Did People Care About The Boss?

[hollyberry]

I think this is something I subconsciously reached but never put words on until I read this.

Like sure The Boss is fine as a character but I also did not really care for her when it came to her death. Maybe because I knew it was coming throughout the game. She was obviously a plot device to set up Big Boss to humanise him rather than have him be a straight out villain as he started in the previous games. And while I love this trope, and I feel like they got away with this in the 2000s it’s a very dead horse by today’s storylines.

I also feel like Kojima adds characters to storylines without having a final plan of where they are going. So I feel like to base BBs entire villain arc on her death/betrayal is a stretch in the later games. I am sure I read somewhere that he never wanted to make MGS4 so it ended up being total fan service and nano machines (still loved it tho lol).

I feel like the guy should have stopped but didn’t want to haha. So he just added on to the stories over time and characters ended up underdeveloped. BBs relationship with her was only told to us rather than shown in MGS3 so to have that being the crux of his story feels sort of .. shallow to me? I remember at the time thinking wow this makes sense but actually .. that’s it.. that’s all there was to it. Maybe I am oversimplifying their relationship and his reasons. It’s been a good long while since I played MGS3 now.