… Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realized Solid Snake Wasn’t Real. Time to get into the real meat of these opinion pieces, the intricate system of themes, motifs, metaphors, false flags, symbolism, post-modernism, and possibilities of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty was written and [...]
Metal Gear Solid (Pt. 3) | Metal Gear Mondays
posted by Alessio Summerfield
With this week’s Metal Gear Monday I’ll be concluding our look into arguably the greatest Playstation game ever released, Metal Gear Solid. Part 3: Story Metal Gear Solid took the plotting formula that Hideo Kojima had utilized in his previous two Metal Gear games, particularly Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, and brought it into the [...]
Metal Gear Solid (Pt. 2) | Metal Gear Mondays
posted by Alessio Summerfield
! Hello everyone. Last week we got a bit side-tracked from our regularly scheduled article due to the cryptic unveiling of a potentially Metal Gear related trailer for unknown title: The Phantom Pain, which was shown at this year’s Video Game Awards on Spike TV. But, having taken our small detour, we’re now back on track to look at [...]
The Phantom Pain | Metal Gear Mondays
posted by Alessio Summerfield
As much as I would love to keep talking about Metal Gear Solid, I feel the need to turn your attention to something more current this week. We’ll be back to regularly scheduled MGM next week. At this year’s Spike TV Video Game Awards 10, a trailer for a new game called The Phantom Pain (by an unknown [...]
Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake (Pt. 2) | Metal Gear Mon...
posted by Alessio Summerfield
This week we’ll be concluding our look into Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake for the MSX2 through a nice narrative refresher followed by light speculation on the series as a whole on toasted rye. Please check your jacket before being seated and be sure to tip your waiter. STORY Not unlike our current global energy [...]