Johnny vs. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

ever since I went back to Sons of Liberty and gave it a review, my mind started racing. I was thinking, oh, I'm not even a weapon for the Patriots yet. What would cause such a reaction? This is all. I've said this before in This Marathon that at many moments you'll feel like you're watching a movie more than playing a game with Metal Gear and it's who you really have to thank for that mentality. Kajima claims that his body is 70% made of films. The game is 70% movie. The 1960s ended. The war followed the events of Sons of Liberty.

The Patriots have established themselves as the latest bad guys in this saga, but what's the deal with Ocelot? The man claimed to be working for the Patriots and the Sons of Liberty. We now know that he helped form them with the help of Major Zero thanks to Snake Eater and Portable Ops, but the liquid through Acel Lot's arm has taken control of the man and he wishes to destroy the Patriots. Snake and Aon are still working together to deal with the Patriots. themselves, but now Snake looks really old, how far into the future does this game take place and what happens to Ryden?

He got Rose back and it's good for him, but did he go about creating his own destiny? What about Olga's son, the one the Patriots were holding hostage? We never knew if the child was safe and sound. Is something waiting for us? Are we actually playing at being a snake for over two hours this time? This is 2008. This is what people were waiting for after Snake Eater Metal Gear Solid 4 Patriots

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say we start by tearing up that first 70%. The first thing I have to do is find the game, it starts with these tongue-in-cheek commercials that I believe are supposed to reflect the current world we live in. cooking show an exercise program advertisements for private military companies even a meta interview with David hater the voice of snakes this

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now that I think about it, I'm half expecting to hide Kima to appear covered in flames telling me that everything is going to be okay, then that's enough.

She would buy it for a dollar at an undisclosed cemetery. We see a snake paying its respects to a tombstone. I don't know who it is exactly. I don't think they are the bosses. I don't even think Snake knows about her, maybe the gray fox, big boss Schneider, but what the hell happened to snake man? I thought his mullet was bad and now he's sporting a stash of '70s porn just Bert. Reynolds gets a chance to compete, it seems like we're in the distant future, until Oton shows up in a helicopter and appears to be about the same age he appeared in Sons of Liberty.

The snake suffers from some type of condition that is causing it to age. Extremely fast like Robin Williams and Jack, it's only been 7 years since the events of Sons of Liberty and times have changed. The world's economy is now driven by war. Countless private military companies or PMCs are waging endless proxy wars to maintain balance. information money control living standards all of this is kept under control thanks to this new war economy and the system that runs it called the Sons of the Patriots in fact it is thanks to the Patriots that this exists in the first place, they got the army by the Bolas, it's like something out of 1984, if you're in an army of any kind, everything you do is monitored by the SOP system, all thanks to the magical, sorry, advanced scientific breakthrough of nanomachines, to every soldier They inject them into their bodies.

Now that they are under the surveillance of the SOP system, they cannot even pull the trigger of weapons without being properly tagged or if the weapon itself was not authorized by the system, let me clarify this further, we now live in a world where war is used to maintain the global structure and Revolver Ocelot, now under the control of a liquid called liquid ocelot, is taking PMC into the entire war economy in a sense, so this is what the big boss wanted, although isn't it? It was like that? Soldiers always have a place. War is how you survive, so three cheers for Big Boss, well that's out of the way, let's go back to 7 years that Snake and Oton spent searching for the whereabouts of the liquid since the big shell incident.

Oton and the returning Roy Campbell finally get some results and locate the liquid ocelot somewhere in the Middle East, they believe he is planning to start an insurrection with the huge amount of pmcs he is in charge and at his side is Naomi Hunter, she has now been arrested for his actions after the end of Metal Gear Solid, but some time later. that an unknown agent freed her from custody and well, I guess it's clear who he was now, after a brief briefing, the snake accepts one last stealth mission, he's not fighting for a country, the Patriots have branded him a criminal of war, thank you. to Shadow Moses and the big shell incident, so now he really has nothing to fight for except himself, this is a hitman that must be achieved to prevent a world catastrophe, so with a new stealth suit that helps him to get it.

