faramir77

I've started Peace Walker. It's really good so far, I remember spending a lot of time with this game in 2012 but I remember very little about the plot or the levels. I think MGSV mostly erased my memory of this game, since it was so similar to Peace Walker.

The game looks surprisingly good for a PSP game. Snake controls extremely well, they finally mastered a comfortable control scheme. The only problem is that you can't move while laying down, which even the tutorial purposely draws your attention to.

Snake is much more jaded in this than he was in MGS3. The betrayal he felt at the end of MGS3 still motivates him in this, despite being 10 years later. The voice acting for Snake seems a bit too gruff, though. I remember reading years ago that David Hayter was instructed to do a gruff voice for this, which he felt might have been from someone other than Kojima, and thus led Kojima to seek to replace him with a Hollywood voice actor in MGSV. Absolutely ridiculous if true, but I will agree his voice is a bit ridiculous in this one, almost out of place. I say that as a big fan, nothing against David Hayter at all.

The plot has been interesting so far. The revolutionaries that join with you add an interesting dynamic to Snake's mission. Their leader, Amanda, had a great plot set up with the conflict she has with Chico as well as her desire to avenge her father. The name Amanda just doesn't seem to fit her, though. Seems too ordinary or something.

I already defeated the first semi-boss, the LAV and its team. I utilized a trick that I remember learning after suffering through that boss back in 2012, as it and many other bosses in this game just seem to take a ton of hits to defeat. I used smoke grenades to hide and then take down the team unit and Fulton them away, and repeated this until the team was gone without being spotted. This also let me capture the LAV and bring it back to Mother Base.

The system of building Mother Base is great in this, too. It feels more simple than MGSV's system, which actually is a good thing. I just wish there was an easier way to sort your staff. You can auto assign staff, but only if they're in the waiting room. Reassigning staff seems to done on a one by one basis. Also, while I like the concept of the Mess Hall unit for Mother Base, it really just seems to exist to stall your development of other units, as you need to grow your Mess Hall in order to keep food levels at or above 100%. I know a higher Mess Hall level allows you to develop better food, but right now early on the unit just feels like a drain on the others.

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