Death Stranding 2 Players Think Hideo Kojima 'Is Making Deals With Spirits and Demons' as Videos of 'Instant' Load Times Flood the Internet

Kojima Productions fans can’t halt talking astir Death Stranding 2: On the Beach load times, with galore calling them the "fastest" they’ve "ever seen successful a video game."

Hideo Kojima’s strand-game sequel launched to stellar reviews, including our own, wherever we called Death Stranding 2's post-apocalyptic instrumentality connected Australia “hauntingly beautiful.” While determination are galore elements to praise, it’s the visuals that person been astir unanimously celebrated. Death Stranding 2 is rather the ocular showcase, truthful seeing loading screens past little than a 2nd earlier dropping protagonist Sam Porter Bridges into wide-open fields is rather the show to behold.

Videos of players showcasing the speedy load times person already flooded societal media feeds since aboriginal entree motorboat arrived June 24, and the results are hard to deny. Pressing the “Continue” fastener connected the main paper presents a flash of a achromatic surface earlier picking up precisely wherever players near off. Loading different prevention portion already in-game presents akin results. Some of the phrases being thrown astir see “blink oregon you’ll miss it,” “instant,” and “the fastest load times I’ve ever seen.”

Kojima’s concealed to the unbelievable load times successful Death Stranding 2 has yet to beryllium revealed, but 1 fashionable X/Twitter station has a theory.

“Okay but really however the f**k,” idiosyncratic @RealBugAubrey said. “Either everyone other is not truthful secretly unspeakable astatine their occupation oregon Kojima Productions is making deals with spirits and demons.”

— KAMI (@Okami13_) June 23, 2025 — Synth Potato🥔 (@SynthPotato) June 26, 2025

The fundamentally non-existent Death Stranding 2 load times are lone awesome due to the fact that truthful galore different games connected PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S inactive diagnostic loading screens that tin past for up 30 seconds oregon adjacent minutes long. Even without sitting down for a side-by-side comparison, galore judge Death Stranding 2 mightiness diagnostic the astir awesome load times for a crippled of this caliber ever. However, determination are a fewer different shining examples that players judge mightiness springiness Sam Porter Bridges a tally for his money.

Insomniac Games’ 2023 title, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, famously features likewise accelerated loading times connected PS5, with players capable to teleport to immoderate determination successful New York City. All it takes is holding a button, which the developer has clarified doesn’t fell its ain concealed loading function.

On the Xbox broadside of things is Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, which galore fans person noted features a main paper surface that is the existent crippled itself.

"Right connected par with Indiana Jones caller crippled - some look to load the existent prevention record successful the inheritance arsenic it boots up, truthful selecting to proceed conscionable fundamentally reveals the crippled successful progress," 1 Reddit idiosyncratic said.

Indiana Jones: https://t.co/DOBj7maJk4 pic.twitter.com/LSSQ269mI2

— Luiz (@diasluizzz) June 24, 2025

It’s sparked immoderate statement among those seeking to support their favourite video game, but 1 happening is clear: galore large games are starting to ditch loading screens altogether. We’ll person to hold and spot conscionable however agelong it takes earlier loading screens vanish from astir games entirely. In the meantime, you tin work up connected wherefore Nintendo is mentioned successful the Death Stranding 2 credits. You tin besides cheque retired however immoderate players are reacting to its infamous "I won't bash it" dialog option.

Check retired our Death Stranding 2: On the Beach usher for a afloat main communicative walkthrough, implicit with checkmarks to way your nonstop progress, positive guides for Sub-Orders, Standard Orders, and Aid Requests - positive adjacent much secrets and a cheat code! If you’re conscionable jumping into the game, we person plentifulness of tips for what to bash first, however to past successful combat, and however to marque it done Brutal trouble if you’re playing connected the astir challenging setting.

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