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At the January 2024 State of Play, a Death Stranding 2 trailer appeared and featured tons of crazy stuff! Higgs is back with an electric guitar that he also uses to attack with electricity and slashes! There’s a metal ninja that makes BB sounds! Fragile’s got a second pair of hands around her neck! But there are other possibly neat or maybe important things you might have missed too.
Fragile smokes cigarettes that give off BTs (Beached Things)
I’m leading with this one, because it is the part that freaked me out the most. At the 8:13 mark of the Death Stranding 2 trailer, we get this scene of Fragile having a cigarette. After her extra pair of hands around her neck (which are also a thing I want to know more about) light it, she starts crying. This is something that happens when people like her and Sam ended up exposed to the Chiralium, and a response that comes when they’re near BTs. When I first watched the trailer, I thought it meant that there was a BT suddenly showing up at a peaceful moment and that was our hint something was wrong.
Instead, upon watching it a second time and looking closer, I noticed when she exhaled the smoke from the cigarette that she actually blew out BTs. Which also makes it seem like maybe something is wrong?!
The winged cat looks like it’s part BT?
At the 4:33 mark, we see one of Fragile’s new allies with a cat that has BT elements to it. The cat has wings, the same inky color, golden eyes, and is just weird! Like you may have caught the moment when the trailer aired, but not realized how inky and unusual it is. It seems like it is some sort of mix of both beings, and it gets me wondering what is going on with it and if we could see this with other characters.
The puppet’s framerate is weird!
Part of the Death Stranding 2 reveals involved a person who appears to be a puppet. The character is introduced at the 2:53 mark, and Fragile gives him to Sam. The thing is, the puppet moves at a halting frame rate. Everyone else moves at a normal one. Perhaps whoever this is happens to be a person at another location (or even on the Beach), and the delay is caused by that distance? Something’s definitely going on with this lil’ friend, and I’m betting it’s tied to the Beach.
A ring replaces the Death Stranding cuff links
This one comes up at the very end of the State of Play Death Stranding 2 trailer! Sam is lying on his bed, just as he would in the original game. In that first entry, when he’d lie down his cuff links computer would connect to the bed. This was a computer and vitals system that could provide information for Sam, and it seemed that would be a way to update. Well, the Bridges cuff links are gone, but there’s now a ring on his right thumb we can see at the 9:09 mark that may serve a similar purpose.
Moby Dick is on Sam’s shelf
This could be nothing, but it could also be something? The book Moby Dick is on the shelf above Sam’s bed at the 9:09 mark. We know in Death Stranding 2 that he’s working for Fragile’s group Drawbridge to again reconnect people. However, we also know that something seems to have happened to Lou, and Sam is searching for truth and information about her. Ahab had his white whale he fixated on and pursued, leading to his ruin. Maybe Sam’s on a similar sort of quest that could become his downfall.
And in case you missed that Death Stranding 2 trailer, here it is again:
Death Stranding 2 will come to the PS5 in 2025.
