows? I'd say there's a decent shot Mads is the leader of them, and the leader would probably be in the middle if he was there... or it's 5 different beings. Like I said, who the hell knows?
Norman is looking in the distance, stands in an open space. He's ready for the journey. Guelirmo is trapped in a dark tunnel. He runs away. He's giving up. P.S. "After the Flood, the God promised that-in spite of how man might sin-He would never again make a flood that would destroy the world. He created the rainbow as a sign, a reminder of this covenant He made with the world."
Kojima is such a genious creating these 2 trailers in a way so we have something to talk about, creating theories and "hyping" (gotta be careful with that word) each other. This is actually part of the fun before the release of story driven games. I´m really looking forward to this one, also keep the videos coming! Good stuff!
Keyurpatelnexus I think thats more possible with Del Toro character, they have handcuffs tied in opposite hands, they both have a baby, they both have something done with there belly (Del Toro has his cord he connects to bab, but then again Mads also have it) and del toro has head operation scars which would suggest something like a brain transplant or something that ties them both who knows
Hey Yong! What do you say to Kojima's statement to pay attention to the lyrics while watching "Easy Way Out" version of the Death Stranding trailer,because they'll explain the images in the trailer?
first trailer is before humans existed , second is ww2 , next one will be close to our time and the one after that will be from the future(present day for the game)
What if the next teaser showed some magical Japanese school girl who's just killed a bunch of crab monsters when she notices that her belly's huge and five tentacle monsters pop out of the ground?
Loving all this Death Stranding content. Hopefully we don't have to wait another 6 months for another look at the game, I can't wait to hear you dissect whatever comes next.
william joyce Actually, I feel more like he's a politician? Given how he moves and acts, he seems more like a corrupt politician or lobbyist who got in over his head. I liked a theory that the baby is something like an 'extra life', and to me, seems like him plugging it in was a sign that he was going to try to survive, no matter what. Maybe he was part of a group that voted on something that lead to this and he's trying to get somewhere safe.
I always though the story was about an alien parasite that posses and spreads via belly button/umbilical cord. And the whole world has been taken over except Norman because either he doesn't have a belly button
Also, the middle monolithic figure fades out first before all the others, whereas in the new trailer the middle humanoid figure stays in place while everyone else leaves
time dilation is not theoretical it's practical, the equation is To=T/sqrt1-2GM/rc^2 = T*sqrt1-rs/r To= is the proper time between events A and B for a slow-ticking observer within the gravitational field T=is the coordinate time between events A and B for a fast-ticking observer at an arbitrarily large distance from the massive object (this assumes the fast-ticking observer is using Schwarzschild coordinates, a coordinate system where a clock at infinite distance from the massive sphere would tick at one second per second of coordinate time, while closer clocks would tick at less than that rate), G= is the gravitational constant M= is the mass of the object creating the gravitational field, r= is the radial coordinate of the observer (which is analogous to the classical distance from the center of the object, but is actually a Schwarzschild coordinate), c= is the speed of light, and r{s}=2GM/c^{2} is the Schwarzschild radius of M. its Einsteins general relativity.
With Guillermo, his badge represents some sort of status or power. The badge is a badge of the United States, with a web that covers the entirety of it. I think it means he is involved with some sort of wide 'web' based program or plan of some sort. Seems like it went wrong and he's trying to escape his mistakes.
I think you start as Norman Reedus and you eat pizzas and fucking burgers for 30 years straight and then you turn into Del Torro. The baby represents your insatiable hunger for junk food and the story-line narrates his life's downfall, getting fat and all.
Holy shit Mind blown... each copy of the game set in a unique dimension in a unique period of time and as you play, you're able to "jump" into other player's dimensions and "pull" or "connect" with different objects living and dead both and bring them into your own dimension to be used under your control... wow genre defining indeed.
Perhaps you play as more than one character- you play as Guillermo and Norman in their respective plotlines, as they both try solve the problem that they face, simultaneously in separate places in the world. OR perhaps, Norman was sent from another time or dimension to prevent what happens to Guillermo (similar to Terminator series).
Yong, that is EXACTLY what I said back then when Kojima hinted at online: That we could all be in different dimensions and everyone's action in one dimension affects the other's dimension. For example; if I moved something in one dimension it moves in all/some other dimensions too. If I destroy something, same thing. Therefore making every decision have an effect in a way that it effects everyone. A constant evolving dimension caused my multiple parallel choices....
Something else interesting is that the five monolithic figures in the E3 trailer, leave Norman where he is, while in the TGA trailer, Mads and the Skeletons go up to capture Del Toro. Just something I noticed.
In the first trailer the umbilical cord isn't connected as he doesn't have a bellybutton. Also the Dog Tags he's wearing have mathmatical formulas carved in to them making it unlikely that it is some sort of identification.
Is Great that you are making short analysis while you are finding New stuff instead of taking so long to make a big video. I know that you have said that you prefer some information to be in one place instead of scatered, but on the Internet is all recontextualization. Great vid Yong. Congrats. Your work is getting better and better
I'm one for the theory that Del Toro's character is about to give the baby to Mads, I think hes checking the baby to give to them and that's why the trailer has the "easy way out" song, he looks conflicted on what to do
What you said about the low roar songs and "giving up". I think Guillermo gives up and gives the baby to Mikkelsen, whereas Norman will keep fighting to get his baby back. Just a speculation.
