It's the moon guys... it's literally just the moon. Sam's probably walking on some beach, much like the Sun was huge behind Amelie at the end of DS1 on her beach
@@tomcaswell1529 I get the idea, America looks like Iceland in DS so what if the whole Earth looks like the Moon. One small issue, America doesn't look *exactly* like Iceland, while this celestial body shares the likeness of its surface with our Moon down to every crater, thus it is without a doubt the Moon
What if it is the moon yes, but since it`s closer to earth, it screws with the tides, which could influence the waters creating the flood we saw earlier. Some gravitational mumbo jumbo causing the moon and earth the move closer together, causing it to create the natural disasters we see in the game... Just a thought
I'm pretty sure it wasn't the sun but the earth on fire. But yea, it's definitely the moon. I think it might be some kind of dream sequence. But the visuals are very similar to Amelie's beach, so you might be right there.
BTs were connected via umbilical cords, but in the trailer I noticed the bots and Elle Fanning's character have strings like puppets, like Praying Mantis from MGS4
I think if anything that might be a reference I do believe that later down the story we could find our what it means like we did with BT'S through multiple interviews
@@tomcaswell1529He’s right there were white strands before but they signified distro centers and preppers. This time though it looks like they have a new thing they represent.
If the bb thats controlling the samurai is lou, something tells me that we will be able to have lou control other robots and help us, like turning the dog robots against the enemies
It’s the moon, in the directors cuts that I’m playing now I just got to a scene from the BBs perspective in the pod where I doctor shows it a picture of the moon in a magazine and says “Look it’s the moon, I’ll show you it in person one day, you’ll be able to go wherever you want.” - That can’t be a coincidence I was shocked just seeing it now while playing.
I think that the girl in the pod at the beginning, the floating body with dark hair and the blonde Elle Fanning is the same person. Both of women have bandages on the same arm and the face of the girl in the pod is also Elle Fanning's face, the eyes are quite distinctive.
my thoughts is they dug up the MAMA we bury in the first game up and Elle Fanning blonde is her chiral kid that we release and return to her in the tar and became a chiral person.
Great video. All great observations. The only things I’ll add are… The inverted title card also resembles something being submerged in water (tar). And the song played over the ending. Rockabye Baby. Makes me think of last line. Down will come baby, cradle ‘n all. I think unfortunately, bringing BB back will be tethered to some bad stuff for humanity. Either she’ll be an extinction entity. Or the barrier between living and dead will collapse.
13:25: "Are there dunes in Mexico?" shouldn't even be a question when the first game was supposed to be the United States but most of the landscape was Iceland. Clearly these games don't lineup with the real world.
People have seem to forgot that art whether it's movies or video games can depict anything as anything with any asthetics. It's a world where the realm of the dead and an after life actually exists and it's spilling over into our plane of existence. And it's explained via made up in universe science. How are people so caught up that the world doesn't look like our real world. Why expect any degree realism when the games world is nothing but surrealism.
I think the story will be about Sam having to venture to the world of the dead to bring Lou back to the world of the living (explains the inverted strands in the title graphic). It's mentioned Lou is dead in the trailer and I think Sam's mission will mirror Bridgette/Amelie from the first game, where Ameile returned Sam to the world of the living after being shot dead but making him a repatriate in the process.
The puppet might be the logical and pensive part or soul of the gooey cat. See how he hisses at Higgs. At this point I will give up trying to understand. I tried the first game which I loved, so Im just here for the ride this time with all these trailers
I do not think they are robots or cyborgs. (Hint: what ancient Egyptians used to do with mummy corpses) Puppet in stop motion is movie director Fatih Akin
@@jovedo27no *SPOILER ALERT* the huge twist is that the entire game all the cutscenes with cliff are actually just Sam’s own memories and he was one of if not “the original Bridge Baby” and he thought that it was Lou making him have those flashbacks but it was really just his own memories of his dad! It’s confusing if you think too hard but I hope I explained it good enough
I think the DHV Magellan is using The Seam or The Beach in the same way ships in Warhammer 40k use The Warp to get around. Note how we always see it coming out of Tar lakes, which I think may indicate that, like BTs, it's emerging from the Beach into our world. This would also explain the shot of the Magellan coming out of the baby's mouth, maybe they've figured out some way to make those aboard the ship pseudorepatriates, technically dead just long enough for them to travel on the beach, but leaving them alive and well when they reach their destination in the world of the living.
