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What did Kojima-san mean by this?
Did Kojima include similar social commentary in Death Stranding 2 ?

>>714046618 (OP)
>Hideo is right wing
>Kojima is left wing

Don't understand why people here acted surprised about this considering he was a vocal critic of both Clinton and Bush. Plus didn't he sarcastically dedicate some award for Peace Walker to Obama?

>Japanese man cant understand not wanting to be a part of the hive
huh

>>714046736
Im acting surprised right now because its an act.
bitch

>>714046736
ironic with how obama wasnt much better than the average republican president

>>714047107
You think the president has any power at all?

>Japanese man living in a bubble of well to do media shitheads, thinks he can talk down to people in whole other countries whose problems he can't even comprehend
Why do I have to take anything this man says seriously?

>>714046618 (OP)
>Non-American critical of American politics
Is the next post on /v/ going to be about how the sky is blue?

He has never made a good game.

What a coincidence. Trump said the MGS series inspired his politics

>>714047193
Yes. Pretending otherwise is just pure cynicism.

>>714046618 (OP)
Ds2 is pretty woke

>>714046618 (OP)
Yes he said he stands with Israel

the game starts with the American government being abolished and replaced with corpos, and there's a whole mission chain about how unfetted access to guns causes a defacto arms race that puts everyone at harm. Like you have to destroy a weapons production factory because a civilian community hates that they have to be armed just because everyone around them is too

>biggest Playstation exclusive
The PS5 is finally getting a game? What is it?

>>714046618 (OP)
He thought that USA would implode.

>>714054301
Turns out he nailed it again then

>>714046618 (OP)
>You no want to be bug men living in cave watching v-tuber raising black man's child?

>>714046618 (OP)
Yeah. The shady organization handling the expansion of the glibal communications network is named AIPAC, like the NGO that joins America and Israel at the hip.

There's some more stuff but I don't want to spoil the game. But it's a deeply political work, arguably moreso than the first DS.

>>714057212
>The shady organization handling the expansion of the global communications network is named AIPAC, like the NGO that joins America and Israel at the hip.

The President of American is branded with their logo

>>714057540
Not technically the president of America. That's another fun little bit of social commentary. The first president of the UCA managed to serve for only a year before the entire country got privatized.

>>714047107
he spent his time replacing everyone in all agencies while keeping up the public facade

>>714046618 (OP)
*Only Playstation exclusive

ftfy

>>714046828
This is why communist ideology was so popular in Asia

>>714046828
>>714054545

It's funny because one of the games primary morals is the exact opposite of that.

Touch grass and make personal connections with people rather than being hooked on devices that make you complacent and manipulate you.

>>714047107
Thanks Obama

>>714058358
not according to wokestation US

>>714046618 (OP)
>Game starts
>UCA no longer exists like before, its president is now just a puppet for the APAC.
Not so much social commentary as just cold hard truth.

>>714046618 (OP)
>man from 95% racially homogeneous island lectures you about immigration
cool

>>714062263
Kojima works with people from all over the world.

>>714060081
perhaps peoples smart devices in the first game being literal handcuffs was too subtle for some...

>>714060475
Just add an "I" to APAC in there somewhere and it's pretty horrifyingly spot-on...

>>714046618 (OP)
He's kind of a shallow moron influenced by his gay hollyweird ''friends'' who most likely regurgitate orange man bad into his ear constantly.

Case in point: Sam's red cap with white letters on them is now brown shit colored in-game (the vehicles still have bright red hues).

>>714065194
Man, the whole game is a big allegory on modern politics. Spoilers, obviously.

America has become entirely privatized, the president is a leader of an organization called APAC who wants to expand its influence all over the world, he creates a climate of fear and division by producing and providing arms to radical groups, supporting a guy who literally wants to bring about the end of the world with an army of machines.

Then it turns out that his company is a front for a hivemind of evil vengeful spirits of the past who want to turn humans into digital beings by enslaving them to their machines. And, wouldn't you know it, they have no idea that all they've been doing with that is aiding the guy who's been using them to bring about the apocalypse by, literally, taking away tomorrow whose leading an ancient egyptian death cult.

And that's not even getting into stuff like Neil's background as a government employed human trafficker.

Kojima's one of the few political writers in the industry. And I mean explicitly political, not wishy washy "I support good things and reject nad things political" but someone who will call out the things he wants to criticize directly.

>>714046618 (OP)
Trump and Brexit were about creating barriers.
Death Stranding is about creating bridges.

>>714065973
>call out the things he wants to criticize directly.
There is nothing direct about this allegory its pure fantasy

>>714046618 (OP)
>He still hasn't realised Bridge Babies are political commentary on fetuses not being considered alive before they're born, facilitating their connection to the bed and BTFO chuds who think life begins and conception.

>>714047926
Metal Gear Rising, actually.

>>714068872
Life *does* begin at conception.

>>714047193
When things go good, it's because my guy did something.
When things go bad, it's because your guy did something.

>>714070893
I mean, ants are also life. Doesn't make them valuable.

Death Stranding one was about connecting people, Trump and Brexit were isolationist ideals

>>714047107
>erm let me be clear
>drone strikes pakis

Wow you mean Hideo Kojima isn't MAGA?

>>714071323
Yes, which is why most laws apply to human life.

>>714071391
It's about the globohomo agenda and how isolating in shelters is the only way to avert annihilation.

>>714071478
>I was an immigrant

>>714047107
Obama is a Muslim nigger who was conveniently silently put into power after 9/11.