The only thing I can think about this game being about, is an alien invasion. Wiping out every species. Oil is somehow important to them, perhaps their version of water and they're replacing earths water with oil. The aliens also take form of humans, leaking oil. Real forms being squid like seen on the tanks. Ofc the trailers are way too vague to actually say.
I know I'm just under s year late, but....when you flip the E3 trailer at the end to parallel the other, the trail of dead animals widens along the sides of Norman out to an open area with the 5 monolithic figures, while the trailer with Guillermo has dead animals on the sides narrowing down to a path leading to 5 humanoid figures. Either way, widening or narrowing, the path leads to 5 figures. And the images, even with the fish and the dolphins and sharks, lines up almost perfectly just from lining up Norman and Guillermo's feet.
ludens is in a space suit , maybe he/you travel though a black hole? also another parallel is that one scar is a plus and the other is a subtract math symbol.
From my perspective is, where Norman stands as a rebels and del toro is one of rebelled people in government side. That's matches why they are wearing the same handcuff
It took me a couple days of thinking about every part of each video and it was fairly easy to piece the main part together. Now around the main parts, there's a lot of abstraction. A lot of things that were featured that probably don't make sense even now, even in the mind of Kojima and he did that to ensure that nobody can really piece it together. It's an alien invasion, now what civilization type of alien idk but what's happening is that humans are picking certain people against their own will to be incubators. That's why they have handcuffs on and as you can see, their handcuff that's not on their arms are still locked. Reason being is that they aren't handcuffing both arms together, humans are handcuffed to each other in chambers in a circular fashion while being used as incubators to sustain the life of babies or they might just be handcuffed to something that keeps them in place. So not really a major detail but that's my guess with that. I also believe that Kojima is taking elements from both Silent Hill and Metal Gear as you notice the game is called death stranding as if death is always stranding around you wherever you go. The element from Silent Hill would be the 'world changing" element. Wherever Death is stranding near the character, the world will change to a different state, as you can see when the tank rolls by and the oil drips down the wall onto the ground (hypothetically), the water level starts to rise, there's dead fish where there wasn't. Metal Gears military/stealth gameplay style will probably be implemented. The baby will be used as a tool in this game, kind of like a radar system as you can see when he wakes it up, it intentionally closes it's left eye, meaning it's actually doing something. Maybe it has powers, that's probably why Kojima is emphasizing connections, he's connecting his two franchises together, Silent Hill and Metal Gear and taking from both to form this new story in which I believe that you are running from both extraterrestrials and a human faction, both having different motives for the babies as they are the fate of the human race.
The black hand prints inside of the tunnel on the walls just before the camera pans up to Mads’ character. The black hand prints on the sandy beach in the Norman vid.
Just for fun i found out the Beats Per Minute of each song in the trailers.The Easy Way out is about 110 BPM and the I'll keep coming is about 70 BPM.So in a sense the trailer that is the fastest(has less duration,the E3 trailer) has a slower BPM song,and the TGA Trailer which has longer duration has a much faster BPM Song,but still lasting longer.So in a sense showing the opposite sides even more.
also 4:49 Top equation is the Schwarzschild radius, which gives you the radius of the event horizon for a black hole. The equation beneath it looks like a Klein-Gordon equation in natural units, which is essentially the generalized Schrodinger equation that is the basis of quantum mechanics.
As someone said here already, Reedus and the baby doll have the very same cross scar in the same place. I believe this proposes another theory, one of a campaign taking place in the past with Guillermo and one in the present with Reedus, or maybe they both can communicate talks to a connection of some sort. Maybe Reedus manages to establish a link from the future to deliver messages to Guillermo of what could happen, getting Guillermo the duty to stop it and stop the five monolithic things that Reedus sees in the first trailer. (Note that I'm saying Guillermo just because we don't have a main character yet, as far as I have seen of course) Also, the rainbow could be very well a circular rainbow. That would explain why it looks upside down.
Guilermo probably is the chief of some project that tries to save the world and that baby is the key to the "other world", the " upside down world" and the entities can't see into the other dimension without the baby, much like humans (or humanoids the least) can't see the entities without the baby. Norman is the soldier that went to the other world for some goal, to kill/destroy something. Also, did you notice that in the new trailer Norman has this aparatus on his shoulder that connects with the baby to sense nearby enemies. In this trailer, Norman can see himself the entities whilst the baby is in him.
Okay, we see these army guys with umbilical cords, and both the tank and Mads seem to be using those chords to control the possibly dead humans. Guillermo also has a chord coming out of him. What if this is a world were those things are controlling the human species via these chords. Norman, however, lost his umbilical chord (a process that left him that scar). Perhaps Norman literally cut his connection with whatever the army guys are, he escaped or something like that. However, he is being hunted by them (the 5 human figures looking at him / Mads Mikkelsen's squad).
YONG when you said somthing about "Stranger things" you reminded me of when ojima retweeted many many things of"stranger things" Maybe he was foreshadowing the theme of his new game, he also said that he liked the series so much and that he loved that the song "elegia" by new order was featured in the series
Everybody keeps thinking about how the trailer might be in the same time but maybe the events of the first trailer occur after the second one. Maybe by connecting the umbilical cord thing, toro somehow gave away some info on where reedus is and now mads knows this and goes after reedus in the first trailer.
