Question: 10 Years On: What do you think of MGSV?

[Aragorn]

I finally got around to starting TPP again and I’m going through the hospital intro. What’s so frustrating about this game is we won’t really know what the final product was meant to be; but that intro really screams to me that Kojima was done with MGS long ago. It’s such an effective horror sequence - and you can tell his aesthetic fixation on whales started well before Death Stranding was a thing.

Maybe MGS V was always meant to be this. Maybe it feeling incomplete was Kojima’s last fuck you to a fanbase incapable of letting him move on. Wouldn’t put it past him.

As frustrating as this game is, it’s also why it’s consistently fascinating to think about. What a weird little game.