no one seems to be mentioning: the scene with the higgs-bots hanging in air like bt's, you can see what looks to be inverted strands catching glints of light. IMO, they aren't the same as umbilical cords though, they look more like the thin puppet strings we see on the young girl (i think we're all assuming is Louise?) in the scene where she appears to be eavesdropping. puppets and puppet strings seem to be a pretty major recurring theme in the imagery. worth noting. edit: another thing i just noticed, when the Title comes down, initially it starts to just look like the usual cord introduction, HOWEVER, at the end of each letters animation they do a little sway, very much mimicking things on puppet-like strings
One small additional detail i noticed is the melody Higgs plays on the guitar when attacking the samurai are the first three notes of Lou's Lullaby ! As a DS Fanboy i really appreciate your LOD breakdown!
Maybe Higgs and the bad batch brought the moon closer to trigger gravity anomalies and that's why we now have BTs with strands attached to the ground. The moon is pulling the tar from underneath the earth
The fact that sam is older while being blue (in the beach, like we can see water inside the Mallingan) is maybe because of he was born there and he always grew up there, we never saw him younger or older in the real world. If this is really the case, it would be logic to have Fragile always young (in the beach, because people who was born on earth don't change in the beach, their 'ka' is still the same).
At the end of the trailer, along with the credits of the game, there is fine print that reads "CGI Moon Kit courtesy of NASA's SVS (Ernie Wright and Noah Petro)". So yeah, I think that was the Moon.
Well if you want to make deliveries because literally that's all you do you'll be doing it for 11 hours and then the game opens up a little more woth a few more options on how to complete those deliveries. But try it maybe you'll like it.
It’s a good game story and graphic wise but gameplay wise I’m just not interested in caring around a bunch of luggage 🤷🏾♂️ so when the second come out I will watch on UA-cam
at one point fragile says something like "you're not here to expand the uca, we just want expand the network to here, like you did in mexico". which implies there's more than just mexico in terms of areas.
The symbolism of a bridge vs that of a drawbridge is also interesting. The latter being able to revoke access to a passageway. Perhaps to keep out any of the weird monsters that are emerging from the tar
The Tar could be creating chimeras. The Captain's winged cat could be one of them. I think Timefall would destroy environmental additions like the bridge. Maybe Elle Fanning's character is Lou?
I realized that in the Moon shot, the texture corresponds to the actual Moon's texture but it is inverted!! (not rotated). It is like a mirror image of the Moon. 🌛🌜
I have the theory that Fragile and Sam somehow swapped DOOMS levels. Fragile's BT senses were dulled, but her age was transfered to Sam. That's why we see her with Fragile instead of Sam. Sam's probably running solo again for whatever reason, something that might require Fragile's abilties, but he had her watch Lou instead. But when he got her powers, her timefall damage transfered to him. It could be that Kojima is pulling a fast one by changing the appearance of Sam in the trailer, which isn't a thing Kojima is a stranger to doing.
Great video, enjoyed it a lot! In the first game we learned the earth don't rotates anymore that's the reason why it's always day, that means on other places on earth it's always night! It depents if it's still not rotating like in DS1, and we will visit other places not only mexico then maybe we see a country in the new trailer where it's always night. But if the earth rotates again, we will have a day and night cycle. 26:32 It's not a joker make up, it's a the crow make up by the way 😉
i think lou is in the pod, just as new type of BT! lou dies at the end of the 1st trailer after fragile falls off her bike, i think lou gets shot, and later we see the broken BB pod with lou forming as a BT - both lou and the BT have little wings on their backs! there’s also spikey cryptobiotes? so maybe lou is like mama’s child - a baby BT, but lou is special somehow, and can actually move from one spot, hence the wings! the tentacles in the pod might be lou interacting from the beach, potentially linking elle fanning’s character being lou from the beach after emerging from the tar!
I’m excited for more combat and action, it needs to be tweaked a little bit from the first game but guns were basically useless in the first game besides boss encounters so I’d like to actually use them. When he engages with the floating “robot” things Sam puts down his pack unlike dumping all the boxes like you can in the first game which will probably make it way easier to switch into combat mode! We’ll see though! Less rope more stick talk bb
I think the red sky in the BT-like encounters might indicate something new and interesting. Perhaps these aren't strictly BTs, perhaps there's something mechanically different about the way BT encounters behave in the game world. Or maybe it just looks cool, who knows!