Hm, I noticed: Gillermo walks straight and eventually turns 180 degrees, at that point he gets the baby, and it's the doll that continues moving forward. Same goes for the hand prints in the E3 trailer. They move towards Norman, they turn around 180 degrees to face him, and we no longer see them move away, instead the path is continued by the baby hands.
In the image that has Guillermo looking down the tunnel and Norman looking out into the sea, Norman has his arms down like the "followers" of the main monolithic figure, and from this angle, Guillermo has them crossed. Maybe Guillermo is a controlling figure of power. This is also signified by the fact that Norman is naked and Guillermo is well dressed, showing a social difference.
Not exactly a parallel, but a small detail in the TGA trailer: When you look at the airplanes flying under the upside down rainbow, would you believe that the planes have umbilical cords trailing behind them instead of oil?
The scar on norman is a plus sign, while del toro has a minus sign as a scar. Just a guess.
Huh, that's an interesting theory.
what have you done, now yong have to make another video
nice observation maybe that explain the time delay :D
Kastigatr I was thinking the exact same thing. Whatever it means it is no coincidence
Positive and negative. Kojima likes his thematic riddles.
The baby doll has the exact same plus-shaped "scar" on its tummy as Reedus.
Thank you Captain Obvious
and sherlock did it again!
man you guys are assholes. he only mentioned it because the guy that uploaded this video didn't.
Yong, you are more professional than some professional journalists.
for real
Darkdodge too professional 8,2/10
yeah hes clearly very experienced and knows what hes doing, i'm glad death stranding can tickle his taste buds like how mgsV did
Because he's not being bribed like IGN
Best professional journalist ever existed 6/10
The way you're firing out these Death Stranding videos is reminding me of the good old days of MGS V. This is why I subbed, Yong. Keep doing what you're doing.
creeperman26000 same
+Clorox Bleach too bad that game dissappointed
Clorox Bleach you fogot to change your account, sir.
it was like finding your soulmate...except they were gay
I agree! Yong as we know him!
I feel like we can get more for what Kojima has said. That death is going to be a game mechanic and not just a continue screen/respawn. I feel like you will move to a parallel universe when you die, that the babies are the key to coming back to life. Kind of a TPS with a dark souls respawn mechanic, but elaborated further. Like you die then you have to be reborn in a parallel universe (the babies) then recover the baby to go back. The E3 trailer to me seemed like a purgatory, which is why Normand is naked, he recently died in the game world and was reborn in purgatory and the only thing he took with him are the dog tags, and hand cuffs some devices that can go between parallel universes. Where Guillermo is in what looks more like a game world, because it has enemies. Also we learn that this going is going be co-op, maybe other characters will not always be in the same universe at the same time and if one dies the other has to bring the out of purgatory back into the game world, meanwhile one character will have to jump to another parallel universe to open a door n'shit like that, but you need strands to follow back into the original universe otherwise you will lose your co-op buddie, just like Kojima showed the buddies holding hands then the 1st and last tethered by a string. Mads smiling makes it seem like he knows Normand's baby form is close, and he's looking to destroy the baby before Guillermo brings him back into that world. I don't think the trailers are directly connected but this is what I got from watching them both, and reading up on what Kojima has said about the game mechanics.
Brian Medina I have something similar to yours but my theory is that both Norman and Del Toro characters are actually the same soul. What I mean is that Norman could be the first character and he sees these 5 "enemies" and he has to fight. He fights until he loses and dies, and basically this is where death plays a role. The soul then perhaps go to a new body and faces the same 5 enemies again but perhaps 100-200 years later. Del Toro might be a God knows what number body that faces the same enemies. So, the role of death is basically learning skill sets. Maybe in Norman, you learn how to craft things, setup traps etc. But the amount of skills you learn is based on how early or late you die. The later you die, the more skills you can learn. And you retain those skills to the next body. And you repeat in learning skills or enhance it through the eras. Which then leads to Del Toro, who even though was initially afraid but after connecting to the fetus, gained confidence and decided to see the villain who we know now is Mads. And that's probably because of decades or centuries of learning new skills over and over to the point where he finally knows how to beat Mads.
The fetus or baby could be a conduit for the character to access the past memories or skills gained. After all, in the wheel of reincarnation, most of the time the person won't be able to remember his past life. Perhaps a tiny bit but that's it. Only a few select ones are able to remember their past lives. It kinda makes sense when you see how they react to the fetus.
For the multiplayer portion, like you said, perhaps Dark Souls style but instead of having the respawn mechanic where you see past players "souls" attempting the mission, based on what i mentioned, perhaps a transference of skill is done. To put it in simple terms; you might be an assassin and the previous person might be a healer. The healer might then pass you a heal skill which can help you in the next mission or fight. And when you die, you pass your assassin skill, say silent kill to the next character, who might be a paladin. So what happens if you die? You'd rejoin back in the queue for the next one. I know there's a few holes in this mechanism but it might work if it's team based and some sort of arena style. Or doing an MMO style where you get to use your other team members skills when they're alive but at the cost of you and your members potentially being setback by long cooldowns.