Around Snake begins his undercover mission in the Middle East to rondevo with Rap Patrol Team 01 and put an end to the liquid ocelot. Oh, by the way, this young lady here is sunny. I didn't know how to get in the mindset to introduce her, but she's AUST. girl, yes, Ryden saved her from the screen some time ago because it seems like she doesn't know how to cook eggs and has no communication skills. If you ask me, I blame the tranquilizers, but she is second to none at computer skills because she, of course, is. PMC's war between them makes it easy for the snake to escape, but it has some drawbacks with these new machines jumping around the battlefield.

Geckos imagine miniature Metal Gears that can jump like grasshoppers with long legs made of meat that also sound like Cattle War is Hell. The old snake encounters a shady weapons launderer known as a dreon, who supplies the man with an injection of current-generation nanomachines that allow the snake to use the weapons he manages to obtain without having to worry about proper identification on the system. I thought after Metal. Gear Solid Snake would be very suspicious of injections, you know, with the whole Fox virus inside him and everything, and it's clear that Snake is hesitant at first, but in the end he accepts it anyway so that he has a means to keep up with it.

Offensive Edge I was just expecting a little more back and forth, all thanks to the help of the Drum Barrel technology. Sorry, Snake Snake meets the Rap Patrol team surprisingly led by Marl who returns with his team of these two guys who never learns much about honestly and uba, shits his pants and they throw that joke on the floor. I hope you are a fan of the fart joke. This guy is actually a running gag in the middle Gear series. He is the person Merill knocked out to escape her prison in Shadow. Moses, you can hear him go to the bathroom and Sons of Liberty with a directional microphone you meet his grandfather and Snake Eater and now here he is next to Merill with a serious case of charming run, so Snake and Merl spent some time remembering that he is not very happy to find out that it was her father who sent the snake, the two are apparently in the Arms since Campbell remarried someone close to Merl's age, dear God, he is a Poon Hound, she has moved on with his life for the most part and recounts the accuracy of the snake liquid.

At the location together, they eliminate a faction of Liquid's high T Army and in due time reach the main camp, but the mission is interrupted when Liquid silently activates an unknown maneuver that causes everyone in the surrounding area to begin convulsing and turning. crazy people with emotions, including the snake and before. He passes out, glimpses Naomi, and is then carried to safety by Akuba, who is strangely unaffected by the stealth weapon; Some time later, the snake awakens on the Nomad, the plane where he, Aon, and Sunny will live. The rental must be a Nightmare Aacon shows a video file he received via email showing Naomi asking Snake for help while she is being held against her will in South America.

Liquids plan is to take control of the entire SOP system and the reason he got Naomi to help him was because the SOP system was somehow modeled after the foxy virus injected into the snake's body during Shadow Moses. . I'm not sure what that means. Just because Naomi did foxy doesn't mean she would necessarily know how the SOP system would work in South America. The snake begins its search for Naomi and during the operation sees Vamp, the type of vampire obsessed with the knife from Sons of Liberty, next to her is 1/4 of the central laughing octopus of BNB.

I guess now is the best time to mention these ladies, they are the group in this game. of villains like the sons of the big boss in mgs1 or the Sons of Liberty in mgs2, but they mean as much as the Cobra unit in mgs3, they have no real personalities, they have no influence on anything, they only exist to convey the not-so-subtle message of the war. Hell, it's the same routine every time you meet them, they have their big gadget, they love to scream at the top of their lungs, the snake destroys their machines, they take off their armor, they get emotionally enraged for a moment and then they become brooding and hostile until that the snake takes them out to go with the other weapons or a good old fashioned tackle, then dreon talks to you through codak to tell you his individual stories that are so absurdly exaggerated and have nothing to do with anything, look, I don't care because It feels like they don't care, they're just villains for villains' sake.

Sorry for the mid-plot synopsis rant, so during the mission, Campbell gives Snake a quick codak call to introduce him to his new wife at Psychoanalyst for this operation, oh. God, he married Rose, what the hell happened to her and Ryden? I had to endure those agonizing conversations on April 30 only to have the knot cut between games. I'm not happy about it, get over it, yes sir, they find Naomi and she explains a little how. soldiers were incapacitated in the middle east essentially the nano machines in their bodies were deactivated for a short time with no one to keep them under control it was like a super retreat, you can't quit smoking with nano machines Naomi is curious why The snake was affected, his Nano machines were from a previous generation that were injected into him during the Shadow Moses incident 9 years ago, so she requests that he examine him again.

