Death stranding золотая маска

Обновлено: 06.07.2024


Хиггс Монаган (англ. Higgs Monaghan), также известный как Человек в золотой маске (англ. Man in the Golden Mask) и Частица Бога (англ. The Particle of God) — один из центральных персонажей Death Stranding, главный антагонист, предводитель террористов Homo Demens.

Снаряжение [ ]

Хиггс носит черный противогаз, который полностью закрывает его голову. Поверх этого он носит золотую маску скелета, которая закрывает нижнюю часть его лица, а также черный плащ с капюшоном, натянутый на голову. Что касается его торса, то он носит черный пуленепробиваемый жилет поверх тусклого зеленовато-желтого костюма. К его передней части прикреплена его ББ, а также 3 дымовые гранаты. У Хиггса на спине прикреплен "Сканер" в форме цветка. На руках золотые перчатки. Он также носит черные ботинки и темные брюки. Он также держит на себе ожерелье Амелии.

В конце главы 3 он также одевается как сотрудник «Bridges», в комплекте с шляпой «Bridges», наушниками, перчатками и униформой.


Higgs Monaghan, also known as the "Man in the Golden Mask", was a porter and a close associate of Fragile Express, until he met and was seduced by Amelie. Higgs acted as the figurehead of the militant separatist group known as the Homo Demens to maintain the independence of Edge Knot City on Amelie's behest.

Персонажи [ ]

    (Норман Ридус) (Мадс Миккельсен) ( Фрэджайл ( Мама ( Дайхардмэн ( Томми Эрл Дженкинс ) (Гильермо дель Торо) ( Николас Виндинг Рефн ) ( Бриджет Стрэнд ( Разработка [ ]

В процессе разработки Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain и Silent Hills, в апреле 2015 года между менеджерами Konami и Хидэо Кодзимой возник корпоративный конфликт, связанный с колоссальными расходами на обе игры, из-за чего требовались настолько же колоссальные продажи: бюджет последней уже тогда составил свыше $80 млн, и чтобы окупить данную сумму, требовалось продать свыше 6 млн копий. Менеджеры решили не рисковать и без того печальным состоянием корпорации, поэтому лишили Кодзиму полномочий, закрыли разработку Silent Hills, ограничили финансирование The Phantom Pain, убрали имя Кодзимы с планируемой обложки The Phantom Pain, и существующих обложек Ground Zeroes и The Legacy Collection. 10 июля студия Kojima Productions была распущена.

The Phantom Pain была принята критиками и игроками неоднозначно. С одной стороны, игра получила наивысшие оценки и ряд наград (в том числе, более 20 наград «Игра года»), высоко оценили геймплей, игровые механики и свободу действия. С другой, сюжет вызвал в основном негативную реакцию: были жалобы на пренебрежение каноном серии, ужасное раскрытие персонажей и их характеров, скомканность непосредственно сюжетной линии, отсутствие удовлетворительного финала. Несмотря на подобную неоднозначность, продажи игры окупились за три месяца. Но даже это не улучшило отношение Konami к Кодзиме. 19 октября появилась новость, что Кодзима окончательно покинул ряды компании; несколько позже начали опровергать эту новость, заявляя, что он ушел в отпуск.

В декабре The Phantom Pain получила некоторые награды, за которыми Кодзиме запретили приходить: на церемонию PlayStation Awards явился сотрудник Konami, а The Game Awards Кифер Сазерленд, актер английской озвучки Снейка в Metal Gear Solid V. 16 декабря Кодзима объявил, что он реорганизовывает Kojima Productions в качестве независимой студии и сотрудничает с Sony Computer Entertainment.

13 июня 2016 года на выставке Sony на Electronic Entertainment Expo 2016 Хидэо Кодзима показал трейлер Death Stranding.

По поводу жанра игры Хидэо Кодзима заявил, что это будет некий экшн с новыми элементами и привнесениями. Он провёл параллель с его ранней игрой Metal Gear, которая ныне классифицируется как стелс-игра, однако во время выхода её называли экшеном, так как жанра стелс ещё не существовало. Он объяснил одну из главных тем игры через короткую историю Кобо Абэ, в которой Абэ говорит, что первым инструментом, созданным человеком, была палка, использовавшаяся для защиты путем создания расстояния между собой и "плохими вещами", а вторым инструментом была веревка – для защиты вещей, которые он [человек] находит важными. Кодзима сравнил основные "инструменты" в экшн-игре – удары руками и ногами, и стрельбу – с палкой, и сказал, что в Death Stranding он хочет, чтобы люди взаимодействовали через игровые эквиваленты веревки.