There's quite a number of potential ways for death to be a mechanic. I'd wager it to be perma death but more of passing the baton type. But then again, it's Kojima, we might wrong all along!
Brian Medina I have something similar to yours but my theory is that both Norman and Del Toro characters are actually the same soul. What I mean is that Norman could be the first character and he sees these 5 "enemies" and he has to fight. He fights until he loses and dies, and basically this is where death plays a role. The soul then perhaps go to a new body and faces the same 5 enemies again but perhaps 100-200 years later. Del Toro might be a God knows what number body that faces the same enemies. So, the role of death is basically learning skill sets. Maybe in Norman, you learn how to craft things, setup traps etc. But the amount of skills you learn is based on how early or late you die. The later you die, the more skills you can learn. And you retain those skills to the next body. And you repeat in learning skills or enhance it through the eras. Which then leads to Del Toro, who even though was initially afraid but after connecting to the fetus, gained confidence and decided to see the villain who we know now is Mads. And that's probably because of decades or centuries of learning new skills over and over to the point where he finally knows how to beat Mads.
The fetus or baby could be a conduit for the character to access the past memories or skills gained. After all, in the wheel of reincarnation, most of the time the person won't be able to remember his past life. Perhaps a tiny bit but that's it. Only a few select ones are able to remember their past lives. It kinda makes sense when you see how they react to the fetus.
For the multiplayer portion, like you said, perhaps Dark Souls style but instead of having the respawn mechanic where you see past players "souls" attempting the mission, based on what i mentioned, perhaps a transference of skill is done. To put it in simple terms; you might be an assassin and the previous person might be a healer. The healer might then pass you a heal skill which can help you in the next mission or fight. And when you die, you pass your assassin skill, say silent kill to the next character, who might be a paladin. So what happens if you die? You'd rejoin back in the queue for the next one. I know there's a few holes in this mechanism but it might work if it's team based and some sort of arena style. Or doing an MMO style where you get to use your other team members skills when they're alive but at the cost of you and your members potentially being setback by long cooldowns.
There's quite a number of potential ways for death to be a mechanic. I'd wager it to be perma death but more of passing the baton type. But then again, it's Kojima, we might wrong all along!
Dayum, this is pretty solid.
The dolls blinking eyes, could that possibly be Morse code?
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Wait... Norman (Daryl) in The Walking Dead blinks alot in the latest episodes. There are theories that he is giving morse code signals to Rick. This is reinforced by the Morse code tablet in the show too.
Could there be a key in the walking dead about Death Stranding?
He wasn't blinking Morse code.
what if...... hear me out..... Kojima keeps mentioning "player connections", right? well.......... what if........ you start the game up, and you are "connected" to another player, and you help each other complete the game by playing in your respective alternate realities? like.... whatever you do in one world will affect the world on the other players end. interesting to think about.
RW : V Fuck that, i don't wanna be connected to some casual nerd who will quit because the tutorial was an hour and half too long.
maybe that's the "Stick" option YOU will go for then? remember this whole "stick and rope" mumbo jumbo kojima kept talking about?
maybe it's up to you on how you wanna approach this game/experience. but i feel RW : V is onto something.
MInd blown holy shit
RW : V I thought the same thing!
please, dont give the trolls ideas...
What if Guillermo is the baby in the Norman Reedus trailer, and Norman is the baby in the Guillermo Del Toro trailer?
bluebile interesting
bluebile That would kinda explain why in Norman's trailer the baby is moving and crying alot, in the way that Guillermo is moving and has alot of facial expressions, while the baby in the artificial womb is not moving much in the way Norman's character moves slowly.
my guess is the handcuffs functions as a link between both worlds
thats insane
Per Skålvik Or maybe a way to keep both worlds seperated?? Haha.
Yes thats the only sensible guess i've had so far... Mostly because Guillermo's one sort of blinks like a router cable-in light would.
Thats true, Could that be the technology that the (Aliens/Demons) has both Guillermo and Norman cuffed together?
+Beaucoup Rivets They can actually make genetically target viruses though. It's scary but it's scientifically possible. So yea everything else is ridiculous but that one you listed is actually possible, lol.
I agree with your overall point though. Kojima's always done some crazy shit in the past, lol.
This is turning into those bee movie memes: death stranding trailer but every time a baby appears kojima hires another famous actor to do weird shit
Next Episode of YangYea:
Upside Down
Rotation
Invert
Black-and-White
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on acid
remix
synced to 4:20
no_name The death stranding trailer but every time it says "I'll keep coming" it gets reversed
Death Stranding trailers but every time there is an umbilical cord it plays we are number one but every one is replaced with Mads Mikkelsen smurking
your pretty good Yong.
It's funny that you call it Upside Down back then, because it is in fact pretty much the same as the Upside Down world from the Stranger Things. You have seen in the future!
I have a theory. What if the umbilical cord connects people to different worlds. Which is why Norman keeps spoting invisible prints of hands. They connect with different worlds through connection on the cords.
Battle Rifle perhaps the handcuffs represent such a prospect also. being bound to one another.