Perhaps some clues are in the title: On The Beach. Perhaps they’ve learned more about the beach and have different ways to access and explore it. Maybe Sam can explore the world from the beach and the flash floods replace the BT’s and getting caught in it sends you back to the world of the living. But he also didn’t look bluish, so I’m probably wrong about that.
In my opinion Sam's white hair is linked to the black, considering in the trailer and the gameplay we only see the white hair when he's blue aka on the beach, but brown hair and younger when he isn't on the beach
What if we’re just in the world but inverted, when they dive in the black ink they could just be in the inverted world where everything is mixed around
An interesting side note about the 4 droids and the dog. There are 2 types of driods in the scene 24:51 as denoted not just by the display on their headgear but also 2 carry deployable dogs on their shoulders and the other two seem to be holding staves with an extra hand on the backpack. Also, the dog isn't neutered.
Definitely more than Mexico. Fragile says at some point in the trailer "just like in Mexico we need to blah blah". I am thinking Mexico is either the prologue and or early chapter or just referenced as something that happened and informed to Sam.
This is mind blowingly good. I didn't play the first one but I will definately play this one. I bought it and just never got around to it. This game world is becoming something more and something more than I could have imagined to come to light. Maybe I'll put on the first game and see what I really think. I'm loving this and very interested in this world.
I think the reason for sam can be older and younger is simply that they find the way to reverl timefall effect on human, and older sam just had his headfull of timefall. Also, I don't think the younger sam kiss lou is when his on bridge, it's very clear that he break off from it last game. Actually, he's wearing a independence porter's suit, if you look closely in his hood, you can see it lacks some component the bridge's suit has, which they use to rise the hood when timefall detected. You can even see how it's difference from drawbridge suit
Wonder what Amelie has been up to. How much longer she can hold off the Last Stranding. If it's discovered how to make Sam stop _existing_ , would that fix everything? Can Sam even pass on from old age? 🤔
I'm very much guided by Edge magazine's scores/reviews. I've always thought of it as the industry journal. It's something I've been a follower of since I was a kid and it has served me well - exposing me to games I may never have tried, but knowing that their 9s and 10s are exceptional games and worthy of my time, I've played and loved significant games in genres I wouldn't otherwise have bothered with. They hated the first game, and I have to be honest, I did not rate ZOE/2 at all. I've never played Boktai, Snatcher or Policenauts, so my experience of Kojima's games outside of Metal Gear and Penguin Adventure is admittedly somewhat limited, but not positive. BUT, after this preview, I think I really need to try the first DS game, because this is the most advanced videogame thing I've ever seen and I really want to play this sequel.
I actually didn't notice control sticks on the vehicles and was 100% sure the vehicles will be automated this time. Someone corrected me and I noticed the sticks, but... I think that truck has a camera, or a sensor. And the fact the there is no hood... maybe we'll be able to shoot while driving on auto-pilot?
What about the puppet string metaphor? We now have strands coming from the top in the title screens, and we have the little puppet sidekick. There has to be something there right?
People have been comparing Higgs makeup to Joker but with the eye style and lipstick with the addition of the long hair and practically coming back from the dead…. He’s more designed after The Crow than joker
"Better to pick up all the pieces and put them back together"--Fragile. Also the strands/tar flow upwards on the beach. They were in the first game. Edit: I mean the place in between the beach, it has been so long since playing the first game. Not sure if that place is called the beach.
You could drop your backpack in the first game too, but it was not so simple, you had to hold a button for longer time and in this trailer his backpack is transforming into something, so I'm assuming we get pet robots for fighting ???
Elle fannings “Ki” or soul has been separated from her body which is why none of the main characters are turning and looking back at her walking around it’s like an out of body experience they’re trying to put her back in the body
If the tar is spawning creatures they should have a connection to the beach like bt's did. So if it is the octopus inside...sam should still be able to use it like he did before with bb.
Everybody keeps saying the cat with the tentacle when maybe they should be saying the tentacle imitating a cat. Sorta like a hermit crab imitates a shell but we don't call them shells because its a crab, perhaps the tentacle is wearing the tar so it can survive outside of the tank and just decided to take on the shape of a cat rather than a Ditto. I only wonder if the tar itself is somehow alive similar to Venom, Venom is able to allow his host to breathe in almost any environment, he's already survived in space and underwater.