На Tokyo Game Show Хидео Кодзима привёз небольшой отрывок из Death Stranding, где Сэм встречается лицом к лицу с таинственным Человеком в золотой маске из третьего трейлера проекта.

Предполагалось, что это персонаж Мадса Миккельсена, однако его играет Трой Бэйкер (Оцелот из Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain). С помощью маски герой может взаимодействовать с чёрной субстанцией: так он призвал огромное существо, с которым игроку, похоже, предстоит сразиться.

Также японский геймдизайнер представил ещё одного персонажа, уж очень похожего на Черепа (Skull Face) из Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. Его играет Томми Эрл Дженкинс.



Сэм — главный герой игры, роль которого исполняет Норман Ридус






Death Stranding создаётся только для PS4. Хидео Кодзима во время своего выступления на Tokyo Game Show сообщил, что намеченная студией дата выхода всё ещё в силе, однако объявлять её пока не намерены.

Sony вслед за свежим трейлером и датой выхода Death Stranding представила премиальные издания игры — специальное и коллекционное.

Начнём с последнего, поскольку оно самое интересное. В США его стоимость составит 199 долларов, а о цене в России пока ничего не сообщается. Внутри покупатели найдут:

  • фигурку «Капсула ББ» в натуральную величину
  • брелок Люденс
  • переносной контейнер «Бриджес»
  • стилбук
  • полную версию игры
  • бонусы за предзаказ
  • набор аватаров для PSN
  • саундтрек игры
  • ролик о создании игры
  • Золотые солнцезащитные очки «Маска Луденса» (в игре)
  • Золотой силовой контур (в игре)
  • Золотой вездеходный контур (в игре)
  • Золотую броню второго уровня (в игре)


Специальное издание

  • полная версия игры
  • стилбук
  • Золотые солнцезащитные очки «Маска Луденса» (в игре)
  • саундтрек игры
  • ролик о создании игры


Бонусы за предзакз

  • Золотые очки «Сэм» (в игре)
  • Золотая бронепластина (в игре)
  • Золотая кепка (в игре)
  • Скоростной экзоскелет для ног золотого цвета (в игре)
  • Динамическая тему для PS4
  • Аватарка для профиля PSN.

Личность [ ]

Способности [ ]

С помощью своей золотой маски Хиггс способен вызвать Охотника BTs в форме хиралий, а затем Ловца BTs (Тварей), чтобы напасть на Сэма. Кроме того, показано, что он способен управлять погодой в виде взрыва; Хиггс указывает рукой вверх на небо в форме пистолета и вызывая потусторонний дождь почти сразу после этого.

Продвинутый Контроль Над Хиралием: Хиггс обладает наибольшим контролем над хиралием из всех людей на протяжении всей сюжетной линии, за исключением самой Амелии, которая предоставила ему эту способность. Его сила не имеет видимых пределов, и впоследствии он может создать любой объект, который пожелает, из хиралия, а также усилить свое оружие и атаки. Создавая чудовищных зверей, каждое из которых имеет свой собственный дизайн и возможности для нападения на Сэма.

Телепортация: Хиггс может телепортироваться куда угодно и сколько угодно раз. Это может быть связано с его прямой связью с Амелии и пляжем.


Телекинез: Хиггс смог левитировать, демонстрируя способность телекинетического полета, а также телекинетически поднимать несколько валунов, стоя на одном из них, Хиггс смог вытащить зонтик Фреджайл из её руки на расстоянии и телекинетически поднимать Амелии.

Бессмертие: Хиггс сильно намекает на то, что он может быть репатруирован, как Сэм.

Чувства Ясновидения: Хиггс продемонстрировал ограниченное ясновидение, поскольку только "обнюхав" Сэма он смог сказать, что Бриджет мертва. Тем не менее, неизвестно, действительно ли это сила Хиггса, или он уже знал эту информацию, потому что контролировал Амелии.

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Abilities [ ]

With his golden mask, Higgs is able to summon Hunter BTs in the form of chiralium, and subsequently a Catcher BT to attack Sam. Furthermore, he is shown to be able to control the weather in the form of timefalls; Higgs points his hand upwards to the sky in the shape of a gun, and fires off a blast into the clouds, triggering the timefall almost immediately afterwards.

