User pentaghastly used an It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia scene as an exploitable to express their confusion and excitement about the game, gaining over 4,700 notes (shown below, right). For example, Tumblr user bookerdewittless posted a text post parodying their cluelessness while watching the trailer, gaining over 11,000 notes (shown below, left). Online, fans joked about the trailer's lack of details and their continued enthusiasm for the game. It also introduced a female character played by Lea Seydoux. The trailer revealed that Norman Reedus' character was named Sam Bridges. On June 11th, 2018 Sony revealed another trailer for Death Stranding at E3 2018 which was again light on details but did show some gameplay footage (shown below). The jokes were covered by Twitter Moments shortly after the trailer was released. User made a Record Scratch Freeze Frame joke about the moment, gaining over 360 retweets and 1,300 likes (shown below, right). Twitter user tweeted that the baby was a contender for Best New Character, gaining over 730 retweets (shown below, left). Meanwhile, online, Twitter users joked about the quick glance of the baby. Reedus then awakens underwater and the camera zooms in to inside him, where a baby gives the camera a thumbs-up gesture.įollowing the release of the trailer, Reedus joked that he was as baffled as everyone else. In the trailer, Reedus' character is on a mission when his crew appears to be besieged by aliens. On December 7th, 2017 at The Game Awards, Kojima and Reedus introduced a second, eight-minute trailer for Death Stranding (shown below). In less than 24 hours, the post accumulated over 2,000 votes (89% upvoted) and 120 comments on /r/gaming. On June 15th, Redditor lerigan uploaded a three-pane comic in which the titled on the Death Stranding poster changes into the phrase "Fuck You Konami" after a pair of eyeglasses are cleaned (shown below, right). Within 48 hours, the post gathered upwards of 2,400 votes (89% upvoted) and 260 comments on /r/gaming. On June 14th, Redditor Jade_Curtiss posted a high resolution image of the Death Stranding protagonist taken from Kojima's website, where equations can be seen etched on to the outside of flashdrives hanging around his neck (shown below, center). Over the next several days, the post garnered more than 23,100 notes. Meanwhile, several threads about the game reached the front page of the /r/ metalgearsolid, /r/ gaming and /r/PS4 subreddits.Īlso on June 13th, Tumblr user universequartz posted an edited version of the illustration "You Are Safe Now My Child" illustration mocking Kojima's E3 presentation (shown below, left). That evening, Kojima tweeted two posters from the game, which garnered upwards of 25,300 likes and 19,000 retweets in three days. Within 72 hours, the YouTube upload of the trailer received upwards of 1.5 million views and 3,000 comments. On June 13th, 2016, Japanese game designer Hideo Kojima announced upcoming video game Death Stranding during the Sony conference at E3 (shown below, left), along with a reveal trailer in which the protagonist (played by Norman Reedus) wakes up naked on a beach next to an infant, whom he tries to cradle in his arms before it turns invisible and crawls away from him (shown below, right).
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