Hear Hear! I thought the 5-star rating generated by Brad's review was a travesty given the big plot gaps in this.
I mean Drew was able to call the plot twist by the first episode, I was of a similar mindset at the time and spotted little clues throughout to help confirm it for me.
The Boss' AI going "Jack? No...you're not Jack..." and the negative paternity test on liquid just telegraphed the outcome for me
I felt like for a "Metal Gear" Game the lack of philosophical musings from Big Boss also had a crippling effect on the story and I never really felt the charismatic leader of men shine through at all when everyone BUT Big Boss is talking at length. Like I felt Hayter nailed it at the end of Peace Walker with his speech to the men in showing this villainous leader that has raw charisma to inspire his men.
Leaving Liquid running around with a deadly super bioweapon and a powerful Metal Gear? It's not really forgiveable that that goes unresolved.
Another problem I had...even IF they had included the final mission, I don't see the 'transformation'. Since Venom eventually goes onto become the big bad of MG1 we're shown him snapping into supervillainous form as the final scene effectively. Though where was the turning point to warrant this? Yes he had to do some horrible things, but it was always done as a result of one person - Skull Face. The outbreak? Yeah it's horrible he had to kill his own men but for the ones that were still sane they realised it had to be done and accepted that. The shooting of Eli in the final mission? An accident, he hadn't intended to do it. Yeah I'd understand some torture and regret but there's a big leap from "I'm a monster" to "I'm a monster...and I'm going to do monstrous things because I hate the world!" I just didn't see anything that would make him hate the world that way as to start the events of MG1.
Eh...I'll miss the ATB combat. Was hoping with the remake it would be another bone thrown to fans of older turn-based stylers (like Bravely Default was).
Pity, if it does turn out to be some kinda cash flogging thing where they split one game into multiple full-price releases then I'm most certainly out.
I'm somewhat angry that Shepard is still alive and implied to be the protagonist here.
Like you've done games with different protagonists before Bioware, just look at Dragon Age. I felt the book was neatly shut on Shepard's story and that Andromeda would take place a LONG time after (considering Space travel is crippled).
Perhaps it's an audio log of Shepard from the past or something? Eh, we'll see.
Aww man, there was me hoping that you'd be stabbing the queen as the head of the evil conspiracy or something.
Cause like...the plots going to be really weird if someone as powerful as Queen Victoria can't directly stop it? I mean it was the Pope running the show before, I'd imagine the Crown in London's power would at least match the Templar's influence there.
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