A truly, astonishingly remarkable experience from beginning to end, but how did straight boys play this game in the nineteen goddamn nineties and not melt like the Wicked Witch of the West?! Perhaps the single most homoerotic work of fiction that I have ever consumed, Metal Gear Solid is the story of queer men who can only express affection and desire for one another through ostentatious displays of sensualized violence. This is my first Hideo Kojima game but it certainly won't be my last.