Highly Advanced Chiralium Control: Higgs has the greatest control of Chiralium of any individual within the entirety of the storyline save Amelie herself, who granted him the ability. There is no apparent limit to his power, and he can subsequently create any object he desires out of Chiralium, as well as amplify his weaponry and attacks. Creating monstrous beasts and a variety of specialized creatures each with their own design and capabilities to attack Sam, he displays total control over any and all forms of BTs, wielding them with absolute ease while maintaining perfect and total control over said BTs.

Tar Manipulation: Tar is a viscous black liquid that manifests along with aggressive BTs, Higgs has shown the ability to create tar from apparently nowhere and creating tar-like strings.

Weather Manipulation: Due to the complexity and capabilities that Higgs has bestowed upon him by Amelie, he is shown to create Timefall whenever and wherever he pleases. He also chooses and can freely manipulate what will and what won't be affected, as well as the intensity of the rain and time to take effect. Due to his mastery, he is unaffected by the effects of Timefall and may wear armor solely to stay connected to his BB.

Telekinesis: Higgs was able to levitate displaying an ability for telekinetic flight, as well as telekinetically lift several boulders while standing on one of them, pull Fragile's umbrella out of her hand from a distance, and telekinetically lift move Amelie.

Clairvoyance Senses: Higgs has demonstrated limited clairvoyance, since only "smelling" directly to Sam could tell that Bridget was dead and that Amelie would take over as President. However, it isn't known if it's really is a power of Higgs, or he already knew this information because of being controlled by Amelie.

Precognition: Wrote about his defeat and loss of power in his journal and a mail he sent to Sam before it happened. While he appeared spiteful and self-deprecating in the journal, he was resigned in the mail indicating he accepted what is going to happen.

Teleportation: Higgs has the ability to teleport anywhere he wants as many times he wants to. This may be due to his direct connection to Amelie and her beach.

Nigh Immortality: It is heavily implied by Higgs that he may be a repatriate like Sam, when he says that if either of them die on the beach, they won't be able to go back. That it'll be the end for one of them.


Death Stranding — мультиплатформенная компьютерная игра в жанре action-adventure в открытом мире, разрабатываемая для платформ PlayStation 4 и Microsoft Windows. Автор игры Хидэо Кодзима, создатель серии игр Metal Gear, игр Snatcher и Policenauts. Разработкой игры занимается студия Kojima Productions, а издателем выступает

Сюжет [ ]

Биография [ ]

Детство [ ]

Работа курьером [ ]

Хиггс стал курьером, ведь это была единственная работа благодаря которой он мог выжить. Однажды, когда он доставлял медикаменты жившему неподалеку от него выживальщику он обнаружил его мертвым. Было слишком поздно нести труп к крематорию. Вместо этого, он выбросил его на территорию Тварей, где он вновь почувствовал Тварей и увидел видение Берега.

Встреча с Фрэджайл и работа на «Фрэджайл Экспресс» [ ]

Встреча с Амелией [ ]

Переход на сторону террористов [ ]

Ожидая исполнение планов Амелии, Хиггс становится главой террористической организации Homo Demens, большинство участников которой были заражённые хиралем и стремились уничтожить СГА (UCA). Они стали торговать оружием и бомбами по всему центральному региону, им даже удалось заполучить термоядерные заряды. Хиггс обманом заставил Фрэджайл доставить ядерную бомбу в Средней узел, который был уничтожен взрывом, но Фрэджайл удалось выжить, переместившись на свой берег.

Дальнейшая судьба [ ]

Personality [ ]

Highly meticulous and malicious, Higgs has no qualms nor moral boundaries when orchestrating ruthless acts of slaughter and gleefully participates out of fun and personal enjoyment. Holding an aura of unshakable confidence, charisma, and sarcasm, he rarely loses his cool and consistently maintains a composed and collected personality. He has no hesitation when engineering voidouts killing thousands to instill fear in the cities guided and united under the UCA Alliance, and to facilitate the extinction of humanity.

Higgs has a layer of dark humor when confronting Sam and Fragile as well as overall. Musing about death and destruction of the last POTUS, and noting that Amelie wasn't cut out for a similar role. Having no restraint over his men and sees them as infallible and loyal. Highly egotistical and arrogant, Higgs views himself as greater than humanity, yet also has accepted the inevitability of the sixth extinction event. In his dealings with other humans, especially Sam Bridges, he uses his chiralium control as demonstrations of his superior nature.

