The goalposts are on wheels at this point:
I didn't even understand MGS2's message and themes till decades later and after replaying it many times. I don't get Star Ocean 3's message about god and his creation even after reading numerous deep analysis on it. I dont get Nier and its sequels and prequels even after mountains of mountains of praise and analysis of Automata's supposed message about humanist fables and stuff like faith and sense of purpose.
But what if the piss covers a snow pile?
I could see that being a possibility. I've never heard anyone mention it but to me one of the movies he obviously pulled things from was the 1982 movie Firefox. Clint Eastwood was 50 in that movie, former military special ops glowie or whatever it was, he is retired and lives a secluded life up in Alaska until.. he has to infiltrate a soviet facility that houses a spectacular new weapon, the Firefox.
The grip gauge compliments the Plant really well. There's a bit more verticality than in Shadow Moses or Groznyj Grad. (That's one area where Splinter Cell had an advantage: more scalable walls.)
Solidus and Venom are the only guys who I feel are 100% right in their actions. Everyone else is either too busy sucking the Boss' girl dick or trying to see who gets to tongue Big Bosses anus the hardest to actually look at what is happening around them and plan appropriately
The Boss is this towering, charismatic figure, despite having the worst VA in the world.
and the absolutely dumbest fucking plan to steal a Russian trust fund kid's inheritance
What even was the point of the Legacy, anyway? I figured it would be used to build the Patriots' A.I. but it just kinda vanished.
It was a major plot point in Portable Ops. IIRC, in the end, Ocelot gets a hold of it along with the identities of the Philosophers and then makes an alliance with Zero, so you could speculate that it was used to fund all the shit Cipher would pull in the following years.
It was a maguffin that somehow represents more money than the US Congress can vote itself in to debt with. I guess Zero used it to buy DARPA a new pony
They ignored that in MGS2 because he was barely in MGS2. He's in only the tanker portion.
Well every beyond was also supposed to be the last until V when he was excited with possibilities and cut short. There's an interesting story about how going from 1 to 2 began a mindset of how he progressed with each further game in that yeah he wanted to move on but at the same time he stopped servicing the baseline zero depth story and started serving the myriad of subtexts.
its a joke, he struggles at either and the writer he worked with had all the talent. He did however have a strong input that ended up being in service to something interesting, which is all the tiny details like being able to electrocute soldiers with downed electrical lines in V.