The most recent trailer for Dying Stranding 2: On the Seashore, launched earlier this week, gave us our first have a look at new character Neil, performed by Luca Marinelli. Sport director Hideo Kojima has taken to social media platform X to speak about Marinelli, his function, and the way the 2 ended up working collectively for the sequel.
Kojima wrote about how he first got here to know of Marinelli due to his function as antagonist Fabio Cannizzaro/Zingaro within the Italian film They Name Me Jeeg. He additionally praised Marinelli’s work within the autobiographical film Martin Eden. Kojima’s work in serving to promote the film’s Japanese launch in 2020 led to the 2 assembly and speaking, with Marinelli telling Kojima about how he grew up as a fan of the Metallic Gear franchise.
“Throughout the pandemic, I used to be casting for Dying Stranding 2. Neil can be an vital function that replaces Cliff from Dying Stranding 1,” wrote Kojima. “The followers wouldn’t be glad until the casting would surpass Mads.”
Finally, it was Marinelli’s work on Netflix’s The Outdated Guard that helped Kojima resolve that he can be ideally suited for the function of Neil in Dying Stranding 2: On the Seashore. Whereas they couldn’t meet, due to Marinelli engaged on The Eight Mountains, they lastly spoke by a web-based name.
“After that, I Zoom referred to as with Luca as soon as he was house, pitched the concept of DS2, and he agreed to play the function,” Kojima wrote. “Once I instructed him I used to be in search of somebody to play Lucy, he launched me to his spouse, Alissa, who can be an actress (and filmmaker). We did their scan and efficiency seize throughout the top of the pandemic, however their on-set efficiency was glorious.
“You’ll be able to see that within the digitized outcomes from even the small bits of the trailer. I can solely thank Luca and Alissa for agreeing to carry out after we didn’t actually have a script but.”
As Kojima revealed, Marinelli’s function as Neil does appear to bear fairly a little bit of resemblance to that of Mads Mikkelsen’s character, Cliff, from the unique Dying Stranding. Each characters seemingly have comparable story arcs, with previous regrets turning them into antagonistic forces of their respective video games. Apparently, Marinelli’s character Neil additionally cheekily referenced Metallic Gear Strong protagonist Strong Snake together with his bandana.
The trailer for Dying Stranding 2: On the Seashore additionally confirmed off fairly a little bit of gameplay. Whereas a whole lot of the core gameplay loop will likely be much like the primary recreation, the place gamers management Sam Porter Bridges and full deliveries by touring throughout huge stretches of wilderness on foot, the sequel appears to have much more motion set-pieces.
Among the many motion scenes have been epic boss fights and even vehicular fight on bikes racing by player-made highways.
The trailer additionally revealed that Dying Stranding 2: On the Seashore will likely be coming to PS5 on June 26. For extra particulars on pre-orders and its numerous editions, take a look at our protection of the occasion.