Higgs has also been shown to have a bit of a perverted side and makes no attempts to hide it nor is he above using it to intimidate his enemies. In particular, he is shown to be attracted to Fragile, licking her face and forcing her to strip down to her underwear before having her run out into the rain. It should also be noted that in an encounter with Sam, in which he removes his mask for the first time, he does much the same. Whether this insinuates a similar attraction towards Sam or if licking his enemies is just a weird intimidation tactic is left unclear. Later, after beating Sam in a gunfight, as he's carrying off Amelie he noticeably gropes her butt likely as a way to further taunt Sam.

Despite his violent behavior, Higgs demonstrates a very high intellect and understanding of various concepts prior to Sam and Fragile. Higgs displays his worst traits through an affable exterior that hides his more evil intentions. He once believed in the preservation of the UCA and actively supported their cause.

Due to him meeting Amelie, he finds out the truth about everything and becomes a hyper-fatalist hellbent on bringing about a mass extinction of humanity, the Sixth Extinction. He implores Sam to realize his apparent inevitable destruction. His philosophy is heavily influenced by his realization of extinction entities and their purpose. As noted above, he accepts this fate without pause, and even manipulates Sam into helping the acceleration of the 6th Extinction Event.

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Physical description [ ]

Higgs wears a black gas mask that covers the entirety of his head. Over that, he wears a golden skull mask that covers the lower portion of his face as well as a black hooded cloak pulled up onto his head, the lining of which is striped blue and gold. The cloak covers his shoulders, coming down into two points at the back. On the cloak right shoulder is the Homo Demens Egyptian style symbol in white, with 'VOID OUT' in text. On his torso, he wears a black bullet proof vest on top of a dim greenish-yellow suit. Attached to his front is his BB as well as 3 smoke grenades. Higgs has a 3-pronged flower-shaped odradek attached to his back. He wears long black gloves with golden plates on the hands. He has black boots and dark green cargo pants, held up by a belt with many pockets. He wears Amelie's gold Quipu necklace. He also has two more Quipus worn on him, one larger one by his lower right torso side, and one on his left upper thigh.

Behind Higgs’ masks his face bears stubble but lacks both eyebrows, the removal of which resembles the practices by Egyptian priests. Four lines of text, the Higgs Boson equations, are inscribed (presumingly tattooed) upon his brow, two in the place of his eyebrows. Higgs’ blue eyes are encircled by thick black eyeliner inspired by the ancient Egyptian style makeup, which sometimes runs as a result of a chiral allergy.

At the end of chapter 3 he also dresses in disguise as a Bridges employee, complete with a Bridges hat, headphones, gloves, and jumpsuit uniform.

Story [ ]

Background [ ]

Higgs was raised by his uncle early in his life after both of his parents died. He grew up thinking the shelter was the entire world, and his uncle would beat him whenever he asked about the outside world or tried to leave the shelter. Higgs would eventually kill his uncle in self-defense with a knife and witness the body going necro. Higgs took the corpse out and felt the Beached Things slowly approaching, unknowingly gaining his DOOMS in the process. In time, he would find out that his powers were triggered by death.

Higgs became a porter, being the only job he could do to survive. One time, he delivered medicine to a prepper living close to him only to find that he had died. It was too late to take the body to an incinerator. Instead, he took it to BT territory, where he started feeling the BTs reacting to the corpse and began having visions of the Beach, leaving Higgs to wonder if he had DOOMS.

With time, Higgs came to enjoy helping people, being an essential part of a community, defying his dad's teachings about caring only about oneself. However, when he was unable to help one of his porter partners that was calling for help lost in the mountains, Higgs began to question his powers to detect BTs, feeling them dwindle. Also at this time, Higgs began reading a book called Wisdom of the Egyptians, about how the ancient Egyptians' concepts of life and death seemed to predict the changes brought on by the Death Stranding. Borrowing from the old pharaohs' wisdom, he began to wear a golden death mask, "but one for living—for ruling".

Leading his own crew of porters, Higgs decided to join up with Fragile Express, attracted by their leader Fragile, who also had DOOMS powers. Together they planned to consolidate their operations through out the whole continent, like the UCA planed. Higgs thought he was the only one suited for leading the people.

Become a terrorist [ ]

Higgs eventually met Amelie, and he was seduced by her powers. Believing her to be the only one capable of uniting America, he became her herald. Amelie gave him a fake Bridge baby that would serve him to enter Amelie's beach and detect BTs, and then taught him part of the truth of the Death Stranding. Seeing that the end was inevitable, Higgs shared her goal of bringing about the Last Stranding earlier than intended and, at the end of the first expedition, Higgs used his new powers granted by Amelie to create the tar belt to isolate Edge Knot City, giving Amelie an excuse not to return to the Bridges HQ.

