A look at the Metal Gear Solid series, how it all fits together and what themes emerge.
All things must come to a end. Over the past few weeks InRetroSpect has taking part in an auditory ‘Wide Game’ to explore the Metal Gear Solid Series. This week the final part of the season of specials finally comes to a close. Once again all four hosts come together to look at the series as a whole and pulls it apart right in front of your ears.
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What might be the final part in the saga of Solid Snake also marks the nearing closure of the InRetroSolid series. Just like how us here at InRetroSpect will within the next few weeks reform back to our natural design, Marconi argues that Guns of the Patriots is Snake’s final purging. That the game is nothing more than the slow process of how an animal, locked and caged in his own body, finds their way to return to a natural path.
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“What journey did we undertake to get to this spot?”
Left abandoned and betrayed by his mentor, Naked Snake slips on the bandanna for the first time and begins a personal mission that will help him find an emotion to carry into battle. In this third episode of InRetroSolid, Strider rewinds the clock forty-five years into the past to examine the psychological landscape Naked Snake traverses in order to inherit the title of Big Boss and kick-start the Metal Gear Saga.
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Is Raiden really such an unlikeable brat? Does Sons Of Liberty have a confusing storyline? Was Hideo Kojima wrong to try and fool his audience? Xero shouts a resolute ‘no’ and explains why the game’s many criticisms are illogical in their foundation.
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How can one game change so much? How can one series span so much time and for that length surpass its own achievements? Well this is what the guys have challenged themselves to discover over the next thirty days. It is undoubted that Metal Gear Solid has altered the way we play games but over this month each game will be pulled and plucked apart to see what makes it tick, why we still like it and if they still hold weight today. It all starts with a special group discussion on the first major console release of the series Metal Gear Solid.
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