03-08-2026, 12:57 AM
Anyway, some of those ideas are so different that they may as well have been a different game. The only ones that would leave MGS2 still recognizable as MGS2 are the eleventh hour cuts due to tragic real world events. And while I respect Kojima for choosing to tone down things due to the circumstances of the time - it was the empathetic thing to do - I think enough time passed by the time of Substance - and especially the HD and Master Collections - to have the option given to restore the original vision.
