a real short and sweet 3D metroidvania with a charming 64 inspired look.

the movement in this is real fun, I think doing the slide jump and wall kick and wall run (slide?glide?) is addictively good

music's charming too, especially loved the track that plays outdoors and the theater area one too

it's pretty aright, doesn't really come close to the trilogy but it's honestly fine enough for a portable MGS.

biggest issue was the stamina system being back but the only way of recovering any stamina is exclusively done via rations, which aren't easy to come by - not helped by the extremely limited inventory system.

The cutscene presentation is pretty different but I do like the art for it, shame there isn't any voice acting for the codecs though. The recruiting system was an interesting idea, that much I'll say.