“Hideo kept pushing me to make something even more deconstructed and crazy and industrial and radical and I went way further than I thought I would be able to do in my music and still recognize my music.”
Woodkid, the composer of the Death Stranding 2 soundtrack, said Kojima kept pushing him to make music increasingly deconstructed, industrial and radical; and that when the game tests came back too well Kojima became angry and said he did not want a mainstream game.