Summary
- The first trailer for Death Stranding 2 showed Sam looking a lot older than in the first game.
- This suggested a timeskip, but more recent trailers have proven that isn't the case.
- Fans have theorised why this is the case, and one might have even cracked it already.
fans are trying to figure out why Sam looke💟d so old in 's initial reveal trailer🦄, a state we've not seen him in during subsequent trailers.
It doesn'ඣt feel like that long ago when we 🦂first learned that Death Stranding 2: On the Beach was in the works, but it was actually all the way📖 back in 2022 at The Game Awards. , teased many things about i🦋t, including showing off Sam looking a lot older than in the first game.
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Since Fragile looked to be the same age, . The latest trailers have confirmed that isn't the case, though, as the sequel takes place 11 months af﷽ter the firs♛t and Sam doesn't appear to be much older at all.
Death Stranding Fans Have Some Good Theories About Sam's Age In On The Beach
In fact, we haven't seen Sam with grey hair lꦦike we did in the first trailer at all since he was first shown looking so old. , Dense-Baker asked fans what they thought "the deal" was with Sam looking so old in that scene considering he wasn't shown like that at all in the recent trailer.
While I'd love to go through them all, it does seem like Reddito﷽r Captain_Grn_Thmbs, who has the most up-voted comment on the thread, has got it in one♓, as they suggest it's because Sam hasn't repatriated in a while. So, at the start of the game, he might look a lot older before repatriating at some point and getting a "new skin suit" he has for the rest of On the Beach.
For anyone wondering what repatriating is, it's b🎃asically like being reborn in the Death Stranding universe, and it's something that Sam and a select few others can do.
Considering the Sam we see in the most recent trailers has clearly been living quietly since the first game with Lou, it does make sense that he'd not repatriated for a while. Some of the other theories in the trailer include Sam having trouble with timefall, simply being stressed on the job, and, my personal favourite, getting gray hair 🔯after trying to understand the game's lore.
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