I made it halfway through the second mission and figured it would be best to wait a bit. I skipped Thief: Gold because it had a bug that prevented me from watching the cutscenes, but something about jumping into the sequel rubs me off the wrong way and now it feels like I'm just not in the correct mood to fully appreciate them.

I really do want to give this trilogy a shot, but I think it's best to wait it out so that I can start fresh again. If it still doesn't work for me in the long run, I literally bought them for less than €3, the worst it does is filling my Steam library.

I've taken Metal Gear as a narrative relatively seriously so far, but with Revengeance, it's pretty much impossible. The non-stop amazing hack n' slash combat breaks off any kind of dramatic effect it might have once had, and you know what? I couldn't care less. Even the game itself seems to be fully aware of its own facetiousness, so can you really stay mad at it? Cutting off limbs left and right into a thousand little giblets is so much fun, and Raiden himself doesn't seem to give a shit about the mindless killing anymore.

It absolutely saddens me to leave this game unfinished, because I was actually having a pretty good time. I was enjoying the atmosphere, solving the puzzles and listening to the bad voice acting. I had finally found a game that reminded me of that beautiful feeling of playing Silent Hill for the first time, and then I ran into a glitch that prevented me from progressing forward. I looked online to find out what it was, reloaded my save at least five times, and nothing seems to work. Man, that feels horrible.

Maybe I'll try it out some other time, because I just couldn't deal with the horrible voice-acting, bloated dialogue and the atrocious combat and stealth. Half the time, I couldn't even tell enemies apart from buddy soldiers because they just scatter around the same open area completely ignoring the other's existence. You can literally be among the ally faction in one room, walk down a short set of stairs and be riddled with bullets so much that you can't even turn around before having to reload your last save because this game doesn't have any checkpoints.

I would like to re-evaluate what I said about this game. I still haven't finished it, but it's actually pretty cool and I was able to get used to the mechanics. Completing every mission is very rewarding, there's constantly some progression in the plot, even though the actual story is far less interesting than in the older games, and there's so much variety in playstyles that you want to experiment and obtain new items and weapons. Even though it's probably my least favorite in the series so far, there's a lot to love about it.