played a bit of metal gear ground zeroes

i never played any metal gears besides phantom pain which i didn’t like very much mostly. ground zeroes seems like what i wanted from phantom pain: linear-nonlinear missions with a surprising amount of freedom of movement, in the dark, in the rain, pleasing systems in surprising places, cool smart takes on commonplace interactions. a modern “project igi”. nice. i also enjoy pointing my binocs at something and asking a guy to tell me what it is. that rules and i want to steal it.

unfortunately ground zeroes is a single short mission and then one of the most appalling cutscenes i ever saw, i never know how anyone doesn’t conclude that kojima’s a fuckin creep and also a dogshit writer

still, i can kinda see an appeal of this guy’s bullshit. you want to see what he does next. it probably won’t be good, but it’ll be somethin’. most games of that budget aren’t anything