>>714071742
The funny part is that guy is literally the villain of Death Stranding 2

>>714046618 (OP)
He’s saying that racist Drumpft and Nigel Farage are destroying bridges and connections by building the wall or passing Brexit. Nazi far right fascists hate it when people connect. And when the far right Nazi fascist white bois don’t breed since there’s no immigration, it calls the BTs in and causes the death stranding (whitoids going extinct because they don’t bring in immigrants or breed)

>>714046618 (OP)
I'm sick of retards slagging off Brexit, Pakistanis and Africans are better people than Europeans.

>>714071478
>Whole country was built by immigrants
Nope

>>714047413
He’s not a man

>>714046618 (OP)
Death Stranding's writing feels too abstract, aimless, and pretentious.
Sure MGS has wacky shit too but it's largely grounded in real history, geopolitics, and new technologies. That gives it a kind of verisimilitude that Death Stranding lacks.

>>714071920
>It began life as Misión San Antonio de Valero in 1718, established by Spanish catholic missionary Antonio de Olivares.
>Antonio de San Buenaventura y Olivares was born in Moguer, Andalusia, Spain, in 1630

>>714071917
Africans are definitely the only people in Atlanta delivering food at 3am.

>>714071498
Luckily fetuses aren't human.

>Trump and Brexit.... is LE BAD
>Rook Mr/mrs/Xr gaijins, Trump wall is crumbing in my gamu and yu have to cross it as a part of main stoly!
Meanwhile in Japan
>According to the Justice Ministry, in 2024, 18,908 foreigners were deported by the immigration office for violating the immigration control law. Of these, more than 90 percent (17,746) had overstayed.
>https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2025/04/17afe5ff3b8b-feature-visa-overstayers-in-japan-face-stigma-of-criminality.html
uhhhh Kojisisters.... Why doesn't he address the thing he said he hate when it's in his home country but he has time to moan about Hakujin's policy

>>714072321
Incipient human life.
To kill a foetus is to kill the person they would naturally become barring intervention or emergency.

>>714072548
Because the game is set in America. He didn't directly address Brexit either.

>>714046618 (OP)
>This year's biggest PlayStation exclusive
Honestly, I'm not surprised. The first game had a pretty big file size too. This one might take up the whole drive.

>brexit
Will be known as the dumbest movement in british history

The only lefty things in ds2 were a satiric comment about americas gun culture, an unfinished wall in mexico and a group of men hating women that was clearly inspired by mad max.

Game is slightly anti globalist even amd repeats the patriots from mgs2 again

>>714071920
Americans were immigrants, the difference is they came to build a new country for themselves. Modern migrants come to leech.

>>714073343
>vote to stop immigration
>government actually increases immigration
your vote matters, goy!

>>714046618 (OP)
Kojima's political commentary has always been kind of crap in general. Hearing MGS fans discuss it always made me want to blow my brains out. It was just tired old socialist left talking points regarding the whole anti war theme.

>>714073586
>You, the player, have to connect every continents into one single hivemind, sharing the same thought and value, on behave of a single government-company hybrid
>De gaym iz anti-globalist guis!
????????

>>714072960
>Incipient human life.
All that is something that's not human yet, and has no rights.

>>714046618 (OP)
Death Stranding's commentary isn't as direct as MGS4 doing Afganistan War so that's nothingburger

>>714074285
have you finished the game?
You arent actually connecting australia to america, you are severing

Its the president/soul AI that wants everything connected but die hardman btfos him

>but what is the difference

Bridges want individual countries connected so they function again and the super AI wants every country to be connected to each other in one super country so they have total control over it

>>714060407
>Marathon
>Fairgames
>Concord
I get this image is from a year or more ago?
>Horizon & last of us
Are they going to create more of them?
>Until dawn
are t

>>714071920
But it is true? As far as my knowledge reachs (I´m from euroland) the only 100% native live on reserves and/or casinos.
Other thing is that they try to link legal with illegal inmigration.

>>714074382
It doesn't need to be a fully-fledged human to have the right to life.

>Advocating for multicultural society with his games while living in a monoculture country
huh?

>>714075273
Like every leftist? Who mostly advocate to open borders while living on gated comunities?

>>714074940
Yes, it does. Ants don't have rights, chimps don't have rights, cells don't have rights. Fetuses don't have rights.

>>714073343
Kind of redundant to point out since the European Union give grants to fuel pro illegal immigration sentiment propaganda in video game form.
Fun fact: Dustborn got the same kind of grant.

That's what happens when your governments are superseded by euro socialists. Brexit is completely inconsequential here, the UK already had migration issues that weren't completely EU dependent.

>>714075483
>Equating an incipient human with an insect
You "people" truly hold nothing sacred, and it is tragically evident in the way you live...

>>714047107
Exactly.

>>714075840
That's because the "left" has defined itself by godless degeneracy, government gibs, and ludditism instead of New Deal era reforms.

>>714073713
They didn't vote to decrease immigration, they voted to leave the European Union. The idea that that might somehow decrease immigration is something some people might have gaslighted themselves into but there was no reason to assume it would.

>>714047107
He’s way better but republicans blocked everything

>>714074285
>You, the player, have to connect every continents into one single hivemind, sharing the same thought and value, on behave of a single government-company hybrid

This is the goal of the villains and when it's fully revealed there's like a ten minute monologue about how the protagonists have sabotaged their plot all along

>>714071995
DS is more ambitious