METAL GEAR SOLID - Master Collection Version

Good game overall, it's a 1998 PS1 game with all the jank and at times frustration that can bring (unwieldy controls etc), but I still overall had a good time. Never played this back in the day, so this was my first playthrough. Wanted to finally play through this series. Upon starting this and seeing the semi top-down isometric thing going on, I went in with a "lets get this over with so we can get to the newer games" attitude, but before long it drew me in and I was having a good time with it on its own merits. It does sometimes have that rage inducing old game jank to it (like maybe you're trying to run away from a bad guy and snake gets caught on a corner and starts peeking around it instead), but I guess that's part of the experience. Definitely a Kojima game (I've played the Death Stranding series and MGS5), with the wacky yet almost plausible worldbuilding he does. This definitely has a lot of corny dialogue etc (Snake hitting on literally every female character, and in particular the 'good ending'), but it being an old game just makes it funny. One thing I didn't know about the first few hours that was dragging me down: If you just press start, its basically a blank pause menu. But if you hold LB+RB it pulls up a proper pause/main menu. Doing this you can pause the game during the (lengthy) cutscenes. Additionally important cause alt tabbing out of the window puts it in windowed mode, I thought I had to restart every time to get back to full screen, but you can change it back in this window. Boss fights can be a little difficult but nothing too bad, the big final boss battle I was struggling with but after watching a short video for the strat it was no problem. This game famously has some gimmicks, in particular Psycho Mantis I was never gonna figure out without looking it up (if you spam call the colonel he should also tell you the 'trick' to it, its a pretty well known Kojima moment), the game (on that LB+RB menu) gives you a way to virtually do it. Admittedly there were times where I kinda wished I'd played it on an emulator so I could abuse save states and cheese through stuff that way, but if I made it through you can too. If you're new to the series this is definitely worth giving a chance.

My Snake is solid and my gears are metalled.

For European users: After purchase, install the "METAL GEAR SOLID - Master Collection Version North American Pack" DLC. Once installed, select the English (US) option when starting a new game. The UK/EU option runs at 25 frames per second while the North American version runs at 30.

A SOLID GAME

Е сли бы я поиграл в эту игру в 98 году, я был бы в шоке и еще 3 года думал только о ней. Вот настолько она великолепна. Я не любитель старых игр, но мгс прошел с превеликим удовольствием, она игралась очень хорошо. Сюжет, атмосфера, геймлпей, музыка, стиль и идея - все это дает игре 9.5/10

Incredible story, I love it when the gameplay clicks as well. Unfortunately there is a lot of PS1 jank that can be frustrating, in particular I found the final boss and the segment after quite annoying, but still a fantastic game