Most of the game is broken up with cutscenes of the merry band of Otacon, Snake, and their legal union lolicon sitting in a hangar bay talking about stuff that average out at around twenty to thirty minutes, it makes alot of...questionable decisions regarding character relationships (Meryl being shipped with fucking Johnny), and story (the game basically retcons most of MGS2, introduces a bunch of plot twists that were fucking stupid even for MGS, and all in all is just fucking confusing). Kojima also felt it was necessary to make every fucking fight scene with Vamp and Raiden as uncomfortably homo-erotic as he could feasibly get away with.
Whole game was pretty gay, now that I think about it.
And yeah, the cutscenes are just fucking unbearably long. The whole ending segment is easily around an hour long.
It features two extended fight scenes between a bishounen ninja who leaks white fluid every time he is struck and a bisexual vampire man with a bare hairy chest who has a fondness for licking knives and elaborate dancing. Each of these fights feature segments where they grapple and straddle one another from behind, and even has short part where the the former is bound and struck multiple times by the latter with strong sado-masochistic undertones, even a brief shot of Vamp even licking Raiden's white fluids off his knife.
Beyond that, there's the interactions between Otacon, Snake, and Sunny which had the undertones of a nuclear family, various gameplay mechanics which involve and reward Snake grabbing men's crotches (and even penalizing you for trying to do the same to women), the implied lesbian relationship between two members of the FROGS during the aftermath at the finale, and Ocelot kissing Snake during their fight at the if you fail to break out of a grapple.
Whether or not it's intentional can be debated, but to argue that it's not there entirely is absurd.
My statement about it retconning parts of MGS2, while admittedly being exaggerated, is still true. The post credits sequence and the whole song and dance around Liquid's arm, for instance, was blatant retconning. Whether or not the retcons were good are, once again, debatable. I for one think the latter one was fucking stupid.
Thank you so much.
Now I'm beginning to understand why a lot of old fans hate the game.
Wow man that's looks so bad compared to MGS1 and 3.
The older titles have cool and brief cutscenes, just a couple of minutes long except prologues and epilogues. They are actually fun to watch because they have a purpose.
Long unnecessary cutscenes for mundane things and fanservices are indeed retarded.
The enemy team also looks bad, they look like zombified and soulless MGS1's Foxhound members.
And those tentacle girls? Really?
Kojima went garbage like today anime!!?11
And why don't they let Big Boss rest in peace for Fargo's sake? Kojima milks the shit out of the man, unforgivable!
MGS1 and 3 are cool because the recurring characters are just a few, MGS4 looks totally out of place when almost all Snake's acquaintances join the mission.
MG series should always be a lone soldier against elite enemies and impossible mission, not Solid Snake's SpecOps squads vs. tentacle girls army.
MGS1 was nice. Then it got weirder. Why.
I completely agree bro.
MGS1 is the best storywise. It blends well with the setting, the atmosphere is also pretty solid from start to finish and never went full lulz.
The serious tone of the story is slipped by a bit of jokes here and there which works great.
The game really describes the feeling of being one man army against impossible mission and foes, just as faithful as MG1 and 2.
MGS3 is good but the story and atmosphere are just inferior compared to MGS.
It is understandable because Big Boss is not Solid Snake, and the circumstances are totally different.
What makes it great is those new features which improve the gameplay a lot.
MGS2 is just messy, Snake looks out of place and feel insignificant, etc etc.
