28-09-2025, 09:14 AM
Playing through more of the game now. Honey Bee mission. Was it ever explained what the fuck is up with ''Eyes on Kazuhira''? it feels like there was a betrayal subplot in there somewhere (it's not actually Huey, but Kaz) that got scrapped.
I sometimes wonder if there was a cognizant shift in the game's direction mid way once the Kojima <> Konami tensions reached a boiling point. I'm not talking about cut content, but Kojima purposefully redirecting the game in a different direction to turn into a thank you for the fans with the whole ''we're all Big Boss'' thing since it was his final MGS, and the game being turned into a glorified diss track - same with PT (if you believe the analysis that the game is meta commentary on Konami <> Kojima with the aborted embryo being MGSV) .
Mind you it does beg the question how Konami would be okay with that being their biggest game release of 2015; but you never know - because it really does feel sometimes that the game has the set up of the ''standard'' story everyone expected (Big Boss' traditional fall from grace as a revenge story) but then it just goes somewhere else and that separate direction has varying degrees of successful pay off - like a weird patchwork.
It would have been interesting to see a version that positions the doppelganger twist towards the beginning of the game. Maybe after Act 1 - and then focuses more on Venom as a character and how he deals with the revelation (and his slow split from Big Boss, the ''demon inside him'' that he refers to). The fact that he's called ''Venom'' but is infact a pacifist is in itself oddly funny.
There is SUCH a cool skeleton somewhere in this game and a story around identity and what makes us who we are as people; but it's just that - a skeleton. maybe the phantom pain is the phantom friends we made along the way idk.
I sometimes wonder if there was a cognizant shift in the game's direction mid way once the Kojima <> Konami tensions reached a boiling point. I'm not talking about cut content, but Kojima purposefully redirecting the game in a different direction to turn into a thank you for the fans with the whole ''we're all Big Boss'' thing since it was his final MGS, and the game being turned into a glorified diss track - same with PT (if you believe the analysis that the game is meta commentary on Konami <> Kojima with the aborted embryo being MGSV) .
Mind you it does beg the question how Konami would be okay with that being their biggest game release of 2015; but you never know - because it really does feel sometimes that the game has the set up of the ''standard'' story everyone expected (Big Boss' traditional fall from grace as a revenge story) but then it just goes somewhere else and that separate direction has varying degrees of successful pay off - like a weird patchwork.
It would have been interesting to see a version that positions the doppelganger twist towards the beginning of the game. Maybe after Act 1 - and then focuses more on Venom as a character and how he deals with the revelation (and his slow split from Big Boss, the ''demon inside him'' that he refers to). The fact that he's called ''Venom'' but is infact a pacifist is in itself oddly funny.
There is SUCH a cool skeleton somewhere in this game and a story around identity and what makes us who we are as people; but it's just that - a skeleton. maybe the phantom pain is the phantom friends we made along the way idk.
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