New Death Stranding 2 clips reveal dynamic Photo Mode, dancing dolls, and more

Much of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach still remains a mystery despite it being announced back in 2022. However, Kojima Productions revealed a little more information at the Tokyo Game Show this past weekend, and it’s maybe weirder than you were expecting.

The studio released some game footage to X (formerly Twitter) following the show, giving us insight into some of the new characters, a realistic-looking photo mode, and a choreographed dance number with a sentient puppet. So, it’s classic Hideo Kojima fare.

The first clip introduces two new characters. The first is Tarman, played in a cameo by Mad Max director George Miller. This is the latest addition to the series’ collection of movie director cameos, which started in the first game with Guillermo Del Toro and Nicolas Winding Refn. The other character is Dollman, who is, you know, a doll. And it looks like we’ll be seeing a lot of him.

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Next, we get a brief scene with Shioli Kutsuna’s Rainy and Elle Fanning’s Tomorrow — two of the game’s newest characters. The conversation sets up some Death Stranding lore weirdness

After that, we get a glimpse at what Heartman (Nicolas Winding Refn) has been up to since the first game. Looks like he’s found a way to sleep standing up.

So far, we’ve seen example cutscenes from Death Stranding 2, but the next clip dives into the photo mode, which has gotten a big upgrade. It shows Fragile, Tomorrow, and Rainy cycling through various poses together in various locations while holding stuffed cryptobiotes (a food source from the first game). I was taken aback at first when I saw this clip since I thought it was real-world footage, not rendered in game.

Finally, we come to what you’ve all been waiting for: a short Dollman music video. It’s for the song Horizon Dreamer fr