On The Beach is an elegant and intimate story, heavily laden with grief and loneliness… and then jam-packed with self-insert jokes and silly Easter eggs from Hideo Kojima himself, because no one else at Kojima Productions wanted to add them.

Game director Hideo Kojima reveals why the popular VTuber Usada Pekora appears in the recently released Death Stranding 2: On the Beach.

On the Beach is properly out in the wild, but there were times when even director Hideo Kojima thought he wouldn't be able to finish making the open-world blockbuster. "Death Stranding 2 is out now," the Metal Gear Solid auteur wrote in a heartfelt social media post,