Captains arm might be the boss itself, and fact that part of his body is living own live in inverted world he has ability to manipulate chiralium and his ship with it
It's the moon guys... it's literally just the moon. Sam's probably walking on some beach, much like the Sun was huge behind Amelie at the end of DS1 on her beach
But what if...
@@tomcaswell1529 I get the idea, America looks like Iceland in DS so what if the whole Earth looks like the Moon. One small issue, America doesn't look *exactly* like Iceland, while this celestial body shares the likeness of its surface with our Moon down to every crater, thus it is without a doubt the Moon
indeed. Playing on the "inversion" motif of that scene
What if it is the moon yes, but since it`s closer to earth, it screws with the tides, which could influence the waters creating the flood we saw earlier. Some gravitational mumbo jumbo causing the moon and earth the move closer together, causing it to create the natural disasters we see in the game... Just a thought
I'm pretty sure it wasn't the sun but the earth on fire. But yea, it's definitely the moon. I think it might be some kind of dream sequence. But the visuals are very similar to Amelie's beach, so you might be right there.
BTs were connected via umbilical cords, but in the trailer I noticed the bots and Elle Fanning's character have strings like puppets, like Praying Mantis from MGS4
Maybe it signifies, rather than a natural connection to the Beaches, a synthetic one, like a mended connection?
even the text cuts are less umbilical and more puppet string like in the trailer, as opposed to the final logo reveal.
I think if anything that might be a reference I do believe that later down the story we could find our what it means like we did with BT'S through multiple interviews
What if old Sam and new Sam aren’t…. The same Sam.
The inverted rainbows and white strands were in the first game. They signalled that timefall and BTs were near.
I think you're right about the inverted rainbows, but I'm pretty sure the puppet strings are new.
But why are there inverted rainbows and BTs? They went away at the end of the first game so why are they back
@@tomcaswell1529He’s right there were white strands before but they signified distro centers and preppers. This time though it looks like they have a new thing they represent.
If the bb thats controlling the samurai is lou, something tells me that we will be able to have lou control other robots and help us, like turning the dog robots against the enemies
i believe we definitely will have at least two playable characters: Sam and Lou
I am so excited I put over 130 hours into the first one and now it will be the same for the sequel
Ah you finished the tutorial?
@@ellatino55thought that would be funny huh
You made more deliveries than Amazon ever has. Congratulations.
@@ellatino55 Sorry that I fancy something that isn't cod or fornite. 🫡
@@GForceIntel I feel absolutely amazing 👏🏻
It’s the moon, in the directors cuts that I’m playing now I just got to a scene from the BBs perspective in the pod where I doctor shows it a picture of the moon in a magazine and says “Look it’s the moon, I’ll show you it in person one day, you’ll be able to go wherever you want.” - That can’t be a coincidence I was shocked just seeing it now while playing.
oh wooow that’s a good one
Remember that being in the trailer and people speculating if you could go to the moon lol
Sam's gonna go to the moon 😢
I think that the girl in the pod at the beginning, the floating body with dark hair and the blonde Elle Fanning is the same person. Both of women have bandages on the same arm and the face of the girl in the pod is also Elle Fanning's face, the eyes are quite distinctive.
Yeah, I was like, 99% sure.
Dark hair girl is definitely Elle Fanning and most likely the cocoon. I also believe the she is Lou
Also her clothes, the person in the cocoon wearing the same white dress-like.
my thoughts is they dug up the MAMA we bury in the first game up and Elle Fanning blonde is her chiral kid that we release and return to her in the tar and became a chiral person.
100% she is Elle. And I also think we are made to think she’s Lou. Maybe it’s a Red Herring.
One cool detail In the trailer is that when Higgs is playing the guitar at the samurai robot thing, he’s playing bb’s theme
Great detail!
It's Amelie's face and hair that Higgs is wearing. Like what Hannibal Lector did in Silence of the Lambs
When the giant hand/hermit crab thing is swiping at Sam...it appears to have old cars attached to its back.
I was trying to make that out. Good eye!
Great video. All great observations. The only things I’ll add are…
The inverted title card also resembles something being submerged in water (tar).
