...but hey I'm probably the last person to play this game, right?)
So after taking a break from playing Metal Gear Solid and getting engrossed in Minecraft, I finally finished Metal Gear Solid. What a great game; my playtime clocked in around 13 hours, I think I left it on sitting for maybe an hour or so. The boss battles were great, they never felt frustratingly hard, yet they were challenging and took me a few tries to get, maybe that's because I was playing on easy, but I felt that the difficulty for me was just right. The stealth was fun as well, although I probably did a bit more killing than is normal. Whenever I hear about a stealth game there is an inevitable groan that follows, maybe this is due to me playing the early Splinter Cell games, where you lose once you are spotted. I feel like the system implemented in this game is highly effective, the two timers allow you the opportunity to still continue once you get spotted but definitely makes the game more challenging.
The story in the game was great as well, and how it unfolds in the last few hours is particularly interesting, with Master being Liquid, and Gray Fox being Deepthroat, which was a particularly awesome moment for me, and worthy of a fist pump. The themes in the game are also really interesting, Nuclear war, DNA, and fate determined by genetics. All something at the time that wasn't explored much in videogames. Also the auteur approach to videogames must have been at the time very new, and still is something that isn't explored too much even today, besides people like Will Wright, Sid Meyer, and Ken Levine. Overall it was a great game, the pacing felt right, characters were strong, and the cutscenes never seemed pretentious, or overtly long. I very much look forward to the rest of the series.
Stay tuned for the start of my Sons of Liberty blog, which I will most likely start after around two hours into that game.
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