Death Stranding 2 Should Use a Piece of the Puzzle That Cemented the Original’s Success

Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding 2 is in development, a sequel to the thoughtful trek across a shattered facsimile of North America after Earth was struck by the titular cataclysmic event. In Death Stranding, players took control of Sam Porter Bridges, tasked with reconnecting the country’s various Knot cities via Bridges’ chiral network. This chiral network played an integral part in the story, of course, but its asynchronous online functionality lends the game an interesting sense of community. Kojima’s asynchronous mechanics work wonders, and it would be surprising if we didn’t see this particular style of strand gameplay in future games.