You know that birthday cake you can eat in Death Stranding? It’s real. And it was homemade, too.
Death Stranding makes uses of a revolutionary scanning technology that can bring real people into a video game as perfectly as if they were shot using a traditional digital camera. Mads Mikkelsen, Norman Reedus, and other stars look as real in the game as they do in real life.
There’s another star that appears in the game that looks just like it does in real life. Or more accurately, like it did in real life. Past tense. It’s gone now. We know this for a fact because Death Stranding creator Hideo Kojima confirmed on Twitter that the dev team ate it.
It’s a cake. Specifically the birthday cake you receive for playing Death Stranding on your birthday.
In Death Stranding, you input your birthday before you start your adventure. The game makes it seem like you’re supposed to gain special powers or something depending on what date you input, but that’s just a red herring. The real reason is so that the game knows when you were born so it can provide you with a delicious Easter egg.
If you play Death Stranding on your birthday, you get a personal message from Mikkelsen wishing you a happy birthday. And on Sam’s desk beside his usual assortment of Monster Energy drinks will be a raspberry cake that looks absolutely delicious.
Kojima went on Twitter recently to reveal that the cake was not a lie, but in fact a real cake that was “handmade.”
“All the cakes appeared in DEATH STRANDING is handmade,” Kojima wrote. “We scan the real made cakes and after that we enjoyed eating them.”
Sadly, you only get to eat the virtual cake in Death Stranding, but it does look pretty good thanks to that scanning tech. But personally, I woulda went for chocolate. Or maybe a nice mousse cake. Fondant looks nice, but it can be a little hard on the teeth.
Source: Twitter
