- [Narrator] Death Stranding is just around the corner
and most of us still don't know what the hell it's about.
Like seriously, there's a baby cocoon
and some famous people.
Conan O'Brien is an otter hologram or something.
Anyway, not to worry folks, we've got you covered.
Strap in your Norman Reeduses and your Funky Fetuses.
This is predicting Death Stranding in three-ish minutes.
Let's begin.
So there's this scientist, ex-military?
Mads Mikkelson?
His name is Cliff.
He's hot.
Anyways, he's experimenting on unborn babies
trying to access this other world.
Maybe it's got abundant energy,
maybe it's the secret to eternal life.
Mads scientist is tinkering with this baby that,
due to being between life
and death, can see to the other side.
He's got it in a special container
that helps keep it alive outside of the womb.
What is that fluid, pee, Jell-O?
Which reminds me, this game has a peeing mechanic,
so you can finally write your name in the sand, ladies.
Enjoy it.
Then something goes horribly wrong
and he accidentally merges our world with this other world
and everything goes to poop.
The accident leaves Cliff as a reluctant big bad,
channeling energy from the other world
through him as this crazy black goop military commander.
Also, he lights his own cigarette using burning detritus.
They don't even have vapes in this cruel dark world.
Definitely one of the coolest things I've ever seen.
Sam Porter-Bridges, formerly Sam Strand,
but who knows what that even means, friends
and or siblings with President Bridget's daughter,
Amelie, knows the Death Stranding well.
He somehow survives the event, weird.
He does get these cool handprints and stuff.
Definitely better than a normal tattoo.
Also, his belly button might be missing.
Seems like those who die fully in the Death Stranding
become monsters of its world, whereas those that manage
to avoid it, find themselves ripped apart,
some aspects of themselves still on the beach.
Fast forward to the future, where the continental U.S.
is in shambles after
the otherworldly monsters have destroyed it.
The terrain is rocky and wet,
and creatures called BTs
float above looking for more victims.
Sam is called upon by the dying president,
who wishes to reinstate the U.S.
under a new name, the United Cities of America.
Seems like a step down, but okay.
Amelie was on a mission to try
and reconnect the people left alive
using the Chrial Network and the organization BRIDGES.
Hint, Chirality is a form of asymmetry
where molecules look similar,
but don't necessarily match up.
Also, it's Greek for hand.
Hands coming together, but not able to fully touch?
Taste that symbolism.
Part of Amelie is stuck in the Death Stranding,
while the rest of her stays in the real world, unaging.
Neat.
She was unable to finish her mission
and was captured by some #BadDudes.
Amelie asks Sam to help her.
Sam says no, but then, he says yes.
Also, Tommie Earl Jenkins is there
as a kinda Secretary of State, security guard?
He's wearing a cool skull mask, so we like him.
Guiermo del Toro gives Sam his very own Bridge Baby,
which allows him to see
into the other world and avoid threats.
His new job?
To continue the mission to connect the Cities of America
on the Chiral network and bring peace.
He's gotta use a Q-PID to connect
the terminals and bring them into the network.
Sadly, the Q-PID is not an adorable baby with wings.
It's a bunch of metal rods
with spooky math formulas written on them.
Also, it seems like everyone who's been touched
by the Death Stranding cries a lot,
something about rapidly aging.
Look, if I was living in a post-apocalyptic world
where everyone aged really fast,
was also maybe dead, I'd cry a lot, too.
It's my post-apocalypse and I'll cry if I want to.
There's a city on the Pacific Coast, Edge Knot City,
where some terrorists live and keep Amelie captive.
They call themselves Homo-Demons,
which is definitely spooky, but even spookier
is how they use the same tech as BRIDGES does
to do their dirty work.
Seems like they purposefully summon BTs to the real world
and create giant craters in an event called a void-out.
So much terminology, so little time.
Why is this game so freaking confusing?
Amelie is being held in Edge Knot City
as an insurance policy, so the Demons can keep being spooky
and something for you to fight in-game.
On his adventures, Sam meets a cool goth lady
who seems to really like him,
a mom whose baby got death stranded, but not her,
a guys whose heart stops every 21 minutes
and allows him to dive into the other world
in search for answers, and Conan O'Brien?
Seriously, what is going on in this game?
Is it a movie?
Is it like a multi-genre art piece?
Is it just Kojima's long love letter to Norman Reedus?
Knowing full well this is a Kojima game,
we've got a few different endings in sight.
Ending one, Sam successfully connects all terminals
across the continent and reaches Edge Knot city.
Amelie probably sacrifices herself to save Sam
during the final battle and he
and his Bridge Baby get to live a new
and happy life with the reinstated United Cities of America.
He names the baby Bridget.
Get it, do you get it?
Bridget.
Ending two, Sam doesn't manage to connect all the terminals
and is forced to fight the terrorists to the death,
rescuing Amelie from her immortal prison,
but dying himself in the process.
His BB perishes and everyone is sad.
Ending three, it turns out Sam is a member
of the Homo-Demons, the real good guys, but he has amnesia
and is being used by an uncaring government
for their own selfish needs.
He learns that only he can take down the President
by pretending not to know the horrible truth
and then, he fights older versions
of himself for four hours.
And that's our predictions for Death Stranding.
Do you have bigger and better theories?
What would you name your Bridge Baby?
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(calm music)