Hideo Kojima shows off 8 minutes of new Death Stranding 2 cutscenes, including no less than 2 musical numbers featuring that little puppet guy, whose name is 'Dollman'

As part of a 90 minute, Japanese language panel at the Tokyo Game Show, Hideo Kojima unveiled nearly eight minutes of never before seen cutscenes from the upcoming Death Stranding 2: On the Beach. Kojima Productions subsequently uploaded English versions of the clips to X, «The Everything App.» Would you be surprised to learn that they're incredibly strange and surreal?

The first scene takes us back aboard the Submarine That Makes You Blue, with Sam Porter Bridges, played by Norman Reedus, and Léa Seydoux's Fragile taking a trip to the ship's bridge. My guess would be that this comes close to the start of the game, as old Sam's still getting his bearings and meeting members of the crew.

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The ship's name is revealed to be the DHV Magellan, and Fragile remarks that, «It's always like this when the DHV Magellan is on the move.» Whether «like this» refers to everything being covered in goop and people having blue-grey skin is unclear. Sam meets Mad Max director George Miller's character, Tarman, who Fragile introduces as the Magellan's «doctor and geophysicist» who also happens to pilot the thing. It's also revealed that the Magellan is actually underground and not underwater, with the setting's metaphysically empowered death goop being its means of travel.

Fragile sheds what I assume to be a thematically important single tear (more on this later!), and Sam has his first meeting with that kooky, quarter rate-animated puppet we all loved in the earlier trailer. Mr. Puppet was once a man, lost his spirit medium powers when he adopted his new form, is «alive and [his] own master,» and his name is Dollman.

In the next clip, everyone's normal color again, and Sam walks in on a conversation between Elle Fanning's Tomorrow and newly revealed character Rainy, played by