What can I say about the, probably, most polarizing game made in history? Well, I say that it's a bona fide masterpiece and the smartest game I've ever played.
Kojima was getting exhausted of seeing how his portrayal of Solid Snake in MGS, a broken man who was trying to find something to fight for, was completely misunderstood and instead Snake was to the fans a badass who could do no wrong. He took every single thing the fans loved about MGS (even those he didn't intend to be loved) and turned them upside down, one by one, smashing the whole concept of what a sequel is supposed to be, and actually putting the sequel definition over it's head: He made a game that doesn't just rehash MGS, it takes everything you knew about it and uses the in-game parallels as an actual plot point.
All while breaking the concept of how a game should adress itself, or if it's even permitted to do it, with a 4th wall breaking final segment that genuinely scares you with how outlandishly is the twist carried out. It even makes a social commentary on the massive influence of social media as far back as 2001 - no one could really understand how true what the game touches upon would become during this decade.
There's so much to be said about this game that this mere 4 paragraphs won't do it any justice, but be sure that playing the original MGS is absolutely mandatory to completely understand the utter madness of what Kojima has brought to us with this game. No game EVER has come remotely close to the magnitude of what this game has done for the videogame industry.
Kojima was getting exhausted of seeing how his portrayal of Solid Snake in MGS, a broken man who was trying to find something to fight for, was completely misunderstood and instead Snake was to the fans a badass who could do no wrong. He took every single thing the fans loved about MGS (even those he didn't intend to be loved) and turned them upside down, one by one, smashing the whole concept of what a sequel is supposed to be, and actually putting the sequel definition over it's head: He made a game that doesn't just rehash MGS, it takes everything you knew about it and uses the in-game parallels as an actual plot point.
All while breaking the concept of how a game should adress itself, or if it's even permitted to do it, with a 4th wall breaking final segment that genuinely scares you with how outlandishly is the twist carried out. It even makes a social commentary on the massive influence of social media as far back as 2001 - no one could really understand how true what the game touches upon would become during this decade.
There's so much to be said about this game that this mere 4 paragraphs won't do it any justice, but be sure that playing the original MGS is absolutely mandatory to completely understand the utter madness of what Kojima has brought to us with this game. No game EVER has come remotely close to the magnitude of what this game has done for the videogame industry.