07-04-2025, 01:58 AM
I haven't looked into this whole thing in a while but I remember seeing whole online communities of people thinking that Chapter 3 was hidden in the game somewhere and it answered all of our questions and wrapped the whole series up in a bow.
I also don't think there's a fully complete Chapter 3 at Konami HQ that they just cut out to be evil
I really think the grim reality was that the story wasn't even close to being done in terms of writing. I'm not sure if Konami really put the screws into the project so much so that Kojima didn't get time to finish it the way he wanted, or if he got too caught up in crafting the mechanics and the world that the story fell by the wayside, or a mixture of both.
The whole arc of DD vs Skullface in Chapter 1 felt enough like a complete story but Chapter 2 felt like it was random odds and ends that were in decent enough shape to be included in the gold master. So Chapter 3 was likely just a bunch of unfinished assets that looked like the Chapter 51 video
I also don't think there's a fully complete Chapter 3 at Konami HQ that they just cut out to be evil
I really think the grim reality was that the story wasn't even close to being done in terms of writing. I'm not sure if Konami really put the screws into the project so much so that Kojima didn't get time to finish it the way he wanted, or if he got too caught up in crafting the mechanics and the world that the story fell by the wayside, or a mixture of both.
The whole arc of DD vs Skullface in Chapter 1 felt enough like a complete story but Chapter 2 felt like it was random odds and ends that were in decent enough shape to be included in the gold master. So Chapter 3 was likely just a bunch of unfinished assets that looked like the Chapter 51 video
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