Snake simply accepts this without much resistance. This girl injected him with a virus last time. Revenge for the gray fox, so he's not very trustworthy no matter how guilty he feels at the end of mgs1. I guess the snake thinks he's dying anyway, he doesn't have much to lose now, so why the hell not well after the exam? The snake learns. three things: one, his body is aging rapidly because it is part of his biological design as a clone of the big boss; can't be stopped; secondly, the fox D in his system is mutating to the point that in a few months it will start killing people.

Indiscriminately it will become a life-breathing weapon of mass destruction. Finally, a new strain of D-fox has been found inside its body and the snake realizes that the shot it received before from Dreon is the culprit. I should have followed that gut instinct, man, I may not connect. with a

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snake as well as I do with a naked snake, but I'm sure you feel sorry for him, he has constantly fought for what was right, destroyed multiple metal gears and thwarted nuclear threats to save the world, even now that everyone planet thinks he is a war criminal. but it's like he's not allowed to have a happy ending.

Is there really no one else in this world who can do the job for him before he can be told Liquid's exact location? Liquid's army takes Naomi away and Snake is left to deal with more problems, including Laughing Puss Octopus plus Vamp units and pmc's gecko, but dreon inside his battle tank soon comes to give him some help in achieving rescue both Snake and Naomi from the liquids. Armed unfortunately, his escape route is cut off by more geckos, but a random ninja suddenly enters the scene and starts thinning out the opposition and oh god, what did he accidentally put in the Twin Serpents?

It's Ryden decked out in a new cybernetic ninja body very similar to Gry Fox. He takes care of the remaining Gecko and has a long 101 battle with the final Vamp. with a stalemate as he, along with the snake Naomi and Aon escape back to the Nomad to fight another day, Ryden is not exempt from serious injuries after fighting Vamp, but since he is now a cyborg, essentially his artificial blood needs dialysis. . Ryden points Snake and Oton towards Eastern Europe for the medical supplies he needs, but he also wants them to meet the person who sent Ryden to help the snake.

Big Mom is hoping it's a big boss game and no, oh god. Dawning, a sleek new snake costume is capable of following a member of theresistance until the The location of Big Mama's hideout and Big Mama turns out to be an Elder Eve from Snake Eater, okay, at this point a lot of things are thrown at the snake, so I'll summarize as best I can, elder ocelot zero. Big Boss' paramedic Eva and Sig were all The original founders of the Patriots with the intention of maintaining order and stability in the United States in ACC addressed what they believe the boss wanted for the country from him before die.

Major Zero intended to use the big boss as an icon to help keep people under his protection, but friction between the two led to hard times and Zero when Insurance began a source project to have clones of the Ultimate Soldier. at his side. Eva volunteered to be the surrogate mother for both clones, so it's a big happy family reunion for Snake or David. As Evil reminds us of his real name, the cloning project ended up being the final straw for the big boss and he soon split from the group to start his own mercenary company in hopes of one day opposing Zero's Patriots. .

Zero, on the other hand, continued to grow. power and wealth and with the evolution of technology, the Patriots became the World Police; today are the big boss's plans in Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2. They were not only made with the intention of giving the soldiers a purpose in life, but also to directly confront Zero and his Solid Snake Patriots who are coming to stop everything that, although, as we know, it put an end to that and the big boss was left burning, but because Zero still had a deep respect for the big boss given everything they had been through.

He kept the man in a vegetative state and used him as a security key for the new zero AI system he had implemented to control the Patriots since the big boss's betrayal. left zero is not willing to give full control of the Patriots to the next generation of society, the big mom or Eva has somehow managed to recover the body of the big boss and the liquid is behind it because it is the key to gaining control of the SOP system and before I have a chance to say please for the love of God end this exposition the liquid pinpoints the location of the snake and Eva and heads after the remains of the big boss after a high speed chase Eva is mortally wound and the liquid reveals that he no longer needs the remains of the big boss to access the SOP system, he found another way to enter and it was GW, a part of the Patriots AI from Sons of Liberty, after all it was not completely destroyed and Liquid was able to rebuild it to unlock full access to the SOP system, man.

