For Death Stranding 2, Kojima had to turn down around half of the…

Anecdote 2025-05

For Death Stranding 2, Kojima had to turn down around half of the cameo requests from famous people: scanning each person in the studio took about fifteen minutes, and the team ran out of space on the project.

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“half of the participants had to be turned down for cameo roles because the team ran out of space”; “each Prepper took around 15 minutes to scan”.

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“I put all of these things in. Even if I said to the staff, 'Please put them in!', they would just say, 'Huh?' and pretend not to know (laughs).”

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“Yeah, I scanned myself the last time around. Not this time though. In the last game, I was the one that came out of the tar.”

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“So Conan, do you want to be in the game? [...] We have a 3D scanner right there.”

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“I’m back”

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