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At Least I Always Fought For What I Believed In
The Best is Yet To Come: When I think of MG music, this is what comes to mind, yeah. This isn't really a series that I think of when I think of the best video game music, though, sorry! That title goes to MM or FF or something. The somber tone of this track is very good, but I don't know if it really encapsulates what this series is about, compared to something like, I don't know, the Harry Potter theme, where you immediately think "magic."
Metal Gear 2: Snake's Revenge (MSX): The first canonical appearance of Big Boss. Can I just ask, who uses a subtitle that's just the character's name? I don't think I've ever seen that besides Star Trek: Picard. Very bizarre. Anyway, I think, once again, that this is an example of the games reaching beyond their technology. MG2 wants to have this super complex villain with nuanced motivations, and it has the weird, silly aspects of later games where you defeat the final boss with a hairspray flamethrower, but the technology to make this game just did not exist yet. This is why MG1 and 2 are some of the few games I actually want to see remade from the ground up, and I know they never will be.
TNT

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Metal Gear (MSX)
1997 Tokyo Game Show Ad for Metal Gear Solid: Look, if I'm a Japanese guy who doesn't know anything about Metal Gear, and I see this ad, what I'm going to derive from it is that there's a hot redhead, weird and abstract art, a guy with a bandana, a beach, and a tiger. I can kind of imagine the beach, but where the hell did the tiger come from? Utterly bizarre.
MGS4 TV Spots

They Played Us Like a Damn Fiddle
Paz Ortega Andrade: The idea of the completely innocent girl who's full of hope and inspires the heroes secretly being evil (even though it's obvious to the player) is fine, and the idea that she just looks young and is actually an adult is also fine. But Paz never really resonated with me, and I'm not sure why. Snake has this whole crazy adventure with Meryl, and it cements her as someone you really care about. Raiden guides Emma for five seconds before she dies, but in those five seconds, she really gets her personality and hopes and dreams across. EVA, of course, is EVA... Then you have Paz, who has the entire game to establish herself, and-- wait, her name is Pacifica Ocean? I didn't remember that at all. That's like 30% better than Hot Coldman. Look, what I'm saying is this: I'm okay with the idea of Paz, and I'm okay with the idea of Big Boss (even though it's not Big Boss) being tortured by visions of her after he fails to save her. But there's something about this character that just didn't click with me, something intangible. Also, being killed by a vagina bomb is the stupidest thing ever and is completely fitting with MGS, I want it on record that I never had a problem with that, only with the idea that the super skilled medic would have missed it.
Poisonous Zanzibar Hamsters: I looked up venomous mammals, and they DO exist, so I guess I can accept it. Hamsters are about the most useless and stupid of pets, aside from goldfish, but goldfish at least have the additional benefit of not stinking up your room with poop. I guess some got out into the wild in Zanzibar, bred, and somehow evolved venom glands.
Hideo Kojima: Years ago, everyone wondered if Kojima was some kind of outsider genius artist or just a really lucky, really stupid man. That question has been largely put to rest, I think.

More Than Enough to Kill Anything that Moves
Metal Gear Survive
MGS Snake Eater