He is now free to do whatever he wants with every soldier in the system, a weapon he calls The Patriot Weapons and he spends the first 5 minutes of his new power acting like a total idiot, bang bang bang, you see Patriot Weapons. . It's a visual pun, a play on words, if you will, throughout the entire invisible weapons program. Naomi is shown to have escaped The Nomad to be surprisingly reunited with the liquid. She is the reason the liquid located the serpent and Eve in Eastern Europe. Man, I'm not sure what his agenda is. but he sure is distracting and confusing now that Liquid has full control over the army.

His next goal is to completely take control of the other AIS that represent the Patriots. Just having the military part is not enough. He needs everything else they manipulate to escape the liquid ocelot. the area as he burns the remains of the big boss leaving Eva to cry before she finally passes by. It's a dark day. The liquid has control of the SOP system. The world is now in a state of turmoil thanks to the sudden cessation of the war economy and both Snake and Ryden are not in the best shape after the latest beating and persistence is, however, his middle name.

Thanks to a reconnaissance from Aon, they discovered that Liquid intends to use a nuclear weapon to attack the Patriots directly and gain control of the other AI, but to do so. that he needs weapons of mass destruction that are not tagged in the system, since apparently the military and weapons of mass destruction are under different categories of control for the Patriots. For some reason, there is only one place left in the world that has nuclear weapons without labels. with the means to use them and that is Shadow Moses liquid who plans to use Metal Gear Rex's railgun to launch the weapon without interference, so on a Nostalgia fi trip to the past, wow, the whole chapter is like this, This is an extreme flashback, oh that was just a dream, oh but I have this new costume.

Now give me a moment, bam, old snake, so in a nostalgic trip to the past, the snake returns to follow Moses, back to the underground base where he destroyed Rex in mgs1 in I hope I get Rex's rail gun before let the liquid come out. This was a great moment for me. Look at this, this is how I remember it. The tank hanger. The former Aon office. Now everything is HD and wet. Only a moment. I just want to savor this. It's so cold when Snake arrives at the underground base that he discovers that the liquid has already taken out Rex Vamp's railgun and Naomi is there to greet Snake, instead Snake is able to temporarily stop Vamp's recovery abilities.

Just then Ryden enters the scene to help the snake and takes Vamp head on, delivers the fatal blow to Vamp and the man finally dies. Naomi, tormented by her past mistakes, decides to end her life by injecting herself with the same suppressant used on Vamp, since the nanom machines in her body were the only thing. keeping her alive from the cancer that was devouring her body. I've been skimming Naomi's significance in this plot once she is rescued at the end of chapter 2, the third chapter is used to set up some character moments between her and sunny and how she develops feelings for a while, it's obvious she has some kind agenda to make a bigger profit, but even at this point we're not sure what that is and yet we're supposed to treat his death as a big deal, um. no, sorry, not sorry, it just sounds like an excuse to make Aon cry again because we didn't have enough of that yet with Sniper Wolf in mgs1 and Emma's death in mgs2, give the guy a break.

Naomi already left Snake and Ryden to deal with the gecko suicide bomb on site, but Aon also manages to hack into Rex's main frame, oh yeah, Oton is able to reactivate Metal Gear Rex for Snake and Ryden to use to get out of the base. , this doesn't make sense, but it's amazing. Now I see why Li has such a big Ham on this thing, but she gets even better when Snake and Ryden escape the facility on board. Liquid Rex comes out of the ocean aboard Metal Gear Ray and the two have a metal gear battle, that's how far we've come people, and it's so dazzling, look at this, I suddenly forget about all the exposition I spent in the final chapter, but the good times aren't meant to last forever.

