Ahead of the game’s recent live premiere event in Los Angeles, Rolling Stone met with Woodkid to discuss the complex process of reverse engineering his own music, the state of video games in popular culture, and how he bonded with Kojima over their shared “fetishes.”

On the Beach was proving to be too good, spurring on director Hideo Kojima to make some changes to the game. That's according to musician Yoann Lemoine (Woodkid), who has collaborated with Kojima Productions on the upcoming sequel's soundtrack,

Death Stranding 2 seems poised to be better received than its predecessor, which has rightly sparked some concern in Hideo Kojima.