It was right around the point in Metal Gear Solid 2 when I was a naked, long haired man running around, that I realized this series was batshit insane. I know there were moments when I should have realized this in part one, but I was too busy being awed by that game at the time to realize.
From there on, the series just got more and more crazy. How about the fact that you could let “The End” boss in Metal Gear Solid 3 die of old age if you just waited around long enough and did nothing? Or the hallucinatory sequence where you are a fucking demon hunter?
As crazy as previous games were, it honestly looks like Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is going to trump everything. The first trailer made it look like the whole game is one, giant, fever dream. Then they released some gameplay footage, and it looks more akin to Red Dead Redemption than the Metal Gear we all know, but that is absolutely fine by me.
Being an MGS game, we know a few things for sure:
There will be insane boss fights.
There will be hours upon hours of nonsensical exposition.
There will be hours upon hours of cut-scenes.
When all is said and done, none of it will make any sense. But you know that you will love every last second of it.
