This game is a unique and confusing game to review, a game that can be perceived as purposefully bad and a comment on society and where its heading it was incredibly thought provoking, however forcing someone to play an entire game for this message to reveal itself is too much to expect when the game plays like this, it's frustrating because it's paramount to the plot of the franchise and had the skeleton of a good sequel to mgs1 but this game is definitely the low point of the franchise, people can argue its brilliance but its a pain to play and the epilogue feels pretentious after playing a padded boring game. That being said there's some fun to be had from the normal metal gear wacky characters plot and 4th wall shattering moments.