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My first game in the series was Metal Gear Solid 2. I had no idea what it was, and found it in a pile of random PS2 games in my brother’s flat he threw at me to keep me entertained while he smoked weed and did cool old꧑er people stuff. I booted it up, and was suddenly asked - have you ever played a Metal Gear Solid game before? I hadn’t, and because I’m a good girl, I selected the accurate option and was immediately transported to the 🎀Big Shell. No Solid Snake or the Tanker Mission that introduces us to Olga and Metal Gear Ray, MGS2 assumed I didn’t have the context for who the legendary soldier was and decided to skip him altogether. In the context of 2001, this made total sense. You’d be better served introducing me to new protagonist Raiden and all of his blonde, twinkish glory instead of catching me up.
For me, it wasn’t a big deal, but for fans of the first game, it couldn’t have been worse. Metal Gear Solid, a legendary title that single-handedly crowned Solid Snake as an iconic hero, was phasing him out almost entirely in the sequel. Fans were royally pissed, and back then it wasn’t as common for games to leak ahead of release, with Kojima deliberately keeping the twist under wraps until after launch. Even massive trailers at trade shows only featured the Tanker Mission, with Raiden not even entering the thoughts of players until he ruined a game they had waited years for. It was a genius trick, and one I am not sure could ever be replicated again. It’s a clear precursor to the reaction we saw to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Last of Us Part 2, and just look at how that was spoiled ܫlong before launch.
Sons of Liberty was ahead of its time in not only its visuals and gameplay mechanics, but also in how it bottled up gamer outrage before unleashing it on the populace. Hideo Kojima has always been a developer renowned for pushing boundaries and questioning what the medium is capable of, and this includes pulling the rug from beneath us or forcing players to question the love they have for certain characters and ideas before introducing entirely new ones. It was ingeniously frustrating, and explains why Sons of Liberty remains a polarisi🗹ng masterpiece.
It was my first Kojima title, so will always have a soft spot in my heart, and I can’t help but commend a game that takes place in a single industrial location yet still manages to feature so much gameplay variety, so many characters, and a final act that still floors me each and every time. We’ll relive this big twist in the upcoming Master Collection, with our anger now replaced by warm familiarity. Raiden experienced a re🌼demption arc in Guns of the Patriots and Revengeance, while most of us have come to appreciate his once whiny inexperience.
Hideo Kojima tried to puꦅll a similar trick before Metal Gear Solid 5 was revealed, with the game first breaking cover as a new IP called The Phantom Pain by Moby Dick Studio. The developer leading the press was a man whose head was covered in bandages called Joakim Mogren. You’ll never guess what his first name is an anagram for. It was an obvious prank, but the excitement felt upon realising this was actually this new Metal Gear Solid was very real, and I’ll never forget that.
The series has always been masterful when the time comes for discourse outside the games themselves, something that remains true today, but has been morphed by the growth of online communication and how we spend almost every waking moment of our lives connected to the internet. Sons of Liberty took place before that was the status quo, and as a consequence c🐽an never be replicated.