Rex is capable. to destroy Ray, but both machines end up collapsing on top of each other, the liquid runs towards him with a snake on its tail, but from the ocean emerges a gigantic battleship with a what the hell, sorry, let me try again, a battleship emerges Aruanian. the ocean with liquid coming aboard has Rex's railgun attached along with a large number of Ray units on the side. This is like a super version of the Arsenal team from Sons of Liberty, but the liquid calls it Outer Shelter, not the Sky Shelter, and the liquid tries to ram.

Snake goes all out, but Ryden intervenes and uses his body to stop the entire damn ship long enough for a naval battleship to arrive, forcing the liquid to escape for the moment. The first four chapters of this game seem to end anyway. The liquid does something. and then it leaks the liquid does something then it leaks the liquid does something then it leaks and the liquid does something then it leaks can we start to get some resolution here? The captain of the naval battleship is M Ling and together with Snake Oon and Merl's Patrol team they plan a final attack to stop the liquid outside Haven, so while the patrol team on Battleship attacks, The snake-headed ship sneaks inside the huge ship to eliminate the GW system using a virus built by Naomi and Sunny based on the work.

Outside of the context that Emma created in Sons of Liberty, it's called Fox Alive and I'd scoff and say it sounds like something a seven-year-old came up with, but then I remember well, wait, it was made by a 7-year-old. . in an escalating climax, the snake along with Ryden, who by the way survived it all, oh Jesus, forget it, the snake makes his way through the outside Haven Troopers GetGo units, these annoying little beetle things and an emitter of giant microwave to reach the outer Haven core, the virus is loaded. but instead of simply destroying GW, the entire Patriots AI infrastructure is completely wiped out, the Patriots and the SOP system are no longer left in the world while a blank slate snake faints and wakes up at the top From outer Haven, where the liquid waits and according to him everything has gone according to his plan, the world is finally free of the grbs of the Patriots, now it is an uncontrolled world just as he really wanted it and just as the great one wanted it. boss, but it's not over yet between these two, so they have one last hand and battle and despite his wound, the snake emerges victorious and the liquid succumbs to his wounds, congratulating the snake before passing, the war ends and everyone's destinies are left to what they consider Merl ends up marrying Akuba and reconciling with Campbell.

OT can move on Sunny begins to live life outside the computer. Drebit exposes that he was an agent of the Patriots all along, but is actually happy that they were destroyed so he could live a normal life. Rose reunites with Ryden when everything is married. with Campbell is revealed to be a ploy to keep them off the Patriots' radar and protect their son, yeah that's right, I remember Rose mentioning she was pregnant in Sons of Liberty, well it looks like they're finally happy together, The Kid. He looks like a young Virgil, everyone else sees him well, but it's not a very happy ending for Snake, the man is seen alone visiting the cemetery with his mission finished and knowing that the Fox virus inside him will slowly kill everyone who touches him. surround you as long as you live. the snake contemplates suicide but does not follow through from a distance the voice tells him that it is not yet time for him to leave and the voice belongs to none other than the big boss but he is no longer here to fight anymore oh snake hug how is he I live Big Boss?

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snake, poor thing, but it was a perfect clone, so it was a good cover-up. The real deal remained on hold thanks. to the nanometer machines injected into him by the Patriots' artificial intelligence system in order for Big Boss to reawaken the Patriots would have to be destroyed, so the ocelot Eva and Naomi hatched a spectacularly complicated plot to rescue him. Yes, the ocelot was never under the control of the liquid, that's nonsense. he just made everyone think he was using hypnotic suggestion and nanomachines to confuse the Patriots long enough to find a way to destroy them and thanks to Snake and his crew everything worked out in the end, but since this is the ending we need .

A little more closure on some plot points, so the big boss spent some time explaining how the Patriots became so powerful. Zero's intentions were simply to defend the boss's will or rather what he thought was the boss's will, but at some point the Patriots' AI began to see. things differently eventually created the warped future where the economic structure depended heavily on war. I don't think that was what the boss wanted, but the big boss without his sky and all that didn't really know what she wanted, they were both wrong in how she dedicated herself to defending the boss's will, only now did she realize this Like an old misunderstanding, we have all this to blame on two people who misunderstood what one person wanted for the world.

