the thing i’ll say though is that i once explained my displeasure to a superfan and they told me “real mgs3 is only on hard mode and above, when you can’t lean on the silencers,” so i tried playing it that way – again – and thought, this is just as tedious and boring
The new wilmots is very good. Scratches two puzzle itches in one go, I love balancing multiple puzzles in my head to the chill lofi beats soundtrack. I like that (at least as far as I got) they don’t inundate you with too many pieces at a time, so it stays at a calm pace. Wish they kept the co-op in so I could zoom into my dude’s little block and push him around, but still works well enough having one person control lil dubs.
Also thank the big G, I’m three stakes away from beating all the stakes in balatro so I can uninstall it. Feels very much like I’m playing one of those slots games that they advertise on Tubi in between supermarket sweeps episodes
having completed a No Kills European Extreme playthru of mgs3 i find this inexplicable bc i think relying on silencers is the main strategy of the game and much of the series
the idea being that you can’t rely on them as much because there are fewer of them around and they degrade faster. regardless of this they remain legitimately game-breaking in 3. my orientation toward 3 is summed up by the fact that when I watched @Kilroy play MGS2 for the 20th anniversary it blew my mind to see somebody going around tranqing every single guard because it simply never occurred to me to play the game that way: “aren’t you robbing yourself of the fun of it?” and then with 3 that’s the only way I can stand to get through it.
you’ll be surprised how much the possibility space opens up and how fun this can be when you do. not in 3 though, it will still be mediated by tiresome menu navigation there
Having bounced off Metal Gear Solid 3 and only making it like a third of the way into Metal Gear Solid 4, I’m looking forward to similarly aborted attempts to play Metal Gear Solid 5 and Death Stranding
At this point I think I can only hateplay Kojima stuff
I liked MGS1 for surprising me over and over again, MGS2 was slick and well put together. But when I got to MGS3 I found it a slog to get through and make progress. I went through some water and after a few screens noticed my health was gone and I couldn’t figure out why - i had to go through the menus to find the injury screen which told me I had a bunch of leeches from the water - and by then I had already used all my health items so the only way to get them back was to backtrack back to the water and get some fish. Well I quit because I had already sunk a bunch of time into the playthrough and didn’t wanna do it again. So much for the memes
