#bidonica plays the metal gears

[bidonica]

When you want to keep hanging out with your crush so bad you found an NGO for denuclearization with him 🫶

[bidonica]

I feel so protective of Raiden metalgear… he tries so hard… laughed out loud when he kept slipping on bird poop and then again when Snake asks him what kind of combat experience he had before… did you see him Snake. He should be at the club

[bidonica]

started mgs4 and this whole part was half me being sad for snavid half me giggling and twirling my hair because that "let's try another doctor" is so concerned wife coded

[bidonica]

Finished metal gear solid and got the death stranding artbook in the mail within the same hour

[bidonica]

I (33M) am being chased by my estranged brother (33M) with a cutting edge nuclear mecha for allegedly having hoarded all of our father’s good genes, AITA?

[bidonica]

I fancy myself a tragedy enjoyer but Guns of the Patriots is breaking me

[bidonica]

I didn’t understand what Sunny was doing on the Nomad during the Outer Haven part of mgs4 since she never moved from here and when I got close to the tv I realized she’s praying in front of her mother’s picture?????? For Snake?????😭😭😭

[bidonica]

I want that twunk OBLITERATED

[bidonica]

Btw funniest thing to happen in Snake Eater after "I need you EVA............ Because I can't fly the WIG" was finding out, amidst the very poignant and emotional events of the finale, that "Big Boss" isn't a nickname they gave Snake on the field but an actual official title bestowed by the US President. I fell off my chair

[bidonica]

I had to get to the fourth metal gear to get a character I can actually identify with: the guy who's always at risk of shitting himself

[bidonica]

I am enjoying playing the metal gears on their own merit but also Death Stranding is always on my mind and I have a couple of side notes (that will be updated as I go forward as I'm just at the beginning of Snake Eater):

At the end of MGS2, Snake's voiceover basically enunciates the themes of Death Stranding:

Life isn't just about passing on your genes. We can leave behind much more than just DNA. Through speech, music, literature and movies... what we've seen, heard, felt... anger, joy and sorrow... these are the things I will pass on. That's what I live for. We need to pass the torch, and let our children read our messy and sad history by its light. We have all the magic of the digital age to do that with. The human race will probably come to an end some time, and new species may rule over this planet. Earth may not be forever, but we still have the responsibility to leave what traces of life we can. Building the future and keeping the past alive are one and the same thing.

MGS3's gimmick for the save screen is to have your liaison Para Medic talk to you about famous and lesser known genre movies from the first half of the 20th century. Let me tell you I jumped on the chair when she brought up a 1959 movie featuring Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner called On The Beach:

In 1964, World War III has devastated the Northern Hemisphere, killing all humans there. Air currents are slowly carrying the fallout to the Southern Hemisphere, where Melbourne, Australia will be the last major city on Earth to perish. The American nuclear submarine USS Sawfish, commanded by Capt. Dwight Towers, arrives in Melbourne and is placed under Royal Australian Navy command. Peter Holmes, a young Australian Naval officer with a wife and infant child, is assigned to be Towers' liaison. Holmes invites Towers to his home for a party, where Towers meets Julian Osborn, a depressive nuclear scientist who helped build the bombs, and Moira Davidson, a lonely alcoholic with whom Towers develops a tentative attraction. Although Davidson falls in love with Towers, he finds himself unable to return her feelings, because he can't bring himself to admit his wife and children in the US are dead. (full summary on wikipedia)

The plot is... overall pretty bleak, which might align with what Kojima said about having rewritten a lot of part 2 as he reconsidered what it meant to "connect" after the pandemic. There are also interesting connections to the presence of the George Miller character in DS2, what with the overall importance of Australia and the presence of a lethal car race. Another things that's Classic Kojima is a mid-story twist about the initial mission being actually for nothing (one LOSTheads are probably familiar with), but we've already been told by the DS2 trailer in pretty clear terms that Sam has been deceived, possibly more than once.

Idk, these might be all pretty obvious parallels and callbacks but I'm also under the impression that few people played the metal gears with Death Stranding in mind rather than the opposite so maybe it's worth jotting down.

[bidonica]

This is literally Otacon and Snake talking about Sniper Wolf

[bidonica]

Otacon introduction in Metal Gear Solid:

- pisses his pants

- hides in a closet

- makes puzzling anime references to Snake, a person who arguably Goes Outside

- has an Oppenheimer moment

- goons for Meryl but probably also for Snake

- fucks off in an invisibility suit Snake could have used more

[bidonica]

Do we want to talk about how the President in MGS2 initially assumes Raiden is a woman and the first thing he does is try to grab him by the crotch

[bidonica]

Woke up this morning experiencing tetris effect but it was the floating supply boxes from metal gear