Licky Bum Bum The handcuffs are tricky haven't found a solution yet
Yong is eating off of these Death Stranding videos for a couple of weeks at least :D
2 different characters, 2 different gameplay styles, 2 different Dimensions or timelines but the same conflict. I think this game can rock
Agustín Garcia I GET IT -- TWO DIFFERENT KOJIMAS
And two big bosses... Remember that!
you just described dr jekyll and mr hyde on nes
I was thinking here.. Maybe Mikkelsen's character is somehow an "evolved nanomachine man". Just remembering that nanomachines are used to control or restrict the host's actions (maybe the game's universe is bein controlled by them).
This scar on Del Toro's head can also be a clue to the "intracranial nanomachines" mentioned in MGS2, and that somehow, were removed from him.
Could Death Stranding's story be a sequence from Metal Gear's universe?
Actually, Metal had never explored WW II for gameplay, but for story porposes as seen in MGS 3 about the Philosophers conception.
Perhaps Kojima this some kind of "unofficial" alternative MGS storyline without the characters but keeping the concepts.
The United Cities of America and its Web Insignia got me curious.
Also, Norman has a cross scar on his stomache, and the baby doll has a cross painted on its belly.
thankyou! glad somebody else noticed
Imagine the game gets cancelled and we never get the chance to know wtf is happening
Ahmed Rabidh and then I lose my shit
I'll kill myself
Ahmed Rabidh Not after Silent Hills not that again fuck me
Damn Yong. This is like the definitive version of comparison, and there is still an analysis video coming?
My mind can't keep up, and I like it like that :)
The baby in the artificial womb opens one eye. That baby doll twitches the same eye. The baby doll also has the same cross stitched it on the stomach as Norman.
Next video: Death stranding, both videos mashed into the same picture.
But will it blend?
When he said "before your mind is blown entirely" I was already screaming "WHAT?!!!!"
Strider-Ragnarok have you not already seen his other videos ? That wasn't mind blowing.
these theory's are so intricate, that I want to believe it until the game comes out. You're going to be my new subscription for "Death Stranding" news
thexyking you're not going to be sorry ;)
My Theory: The baby/fetus is a being of great power. Notice how in the first trailer, we see the Norman Reedus character seemed to survive a great calamity that killed of many sea-creatures, while chained to the baby. In the second trailer, Del Toro is ENTERING a danger-zone, with tanks and undead-soldiers patrolling the area, so how will he ATTEMPT to survive the up-coming dangers? He "summons" the baby/fetus.
Oh my god I think I know now what the game might be based off of! Anyone here seen the movie "Edge of Tomorrow" with Tom Cruise? The game mechanic some keep theorizing is that if you die, you're "reborn" as the baby to attempt to respawn. Maybe thats what this is, if you die (Norman Reedus), you timetravel back to when your character was the fetus, and try to change the course of your death.
Hmm, I do find it interesting there are no females as of yet.
What if yong is secretly hired by kojima to slowly hint us the game plot because kojima is too busy to talk about it 🤔????
Ed Kazaragy haha
Hey Yong the umbilical cord at 5:07 cannot be attached to Norman Reedus since he doesn't have a belly button.
he might not have a belly button but it is connected to something inside him, what that is we do not know
look at mads mikkelsens character where the umbilical cords are drawn in... maybe he doesnt have a belly button either
Looks to me like it's all about opposites. We see Norman who maybe has no idea what's going on, while GDT seems to have an understanding. GDT has a minus sign scar, Norman has a plus sign scar. The figures float in the open sky above the water, the figures walk in an enclosed space on the water. The figures seem almost godlike, the figures are humanoid.
The most intriguing thing about this trailer is the doll. And I think the doll represents Norman. Just a thought.
And if you rotate both trailers 10 degrees to the right and sync them up with Dark Side of the Moon on the 4th of July during a hailstorm, you'll notice that you've accomplished absolutely nothing.
One character is portrayed by an actor known for his onscreen presence. The other is portrayed by a director known for his actions behind a camera.
Also in the first trailer, the famous actor (Norman) is protagonistic. In the second, the famous actor (Mads) is antagonistic.
The parallel multiplayer hypothesis makes total sens to me. If somehow, for some reason, babies were scarce in this multiverse. Guillermo and Norman find the same infant (extra life?) but Guillermo claims the baby for himself by linking with them with his umbilical cord. He seems very reluctant to do so, almost as if it was a last resort, but he proceeds to link with the baby anyway because he knows danger is close and he might die (then the baby is a chance at resurrecting, preserving the character's stats like in a rogue like). However, that puts Guillermo at odds with Norman, whom baby's was stolen from, and might seek revenge, maybe by invading Guillermo's world, a la Dark Souls.
Yong is Mads the middle floating character? notice in the E3 the middle one stays with its arms crossed floating and the other four descend to earth, same way Mads lets them go and stays.
