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Oct 25, 2017
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The mysterious Hideo Kojima posted an update about his even more mysterious creation Death Stranding on Twitter just now. Explaining about the production and development, Kojima says the game is in its "critical phase".

Kojima wrote that Death Stranding isn't in the stage of difficulty adjustment and debugging yet. Rather, the development team is actually putting together the game they developed on their development machine, to make it one final product.

"DS(Death Stranding) is not in the stage of difficulty adjustment and debugging yet, but is [in the stage of] putting together the parts of the tools made on the development machine into one game", Kojima wrote in Japanese.

Writing further, Kojima claims that he has been playing the game directly on the actual PlayStation 4 by connecting the parts, correcting the operations, specifications and problems. Kojima Productions are in the "process of fleshing and scraping".

https://www.spieltimes.com/news/death-stranding-in-critical-phase-of-development-says-hideo-kojima/
 
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EatChildren

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Oct 27, 2017
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Critical phase, as in, Sony reps just showed up and asked what the fuck is going on.
 

ZhugeEX

Senior Analyst at Niko Partners
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Oct 24, 2017
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They used google translate.

Here is the actual source:



 

modiz

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Oct 8, 2018
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So sounds like all the content is ready and all thats left is putting it in the game and polishing.
 

Abriael

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Oct 27, 2017
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Who the heck would translate that with "critical?" it just means that it's an important phase. As for the description of this phase, he's been saying that for a while so it isn't even news.
 
Oct 25, 2017
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Seems odd to be making any conclusions or speculating based on a dodgy translation, but I'm sure that won't stop this thread from going for several pages, at least.
 
Oct 26, 2017
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I have no idea what this phrasing means, but Death Stranding always seemed like it would take 5-6 years so I don't know.
 

Rat King

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Oct 27, 2017
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I want mgs1-3 levels of crazy. Kojima unchained!
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modiz

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Oct 8, 2018
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I have no idea what this phrasing means, but Death Stranding always seemed like it would take 5-6 years so I don't know.
Why would it take him 6 years when he says that all the content is ready and all that is left is putting it in the game and polishing? He is basically in alpha stage now. And considering that DS is likely to not have nearly the amount of content cyberpunk or other huge AAA titles has, that process of polishing should not take nearly as long
 

ant1532

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Oct 27, 2017
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could be the end of this year then or could be middle of next year. its possible he may find that the game is missing things it needs and add another year of development.
 

LuckyLinus

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Jun 1, 2018
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It sounds like a movie making approach.

I guess that they wrapped up most of the shooting and now theyre editing the film together and figuring out which scenes work and whats extra scenes they need to go back and shoot.
 

BADMAN

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Oct 25, 2017
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Sounds like where I assumed it was. My guess is early next year at the earliest.
 

Firmus_Anguis

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Oct 30, 2017
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Probably my most anticipated game. It could release today with the little info we have and I'll buy it. I wonder what this means for the release date though... Still hoping for 2019. #YearOfTheWhale