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So much information to take care of.

after scanning, there are two distinct areas on the water surface indicated by different colors(still don’t know what that stands for, maybe it’s the depth of water, the red might means deep water as Sam stepped in the red, he almost was drowned), and Sam’s stamina can be consumed very fast in water.



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the move in water is hilarious, pretty Kojima style.

and somehow, the stamina is decreased, with the reduction on the weight of cargo Sam can burden.



One of the most shining feature presented in the footage is the reaction of the character to different terrain he’s walking on, in this scene, we can see Sam almost lost balance walking on a steep ground, just like in real life.

at this point, the icon of foot turned red, perhaps meaning foot are under bad condition and need change for boots.



here we can see the obvious double colored line which is like a boundary(maybe it is states boundary)

here now we see the blue side is chiral network area(weird). Once Sam stepped across the line, it says disconnected from chiral network.



Entering the musician’s bunker which reads “music is life”, and just like Geoff Keighley’s bunker, weapon is restricted here.

here we can see where we are, some one familiar with US map would tell where it is in real life, and apparently most of eastern areas are connected already, that’s probably why Sam was told to go west to continue what Amelie started, maybe it is Amelie who connected the east and got caught in the middle of her mission. And it’s likely the game covered the whole areas in the US except Alaska(as we didn’t see that part in the footage).



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Finally we got the red warning of footwear ruined, now we have to change the boots.

and there is one thing I noticed several times during the footage, the screen “blinked” occasionally, so is this really a third person game? Or we are actually on some others perspective, like BT?



And by playing the harmonica, we received 1 like and 1 like and 1 like… from BB. And one thing to mention, the song Sam played is exactly the same to the one the character played by Mads Mikkelsen sang to BB in the beginning of the release date trailer.

the spray is used to repair cargo, when pointing toward cargo, it works, while we can also point it to Sam, but…



here is the Power Skeleton introduced, the information showed it can increase user’s cargo capacity and it can be recharged gradually in sunny and cloudy weather(not rainy, is it something to do with the previous trailer when Sam said about the enemies being afraid of rain?).

here we know not only we can pee in Death Stranding, we can also carry sperm and eggs.



around this “pillar”, we can even listen to music from Hoshino Gen, still don’t know the music is shared by other players or integrated in the game previously, but it is really cool if music is shared by players.

Now let’s make it Metal Gear,



Here we can clearly see, there are stun bomb, OK, this is becoming more and more MGS.

more details about the strand that is used to bind enemies, not kill them.