The Reality of Metal Gear Solid 2 - Coming November 29

PlayStation 2, ten years ago.

A highly anticipated sequel to a blockbuster hit was released. The critical response stank, but did they really understand the reality behind what they were criticizing?

The Snake Soup presents The Reality of Metal Gear Solid 2, a video which explains how Sons of Liberty's deconstructive narrative explores the reality of the game itself and how misjudged it was as a result. Coming November
29, 2011, ten years after the release of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty in
Japan.

http://realityofmgs2.thesnakesoup.org

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[edanny311]

Who does Ravi Singh think he is? Hideo Kojima?

[thesnakesoup]

@edanny311 Did you rike it?

[faisalific]

"The critical response stank, but did they really understand the reality behind what they were criticizing?"

Sorry, but a metacritic score of 96 tells me that this game far from stank. The gameplay was ground-breaking for it's time, but everyone that had a problem with the story was correct - It was a muddled pile of horse shit. It's not that I didn't understand it, I played through it multiple times to make sense of it, but the story was weak as hell after the sublime original.

[thesnakesoup]

@faisalific It's not necessarily the story people misunderstood. I'll explain on the 29th.

[linktube]

I'm no critic...never was...never will be...I'm just an old gamer...

[MetaGearVideo]

Looks like it will be preeeeeeetty sweet.

[louthegiantcookie]

Thanks Kojima. You bring back Liquid over and over but forget about Solidus - the only Snake with any guts, determination or sense of purpose.

After MGS2 it was a massive downward spiral for the series. Especially when h began trying to convince us that Big Boss was the good guy. It's all bullshit now, he got lost in his own 'give the world a hug' idiocy.

Sons of Liberty was the only game with a real, brilliant message.

[GreyFox10S]

Looking forward to it!

[EllisWolf]

This is something I lost hope of ever seeing again; somebody who sums up "how the game was misjudged", and what we/they missed, all in one video.

Cant' wait for this, thank you :).