Death Stranding 2 için Kojima: 'Daha fazla oyuncu oyunun sonuna kadar devam etmesini istiyorum'

Games Action Death Stranding 2 After feedback that Death Stranding was 'too slow,' Kojima wanted more players to see Death Stranding 2 all the way through to the end News By Wes Fenlon published 24 March 2026 Being more divisive wasn't the goal after all. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. (Image credit: Kojima Productions) Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 11 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter PC Gamer The biggest gaming news, reviews and hardware deals Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team. Contact me with news and offers from other Future brands Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over. 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This was an order he provided," said lead level designer Hiroaki Yoshiike, in a recent interview with PC Gamer.That directive might sound surprising if you saw a widely circulated quote about Death Stranding 2 last year from co-composer Woodkid. In an interview with Rolling Stone, the musician alleged that director Hideo Kojima changed the game based on playtesters liking it too much, striving to make it less conventional. It was a compelling quote out of context—the auteur, going against the grain! But in reality, as Kojima cleared up in December, he actually made the writing more explicit and "changed the game to make it more playable and fun" based on focus tests. He just didn't want it to be too "digestible," easily played and quickly forgotten.Article continues below You may like Death Stranding 2 devs thought 'Brutal' mode was hard enough, but pushed the game to 'the upper limit' with its new difficulty option on PC Death Stranding 2 review: Catharsis in the age of the algorithm Death Stranding 2 guide Kojima did take feedback about the first game to heart, though, and his reaction wasn't to double down on making the sequel harder to like.Yoshiike said that for Death Stranding, the developers needed to be "very elaborate" as they "introduced all the new concepts and what the world is like." But the player feedback was that the game "might've been a little bit slow.""In the second game, we didn't need to provide too many worldbuilding elements, we could make it less elaborate. For completionists, they can enjoy it, but at the same time, people who don't necessarily care about it that much, we made sure they can follow the story through other supplemental elements within the game. That was one of the design choices that we made. We've gotten a lot of feedback that it's much easier to recommend DS2 to people. And we're able to see the metrics, and we saw that people progress much further than they previously had. So that was just as we designed, I think."According to trophy data on PSNProfiles and Steam, fewer than half of players saw credits in the first Death Stranding. Stats vary by game version, with about 40% completing the original PS4 release, 34% finishing the PS5 Director's Cut and only 20% (likely double-dippers) reaching the end on Steam. window.sliceComponents = window.sliceComponents {}; externalsScriptLoaded.then(() => { window.reliablePageLoad.then(() => { var componentContainer = document.querySelector("#slice-container-newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent-Yr6R7px8AG4FfqmbZ6idpT"); if (componentContainer) { var data = {"layout":"inbodyContent","header":"The biggest gaming news, reviews and hardware deals","tagline":"Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.","formFooterText":"By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over.","usDisclaimerFooterText":"By signing up, you agree to our Terms of services and acknowledge that you have read our Privacy Notice. 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