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Death Stranding: Kojima Reveals How Donkey Kong Inspired Game

At San Diego Comic-Con 2019, Hideo Kojima discusses his upcoming game Death Stranding and how one mechanic is influenced by early games like Donkey Kong.

gamerant.com

During Comic-Con 2019, Death Stranding director Hideo Kojima took part in a panel meant to focus on his role as a storyteller. But during the panel, the video game auteur also gave fans some more info about his upcoming game, including the inspiration for some of the traversal elements in Death Stranding.

During the Hideo Kojima Comic-Con panel, the Death Stranding director explained that the ladder and rope being used as traversal items pays homage to the early days of gaming, where titles like Super Mario and Donkey Kong ruled. In these games, Kojima explained, players would ascend to new heights by ladder or rope and so he wanted to develop a game that had a similar approach, albeit with a futuristic slant.

Kojima doesn’t imagine that the bulk of Death Stranding is like Donkey Kong, but that one mechanic is adapted to a 3D space and inspired by those older games.

 

[GymWolf]

Thank god he wants mads instead of reeves...

 

[HarryKS]

As nice as Keanu is, at the end of the day, he's not a very good actor.

I KNOW WHERE THE BARRRSTARD SLEEPS...

 

[Mista]

Good call. Mads is a freak and the role suits him more than Keanu.

 

[MiyazakiHatesKojima]

Interesting to see Keanu Reeves being targeted for games way before Cyberpunk 2077

Love the homage to Mario and Donkey Kong in terms of gameplay. I hope it's not too simplistic for today's standards though!

 

[Fushitsusha]

Can you customize a tune while climbing the ladder?

 

[mejin]

As nice as Keanu is, at the end of the day, he's not a very good actor.

I KNOW WHERE THE BARRRSTARD SLEEPS...

I think Keanu grown up a lot as an actor, but Mads is just awesome.

 

[Starfield]

Sorry but in the current time line having Keanu reeves will get you more buzz and hype than madds. While both are awesome actors only one of them is John fucking Wick.

 

[Badlucktroll]

Keanu is also filming bill and ted 3 right now.

 

[Thabass]

I love Keanu, but Mads is the better choice for this role.

 

[Terenty]

So i guess ropes and ladders are the only tools we will get to traverse the land...not sure i like the sound of it

 

[WindomURL]

If someone ever made a live action FFVI movie, Mads would make the perfect Kefka. His face and affect are just designed for that kind of thing, so not surprised at all.

 

[mortal]

So i guess ropes and ladders are the only tools we will get to traverse the land...not sure i like the sound of it

There are vehicles you can drive actually. Maybe some of them are customizable. I recall seeing the motorbike transform in the most recent trailer.

 

[cireza]

Next Hideo Kojima game to be inspired by Pong : confirmed.

 

[Cleared_Hot]

Sorry but in the current time line having Keanu reeves will get you more buzz and hype than madds. While both are awesome actors only one of them is John fucking Wick.

Yes and no, there's too much kreanu right now.

 

[Salvatron]

Inspired by Donkey Kong, huh? Guess he had to go with Madds since Bob Hoskins passed away in 2014.

 

[IbizaPocholo]

 

[Spukc]

kojima burning forknife

oof

 

[Tesseract]

rofl keanu ain't working with you

 

[Despera]

Reeves? For that role? Hell naw

Reeves is a great fit for a very small subset of roles.