Tony Hawk 2X, Tony Hawk 2 GBA, the PS1 versions of Tony Hawk 3 & 4 (those can be combined for the sake of them being similar enough)...there's a lot of TH games to check out outside of the core ones, and it works as a nice palette cleanser between the more known experiences most of us are nostalgic for.
As a staunch defender of MGS2 as a teen...yeah, this story does not hold up as an adult. MGS1 had a great balance between logic, over-the-top characters, and respectable storytelling for a 1998 video game. The voice acting and the general plot are good. This game basically said f*** all that and doubled-down in the worst aspects of anime characterization and tropes with a bewildering amount of exposition for it all. There are people who have a higher level of tolerance for stuff like this and something like Kingdom Hearts, and more power to you if you can tolerate random absurdity (Colonel aside - I LOVE this twist with him), but it just doesn't connect with me anymore. Kojima needed a filter for this game.
I still love Snake's speech at the end, though. Many good ideas and philosophies in MGS2 wrapped around dumb shit like mopey Fortune, Rose/Raiden's petty drama, and Ocelot's magical arm that changed his vocal cords somehow that would go on to be retconned later on.
@edmundus: When I played it a few years back, I found some weird caves and then a lady that fell in love with me on some strange island. She started following me around!
@danryckert Dan, please try and bring Tail of the Sun to Giant Bomb. There is so much more to that game than you found with the Super Replay, and I think it has been enough time to where it would be a very fun feature for GBE!
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