Now the amazingness has worn off, I realized you could run around and shoot people without sneaking at all because there's no hard mode
That sounds sort of like the impression of the game I had, at least from what little I've played. It might be a good game for people that are looking for whatever it's offering, but it only struck me as a very poor example of MGS.
The only reason that's a negative to me is every other MG game I played has been "hide or you're dead", and that was cool. I really wanted a hard mode though.
Still, I've been playing it every free hour, the last 2 days and I've got 17 hours already. I played this and 2, 1 I could never get into because it's dated, so next I've got to look at 4 and that other spinoff game that looks cool.
It's not full Far Cry "soak a million bullets from a turret and survive because you're wolverine" easy, but it's close. Snake would never survive running away from machine gun fire after taking a shotgun to the face. That's a "oh, I'm playing a video game and everything I'm doing isn't actually that cool" moment.
You can play the Twin Snakes, it's a remake of the 1st game with mechanics from 2. ---
Not removing this until Pat Benatar is in Super Smash Bros. (Started 12/19/2017)