And the song played over the ending. Rockabye Baby. Makes me think of last line. Down will come baby, cradle ‘n all. I think unfortunately, bringing BB back will be tethered to some bad stuff for humanity. Either she’ll be an extinction entity. Or the barrier between living and dead will collapse.
I like that!
Finally a good theory i didn't think myself
21:22 is a hermit crab. Still in theme w beach creatures.
14:00 there was a night time event on DS1, when you first arrive to Lake Knot City
I noticed Elle fanning is wearing a bandage on her arm where Quite was removing the hairs, so she was in the cocoon. Great breakdown video.
Good catch I noticed her bandage too but didn’t put 2 and 2 together
13:25: "Are there dunes in Mexico?" shouldn't even be a question when the first game was supposed to be the United States but most of the landscape was Iceland. Clearly these games don't lineup with the real world.
This is a fair point. But it turns out there are!
Don’t forget we played in a literal rain forest/jungle set in RUSSIA in MGS3 😆
People have seem to forgot that art whether it's movies or video games can depict anything as anything with any asthetics. It's a world where the realm of the dead and an after life actually exists and it's spilling over into our plane of existence. And it's explained via made up in universe science.
How are people so caught up that the world doesn't look like our real world. Why expect any degree realism when the games world is nothing but surrealism.
Something tells me its not just Mexico. But all over the world. Those dunes could be the Sahara.
The time fall is most likely the cause... it ages whatever it touches
I think the story will be about Sam having to venture to the world of the dead to bring Lou back to the world of the living (explains the inverted strands in the title graphic). It's mentioned Lou is dead in the trailer and I think Sam's mission will mirror Bridgette/Amelie from the first game, where Ameile returned Sam to the world of the living after being shot dead but making him a repatriate in the process.
Troy is like the Crow> a so called ghost back from the dead seeking for revenge
The puppet might be the logical and pensive part or soul of the gooey cat. See how he hisses at Higgs. At this point I will give up trying to understand. I tried the first game which I loved, so Im just here for the ride this time with all these trailers
Oh that’s good!
I think that the UCA completed research regarding the effects of Timefall and were able to reverse the effects and the did the procedure on Fragile
Good theory!
What if whatever she’s smoking helps reverse the effects of Timefall?
I do not think they are robots or cyborgs. (Hint: what ancient Egyptians used to do with mummy corpses)
Puppet in stop motion is movie director Fatih Akin
Maybe the bot Samurai is Mama's son helping out Sam and Elle Fanning character is definitly Lou
Oooh I like that!
YOOOOO THATS GOOD I LIKE THAT. it lines up a lot more
Wasn't it proven in the first game that Lou is actually sam as a baby?
@@jovedo27no *SPOILER ALERT*
the huge twist is that the entire game all the cutscenes with cliff are actually just Sam’s own memories and he was one of if not “the original Bridge Baby” and he thought that it was Lou making him have those flashbacks but it was really just his own memories of his dad! It’s confusing if you think too hard but I hope I explained it good enough
@meatballravioli I am almost 100% sure that Sam and Lou are one and the same.
25:50 you can see the bag floating away, so probably we can't leave it there for *too* long.
also notice how some particle animations begin to surround the bag, which I believe would indicate some chiral crystal properties
Well they mentioned that the ship is exploring the Seam, so perhaps there’s some relationship with the Bots and the Seam if the bags are floating?
The "Tar Cat" is an emblem you can earn in Metal Gear Solid V.
What’s it called?
I think the DHV Magellan is using The Seam or The Beach in the same way ships in Warhammer 40k use The Warp to get around. Note how we always see it coming out of Tar lakes, which I think may indicate that, like BTs, it's emerging from the Beach into our world. This would also explain the shot of the Magellan coming out of the baby's mouth, maybe they've figured out some way to make those aboard the ship pseudorepatriates, technically dead just long enough for them to travel on the beach, but leaving them alive and well when they reach their destination in the world of the living.
