Friday, December 8, 2017

This game is basically Kojima's Akira, some thoughts, theories, and observations after watching the new trailer (and subsequently rewatching the other two)-UNR

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Sorry if other people have brought some of these things up beforehand, I've been thinking about this trailer a lot and I'd really like to bounce some ideas off and theorize

So yeah, I can't shake the feeling that Death Stranding is Kojima's version of Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira, with the baby being a facsimile of the titular character

Just to cover my bases for anyone unfamiliar, this will contain spoilers for Akira. Because of the parallels I'm noticing between the two works, I find it necessary to describe certain plot details of the manga (and to some extent the anime movie which took some liberties with the source material as it only adapted a third of the original). Please take this into account if you want to avoid such spoilers

Moving along, the baby, a facsimile of Akira, can and probably will end all of life/existence by bending spacetime in on itself (or something). Mads and his troops want to exploit its power for his own goals, maybe they feel they have ownership over the child because they are perhaps responsible for its creation (not unlike the Colonel and his military in Akira who developed a series of psionic children as next generation military weapons). Reedus and Del Toro are playing keepaway, both having some sort of scientific connection to it (though the former definitely having a more personal one)

Or maybe Mads and his crew have a deeper connection to the baby than we're first led to believe. We see him in this trailer doing the same motions he'd done in the second trailer when ordering his troops. Maybe there's a greater connection between Mads, his soldiers, and the other-dimensional beings that were leaving prints on the ground

Whatever its origins may be, the baby is definitely connected to those other-dimensional beings. This is supported by the baby disappearing in Reedus' arms in the first trailer, after which it crawls away leaving tiny hand prints reminiscent of the bigger ones we saw in this trailer. That giant humanoid that explodes (NEO TOKYO IS ABOUT TO EXPLODE, ahem, we'll get to the crater in a bit...) seems to be the "final form" of the baby and whatever those other things leaving prints are

The blinker on Reedus and his partner's (?) suits is some sort of trans-dimensional detection system, pretty obvious by how they went out of control once the handprints started showing up. The guy Reedus' partner was trying to save was aging at a severely accelerated rate due to spacetime collapsing around them (the suits they wear seem to help against that since Reedus and his partner were fine), due to the appearance of those dimensional beings

The baby container's shaped like a sarcophagus, early in this trailer we see Norman Reedus' character comes across a mummy that gets spirited away, not really sure what to make of that connection just yet

The baby was shown living inside of Reedus. In the first trailer we see a cross shaped scar on his stomach, so at some point he "births" it via c-section

There's a floating car door that says "Bridges: United States of (obscured lettering)," shows the US covered in a web shaped pattern, interesting little world building tidbit that gives some insight into what the situation was pre-apocalypse

Getting back to the crater that Reedus stands at the edge of, it reminded me a whole lot of the giant crater where Tokyo used to stand (http://ift.tt/2kzDt0R). The giant hand print at the center corroborates that the giant humanoid figure is responsible for the explosion, reminiscent of how Akira, who was responsible for the destruction of Tokyo, was kept in an underground base underneath the crater

After the explosion we see Reedus submerged in water. Similarly in Akira there is tons of water, biblical proportions of it, raining down and flooding Neo Tokyo every time he creates an explosion due to severe atmospheric changes. On the subject of water, there's a general theme of sea life throughout all the trailers, dead in the first two trailers and alive in this one. The first signs of life on Earth began with the sea and it seems only fitting that the first signs of death would also begin with it (this trailer taking place before the first two trailers before it)

So yeah, that's more or less everything though I'm sure there's way more. It's almost 3AM so I think I'll call it a night and wrap things up here. Let me know what you think!

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