Star Wars Jedi: Survivor launched last year and, despite having a decent number of performance issues, was chock-full of references to the movies to create a world that fans of the series loved exploring and learning more about. With a seemingly endless amount of source material to choose from, you can likely find inspirations in Jedi: Survivor from across the entire series, but one big inspiration was staring all of us in the face the entire time.
Death Stranding was inspired by real Japanese couriers and that's sending fans who are just finding out 5 years later
01.03.2024 - 13:11 / gamesradar.com / Kaan Serin
Death Stranding is a sometimes meditative game about hauling cargo cross-country and trying not to trip up while doing so. But some fans are just now learning that its fiddly loop was actually inspired by a traditional Japanese occupation.
A Twitter thread recently delved into "maybe one of the oddest professions in Japan" called bokka, which are basically porters who carry supplies to mountainous areas where vehicles can't access. "A bokka uses customized wooden ladder frames to carry 100-165kg of supplies on day-long marches," the thread explains.
Sam Porter Bridges. Tricky 10km hikes. Balancing stacks of cargo on a vertical, wobbly structure. Death Stranding has been a not-so-secret bokka simulator all along, unbeknownst to those who were unfamiliar with the profession before the social media algorithms enlightened us.
Maybe one of the oddest professions in Japan is that of the bokka (歩荷). Porters who carry supplies to remote mountain guesthouses inaccessible to vehicles. A bokka uses customized wooden ladder frames to carry 100-165kg of supplies on day long marches (walk up, run down). pic.twitter.com/JmD1iGBv7YFebruary 29, 2024
A similar role exists in some European countries, including Slovakia, so the team at Kojima Productions wasn't exaggerating how finicky the act of simply walking can be. Certain mountain couriers are said to have scaled Mount Fuji while carrying over 100kg, and you can imagine their pain when a wrong step caused their load to topple off. If you've played Death Stranding, then you can definitely imagine it.
Should you be interested in profession, I've embedded a sweet and short documentary about one of the superheroes who partake in the job. It's all in Japanese, but just witnessing the physical feat is interesting enough.
Death Stranding players were expectedly quick to notice the connection, with some even surprised that, yes, art imitates life. Twitter user cuddlepuunk said the tidbit paints the game in a "beautifully different light." Meanwhile, podcaster Kalyoshika called for more criticism to draw the "connection between real life and the game."
Death Stranding 2: On The Beach should continue to expand on that finicky hiking loop when it launches next year. Actor Norman Reedus has said it's more violent than anything seen in the first game, but hopefully, my nature walks are intact too.
Check out what a 64-year-old film can tell us about Death Stranding 2: On The Beach.
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