My first time enjoying Death Stranding 2, I’m not ashamed to confess I thought it’d’ve been a live-action shot of a abandoned area near my real-life house of Phoenix, Arizona.
I’m not afraid to confess that as a result of people on-line are confusing photos of a real-life desert in Mexico for Death Stranding 2 screenshots. (For the uninitiated, I reside in the identical Sonoran desert that stretches all through northwestern Mexico and southwestern United States.)
Redditor PangTemujin shared a collection of real-life pictures they took exploring the majestic canyons of the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park close to the Mexico border in southern California, and says they’re “satisfied Kojima” used the locale as inspiration for Death Stranding 2. And certainly, the photographs look similar to the opening space the place you ship your first bundle in the sport.
So related, in reality, that a number of commenters admitted they mistook the photographs for Death Stranding 2 screenshots.
“This sport is so wild that as I fast scrolled by way of, I thought these have been screenshots. Like ‘yeah cool similar intro I watched and people have posted a million instances, no matter’
“After which it hit me,” replied Arachnid1 in the submit’s high reply with 254 upvotes on the time of writing.
“Which is which,” said a Twitter user reacting to the identical photos.
“Secure to say Kojima Productions managed to attain picture realism with DS2,” said the Twitter user who shared the pictures.
As somebody who does a lot of mountain climbing in similar-looking vistas in Arizona, I utterly relate with PangTemujin considering instinctively, “that’s my neighborhood!” when enjoying the primary half of Death Stranding 2. Even the monsoon that strikes the world shortly after is extraordinarily acquainted to anybody who’s spent a lot of time in the area.
After all, the remaining of Death Stranding 2’s map is not almost as reminiscent of the arid Sonoran desert as you discover a extra tropical area of the map clearly impressed by the extra central components of Mexico and then journey over to Australia, however these first couple of hours are a surreal deal with for desert dwellers.
70 hours in, Death Stranding 2 is one of few open world video games that justifies having such a enormous map
