3/26/2023 0 Comments Mgs5 fire man![]() ![]() A chance to choose a new face, painstakingly, debating over every feature, tweaking, perfecting. Human bone and teeth lodged in my heart, in my brain. He blinks, slowly, painfully - the world washes red, then back to the blur, as the serpentine song warps in and out. A distorted cover version of David Bowie's 1970 hit The Man Who Sold The World which sounds as though it comes from David Bowie's 1980 album Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps), while I watch a blurry world through the eyes of an unseen, unnamed protagonist. To start from the start, Metal Gear Solid has one of the strongest openings in recent memory. It'll be part in character, part review, part verbalised bewilderment, I suspect. ![]() I don't know how long this series will be, or quite what direction it will take. Question is, can I possibly understand Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain if I don't know the impossibly long story so far, and can I possibly appreciate it if I don't? Only one way to find out. (Though I was one of those who thought the notorious bit about the second bomb was unjustifiable). I wanted more of that: more of that flexible, meaty stealth and combat, more 80s Walkman music, more massive sandbox meandering and yes, maybe more of the absurd plot and character design. I'm never, realistically, going to back and replay the other games, but Ground Zeroes did make me excited about The Phantom Pain. I'm starting to shift on that a little, starting to appreciate that such a direct tap into a creator's mind is a rare and precious thing even if the look-don't-touch manner in which it was presented was not something I could tolerate. It changed my opinion on the entire series, which I'd broadly dismissed as puerile lunacy which had no respect for my time. The next two games passed me by entirely, but I did play the entirely of Metal Gear Solid V prequel Ground Zeroes, which I thought was a brilliant stealth game underneath its preening shell. I think I did two levels of Metal Gear Solid 1 decades ago, and struggled through about an hour of Metal Gear Solid 2 before I decided I couldn't stand the cutscenes any more. I have never played a full Metal Gear game. STOP HERE IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BE SPOILED STOP STOP STOP NO WHAT ARE YOU DOING WHY ARE YOU STILL READING What? SPOILERS FOR MGS V'S PROLOGUE CHAPTER BELOW, INCLUDING IN SCREENSHOTS. ![]()
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