Direct quote 2019-11-04
“But this game is, to start with, like Guillermo del Toro told me, not a way to break out, but to make something that the fans expect. There are new elements to the game but the basis is something people are used to playing.”
What it documents
In 2019 Kojima said that Death Stranding was not, for him, a way of transitioning from one format to another, and he cited what Guillermo del Toro had told him: that it was not a route to break out but to make something the fans expect; he added that the game contains new elements, but its basis is something people are used to playing.
Source
“Death Stranding may be a strange design in the grand scheme of video games, but Kojima notes that it is not his way to transitioning from one format to another.”