METAL GEAR SOLID: Peace Walker - Master Collection Version

Initially one of the Metal Gear titles that I hadn't already played before buying on steam (apart from the times where a mate allowed me to play a pirated copy on his steam deck) i have my gripes about it. Stealth is a little... easy, I managed to beat practically every mission without triggering a combat alert, and which granted is an artifiact of its origin, but nonthless compared to MGS4 and MGS3 it pales harshly. The boss fights are bad. but not for lack of interesting moments and such, just the fact that THEY HAVE SO MUCH HEALTH! i had the luck of hard focusing on R&D specifically to unlock the stronger side of my weaponry and even then they felt like a slog. Additionally, the vehical fights are certainly boss fights that are definitely fun to play. (Spoilers for the plot up from here downwards) After beating chapter 4 and destoying PEACEWALKER, I felt like the game was trying to wrap itself up in a pretty satisifying way. Big Boss has given up on his dream of understanding The Boss, and is now focusing on building up MSF into a true 'Outer Heaven' (which in all honesty, would have been a much better way to slide into the events of MG1 than the smoke and mirrors MGSV pulled) Imagine my shock when the game greets me with the title card for chapter 5. At first i thought it was simply the ending sequence of the game, so i began doing my exeeding list of Extra Ops, then lo and behold, the Zadornov missions began. I find it a bit weird that they did something like this. i get wanting to boost player replayability by locking story prgression behind certain thresholds, but similary to MGSV's chapter 2, it felt underbaked. I have not quite completed all of the Zadornov search missions (and sebsequently not beaten the Paz-Controlled Metal Gear Zeke) and if that discredits my review so be it. Alright, lets talk positives God the soundtrack is phenomnal, Heavens Divide, *PEACEWALKERS* Theme, all are straight bangers, i find myself murmuring [i] "When Heavens DIVIDE!" [/i] over and over again while in the shower or just doing literally everything. I do really like the story, throughout the whole game Snake is trying to wrestle with the loss of The Boss, even after 10 years, he still hears that ringing gunshot. The overarcing plot of CiA director HOT COLDMAN (Brilliant as always Kojima) trying to use PEACEWALKER as 'the perfect deterrent' is an interesting flip on what Metal Gears are usually built for (Looking at you, REX) and i quite enjoy it. Huey isnt that much of a ♥♥♥♥♥ yet (or he hides it better) so that also helps. I like Kaz. He's so much more chill than in MGSV, (or as some of my friends call it, 'Pre-Fiddled Kaz") and has interesting dialogue inside the cassete tapes outside of "Boss. Skullface. Diamond Dogs. Skullface. Phantom Pain." (Bit of a generalisation, but you get the point) Overall, i give MGS: PW a solid 6/10. Definitely not my favourite Metal Gear game, but i do quite enjoy the theme it gave. Im also just a sucker for giant robots, and this game as like, 5 compared to every other MGS game.

boss?..... call me snake

o7

鼠标基本没法操控，谁家好人鼠标用起来就跟大号没有复位的摇杆一样？ 好评仅给原作 f**k konami

True masterpiece

He vuelto a mi infancia, es perfecto como tenia que ser, un port perfecto. Lo unico que me choca ahora es, ¿ porque cojones Snake apunta con el ojo del parche ???

Absolute cinema! \_o_/

Played through the entire game with washed-out, blurry cutscenes only to realize Konami set the resolution to "original" by default in the settings. Thanks for hiding the actual HD textures behind a toggle.