Delta impressions thread

[NateDog]

God Robin Atkin Downes’ voice is so noticeable after PW and TPP.

Just beat the Virtuous Mission. The sentence splicing for Para-Medic’s survival tutorial was so noticeable, honestly such a weird way to do it when the voice actors were available. I also have no memory of the scene of the phone call between Johnson and Khrushchev. Probably because it’s not exactly a highlight of the plot, even if it’s necessary info it feels like it could have been relayed by Zero in a fraction of the time.

Still not fully won over by the visuals. Everyone looks a bit shiny with Volgin being the biggest example of this, though that could be an aspect of his purposeful design it just feels like it’s a thing across the board. The new Snake Eater opening really doesn’t have the same punch as the original, the scenes from later in the story just feel a bit lame to include-ruins some moments for new players and also makes it feel like a bit of a clip show.

Hold ups definitely feel awkward. Here’s a moment where I had no idea what was going on at all.

My positioning was a bit off maybe and this is particularly extreme but I’ve had several moments where I’m poised to hold up a knocked out soldier as they get up but it isn’t registering once they’re up. Don’t remember it being so hard in the original.

The skeuomorphic design approach for the fast tuning of the codec is nice (though it is something we saw in MGS4 with the iPod).

I take this back it’s very annoying to use given how the most minute movement will change the digit and there’s no leeway, unlike MGS4’s iPod (though obviously the iPod is less finicky irl than a radio).

Having played MGS2 and MGS3 recently enough, I definitely don't remember hold-ups being anything like this. If you were stationed behind an enemy with your weapon aimed at them, that was pretty much it. Feel like the delayed manner of soldiers getting up impacts it in that circumstance but there's no reason why it should be happening outside of that.

Just got past the Ocelot battle, yeah this is very much one part that really shows how the jump to a more advanced movement / control layout can make things trivial. Finished it in about 45 seconds I'd say, far too easy. I did find it quite funny how you could see these bullets/darts hanging out of his face when it zoomed in to show him reloading, that was probably in the original but I certainly couldn't notice it on my recent playthrough given it was on the Vita.