Apart from talking about the game, in the interview Kojima delves into his work with Guerrilla Games, and why he chose to use their Decima engine for Death Stranding. The good disposition shown by Guerrilla at the time, letting him work along with them in the development and the trust shown when offering the source code of the engine tipped the balance in their favor.
On paper everything he is saying points to some kind of sandbox game but we will have to wait until the game is in more advanced stages of development and more information is revealed to find out how innovative and different Death Stranding turns out to be.
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