Higgs definitely came back through whatever tech build the robots, its just weird that he has organs and they dont
no one seems to be mentioning: the scene with the higgs-bots hanging in air like bt's, you can see what looks to be inverted strands catching glints of light. IMO, they aren't the same as umbilical cords though, they look more like the thin puppet strings we see on the young girl (i think we're all assuming is Louise?) in the scene where she appears to be eavesdropping.
puppets and puppet strings seem to be a pretty major recurring theme in the imagery. worth noting.
edit: another thing i just noticed, when the Title comes down, initially it starts to just look like the usual cord introduction, HOWEVER, at the end of each letters animation they do a little sway, very much mimicking things on puppet-like strings
One small additional detail i noticed is the melody Higgs plays on the guitar when attacking the samurai are the first three notes of Lou's Lullaby !
As a DS Fanboy i really appreciate your LOD breakdown!
Maybe Higgs and the bad batch brought the moon closer to trigger gravity anomalies and that's why we now have BTs with strands attached to the ground. The moon is pulling the tar from underneath the earth
The fact that sam is older while being blue (in the beach, like we can see water inside the Mallingan) is maybe because of he was born there and he always grew up there, we never saw him younger or older in the real world. If this is really the case, it would be logic to have Fragile always young (in the beach, because people who was born on earth don't change in the beach, their 'ka' is still the same).
At the end of the trailer, along with the credits of the game, there is fine print that reads "CGI Moon Kit courtesy of NASA's SVS (Ernie Wright and Noah Petro)". So yeah, I think that was the Moon.
I had no idea what was going on, but I will say it got me interested in playing the 1st one
Please do! At least see if it's for you. Cus I think it's one of those games that if you vibe with it, you adore it.
Well if you want to make deliveries because literally that's all you do you'll be doing it for 11 hours and then the game opens up a little more woth a few more options on how to complete those deliveries. But try it maybe you'll like it.
Definitely play the first one. Its so freaking good. Starts a little slow but its beyond fun
And don't give up, the game opens a LOT after chapter 3, just play it on easy mode if you're in for the story.
It’s a good game story and graphic wise but gameplay wise I’m just not interested in caring around a bunch of luggage 🤷🏾♂️ so when the second come out I will watch on UA-cam
16:00 Tar rose up from necrosing bodies and floated. Most notable at the beginning of the game where central knot city was voided out.
at one point fragile says something like "you're not here to expand the uca, we just want expand the network to here, like you did in mexico". which implies there's more than just mexico in terms of areas.
canada?!
Good point.
The puppet is modeled after Fatih Akin, german director. He did In the fade, with Diane Kruger ,she is Norman real wife, there.
Didn't he also petition (along with others) to release Roman Polanski?
Magellan dived here, so the strand is upward. In 1st game fishes in sea are opposite.
BT now have glowing eyes. Metal on Sam's shoulder turns into 3D printed plastic.
Higgs looks closer to The Crow than he does the joker
The symbolism of a bridge vs that of a drawbridge is also interesting.
The latter being able to revoke access to a passageway. Perhaps to keep out any of the weird monsters that are emerging from the tar
The Tar could be creating chimeras. The Captain's winged cat could be one of them.
I think Timefall would destroy environmental additions like the bridge.
Maybe Elle Fanning's character is Lou?
I assumed Elle was playing Lou, too!
Lou is dead. They say so in the trailer
@reekhavoc2932 it's a theory bro. Elle Fanning's character is Lou reborn
I realized that in the Moon shot, the texture corresponds to the actual Moon's texture but it is inverted!! (not rotated). It is like a mirror image of the Moon. 🌛🌜
I have the theory that Fragile and Sam somehow swapped DOOMS levels. Fragile's BT senses were dulled, but her age was transfered to Sam. That's why we see her with Fragile instead of Sam.
Sam's probably running solo again for whatever reason, something that might require Fragile's abilties, but he had her watch Lou instead. But when he got her powers, her timefall damage transfered to him.
It could be that Kojima is pulling a fast one by changing the appearance of Sam in the trailer, which isn't a thing Kojima is a stranger to doing.
Love the Breakdown
Thank you!
@10:50 Lou is confirmed dead. Teaser shows a BT baby in the pod. Pod must contain Lou's Ka (BT)
The floating girl is elle fanning. They both have the same bandage on their elbow.
Great video, enjoyed it a lot! In the first game we learned the earth don't rotates anymore that's the reason why it's always day, that means on other places on earth it's always night! It depents if it's still not rotating like in DS1, and we will visit other places not only mexico then maybe we see a country in the new trailer where it's always night. But if the earth rotates again, we will have a day and night cycle. 26:32 It's not a joker make up, it's a the crow make up by the way 😉
Great detail I completely forgot about. Could have something to do with the moon too!
