In the main square of the Tuscan town of Lucca, Japanese games designer Hideo Kojima stands on the balcony and receives the kind of fevered welcome reserved for rockstars from the crowd below. Lucca Comics and Games , Europe’s answer to Comic-Con, is the final stop of Kojima Productions’ Death Stranding World Tour 2, promoting the release of “Death Stranding 2: On the Beach,” the long-awaited follow up to the highly successful “Death Stranding.”

Set 11 months on from the previous instalment, the new saga has players control Sam Bridges (Norman Reedus) who crosses a post-apocalyptic Australia and connects survivors and colonies to the Chiral network. Kojima said that the game was conceived during the pandemic when he was rethinking the notion of connection. “In the 2000s, the internet

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