Metal Gear Solid - Alternate Psycho Mantis Boss Fight Method

If you fail against Psycho Mantis after calling Campbell enough times to hear him tell you about switching the controller port, calling him again will initiate this conversation and alternate solution. This was probably added just in case someone had a legitimate problem with their controller port (someone damaged it, some internal electrical problem, someone stupid pushed a Milk Dud into the port, etc.) so they wouldn't be stuck permanently.

As far as I can tell, there is no way to get this to work in the Gamecube remake The Twin Snakes. Maybe they assumed that if you had three broken controller sockets, you would not keep the Gamecube much longer.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Metal
• Gear
• Solid
• MGS
• Psycho
• Mantis
• controller
• port
• codec

[stoopidusernamething]

cernal didnt tell me.. i killed him

[KingKool2099]

@stoopidusernamething Is this an oblique reference to Metal Gear Awesome?

[arnis666]

You can beat Mantis even if he reads your mind, Only thing you must do is don't you use your weapons and knock him out and dodge everything

[KingKool2099]

@arnis666 No, I know. I've done it with the thermal goggles and (I think) the infinite ammo bandana. It was pretty hard at the time, and I used up all my rations, but I did it.

[simplyxwilliam]

can you do this type of trick in the twin snakes?

[KingKool2099]

@simplyxwilliam I've never been able to, but I didn't try that hard.

[RAIDENvsLiquidsnake]

i have always liked the metal gear and metal gear solid games but ive always wondered what the heck bosses and solidiers are doing while snake is talking on the codec

[filipeflower]

fqqr ,the "Snake" from M.G.S 3 is actually Big Boss, not Solid Snake.

[Yoshifire98]

Colonel: "I've got it! Use the Controller port!! Plug your Controller into Controller prot 2. If you do that he won't be able to read your mind!"

Snake: "...."

[Mastermind8908]

Ill be damn; never knew that method. Cool.

[VegeXP]

wow i never knew about this and i have played this game over 15 times for sure

[DemomanX614]

@RAIDENvsLiquidsnake

Having a smoke?

[hypernova1024]

@KingKool2099 I think this is part of the whole "breaking down the 4th wall" tradition that the MGS series is known for... they did something along these lines in each game...

[hypernova1024]

@garbanzotheterrible haha. Not surprising, Xenogears is supposedly one of the PSone's finest titles, with MGS being considered THE finest title (though some critics instead point to Gran Turismo 2, I'd have to say MGS was probably the best). Xenogears is now $10 to download on PS store (which JUST WENT BACK ONLINE! :) ), so I'll probably get that one.

[garbanzotheterrible]

@hypernova1024

yeah. i worked at a place that bought/sold games/systems, so i could get anything pretty cheap. the games i remember playing most were mgs, silent hill, quake 2, castlevania sotn, thps, mk trilogy, and etc. i'm bad with the chronology of it, though. haha.

i had xenogears... and never got to play it. i lent it to a friend and don't think i ever got it back. that bastard. haha.

[hypernova1024]

@garbanzotheterrible Nice haha. Glad someone actually still remembers the original MGS... wait, 13 years ago? That's when it first came out... I never bothered with the PSone, there wasn't much other than crash, spyro, and tomb raider. Though gran turismo, wipeout, MGS, and Xenogears (which I still need to download) were probably the games that did it for most users.