Hideo Kojima has discussed the upcoming Death Stranding

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Speaking to Glixel , Kojima explained that "I don’t have a dark mindset in particular. Death Stranding is not a horror game. I just wanted to make something that looks very unique, something you haven’t seen before, something with a more artistic slant to it. I’m not pursuing a dark aspect to the game."It's still not fully clear how much of Kojima's Konami-era work will carry over into Death Stranding, but one prominent aspect seems to be making the jump:"Humor is a very important aspect for games", Kojima explained. "You play a game for a very long time – Death Stranding is a big game, too – and you put stress on the player and you lead them through peaks and valleys. Humor is an important aspect to make sure the player can enjoy playing across these peaks and valleys."So we’ll have humor in this game too, but to a degree that it doesn't ruin the world setting. It will be at an appropriate level."Kojima also briefly addressed the process of choosing to make Death Stranding at his new studio, saying that he had multiple ideas, but that a deciding factor was that Death Stranding would appeal best to the current games market:"We ended up choosing the game that – first of all – would be best for the market, and the one we were most enthusiastic about making. That was Death Stranding. It wasn’t an idea that we'd had for a long time, it was really a new idea."It's unclear exactly what Kojima's referring to as to the marketability of the game, although Death Stranding is apparently an open world game featuring online multiplayer - both popular features in the AAA development sphere at the moment.Details on the game are still pretty hazy - the major details we know for sure right now are that the game will run on Horizon: Zero Dawn's Decima Engine , that it will feature actors Mads Mikkelsen and Norman Reedus and director Guillermo del Toro as characters, and that it's on course for a release before 2019

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