Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. My first love with the franchise, one of my favorite stories in gaming and an overall brilliant experience, once you get used to the camera at least. I mean, Yahtzee wasn’t kidding with the whole “glued to a passing seagull” metaphor!

Needless to say, this post will include spoilers for Metal Gear Solid 3. So if that’s cool with you, allow me to wax poetic for about 400 words on why I love The Boss…

Not to be confused with Big Boss, another character in the franchise. Or My Boss, a sometimes-real, sometimes-hypothetical being who’s existence depends on my employment.

The Fear Factor… Yes, in a game with a character LITERALLY called ‘The Fear’, it’s barely half an hour into the game till The Boss flips your ass like a pancake and chucks you over a cliff.

You find out The Boss is a former comrade and mentor of your’s, so unraveling the mystery of why she joined a terrorist group is an interesting one.

Lori Alan delivers a great performance in cutscenes too, communicating a calmly ruthless demeanor that contrasts with the bombast of the game’s other villains, like the sadistic Volgin or The Pain, who’s basically Shino on crack!

That’s Twisty: It is later revealed that The Boss and her team joined with Volgin’s army as an attempt to become a living scapegoat, reducing wartime tensions between Russia and the US by becoming a threat to both and ensuring cooperation between the two.

It’s oddly hard for me to articulate why I like The Boss’s near-ending monologue so much (right now, at least), considering she doesn’t have an obscene amount of screen time, but what little there is works incredibly well, to the point I teared up at her death.

And from a writing standpoint, it was revolutionary for me to see a villain motivated by selflessness. One could argue that The Boss pulls off the whole symbolically paternal morally grey warlord shtick better than Thanos, which I have done in the past.

Product Poems:

Galactic Destruction King, Benevolent World-Eater… Kirby.

There was once a pink ball-boy called Kirby, who looked like a featherless furby. I jest of course, but there is some discourse on Forgotten Lands, almost found, surely!

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The stealth games have been taken down due to an issue emerging with the historical footage used in-game

Konami announced today that it will be taking down games Metal Gear Solid 2 and Metal Gear Solid 3 after the company faces licensing issues regarding the historical footage used in both games.

The games are being temporarily taken down from digital storefronts and it is unknown when the issue will be resolved.

Metal Gear Solid

The takedown of Metal Gear Solid 2 and Metal Gear Solid 3 is the original release and every digital release that includes those two games, including Metal Gear Solid HD. Konami released a statement regarding the issue.

*** [Important Notification] Temporary removal of METAL GEAR SOLID 2 and METAL GEAR SOLID 3 from digial storefronts (PlayStation®3, Xbox 360, Nintendo 3DS, etc.)

Thank you for playing the METAL GEAR series.

We are currently working on renewing the licenses for select historical archive footage used in-game, therefore, we have made the temporary decision to begin suspending the sale of METAL GEAR SOLID 2, METAL GEAR SOLID 3 and all products that include these games from digital storefronts globally starting from November 8th, 2021.

We sincerely ask for your patience and understanding as we work towards making these products available for purchase once again.

Thank you for your continued support of the METAL GEAR series. – Konami.

It is unclear what historical footage Konami means exactly, or whether it’s a collective bunch of footage that is causing the problem, but there’s a lot of footage from the Cold War, for example, used within the games.

The full list of games that have been taken down include the following:

・METAL GEAR SOLID 2 SONS OF LIBERTY HD EDITION (PS3)
・METAL GEAR SOLID 3 SNAKE EATER HD EDITION (PS3)
・METAL GEAR SOLID HD EDITION (PS3)
・METAL GEAR SOLID 2 SONS OF LIBERTY HD EDITION (PS Vita)
・METAL GEAR SOLID 3 SNAKE EATER HD EDITION (PS Vita)
・METAL GEAR SOLID HD COLLECTION (PS Vita)
・METAL GEAR SOLID HD COLLECTION (PS Now)
・METAL GEAR SOLID HD EDITION: 2 & 3 (Xbox 360)
・METAL GEAR SOLID SNAKE EATER 3D (Nintendo 3DS)
・METAL GEAR SOLID 2 SUBSTANCE (GOG.com)
・METAL GEAR SOLID 2 HD for SHIELD TV (Nvidia Shield)
・METAL GEAR SOLID 3 HD for SHIELD TV (Nvidia Shield)

It is unknown when the games will be back up again so stay tuned for more.

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