Growing impatient of waiting for Amelie's plan to come to fruition, Higgs unified and became the leader of the Homo Demens, terrorists, most of them infected with Chiralium contamination, seeking the destruction of the UCA. Higgs introduced many of his Homo Demens to the Fragile Express, and began trafficking arms and bombs to the whole middle region of the country. They even got a hold of thermonuclear bombs. Higgs tricked Fragile into delivering the nuke to Middle Knot City, which was completely obliterated, though Fragile managed to survive by using her Beach. After numerous terrorist attacks, Higgs then tried to do the same with South Knot City, but Fragile stopped the nuke midway. Higgs anticipated her knowing about his plan, and caught her with the nuke in her hands. He then gave Fragile the choice to either use her Beach and escape, leaving South Knot City to be destroyed, or running naked through Timefall to take the nuke to the Crater Lake , where it wouldn't affect anyone. Fragile managed to get the nuke to the Crater Lake in time.

Confronting Sam [ ]

Concerned by Amelie's obsession with her adoptive brother Sam, who was supposed to lead the second expedition to unite America, Higgs decided to confront Sam and his Bridges companions, causing a voidout that blew out the entirety of Central Knot City and the second expedition, minus Sam, who was a repatriate. At this point, Higgs learns the truth of the Death Stranding and Amelie confesses to him being an Extinction Entity, rather than a DOOMS sufferer. While confronting Sam in Port Knot City, Higgs reveals to him his understanding of the truth of the Death Stranding and hints at Amelie being an Extinction Entity, then he uses his powers to summon a BT that would defeat Sam and cause another voidout that would destroy the city, however Sam manages to defeat the BT.

Later on Higgs, disguised as a Bridges operative in Lake Knot City, tries to trick Sam into delivering a nuke to South Knot City, though Sam realizes his plan midway and Fragile helps him to dispose of the nuke once again in the Crater Lake. Despite being part of Amelie's plan, he questions her commitment to the Last Stranding, and is left to wonder the meaning of events like the supercells by himself. With Sam nearing the tar belt, Higgs visits Amelie's beach and takes her quipu, possibly so that she can't communicate with Sam through their dreams. After leaving Mama's Lab, Higgs appears once again before Sam and manifests a large, four-legged BT, issuing the deliveryman a challenge: avoid being eaten.

When Sam reaches the shores of Edge Knot City, Higgs is there to welcome him blocking and taunting him, while continuing to play the role of Amelie's jailer and when Sam finally connect the city to the Chiral Network, thus connecting all the nodes, Higgs summend a colossal BT and, with a "possessed" Amelie trapped inside, Higgs reveals to Sam the truth about Amelia, that she is an Extinctive Entity, that she is the one who has to start the Last Stranding and that she is always the cause of the DOOMS and the nightmares that they persecute them. Under an astonished Sam, Higgs takes control of the colossal BT and confronts him but is defeated again. However, Higgs kidnaps Amelie by taking her to the Beach, but not before having fatally wounded Sam, who then comes back to life as a repatriate, and damaging BB's pod.

When Sam arrives on the beach, Higgs is kneeling in front of Amelie, proof of his involvement, but as soon as he notices it, Higgs continues his play by blocking Amelie with his mask and trapping her in a "net". Knowing that the human race has little time left, Higgs tells Sam that they should become extinct like the species of the previous extinctions, and thus begins the last fight with the rival, first with his rifle, then with a knife, to end, at the feet of Amelia, in a fist fight. After Sam defeats Higgs, Fragile arrive to the Beach too and, in a last desperate effort, Higgs tries to control Amelie but fails. Realizing he was abandoned by the woman who gave him power, Frigile taunts him and punches him with his bare fist making him pass out.

Bound and without any power, Higgs is delivered by Sam to Fragile, thus keeping his promise, but the woman gives him two choices: suicide or being stranded on the beach, choosing the second option. While in Fragile's captivity, Higgs confessed that Amelie gave Higgs his powers, that she was the true leader of the Homo Demens, and that the terrorist unit always served under her.

Higgs later wrote about his defeat in his journal, before writing about his childhood, the meeting with Fragile and his descent into madness after meeting Amelie, leave it all in the shelter of his stage name: Peter Englert.

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