This review contains spoilers
I couldn't finish this game when I first started it due to burnout but I am really glad I revisited this game. Is it perfect? No. Is it finished? No. Is its storytelling and overall premise good? No. Does Konami suck donkey balls for booting Kojima and not finishing this game? Yes. But goddamnit I can't give it anything less than a 10/10.
This game is quite possibly the best open world game. Sure, other games give you a lot more areas to explore and have better stories and overall premises. But can you trick an enemy guard into losing their focus by putting an anime girl on the front of your cardboard box and then pop out and slam them to the ground? I didn't think so. The amount of creativity and freedom this game gives to the player is unmatched. There are quite possibly an infinite amount of ways for you to complete each mission in the game for both lethal and non-lethal routes. The different weapons and tools available allow you to pretty much play this game however you want. Other Metal Gear games have had this feature as well but it is obviously nowhere near where this game has managed to provide. That being said however, the mission structure itself is a big departure from the rest of the series. At first I hated it and eventually I grew to not disliking it, but the way you progress through the missions makes no sense. If they were going to do a mission structure I would at least appreciate it being more linear or at the very least not require you to play through tons of side content just to unlock the last mission in the game. Some side content was required and some main missions weren't required. Why didn't they just switch the places of these missions? Who knows, based Kojimber.
The characters are really good in this game, on par with the rest of the series. The Diamond Dog crew are all super entertaining and the supporting characters are also enjoyable. Skull Face giving the speech to the wrong person and then dying afterwards after being hacked by Psycho Mantis will always be hilarious.
Overall, this game grew on me a lot and I understand it has many flaws but I won't acknowledge them cause uhhh Venom Snake is cool.
This game is quite possibly the best open world game. Sure, other games give you a lot more areas to explore and have better stories and overall premises. But can you trick an enemy guard into losing their focus by putting an anime girl on the front of your cardboard box and then pop out and slam them to the ground? I didn't think so. The amount of creativity and freedom this game gives to the player is unmatched. There are quite possibly an infinite amount of ways for you to complete each mission in the game for both lethal and non-lethal routes. The different weapons and tools available allow you to pretty much play this game however you want. Other Metal Gear games have had this feature as well but it is obviously nowhere near where this game has managed to provide. That being said however, the mission structure itself is a big departure from the rest of the series. At first I hated it and eventually I grew to not disliking it, but the way you progress through the missions makes no sense. If they were going to do a mission structure I would at least appreciate it being more linear or at the very least not require you to play through tons of side content just to unlock the last mission in the game. Some side content was required and some main missions weren't required. Why didn't they just switch the places of these missions? Who knows, based Kojimber.
The characters are really good in this game, on par with the rest of the series. The Diamond Dog crew are all super entertaining and the supporting characters are also enjoyable. Skull Face giving the speech to the wrong person and then dying afterwards after being hacked by Psycho Mantis will always be hilarious.
Overall, this game grew on me a lot and I understand it has many flaws but I won't acknowledge them cause uhhh Venom Snake is cool.
Blu
9 months ago