Death Stranding contains Trump and EU metaphors

Death Stranding is coming to PS4 on November 8, and we recently had a lengthy discussion with Hideo Kojima about the sequel, breaking down various gameplay elements and preparing ourselves for the release later this year, as you can read in full here.

With the discussions around politics in games ongoing, it turns out that we'll be seeing political metaphors in the upcoming game as well, especially when it comes to linking the United Cities of America, as you'll be attempting in Death Stranding.

"There's actually three steps to that chiral network," Kojima explained to Game Informer. "For Bridges' sake, you're connecting from east to west and they want you to join the UCA - the United Cities of America. When you connect, you can use UCA services, but at the same time, they're retrieving your information 24 hours a day. It's like 1984. Some people may not like that, and say "I'm not going to connect to UCA, because we're going to repeat the same thing that we did." Like Trump, or the EU, these things. It's a metaphor. However, if you get really close, they start to say, "Okay, I'll connect."

"A lot of preppers just sign a contract to be connected to Bridges. The network is there, but there's no communication or other actions - that's why they can't use the chiral printers and things like that. If they say they will join the UCA, then you can use the chiral network, the chiral printers, things like that. In the game, the mission is to really reconnect America again - but I haven't said whether that is correct or not."

If you want a summary of our interview with Kojima you can find a brief video here, in which Andreas talks about the major discussion points.

Do you like the use of these metaphors?