Jesus Christ, the big boss was able to track down what remained at zero. At a century old and probably unaware of his surroundings, Big Boss still feels that the world is truly free, both he and Zero must cease to exist, he deactivates Zero's life support and sends him through exxi and soon the big boss starts stumbling. The new strain of Fox D that was injected into the snake earlier in the game is starting to kill the big boss as designed, but it's not all bad through information learned from Naomi at some point before this big boss. will inform the snake that the new strain is overriding the old mutated strain. de Fox dies so the snake doesn't have to worry about becoming a walking bioweapon a few months from now before he dies.

Big Boss wants the snake to use his remaining time not as a soldier or a snake, but as a man, the old soldier. rests next to the chief's tombstone and diesafter one last puff of his cigar, thus sending out the Patriots' Metal Gear Solid 4 weapons and boy, oh boy, that's an ending, isn't it? I know we're not done yet, but I've come a long way to get to this point, the Patriots are destroyed, the world is freed from their clutches, and the main protagonist looks like he's going to be okay. It really sheds a different light on the previous games.

Ocelot played everyone like violins. The whole series solid just so that he can one day resurrect one of his most respected colleagues, that's some true love right there. I don't know, that goes beyond being just war buddies. I'd call ocelot a good guy from the start if that was the case. Not because of how he handled this grand plan playing two roles, double, triple, quadruple, crossing everyone he's been associated with, not to mention the countless lives he's taken, all of this to defeat the Patriots, but there certainly had to be a easier way, I mean ocela and Snake somehow share the same goal of eliminating the Patriots, but Oela felt it was necessary to manipulate Snake and his friends to achieve the goal, including hatching plans that could have killed Snake repeatedly.

It's the same problem I had with Liquid's plan in mgs1 if something happened to the snake if one thing didn't go as planned everything is shot ocelot I cut it too close I guess that means he's so good at being a magnificent bastard but I'm wondering if there has to be an easier way to do this right. I'm glad to see Ryden finally getting some resolution after the Mind he went through in Sons of Liberty. He doesn't get as much attention here as before. This is mainly Solid Snake's program. His arc mainly involves meeting Rose afterwards.

The two had a fight, it's a small one and I think it's because despite getting a badass ninja upgrade, people still distrusted Ryden, it took emotional torture and turning his body into a cybernetic ninja to make people think differently about him and from my. like Ninja Ryden, but that's a little sad, isn't it? At the end of the game, he is already patched up with a new body. I won't start asking how that works but I think I'm at a point where I can just say nanom machines because in this game that's how everything works it's nano machines that give the SOP system control over the army it's nanom machines how Vamp is apparently immoral they are nanom machines with how ocelot tricks everyone with his liquid Persona even the same system that uses nanom machines to his advantage remember how I classified nanom machines as magic in my mgs1 review this game is mainly the reason why It feels like they did everything, it's a bit cheap and an easy fix to justify all the retcons, but then again, the Metal Gear Solid series only has some roots in reality. walking battle tanks that launch nuclear weapons cyborg ninjas people with psychic powers Metal Gear is science fiction at the end of the day and I just need to remind REM of that every time I see something strange and unusual, I don't mean to make that sound As an excuse, this still Is not perfect.

Remember how I mentioned earlier in the plot that Akubo wasn't affected by the massive seizure everyone was having in the Middle East when his Nano machines suddenly shut down? Well, that's because it's revealed later. that he doesn't have nano machines inside him, okay, that makes sense, but according to Merl, nano machine injections are mandatory even to be part of the military, but the only excuse Uba gives us is that he just evaded all appointments and However, this guy is somehow still in the military, that doesn't add up, regardless of whether he plays for lives, he seems like a lazy writer around Merl's character.

Arc isn't very big compared to the snake, he's big enough to be touching when he ends up marrying Uba making up with Campbell it's just that little plot line bothers me. I would have liked to see Sunny get more development, maybe an in-game explanation of why she is so good with computers, maybe some more interaction with Aacon. These two share one major similarity: they are socially awkward geniuses. but most of Sunny's experience as a WS computer is mostly told, not shown. Sunny helped write this code to shut down the system. Sunny helped me develop the Mark II, that's great.

