4/5 ★ – freightrain2099's review of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater.

PS5 replay okay full stop i genuinely believe i sometimes wasn’t in the right wavelength for what is now my THIRD consecutive kojima joint like “almost start groaning when the 10th exposition laid over archival footage cutscene starts” type of fatigue and for that im sorry allie NOW.. it’s still a great fucking game. pretty much kojima perfecting his gameplay formula to unbelievable levels of detail and complexity (shoutout mgs3 all secrets and interesting stuff video) and the drastic change in scenery really freshens up that formula and opportunities to fuck around in the sandbox and shit like that. characters and writing in general is very fun ofc, david hayter is always great and i really loved para-medic which is the best version of the save system in any of these games bc she just talks to snake about how much she fucking loves movies she would’ve loved letterboxd. unfortunately i really gotta say this is the least i’ve been invested in the plot of a non 2010’s metal gear game, maybe it’s because i played this when i was a kid on the 3DS (which in hindsight this is a really fucking funny game to put in that console but so much of the directing lends itself to the 3D whoaa pop out visuals you want out of the 3DS lmao) or maybe it’s the aforementioned kojima fatigue slowly kicking in but yeah idk the story is just a pretty good straight line instead of the slowly destabilizing mind benders of 1 and especially 2 even if the last 30 minutes still goes crazy hard and that incredible ending hits you like a motherfucker (kind of insane to put the final shot of ur game as key art at least for the master collection but it works lol) and im sorry but the bosses are kind of not as memorable as the other ones like the pain just exists i guess lol and just speaking of antagonists in general volgin is easily the worst villain out of these first 3 games, he’s SO boring oh my god like i guess his only character traits are being a sadistic fuck who’s really into electricity and being bisexual, whatever, HUGE caveat, i did not fight the end as it was meant to be bc i blew his wheelchair up with the sniper 💀 rip the end ur probably goated and the sorrow ended in like 5 seconds bc i played this as pacifist as i could so i did not get the scary ass intended experience of contemplating all the damage you’ve done or someshit OKAY this is getting too long this is a great game everyone should play alongside the other metal gears but it will be a WHILE before i play a kojima joint again, still loved going on this crazy ass ride (shoutout to liquid snake explains big chungus video on youtube) with master collection volume 1 and pray volume 2 comes out fast so i can experience the end of homosexual brainrot in sons of the patriots 🙏 2 is still the best one sorry