This review contains spoilers
Great proof of concept, great showcase of what Kojima wanted to do with MGS5, nice bringing back MGS4's gameplay style into MGS1's gameplay template.
I'll be honest - the ending to this felt like such a mean slap in the face and huge escalation compared to MGS's whole thing that I've never fully wanted to play Phantom Pain. Now, I've never played Peace Walker, so I've never been attached to Paz as a character, nor did I understand that she's an adult (p-probably?). So I sure as shit thought the ending of this demo was that Big Boss recovers this child soldier and pulls a bomb out of her stomach, only to discover too late that she had a second bomb stuffed in her vagina. Is it better that Paz is an adult, or that maybe the bomb was placed elsewhere (but, like, where? They checked her digestive tract and only found the first one)? Man, I don't know the answer to that question, but I really have no interest in seeing if that gets answered in Phantom Pain.
I'll be honest - the ending to this felt like such a mean slap in the face and huge escalation compared to MGS's whole thing that I've never fully wanted to play Phantom Pain. Now, I've never played Peace Walker, so I've never been attached to Paz as a character, nor did I understand that she's an adult (p-probably?). So I sure as shit thought the ending of this demo was that Big Boss recovers this child soldier and pulls a bomb out of her stomach, only to discover too late that she had a second bomb stuffed in her vagina. Is it better that Paz is an adult, or that maybe the bomb was placed elsewhere (but, like, where? They checked her digestive tract and only found the first one)? Man, I don't know the answer to that question, but I really have no interest in seeing if that gets answered in Phantom Pain.
Armorchompy
2 months ago