ThirdEyeVision well mads did say in a interview with ign that he saw that trailer before he started working on the project. But considering how early development is he could definitely change antagonist
Blballerboy he did see the trailer before signing on but the character he is playing was conceived before the e3 trailer came out I'm sure. Plus the monologic figure looks so ambiguous perhaps done so that Kojima could cast anyone
Blballerboy DojoMuppet AA99Fuck Yes, but dont miss the point. it has high significance considering the wormhole theory they are exactly the same on both universes or planets. as Yong said Opposite yet Parallel
Yea, but this Kojima. EVERYTHING MUST MEAN SOMETHING TO HIM LOL
Guys guys the important question here isn't whether Mads' pixels were literally in the E3 trailer, lol. The important thing is whether that center figure turns out to be Mads' character or not. Just because he wasn't cast yet doesn't mean he wasn't cast as one of those figures afterwards. Who the hell knows? I'd say there's a decent shot Mads is the leader of them, and the leader would probably be in the middle if he was there... or it's 5 different beings. Like I said, who the hell knows?
Norman is looking in the distance, stands in an open space. He's ready for the journey.
Guelirmo is trapped in a dark tunnel. He runs away. He's giving up.
P.S.
"After the Flood, the God promised that-in spite of how man might sin-He would never again make a flood that would destroy the world. He created the rainbow as a sign, a reminder of this covenant He made with the world."
Yong, you're literally analyzing every single angle of these trailers. good job
Im gonna say this again...guillermo del toros footprints...looks like a demon
"Kaz, I'm already a demon."
your pretty good
This is Pequod!
Been supporting since mgs5 was called project omega I'm so happy ur getting more subs yong you deserve it
Kojima is such a genious creating these 2 trailers in a way so we have something to talk about, creating theories and "hyping" (gotta be careful with that word) each other. This is actually part of the fun before the release of story driven games. I´m really looking forward to this one, also keep the videos coming! Good stuff!
Each copy of the game a separate dimension............mind blown
For anyone who's never seen the "Easy Way Out" version of the new Death Stranding trailer, here it is: ruclips.net/video/S6JFH8Vit3E/видео.html
Also note that beginning of dissaperance of 5 figures matches withdissapeance of Mads helmet, they start to dissaper right away when that happens.
YongYea What if Norman and mads have a relationship like booker and comstock in bioshock? Same person....
Keyurpatelnexus I think thats more possible with Del Toro character, they have handcuffs tied in opposite hands, they both have a baby, they both have something done with there belly (Del Toro has his cord he connects to bab, but then again Mads also have it) and del toro has head operation scars which would suggest something like a brain transplant or something that ties them both who knows
Hey Yong! What do you say to Kojima's statement to pay attention to the lyrics while watching "Easy Way Out" version of the Death Stranding trailer,because they'll explain the images in the trailer?
YongYea thank you so much! your videos and the hype for death stranding are helping me through a very dark time of my life.
This game is going to blow the heads clean off everyone with a ps4
Mark O'Neill its ps4 exclusive? not for xb1 or pc?
Yep, ps4 exclusive
PC too
Mark O'Neill if anything is just not for Xbone. PC has a rumored release.
its only in ps4 i think they changed to an engine owned by sonny
first trailer is before humans existed , second is ww2 , next one will be close to our time and the one after that will be from the future(present day for the game)
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS GAME ABOUT BRO IM SO CONFUSED
Norman Reedus vs the enigmatic black goo.
+Floydthefuckbag lol
What if the next teaser showed some magical Japanese school girl who's just killed a bunch of crab monsters when she notices that her belly's huge and five tentacle monsters pop out of the ground?
Cyber Jackalope Not weird enough
So it's something like Dark Souls in the way that everyone is connected and time is convoluted? 😕
I wouldn't mind that at all
What if like, the handcuffs are dimensionally attached to both of them at the same time, like it's the same exact cuffs
Loving all this Death Stranding content. Hopefully we don't have to wait another 6 months for another look at the game, I can't wait to hear you dissect whatever comes next.
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del torro gives off the vibe that he might playing a scientist in the game
Definitely got vibes of a scientist trying to escape the horrible purpose he's been used for.
william joyce ikr
william joyce Actually, I feel more like he's a politician? Given how he moves and acts, he seems more like a corrupt politician or lobbyist who got in over his head. I liked a theory that the baby is something like an 'extra life', and to me, seems like him plugging it in was a sign that he was going to try to survive, no matter what. Maybe he was part of a group that voted on something that lead to this and he's trying to get somewhere safe.
or. he was one of the ones that tried to stop whatever happend but is now hunted down for his opinions
+Floydthefuckbag
Well, that would hardly be the first time that Kojima has had such a character. In fact, it's a common theme in MGS.
I always though the story was about an alien parasite that posses and spreads via belly button/umbilical cord. And the whole world has been taken over except Norman because either he doesn't have a belly button
Also, the middle monolithic figure fades out first before all the others, whereas in the new trailer the middle humanoid figure stays in place while everyone else leaves
Your most talked about series is death stranding, and it hasn't even been out yet! Kojima is that good!
time dilation is not theoretical it's practical,
the equation is To=T/sqrt1-2GM/rc^2 = T*sqrt1-rs/r
To= is the proper time between events A and B for a slow-ticking observer within the gravitational field
T=is the coordinate time between events A and B for a fast-ticking observer at an arbitrarily large distance from the massive object (this assumes the fast-ticking observer is using Schwarzschild coordinates, a coordinate system where a clock at infinite distance from the massive sphere would tick at one second per second of coordinate time, while closer clocks would tick at less than that rate),
G= is the gravitational constant
M= is the mass of the object creating the gravitational field,
r= is the radial coordinate of the observer (which is analogous to the classical distance from the center of the object, but is actually a Schwarzschild coordinate),
c= is the speed of light, and
r{s}=2GM/c^{2} is the Schwarzschild radius of M.
its Einsteins general relativity.
