JamLabs | Ocelot Unit | O9 | 25 points
Unpopular opinions by J, your local big boss fan
1) MGSV is not a good game. The game may run well, but it has so many poor elements like the overall vibe, the characters are awful, and the plot is all over the place without saying anything at all. V is an awful plot device, the parasites are lazy, and what they did in Ground Zeros is disgusting and horrible.
2) Solid Snake was at his best in Ghost Babel. He recognized who he was, a killer who enjoyed war, and decided he wanted to live and repent. His whole arc progressed so well in Ghost Babel, and it’s a shame more people don't know about it. That quote everyone loves so much came from it too, when he's talking to Chris: "Life is worth living, even if it hurts you. Even if you hurt in it. You taught me that. You were my salvation."
3) MGR has a better handle on the spirit of metal gear than mgsv and mgs4. The game is campy, ridiculous, completely off the walls, but still has themes of personhood, anti government and capitalism, and what you fight for. Its a perfect mix of serious and silly, not the gloomfest that was mgsv and whatever the hell the writing decisions were in mgs4
4) George Sears had the most tragic life of any Snake, and honesty? He deserved so much better. Manipulated by the patriots for literally his entire life, aged so rapidly he looked like an old man when he was sixteen, actually did good and then as soon as he tried to break free from the Patriots he was disgraced, cast out, and was being hunted down. I think about George too much and I start feeling both angry and sad
5) Big Boss is the best character in the series. His story is about the cycle of trauma, and how war can warp a person. It also doesn't help that he was used as a pawn for literal years by so many different people, lied to and manipulated and used as just a weapon to pursue a goal... It’s no wonder he thought that about himself in PW. Even with the whole Outer Heaven thing, that was orchestrated by the US government... Solid snake wishes he had the character range
BONUS (this one is for haha funnies please don't take it seriously): Otacon is not hot and never was, stop lying to me
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