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As a long time consumer of video gaming products provided by the labyrinth genius penned Hideo Kojima, I see Death Stranding as one large tie-in into the Metal Gear canon.  Being officially attached to the series since Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes (the epoch of storytelling wherein Solid Snake delivers a dropkick to Metal Gear Rex) every work created by Kojima is interlaced with another.  Phantom Pain was obviously the meta-fiction tie-in that makes YOU the player the final protagonist wherein you BECOME the Big Boss from Metal Gear 1.  

I think we all need to understand that the poetic expertise that comes from the masterful keystroke of psychological analysis of the deconstruction of narrative expertly comes to a head when you realize the Rose is real and the goddamn ending of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty was actually canon the entire time.  Hideo Kojima’s excellence in interlacing stories that create breakthroughs in the ever-binding sensation that is narrative storytelling is only matched by his extensive universe building.  The day I discovered that the mild-mannered story of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and its cast of uncharismatic husks containing nuggets of information such as Para-Medic, the condescending, movie-loving biologist and military doctor was one of the Patroits and also created Gray Fox to test the abilities of exo-skeleton technology only to be murdered in a Zanzibar-fueled blood rage was the day I realized that Hideo Kojima is perhaps the Lord Byron of the espionage genre.

Observe this interlacing at play masterfully:

Do you see this figure here? The fanastic gun play that he demonstrates with his pistol can only conclude that this man is Revolver Ocelot reanimated.  BUT! How can he be reanimated you may ask. Simple, the cells that Liquid’s hand contained that allowed for partial neuron influence of Revolver Ocelot, were used to take control of the apparition Psycho Mantis that was revealed during the encounter with Screaming Mantis in Metal Gear Solid 4 (easily the Godfathe Part 2 of Metal Gear storytelling).  This new Psycho Ocelot was sent to prevent the reintroduction of…

Les Enfants Terribles! 

You can tell that this was an attempt to prevent the recreation of Solid Snake and Liquid Snake, based on the DNA of Solid Snake the worst greatest military spy int he history of the United States (also decorated Green Beret war hero of operation Desert Storm that’s actually canon). this new Liquid and Solid Snake are being raised in tandem ergo they will both join a newly founded Foxhound unit spearheaded by Naval Commander Mei Ling (because sure, let’s give her a boat).   This weary man is carrying and gestating a young Eli, cloned from the dominant genes of Solid Snake this time in hopes that he won’t grow up to get in a knot about it and demand his father’s remains out of something stupid like notoriety and possession of a war machine outfitted with atomic weapons.

The baby that gives the thumbs up is the clone of Solid Snake (who is a clone of Big Boss, not his body double, Venom Snake) once again given the name David. You can tell that this baby is Solid Snake by how he also gives a thumbs up…

…identical to the acclaimed “Infinite Ammo” scene from the peerless Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.

The seasoned, lively and electrifying actor, Norman Reedus was chosen as the protagonist because he proved himself greatly in his role as Daryl Dixon in The Walking Dead, a one season period piece, wherein he shot a crossbow and looked like a confused desert long-tailed weasel whilst mourning the loss of his brother, Michael Rooker (that raspy guy from Black Ops II).  Norman Reedus is perhaps the perfect vehicle for directing the humble and plebeian gamer through such a masterwork of fictional storytelling.

I have already pre-ordered this game for me, my roommates and my brother and we’re all going to play Death Stranding screen to screen in tandem next each other on 4 separate TVs so that we can all bask in the fantastic metaficiton provided by the artistic genius of our time, the one that we know only by the name, Kazuhira Miller.