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My first brush with Hideo Kojima... I keep hearing his work is weird, so let's hope Metal Gear Solid lives up to the hype.
Kojima seems like the video game equivalent of someone like Tarantino or Edgar Wright - a nerd who uses his encyclopedic knowledge of pop culture to create work that's blatantly riffing on what he loves but is also uniquely his. I completely buy John Carpenter saying Kojima is too nice to sue - there's a weird sort of honesty about the Blade Runner and Terminator appropriations here, where 'originality' is almost beside the point. If there is indeed nothing new under the sun, you might as well have fun with what's here.
Kojima seems like the video game equivalent of someone like Tarantino or Edgar Wright - a nerd who uses his encyclopedic knowledge of pop culture to create work that's blatantly riffing on what he loves but is also uniquely his. I completely buy John Carpenter saying Kojima is too nice to sue - there's a weird sort of honesty about the Blade Runner and Terminator appropriations here, where 'originality' is almost beside the point. If there is indeed nothing new under the sun, you might as well have fun with what's here.
The title track came up on Spotify and after pulling up the trailer for it, I had to play (it helped that I wasn't having a particularly good day and needed to check out for most of it).
It took a second to get the hang of making drinks (not sure if that's a game problem or a me problem... I'm inclined to think the latter) but I was engaged enough by the narrative and the ethical questions it poses that it felt worth the effort.
There's one particular revelation for one particular character that I initially had uncomfortable feelings about, but everything around that development - mainly that the character in question is by all accounts in a solid relationship with someone who actually loves them unreservedly - tipped the scales into positive territory for me. It helps that said character is a hot mess for reasons outside that particular aspect of their character. More of that, please.
It took a second to get the hang of making drinks (not sure if that's a game problem or a me problem... I'm inclined to think the latter) but I was engaged enough by the narrative and the ethical questions it poses that it felt worth the effort.
There's one particular revelation for one particular character that I initially had uncomfortable feelings about, but everything around that development - mainly that the character in question is by all accounts in a solid relationship with someone who actually loves them unreservedly - tipped the scales into positive territory for me. It helps that said character is a hot mess for reasons outside that particular aspect of their character. More of that, please.
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I was such an anxious wreck during the first playthrough that one of my friends had to tell me it's a video game, not a moral litmus test.
Which says a lot about the hat trick the game is able to pull off, huh?
Which says a lot about the hat trick the game is able to pull off, huh?