Kojima’s latest serves up madness and melancholy in equal measure, pushing past the original’s flaws to deliver a wildly creative sequel that’s hard to put down.

The mass connection that Death Stranding advocated for has shown its dark underbelly and there are some days where I wish we could go back and undo it all. That anxiety is palpable in Death Stranding 2: On The Beach,

No, these aren't straightjacket blabberings due to another vicious bout of temporary madness; instead, they are just 10% of the bizarre things I've seen in Death Stranding 2: On the Beach. But it would be far too easy to dismiss Hideo Kojima's work as acts of weirdness alone.