21:00 that's a hermit crab..
The Puppet is German-Turkish movie director Fatih Akın. If you haven't watched it yet, I recommend you to watch his best movie, Head-On
On it!
Higgs is kojimas way of saying this is the make amelie
Awesome coverage, fellas!
Thank you!
26:00 those bots could be just charging with chiralium network and Sam taking them down before they could harm him
i think lou is in the pod, just as new type of BT!
lou dies at the end of the 1st trailer after fragile falls off her bike, i think lou gets shot, and later we see the broken BB pod with lou forming as a BT - both lou and the BT have little wings on their backs! there’s also spikey cryptobiotes?
so maybe lou is like mama’s child - a baby BT, but lou is special somehow, and can actually move from one spot, hence the wings!
the tentacles in the pod might be lou interacting from the beach, potentially linking elle fanning’s character being lou from the beach after emerging from the tar!
I’m excited for more combat and action, it needs to be tweaked a little bit from the first game but guns were basically useless in the first game besides boss encounters so I’d like to actually use them. When he engages with the floating “robot” things Sam puts down his pack unlike dumping all the boxes like you can in the first game which will probably make it way easier to switch into combat mode! We’ll see though! Less rope more stick talk bb
I think the red sky in the BT-like encounters might indicate something new and interesting. Perhaps these aren't strictly BTs, perhaps there's something mechanically different about the way BT encounters behave in the game world. Or maybe it just looks cool, who knows!
“Nanomachines, son…”
Great analysis. Hyper excited for DS2!
Perhaps some clues are in the title: On The Beach. Perhaps they’ve learned more about the beach and have different ways to access and explore it. Maybe Sam can explore the world from the beach and the flash floods replace the BT’s and getting caught in it sends you back to the world of the living.
But he also didn’t look bluish, so I’m probably wrong about that.
In my opinion Sam's white hair is linked to the black, considering in the trailer and the gameplay we only see the white hair when he's blue aka on the beach, but brown hair and younger when he isn't on the beach
What if we’re just in the world but inverted, when they dive in the black ink they could just be in the inverted world where everything is mixed around
Great Video!!! Lady Arm was Tentacle that sprayed ink.
An interesting side note about the 4 droids and the dog. There are 2 types of driods in the scene 24:51 as denoted not just by the display on their headgear but also 2 carry deployable dogs on their shoulders and the other two seem to be holding staves with an extra hand on the backpack. Also, the dog isn't neutered.
The laser on metal gear rex
Definitely more than Mexico. Fragile says at some point in the trailer "just like in Mexico we need to blah blah". I am thinking Mexico is either the prologue and or early chapter or just referenced as something that happened and informed to Sam.
This is mind blowingly good. I didn't play the first one but I will definately play this one. I bought it and just never got around to it. This game world is becoming something more and something more than I could have imagined to come to light. Maybe I'll put on the first game and see what I really think. I'm loving this and very interested in this world.
In the armory you can see the rope again. It mainly stood out because in the trailer they only show robot enemy’s.
The background music is nice
Thank you!
I loved all your ideas. Some were insane making me think more. My only theory, Elle Fanning is the new Amelie.
I think the reason for sam can be older and younger is simply that they find the way to reverl timefall effect on human, and older sam just had his headfull of timefall.
Also, I don't think the younger sam kiss lou is when his on bridge, it's very clear that he break off from it last game. Actually, he's wearing a independence porter's suit, if you look closely in his hood, you can see it lacks some component the bridge's suit has, which they use to rise the hood when timefall detected. You can even see how it's difference from drawbridge suit
Kojima should release a DS of every country in the world
That would be cool, ways different cultures and peoples dealt with the disaster. Paranoia, hope, loss, mistakes..
Just thinking out loud here... Could Elle Fanning's character be sam's dead wife Lucy?
Yep. I had that thought too. Totally possible, although if I had to pick, I'd put more money on it being Lou.
This is funny but if Amelie and Higgs really got fused, Higgs saying “Hey brother” has some sort of funny literal meaning now
Oh that’s so good!
Wonder what Amelie has been up to. How much longer she can hold off the Last Stranding.
