Hideo Kojima had to rewrite Death Stranding 2 due to the pandemic

Death Stranding 2 was revealed this week, and according to Hideo Kojima himself, the game was rewritten due to the pandemic. When the first Death Stranding launched in 2019, some thought that the enemies you occasionally faced obsessed with stealing packages from one of the few remaining delivery drivers in a post-apocalyptic America was a bit over the top. Then a pandemic hit in 2020, retroactively making the game an incredibly prescient one. So despite Kojima having had the story written prior...