Can I see some of that please? I don't think it's too much to ask for in general. The thing about Sunny learning to cook eggs only really acts as a visual metaphor for the overall story that they start with because the world is in the deep and in the end everything is facing up, so the eggs are sunny side up, Oh, sunny side up, oh, come on. that wasn't just a pun, the eggs have more to do with what the snake goes through rather than developing? Sunny is learning to cook eggs, really character development. I do not think it is.

I would also have liked to see exactly how. Ryden saved Sunny from the clutches of the Patriots, that feels like something that should have been shown at the end of Sons of Liberty. It's evil. Ryden has to do it for helping him rescue Sunny and that could have led to an interesting tie in Snake Eater, Not That Snake. Eater needed it, but Kima has such a big heart for continuity. I'm surprised it wasn't thought of at the time. I think this is a satisfactory conclusion. It honestly feels like a rehash of the mgs1 ending on a much larger scale.

The message. of not being chained by Fate the Resurgence of Fox the snake is told to spend the rest of his life living happily that's it mgs1 again only this time there is no jumping ocelot behind a cliffhanger and all the postmodernism with existentialism Free Will censorship All that is gone. I think people were still recoiling from Sons of Liberty. This is conclusive. That's been done a bit already, but it's good enough. I don't think it was a waste of time, but we are talking about what I think is the biggest. The concern with Metal Gear Solid is that that's it, continuity, don't even think about jumping into the series with the Patriots' weapons unless you like it, like it, like reading a bunch of supplementary material through the Metal Gear database, for the sake of awareness, this game is. so wrapped up in the continuity of the series that it's impossible to follow for a new player, oh my god.

I remember my dad bought Metal Gear Solid 4 in late 2009 because he was between the Call of Duty and Uncharted games and was looking for something to play. and the poor guy fell asleep during one of the many cutscenes, bless that man, but that says a lot and you might say, well John, I'm sure the game more than makes up for it, but that's about it , there's very little of that here again. I covered about 70% of the game just covering the story, there are so many scenes I can't even find a rhythm here. I do something with a snake for a few minutes or, in the initial case, I crawl under a truck and then go back to When watching another scene, even within the game, there are many moments that will not have the same impact for a newbie compared to a Metal Gear veteran.

All the little calls come back throughout chapter 4 when you revisit Shadow Moses when you take control of metal gear Rex fighting Metal Gear Ray, that means everything to anyone who has played and loved the previous games, you lose all that and more if mgs4 it's your first game,

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of the Patriots is a metal gear game for metal gear fans, so if you're just tuning in, i'll say it again, this game here is for metal gear fans, if you don't care about the story or none of that, so you're looking at about 5 hours of actual gameplay and now that we're on topic so far I think this is the best in the series, of course, I say that without spending much time on Metal Gear Solid 5 at the moment of this review, but Guns of the Patriots is like the best of Snake Eater and Sons. of Liberty wrapped in a nice cardboard package there's no survival scope you don't have to worry about healing wounds you just have things like rations and noodles to maintain your health like it's a mgs1 resistance is still a thing of some kind, but but now it is called a psychological meter and it is supposed to reflect the current mental condition of the snake and when it drops too much its performance starts to suffer, it is easy to maintain and recover, so don't stress if you see a decrease, now you can walk squat Even if you have the perfect compromise of crawling, walking, and aiming weapons, it can now be done in third person, giving you better aiming spots and comfort.

The snake suit comes equipped with new octo camo technology, much like how an octopus can blend into its surroundings when needed. The suit will automatically mimic any surface it presses against, whether it's the floor or the wall. The camouflage changes in real time so you don't have to periodically pause the game to change equipment all the time. The Octo camouflage also extends to your head later. but this goes beyond standard face paint, you can change your entire head to look like something else, like Campbell Ryden or even Solid Snake in his prime and you're absolutely right, I switched to that as soon as I could, the old snake depresses me, but Still, even for a man of snake age, he manages to maintain impressive form and you know what I'm talking about, if Crash Bandicoot was ever called Sonic's ass game , this is the snake ass game, you better learn to accept it because it's watching.

