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Just finished MGSV and I have a few notes

-I've always thought keifer sutherland was a bad actor, but this game is basically the smoking gun of hack acting. Dude doesn't understand inflection, and is incapable of reading his lines in any matter other than a dad reading a storytime book to his fifth kid that he doesn't really care about.

-I started playing this game after zelda, and I was very impressed by the way the horse in this game can take big leaps, and go over rough terrain. Then I learned big boss can't go up rocks with a slight slant and inclines above 45 degrees.

-Afganistan seems designed to waste your time, the way you can't get to point a to point b without planning a weird route through the plateaus

-The endgame spoiler? That Venom snake isn't naked snake? Why did they have to hit us over the head with it (to the point of reminding us before and after EVERY mission) Why did they spend the ENTIRE game being like "This isn't snake bt dubs, figure it out" to figure out it was really..... snake's nameless doctor? Why did I have to go through the prologue again???

-Quiet's speaking english was dumb as hell too? How many times have I requested a helicopter in a sandstorm? They land at the drop point and wait, that's the procedure! Oh whoops sorry I guess THIS time there were cobras and the pilot forgot protocol and no one thought to ask code talker to translate.

-The whole game seems to run on timers. Dispatch missions, development, it's all very slow and it adds nothing to the game. Even showing pictures to paz is a matter of show, fly off base, show, etc. It didn't need to be this slow.

-Basically all three main characters were interchangeable in character. It was hard keeping track of who was talking. Code talker and quiet were cool, and I wasn't really on board with making huey a lunatic who killed his wife for no reason (it basically was no reason, I listened to all the cassettes)

THAT said the gameplay was great when it was great. D-Dog is the best companion in gaming, decoys NEVER stopped being funny, and the scene where huey kills skull face is probably the hardest I've laughed this year.

I really liked the cassette tape story method as opposed to the codec system, it allows you to tune in as needed while you're doing other stuff. I recently replayed mgs3 and while I LOVE the characters in 3, the codecs just drag on way too long. Imagine Para-medic talking about 80s movies while you run across africa (huge missed opportunity) . I loved collecting music from missions.

It's too bad this is the last kojima metal gear game we will ever get, because I would totally play "teenage liquid and psycho mantis take on the world."

Overall: great game it's just a shame it has such a crusty buildup around the whole thing
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werd