Death Stranding Trailer Breakdown: 10 Things You Need To See
7. The City
From the establishing shot in the trailer, we also get out first look at Guillermo Del Toro's character as he approaches a tunnel in a bombed out city.
Overhead, there are several crucial bits of detail. Firstly, the fighter planes are pretty obvious, and look to be World War 2 aircraft. You can also see several strands flowing behind each of the aircraft as they soar over the city.
The rainbow visible in the sky appears to be upside down, and is actually a phenomena known as a circumzenithal arc and is a real-life meteorological event that occurs when light refracts through ice crystal particles in the atmosphere, rather than through water droplets which cause cause a more common rainbow.
The inclusion of the circumzenithal arc shows further proof that perhaps that world of Death Stranding is undergoing environmental stress.