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If you like MGS you’ll like… - Dirty Duck - 03-07-2025 So as the topic title says I thought it’d be fun to get a list of the forum’s recommendations for other games, films, or shows that you think fans of Metal Gear might also enjoy and why. If you like MGS you’ll like… Twin Peaks (1990) dir. David Lynch | TV Perhaps not a very obvious one but I think MGS and Twin Peaks have a lot in common. Both are experimental and avant-garde pieces of media that directly engage with and play with their respective forms (video games and the soap opera). Both intersperse dark themes and plotlines with sincere yet stilted writing and both have an undeniable sense of playfulness. Both have been perceived as both “so bad it’s good” and as high art depending on who you ask. The same way that Kojima is clearly very enthused by military aesthetics while being hypercritical of war, Lynch’s love of classic small town American aesthetics and way of life are accompanied by an understanding of the evil that all these places often have hiding beneath the surface. Both balance the severity of their critiques with an inclusion of the supernatural and bizarre phenomenon that the characters take in their stride-as in many ways the existence of such things is more believable than the real horrors these pieces of media are concerned with. Both are anti-nuke. Looking forward to reading some of yours!