doublepepperoni [none/use name]

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  • Considering how bleak Ground Zeroes was I was expecting some stomach-churning shit out of Phantom Pain, but nope, that didn’t happen. I was really looking forward to seeing Big Boss getting tangled in some actual 80s conflicts in a fun and interesting way after how 3 and especially PW weaved in real history but nope, the entire game is about tracking down Cypher who are a completely boring and generic all-powerful organisation in the Hydra mould. I mean yes, there is the Soviet invasion of Afganistan going on but it feels like a complete background event. There are no Soviet characters and no Afghan characters and neither faction factors into the plot at all. After characters like Amanda and Chico in PW I was expecting some interesting side characters but no, all you get is fucking Code Talker. Whatever’s going on in the Africa portions and the generic mercs that patrol the map like giant spiders in an MMORPG is even less well defined

    Also, I was fuming when I realised Kojima had brought back all the infuriatingly stupid nanomachine handweave magic bullshit from 4 and just find-replaced “nanomachine” with “parasite” while also somehow making it even dumber. My pet theory is that PW wasn’t even actually written by Kojima or he delegated most of it to an intern while he was busy dreamily staring at pictures of Kiefer Sutherland and Norman Reedus