My first time enjoying Demise Stranding 2, I am now not ashamed to confess I assumed it would’ve been a live-action shot of a abandoned area near my real-life dwelling of Phoenix, Arizona.
I am not afraid to confess that as a result of folks on-line are complicated pictures of a real-life desert in Mexico for Demise Stranding 2 screenshots. (For the uninitiated, I reside in the identical Sonoran desert that stretches all through northwestern Mexico and southwestern United States.)
Redditor PangTemujin shared a sequence of real-life photos they took exploring the majestic canyons of the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park close to the Mexico border in southern California, and says they’re “satisfied Kojima” used the locale as inspiration for Demise Stranding 2. And certainly, the photographs look similar to the opening space the place you ship your first bundle within the recreation.
So related, actually, that a number of commenters admitted they mistook the photographs for Demise Stranding 2 screenshots.
“This recreation is so wild that as I fast scrolled via, I assumed these have been screenshots. Like ‘yeah cool identical intro I watched and folks have posted 1,000,000 instances, no matter’
“After which it hit me,” replied Arachnid1 within the publish’s high reply with 254 upvotes on the time of writing.
“Which is which,” stated a Twitter person reacting to the identical pictures.
“Protected to say Kojima Productions managed to attain photograph realism with DS2,” stated the Twitter person who shared the pictures.
As somebody who does loads of mountain climbing in similar-looking vistas in Arizona, I fully relate with PangTemujin considering instinctively, “that is my neighborhood!” when enjoying the primary a part of Demise Stranding 2. Even the monsoon that strikes the realm shortly after is extraordinarily acquainted to anybody who’s spent loads of time within the area.
In fact, the remainder of Demise Stranding 2’s map is not practically as harking back to the arid Sonoran desert as you discover a extra tropical area of the map clearly impressed by the extra central components of Mexico after which journey over to Australia, however these first couple of hours are a surreal deal with for desert dwellers.
