It’s become a genuine problem in so many big-budget games, even games that are pretty universally beloved, like God of War Ragnarok. Warning: This article will include spoilers for Death Stranding 2. In other games, those tones might clash, but somehow, Death Stranding 2 makes it not just work, but be a defining feature. The first Death Stranding was heavily themed around isolation, and the nature of life and death. While Death Stranding 2 is still ostensibly about death and grief, it’s also more about trauma and healing.