@thefantasticfillip: well I cant believe it but I have actually been warmed up to the ending of MGS V because of this write up. The medic being an empty husk by the end of his coma is "infected" by big bosses persona by zero and then used by big boss for his own agenda.
My problem was first that it is a medic being described as MSF's best man (even though his job is staying in a helicopter whilst big boss does all the hard work), but it had to be someone in that helicopter around the same age who could essential be a blank slate for big boss's memory's to imprint on
secondly I didnt like the fact I wasnt playing as big boss and that they were destroying the character that I had played for two previous games (kinda saying anyone can be big boss if implanted with his memorys, implying that he maybe more legend than fact when I had done super badass stuff in two previous games with him). Kojima has essentially stated from the beginning that meme is stronger than gene's with liquid being beaten by the inferior clone solid. This write up did let me understand that it essentially showed the true big boss to be evil; to be complicit in creating a double and destroying his double as and when it fit his agenda. He could do anything in the name of revenge, even go against his own morals, he hated being cloned so using a body double and not caring about that person, using that person as a tool rather than a partner (I feel him sating they were partners was more about big boss trying to manipulate venom more than actually mean it) is something I could see him doing.
I think this should of been explained better by Kojima (as I must of blinked when that post credit paragraph explanation happened) and I would of liked a better detail of the outer heaven plan was it solely to build a warriors paradise, when did the anti patriot scheme start... only post real big boss death/another coma at the end of MG2?
works as a story, does still kinda suck that your playing as someone whos being duped but the whole point of phantom pain is the continual cycle of revenge and hatred and the player at the end of the game must feel the same anger that venom does realising he has been duped and lied to
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