They Made This Remake... Like One Of My Japanese Animes!
I started this game ready to be disappointed but I'm surprised I liked 80% of it. The upgrade to the visuals, MGS2-style gameplay is fluid and fun, collecting dog tags add variety and scratches the collectible itch for me, and of course MGS itself as a story and experience made this playthrough worth it. The caveat though is I've already played PS1 MGS multiple times so I treated this playthrough as just a fun time going through one of my favorite games rather than critically judging it as a remake.
I do get the hate though.
- The direction to the cutscenes were... pretty inconsistent with the tone of the original and even the gameplay itself. I find it hilarious how Snake can dodge bullets mid-air or ride a missile during cutscenes but he's pretty grounded if you play as him. Sure, the other MGS games have the same element to it but I like how different MGS feels and plays to the rest.
- The OST doesn't hit IMO. I guess it's too iconic that anything else doesn't do it justice.
- New voices doesn't do it for me. I guess it's more lore-accurate without the accents and such but its charm was lost in the process. I get the change tho and delivery is still good so it's a pretty minor gripe on my part.
- While I enjoy the revamped gameplay, it's pretty obvious that the levels were designed to complement the old one so there's a bit of disconnect there. I enjoyed being able to break the game and shoot in first-person tho.
So yeah, I do have problems with it but thankfully this wasn't my first experience with the story. All-in-all, I'm glad I checked it out and came out pretty positive on it. A big reason for why I'm impartial to the weird changes is that I can easily separate Twin Snakes from MGS. The original PS1 game aged extremely well to the point where I do not need a remake of any kind. I can just go back and experience a masterpiece but a part of me is also a bit disappointed that we could've gotten a much better experience.
11 hours and 300 bullets dodged later, I give Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes a 3.5/5
I started this game ready to be disappointed but I'm surprised I liked 80% of it. The upgrade to the visuals, MGS2-style gameplay is fluid and fun, collecting dog tags add variety and scratches the collectible itch for me, and of course MGS itself as a story and experience made this playthrough worth it. The caveat though is I've already played PS1 MGS multiple times so I treated this playthrough as just a fun time going through one of my favorite games rather than critically judging it as a remake.
I do get the hate though.
- The direction to the cutscenes were... pretty inconsistent with the tone of the original and even the gameplay itself. I find it hilarious how Snake can dodge bullets mid-air or ride a missile during cutscenes but he's pretty grounded if you play as him. Sure, the other MGS games have the same element to it but I like how different MGS feels and plays to the rest.
- The OST doesn't hit IMO. I guess it's too iconic that anything else doesn't do it justice.
- New voices doesn't do it for me. I guess it's more lore-accurate without the accents and such but its charm was lost in the process. I get the change tho and delivery is still good so it's a pretty minor gripe on my part.
- While I enjoy the revamped gameplay, it's pretty obvious that the levels were designed to complement the old one so there's a bit of disconnect there. I enjoyed being able to break the game and shoot in first-person tho.
So yeah, I do have problems with it but thankfully this wasn't my first experience with the story. All-in-all, I'm glad I checked it out and came out pretty positive on it. A big reason for why I'm impartial to the weird changes is that I can easily separate Twin Snakes from MGS. The original PS1 game aged extremely well to the point where I do not need a remake of any kind. I can just go back and experience a masterpiece but a part of me is also a bit disappointed that we could've gotten a much better experience.
11 hours and 300 bullets dodged later, I give Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes a 3.5/5