Metal Gear Survive(s)

by | Aug 22, 2016 | News

Metal Gear Survive has the best concept it possibly could, given the situation. Metal Gear, the Konami video game franchise, was created and showrun by Hideo Kojima until the latter left the former under a cloud. It featured five main games and several supplemental ones, all of which served a narrative that effectively became a family saga: The story of a man and his mentor, and how the sons he didn’t know he had changed the world. It’s a war story, or a story about soldiers, or a political epic, or etc. It’s rather good, and it has intense investment from a wide swathe of fans and players. Metal Gear Survive is the first Metal Gear game to be announced since Kojima’s departure–oh no! How can Metal Gear survive (he he) without the King’s hand to guide it? (more…)

Stay Quiet: The Staged Body of Phantom Pain’s Sniper

Stay Quiet: The Staged Body of Phantom Pain’s Sniper

by | Sep 3, 2015 | Features, Opinion

Spoilers, alright?

Quiet is the single woman combatant in the list of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain‘s primary characters. Men outnumber women nine to one in this list, at time of writing, if personality-imprinted AIs count as people (nine to three if not). Other than Paz, the tiny blonde latina beauty who was manipulated into evil and genitally bombed for her troubles, Quiet is the single woman involved in the heavy advertising campaigns for the game. Quiet has normative beauty and sex appeal and she wears a bikini, one opera-length glove, severely ripped tights, boots, and a pouch harness. For soldiering. Naturally this appeared to be sexism. But was it? Yes. Here’s a video that you don’t have to watch. (more…)