If it's discovered how to make Sam stop _existing_ , would that fix everything? Can Sam even pass on from old age? 🤔
Great questions!
I'm very much guided by Edge magazine's scores/reviews. I've always thought of it as the industry journal. It's something I've been a follower of since I was a kid and it has served me well - exposing me to games I may never have tried, but knowing that their 9s and 10s are exceptional games and worthy of my time, I've played and loved significant games in genres I wouldn't otherwise have bothered with.
They hated the first game, and I have to be honest, I did not rate ZOE/2 at all. I've never played Boktai, Snatcher or Policenauts, so my experience of Kojima's games outside of Metal Gear and Penguin Adventure is admittedly somewhat limited, but not positive.
BUT, after this preview, I think I really need to try the first DS game, because this is the most advanced videogame thing I've ever seen and I really want to play this sequel.
Highly, highly recommend.
I actually didn't notice control sticks on the vehicles and was 100% sure the vehicles will be automated this time. Someone corrected me and I noticed the sticks, but... I think that truck has a camera, or a sensor. And the fact the there is no hood... maybe we'll be able to shoot while driving on auto-pilot?
What about the puppet string metaphor? We now have strands coming from the top in the title screens, and we have the little puppet sidekick. There has to be something there right?
Those are vietnam / 80's 90's green jungle boots authorized for army wear during that time
People have been comparing Higgs makeup to Joker but with the eye style and lipstick with the addition of the long hair and practically coming back from the dead…. He’s more designed after The Crow than joker
"Better to pick up all the pieces and put them back together"--Fragile.
Also the strands/tar flow upwards on the beach. They were in the first game.
Edit: I mean the place in between the beach, it has been so long since playing the first game. Not sure if that place is called the beach.
Sams old cause he’s been searching beaches for Lou for decades
That's no moon...
It's a space station
That is the most moon moon I have ever seen
when George miller's character inserts his arm in the control room, there's tar coming out behind his ears
the character levitating on the table has the same white thing on the left elbow as Elle Fanning's, so I assume it is her
I feel like Ameli somehow combined and that’s why he called sam brother and is wearing her cupid
You could drop your backpack in the first game too, but it was not so simple, you had to hold a button for longer time and in this trailer his backpack is transforming into something, so I'm assuming we get pet robots for fighting ???
Could be interesting!
You couldnt drop your backpack, only the cargo from it
puppet = tar kitty and cyborg ninja = lou
also day n night cycle! (at the very least night time)
Oh interesting. Why do you think the cat is the puppet?
APAS might be Automated Porter and Security, perhaps?
Elle fannings “Ki” or soul has been separated from her body which is why none of the main characters are turning and looking back at her walking around it’s like an out of body experience they’re trying to put her back in the body
If the tar is spawning creatures they should have a connection to the beach like bt's did. So if it is the octopus inside...sam should still be able to use it like he did before with bb.
Can’t believe there wasn’t a day/night cycle in the first game
Everybody keeps saying the cat with the tentacle when maybe they should be saying the tentacle imitating a cat. Sorta like a hermit crab imitates a shell but we don't call them shells because its a crab, perhaps the tentacle is wearing the tar so it can survive outside of the tank and just decided to take on the shape of a cat rather than a Ditto. I only wonder if the tar itself is somehow alive similar to Venom, Venom is able to allow his host to breathe in almost any environment, he's already survived in space and underwater.
can't wait !
0:39 There’s 2 cocoons on the screen behind fragile. One larger and one smaller.
16:48 Very cool moment , like it.
Those hair thing remind me of botfly larvae in human skin
you can see an umbilical cords on the androids at 26 03 connecting the robots
Captains arm might be the boss itself, and fact that part of his body is living own live in inverted world he has ability to manipulate chiralium and his ship with it
Love it.
16:16 There is something going on here that is different for 'shore'. Nice pun.
Totally intentional 👀👀👀
Sam has a ring type cuff link too
Deadman is the puppet, im calling it
Ohhhhhhhh interesting!
My thought the puppet would be guiding us like Die-Hardman in the first game
There's no 2 timelines
Sam probably gets attacked by those octopus tar things that ages him
I think Sam is on an Asteroid which could be a callback to the extinction event that killed the dinosaurs??
You did mention about real names of actors every characters who played them except puppet who is Fatih Akın.
When i see big machines, metal gear rex come to my mind.