A big, juicy eulogy to Kojima's magnus opus, written, directed and also partially interpreted by Kojima himself. Our heroes live in a terrible, unlikely, weird post-cold-war-meets-sci-fi world where colours are a luxury but steel and lead dominate hearts and thoughts. Most missions are set in desolate monochromatic parts of Afghanistan and central Africa, where even wild animals must be "rescued" from being home and be sent on a steel monstrosity in the ocean. The sense of doom and circularity of evil is tempered by a lovely wolf-dog and from a hyper-sexualized, mute sniper woman kept in captivity and fueling the fantasy of this men-only facility called Motherbase. All this is shot in a deeply cinematic way, with a clearly recognisable Kojima take. The camera even shakes in a very Kojima way.
Nobody ever looks for redemption, peace or even just to ease the pain. On the contrary, pain for phantom that it may be is seen as the anchor to fuel those deeps desires of vengeance. And then, on top of this, my horse gets "fultoned" (transported home with a overall-type harness and a self-inflating balloon which carries an attached lift line) and makes a weird sound every time.
How can this chaos work? No idea, but it does. Big Boss' sole moment of peace are when he's in a solitary mission silenty taking out enemies, with no thoughts, just concentration and action. And despite the bonkers storyline and the soldiers who thank me every time i slap them, you keep playing it mission after mission, knowing that something majestically designed can be around the corner. Or not.

This game to me is love and hate. When i started it took me several hours to decide if I actually liked it. It was good enough to continue but bad enough to keep asking myself if it was for me or not.
In the end it was worth it and i'm glad for having given it a chance.

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