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The Death Stranding E3 Trailer Contains a Secret Message
Kojima is at it again.
Death Stranding fans have discovered a secret message in the E3 trailer that may offer further clues about the game.
Polygon reports that an image from the newest Death Stranding trailer links back to a music video for the song Give Me An Answer.
Lindsay Wagner's Death Stranding character is wearing a coded Quipu necklace.
The necklace Lindsay Wagner's character is wearing bears a resemblance to quipu, or talking knots, and a Russian Twitter user decoded the message to reveal the name of the music video, by Low Roar. Incidentally, Kojima tweeted about Quipu last year, when he visited an exhibition about the ancient civilization of the Andes.
Kojima used a Low Roar song in the initial Death Stranding reveal in 2016 and used a second song from the same album in the trailer that debuted at the Game Awards 2016.
This particular music video was released last year, and director Dylan Marko Bell told Paper Mag that "it would be fun to create a world where certain fans could physically enter the game Death Stranding before it came out."
The video depicts three people being dropped off at a motel, drawing straws, and entering the bathroom one at a time to find a strange device. Two of them enter the shower where they promptly get covered in black goo, not dissimilar to the substance we've seen in the game's trailers left in the wake of the invisible creatures that surround Norman Reedus' character on the beach in the first trailer.
It's not clear if the events in the video are directly related to the game's content, or if the game acted solely as inspiration for it.
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