With Guillermo, his badge represents some sort of status or power. The badge is a badge of the United States, with a web that covers the entirety of it. I think it means he is involved with some sort of wide 'web' based program or plan of some sort. Seems like it went wrong and he's trying to escape his mistakes.
I think you start as Norman Reedus and you eat pizzas and fucking burgers for 30 years straight and then you turn into Del Torro. The baby represents your insatiable hunger for junk food and the story-line narrates his life's downfall, getting fat and all.
Holy shit Mind blown... each copy of the game set in a unique dimension in a unique period of time and as you play, you're able to "jump" into other player's dimensions and "pull" or "connect" with different objects living and dead both and bring them into your own dimension to be used under your control... wow genre defining indeed.
Hey, that's pretty good
Moron Productions anything for that first comment
Malcolm Judah short Yes
Moron Productions Hey, that's mildly adequate.
I just found your channel & your DS content are amazing
Baby doll at the end of the trailer has the same scar on belly as Norman has on the first trailer
Perhaps you play as more than one character- you play as Guillermo and Norman in their respective plotlines, as they both try solve the problem that they face, simultaneously in separate places in the world. OR perhaps, Norman was sent from another time or dimension to prevent what happens to Guillermo (similar to Terminator series).
You could say that "bridges" is another word for "strands"... in the context of "connections".
I'd paid top money for whatever shit Kojima is smoking. Seriously, what in the actual fuck.
budczus field lmao yeah I'm actually confused af let's see what they're smoking in Japan
Great analysis, Yong!
Awesome video!
Yong, that is EXACTLY what I said back then when Kojima hinted at online: That we could all be in different dimensions and everyone's action in one dimension affects the other's dimension. For example; if I moved something in one dimension it moves in all/some other dimensions too. If I destroy something, same thing. Therefore making every decision have an effect in a way that it effects everyone. A constant evolving dimension caused my multiple parallel choices....
Looking at Del Torro standing at the entrance to the tunnel gives me that Dante Inferno feel. "Abandon All Hope, You Who Enter Here"
Both Norman and Guillermo have this blue and illuminating light coming from Norman's handcuffs and coming from a circle thing of Guillermo's
best video i have seen so far for death stranding.
Something else interesting is that the five monolithic figures in the E3 trailer, leave Norman where he is, while in the TGA trailer, Mads and the Skeletons go up to capture Del Toro.
Just something I noticed.
In the first trailer the umbilical cord isn't connected as he doesn't have a bellybutton. Also the Dog Tags he's wearing have mathmatical formulas carved in to them making it unlikely that it is some sort of identification.
If the up side down parallel del toro sure doesn't wanna look down
Is Great that you are making short analysis while you are finding New stuff instead of taking so long to make a big video. I know that you have said that you prefer some information to be in one place instead of scatered, but on the Internet is all recontextualization. Great vid Yong. Congrats. Your work is getting better and better
I'm one for the theory that Del Toro's character is about to give the baby to Mads, I think hes checking the baby to give to them and that's why the trailer has the "easy way out" song, he looks conflicted on what to do
What you said about the low roar songs and "giving up". I think Guillermo gives up and gives the baby to Mikkelsen, whereas Norman will keep fighting to get his baby back. Just a speculation.
The only thing I can think about this game being about, is an alien invasion. Wiping out every species. Oil is somehow important to them, perhaps their version of water and they're replacing earths water with oil. The aliens also take form of humans, leaking oil. Real forms being squid like seen on the tanks. Ofc the trailers are way too vague to actually say.
I know I'm just under s year late, but....when you flip the E3 trailer at the end to parallel the other, the trail of dead animals widens along the sides of Norman out to an open area with the 5 monolithic figures, while the trailer with Guillermo has dead animals on the sides narrowing down to a path leading to 5 humanoid figures. Either way, widening or narrowing, the path leads to 5 figures. And the images, even with the fish and the dolphins and sharks, lines up almost perfectly just from lining up Norman and Guillermo's feet.
ludens is in a space suit , maybe he/you travel though a black hole? also another parallel is that one scar is a plus and the other is a subtract math symbol.
From my perspective is, where Norman stands as a rebels and del toro is one of rebelled people in government side. That's matches why they are wearing the same handcuff
Great Job Yong!! Really reasonable comparisons!!
It took me a couple days of thinking about every part of each video and it was fairly easy to piece the main part together. Now around the main parts, there's a lot of abstraction. A lot of things that were featured that probably don't make sense even now, even in the mind of Kojima and he did that to ensure that nobody can really piece it together.
It's an alien invasion, now what civilization type of alien idk but what's happening is that humans are picking certain people against their own will to be incubators. That's why they have handcuffs on and as you can see, their handcuff that's not on their arms are still locked. Reason being is that they aren't handcuffing both arms together, humans are handcuffed to each other in chambers in a circular fashion while being used as incubators to sustain the life of babies or they might just be handcuffed to something that keeps them in place. So not really a major detail but that's my guess with that.
