No, these aren't straightjacket blabberings due to another vicious bout of temporary madness; instead, they are just 10% of the bizarre things I've seen in Death Stranding 2: On the Beach. But it would be far too easy to dismiss Hideo Kojima's work as acts of weirdness alone.

It might not seem like you'll want to farm Chiral Crystals when you first start playing Death Standing 2: On the Beach, but by the end of your journey, you will have gone through a huge volume of them. This is where to get a lot of them quickly.

The mass connection that Death Stranding advocated for has shown its dark underbelly and there are some days where I wish we could go back and undo it all. That anxiety is palpable in Death Stranding 2: On The Beach,