Glad this finally came to the west after so many years. I loved it at the beginning and slowly got bored of it but then the story picked up again at the end. Loved seeing characters like Mine and Ryuji return. The combat is very fun but extremely unbalanced with some styles being OP and others being useless and doing no damage. The game is also very grindy, I think I had to grind more in this than in 7 which I did not expect going into it. Overall, a fun but flawed experience which can get boring at times due to the poor pacing, but is worth seeing it through the end.

“This is good... isn't it?“

Goddamn. This is probably the most ambitious game I have ever played. It’s so incredibly overwhelming, attempting to do the impossible by wrapping up over three games worth of plot points left unanswered that fans have been clamouring to get answered now for years.

Not every question that was answered needed to be, but a lot of the answers given here were great, even if they would have been better left alone. The biggest example of this is with Raiden, as I personally felt that his arc was completed in MGS2 and that it would have been better to not have him show up again whatsoever. Of course, this game doesn’t do that, but I'm not necessarily mad with how Raiden was dealt with in this either. I think his arc, while unnecessary, was great. It was a good direction for his character to go in, and yes, it can seem like a rehash of 2 at times, but I'd rather that than them completely butchering it and going against his arc from 2. The story, while falling apart near the end and getting a little full of itself, was great. I have my problems with it, but I don’t know if I'd call it a mistake.

There is so much to love here. The cutscenes are some of the best I've ever seen in a game, the final boss is easily one of the best in gaming history, and the gameplay is the best it’s ever been in the series yet, thanks to the long-awaited addition of the crouch walk and the fascinating evolution of MGS3’s camo system with the OctoCamo. It isn’t a perfect game, but it’s definitely not a mistake either, and I love it.

I love this game.

There are so many good things about it. The acting is amazing. The writing in this game is arguably telltale’s best. The art style is so good that if the game released in 2022 (almost 10 years after the first episode released), I wouldn’t have even noticed cause it’s aged so well. And while choices don’t matter like most other telltale games outside of The Enemy Within, I don’t even care cause the story is so goddamn gripping. But sadly it isn’t really a game so it isn’t a 10 as it’s just a point and click but the story is probably a high 9 or a 10 so I recommend this a lot. Play it or Bigby will hunt your ass.