I also believe that Kojima is taking elements from both Silent Hill and Metal Gear as you notice the game is called death stranding as if death is always stranding around you wherever you go. The element from Silent Hill would be the 'world changing" element. Wherever Death is stranding near the character, the world will change to a different state, as you can see when the tank rolls by and the oil drips down the wall onto the ground (hypothetically), the water level starts to rise, there's dead fish where there wasn't.
Metal Gears military/stealth gameplay style will probably be implemented. The baby will be used as a tool in this game, kind of like a radar system as you can see when he wakes it up, it intentionally closes it's left eye, meaning it's actually doing something. Maybe it has powers, that's probably why Kojima is emphasizing connections, he's connecting his two franchises together, Silent Hill and Metal Gear and taking from both to form this new story in which I believe that you are running from both extraterrestrials and a human faction, both having different motives for the babies as they are the fate of the human race.
The black hand prints inside of the tunnel on the walls just before the camera pans up to Mads’ character.
The black hand prints on the sandy beach in the Norman vid.
I think every time you die in this game you are transported to a parallel universe.
this is the best analysing video of death stranding i ve seen
now i know why i cant see the thing when I tried to play both trailer side by side
Parallel yet opposite = Chiral
Just for fun i found out the Beats Per Minute of each song in the trailers.The Easy Way out is about 110 BPM and the I'll keep coming is about 70 BPM.So in a sense the trailer that is the fastest(has less duration,the E3 trailer) has a slower BPM song,and the TGA Trailer which has longer duration has a much faster BPM Song,but still lasting longer.So in a sense showing the opposite sides even more.
also 4:49 Top equation is the Schwarzschild radius, which gives you the radius of the event horizon for a black hole.
The equation beneath it looks like a Klein-Gordon equation in natural units, which is essentially the generalized Schrodinger equation that is the basis of quantum mechanics.
As someone said here already, Reedus and the baby doll have the very same cross scar in the same place. I believe this proposes another theory, one of a campaign taking place in the past with Guillermo and one in the present with Reedus, or maybe they both can communicate talks to a connection of some sort. Maybe Reedus manages to establish a link from the future to deliver messages to Guillermo of what could happen, getting Guillermo the duty to stop it and stop the five monolithic things that Reedus sees in the first trailer. (Note that I'm saying Guillermo just because we don't have a main character yet, as far as I have seen of course)
Also, the rainbow could be very well a circular rainbow. That would explain why it looks upside down.
Guilermo probably is the chief of some project that tries to save the world and that baby is the key to the "other world", the " upside down world" and the entities can't see into the other dimension without the baby, much like humans (or humanoids the least) can't see the entities without the baby. Norman is the soldier that went to the other world for some goal, to kill/destroy something.
Also, did you notice that in the new trailer Norman has this aparatus on his shoulder that connects with the baby to sense nearby enemies. In this trailer, Norman can see himself the entities whilst the baby is in him.
Okay, we see these army guys with umbilical cords, and both the tank and Mads seem to be using those chords to control the possibly dead humans. Guillermo also has a chord coming out of him. What if this is a world were those things are controlling the human species via these chords. Norman, however, lost his umbilical chord (a process that left him that scar). Perhaps Norman literally cut his connection with whatever the army guys are, he escaped or something like that. However, he is being hunted by them (the 5 human figures looking at him / Mads Mikkelsen's squad).
Now I'm REALLY convinced this is "Silent Hills". That tunnel Del Toro's about to cross is the same tunnel that's framed above the alarm clock in P.T.
YONG when you said somthing about "Stranger things" you reminded me of when ojima retweeted many many things of"stranger things" Maybe he was foreshadowing the theme of his new game, he also said that he liked the series so much and that he loved that the song "elegia" by new order was featured in the series
Death Stranding is the 2001 space odyssey of gaming
Great job Yong!!!
holy crap didn't notice that cord dragging it, dang the attention to detail
this will be so crazy
Another thing is the 5 figures in the E3 trailer fly away, while the 5 figures approach the camera.
YongYea, you cant do this analisis, you created a time paradox!
did really nobody got the hint at MGS when the baby closes his left eye and looking directly in the camera ?
Loving these vids, Yong! Keep 'em coming my nigga!
Everybody keeps thinking about how the trailer might be in the same time but maybe the events of the first trailer occur after the second one. Maybe by connecting the umbilical cord thing, toro somehow gave away some info on where reedus is and now mads knows this and goes after reedus in the first trailer.
Hm, I noticed:
Gillermo walks straight and eventually turns 180 degrees, at that point he gets the baby, and it's the doll that continues moving forward.
Same goes for the hand prints in the E3 trailer. They move towards Norman, they turn around 180 degrees to face him, and we no longer see them move away, instead the path is continued by the baby hands.
In the image that has Guillermo looking down the tunnel and Norman looking out into the sea, Norman has his arms down like the "followers" of the main monolithic figure, and from this angle, Guillermo has them crossed.
Maybe Guillermo is a controlling figure of power. This is also signified by the fact that Norman is naked and Guillermo is well dressed, showing a social difference.
Not exactly a parallel, but a small detail in the TGA trailer: When you look at the airplanes flying under the upside down rainbow, would you believe that the planes have umbilical cords trailing behind them instead of oil?