Ground Zeroes is a bit odd to talk about and review in isolation, since it's pretty much tethered to the main game's story and its too short in itself to actually go out of your way to dissect all its mechanics, it really just serves as a technical demo showcasing the newest and final era of Metal Gear running on the all-new Fox Engine. It doesn't try to be more than that, and honestly if I was excited for The Phantom Pain back in the day getting a fully-featured demo with pretty much the exact gameplay as the main game and a shocking and thrilling couple of cinematic cutscenes of that caliber following the events of the Peace Walker Incident, with those dreadful and honestly pretty dark moments, damn, I would be sold with getting TPP the day it released no matter what.

The only real complaint is that they actually charge you a pretty penny for it, and while yeah you can get some mileage out of it considering that there's multiple missions to do and whatnot, it's way better to get it nowadays bundled in with the main game for dirt cheap.

Gameplay's a little less robust than the main game, but man the mood of sneaking around an extrajudicial torture camp on a rainy night, the dense map and a story that in comparison to PP was actually exciting to experience on the moment to moment level, it makes this game unforgettable.

That opening cinematic is so unbelievably good and atmospheric. The atmosphere, the Ennio Morricone song, the one-taker, the slick chit-chat between Snake (he actually has a personality, holy shit 😱) and Kaz, it's so fucking good.

Maybe even the best cinematic sequence overall in Metal Gear history.

Por mais que seja apenas um prólogo para o The Panthom Pain, eu curti bastante, só uma missão é de história e as outras por mais que simples são bem divertidas, tem até uma missão em que você resgata o Kojima!
Porém a que eu mais curti foi a missão "Déjà-vu", que disponibiliza uma skin com os gráficos do PS1 para o Snake, e tem várias referências ao MGS de 98, simplesmente maravilhoso!
Agora falando da história, é um bom prólogo, que após ouvir todas as tapes deixa a história bem mais pesada e triste pra caralho.

For a prologue to the Phantom Pain and sequel to peace walker, It carrys on the story of Big Boss exceptionally well, this is one of the darkest games in the metal gear series and it is HARSH.

The biggest issue is its length, it is a short game if you don't plan on doing all the bonus objectives and side missions, and the story is only really in the tapes and main mission. This has faded with time, the game practically being bundled with Phantom Pain and generally being far cheaper now than at launch. For a vertical slice of Phantom Pain, it does it's job wonderfully, this gameplay is clean as hell. Also, still looks absolutely stunning, visually the cutscenes are immaculate and in gameplay the base is wonderfully realised, lots of small details scattered around with multiple routes through the mission.

While this is a glorified tech demo/prolouge, it is damn good and I'm glad now we're not in the launch window with it's absolutely absurd original pricetag, this can be admired for the quality it is.

They really did play us like a damn fiddle.

Tech demo. The prologue is incredibly effective and serves as a great intro to where MGSV is headed. But man, $30-40 dollars for a tech demo? It's $20 now and still feels a bit steep. Should be $15 max. The extra side op shit is actually pretty good and gives you more time with the gameplay, and the cassette tapes and extra ops increase the demo's longevity, but the bottom line is there's really only one mission, Konami sold it as a standalone product, and it was priced at $30 for the longest time. It's good but there's not a lot to it.