You all the way through, honey, I hope you like that solid Ro Ro man ass, it even glows when you put it in the microwave, he knows you're looking and yeah, stupid sexy snake, the Octo camo suit makes it easier to integrate into the current environment. so keep that camouflage rate high because this game includes both human and mechanical threats that will take you down very quickly if you obviously stand out. Now you have this solid eye system for mapping enemies on radar. It's not a salatan radar, but it's better. In addition to the sonar you had in Snake Eater, the Mark 2 and Mark II robots that Aon makes can be a big help when doing a little reconnaissance work.

They can explore the area ahead, grab some items, and knock out enemies with electric shocks. at the cost of having shitty battery life, but Guns of the Patriots also allows you to break the golden rule of stealth this time, if you want, you can use all weapons as Kimbo and go through everything in your path. All this is possible thanks to the new dreon. system, serves as more than just a double of Simon Phoenix. Run a weapons shop that you can access at any time by pausing the game. Any weapons you pick up, whether acquired on site or collected from an unconscious dead SL soldier, can be converted into Drebing Points, consider them cash and with that money you can unlock additional weapons or buy ammo for weapons you already have. .

It's very easy to rack up ding points, it's not really an unlimited source of ammo, but it's close enough with all the ammo in the world. nothing stops you from unleashing your rage, keep in mind that that will attract strong opposition because you're giving away your location all the time, but it's still perfectly manageable as long as you can aim, that's how I handle boss fights, because taking down these girls . with non lethal means it takes too long without the proper weapons just give me this railgun right here and I'll call it a night, maybe it's because I just played every other Metal Gear before this one.

I still find something infinitely more satisfying in sneaking away. around everyone and the game offers you greater rewards for non-lethal solutions. Metal Gear is about avoiding the opposition rather than facing it. He said I don't mind the slightly stronger emphasis on the action because I don't need to change the form. Personally, I approach scenarios where if I can still sneak up on someone to give them CQC or put them to sleep with a tranquilizer on their head, I'll continue to do that, that's how I play Metal Gear and now I can do it with an iPod. no, I mean, like an actual in-game iPod, this game, for some reason, has product placement by Apple.

I can sneak in with the original teror theme playing in the background and that's worse for me now because I actually played the original Metal Gear. it's the only way I can really tolerate chapter 3 where you're slowly following someone around for most of the chapter, cardboard box or not, these boring Patriots weapons are so far the best in the Metal Gear game . I don't think there is any. problem with the weapon system, the Octo camo feature that everything from Sons of Liberty and be love has because it's just the ginormous thing that ties it all together is an element that I think only Metal fans can enjoy let alone understand Gear, I mean you.

You can skip all the cutscenes, all the mission instructions, but isn't that kind of a look at the total package? This is on a dual-layer Blu-ray disc, for God's sake, and it's not because of the game, it'sbecause the end result is Metal Gear. Solid 4 guns of the Patriots is a movie you can play with. It's complicated. I don't think it's right to say that you're going to play the other games before playing this one, but for maximum enjoyment I think it's necessary. Can I recommend Guns of the Patriots? a new player as a standalone game and as a game, yes it doesn't really matter if you understand the story or the context of your environment or not, the stealth that the action offers, no matter what, but Guns of the Patriots is more than a game , since it will be.

I remind you repeatedly on that note, I think mgs4 fails and is accessible to everyone because it clearly wasn't designed to be someone's first Metal Gear at the end of the day, whether or not you start the series with this game ultimately depends on you, oh Sweet Jesus, I did it. I crossed the apex of Metal Gear complexity. The Metal Gear Solid series is finally over. So why are there still a handful of games left that I can take a look at here? Well, it looks like we have a game involved. Ryden and the big boss apparently aren't done sharing a story.

Look, we already know how things are going to turn out thanks to Guns of the Patriots, so I want to see how things happen after Guns of the Patriots in Metal Gear Marathon I. I'm watching the revenges of Metal Gear Rising, oh, Platinum Games oh I could be in luck with all that said guys thanks everyone for watching have a fantastic night and take care oh.