Consider Twin Snakes the Anime to MGS1’s Manga. You read the Manga to get the real story but you watch the anime for the action. Same here. You pay MGS1 for the rawness and the atmosphere and everything that came with it. You play Twin Snakes afterwards to see Snake kicking ass in more acrobatic ways.
From Dead Cell I only liked Vamp and Fortune. Solidus didn’t really have a prescnece and Fat man was literally just there. But I don’t think anything is topping Foxhound.
Deadcell connected more to me because if managed to sit through a mgs2 cutscene (one of them was 20 minutes long) they go pretty deep on the background of the characters, I feel like fatman should have been grinding and doing backflips if they are going to give him skates. Fatman’s boss battle was pretty boring
I don’t feel like going into detail so I’ll just say that they are shallow and boring in terms of personality and the fights themselves are nothing special.
Personally I only thought the Vamp fight was memorable and fun as well as the fight against the Ray armada, not because of the mechanics themselves but because how over the top that fight is).
Another reason why I hated the game at launch. I mean you had just replayed MGS1 and had all the cool guys like Wolf/Mantis/Gray Fox/Liquid/Ocelot/Raven (ok Raven was not that cool but at least you fought him twice), and then you unpack your fresh MGS2 copy and not only do you find out that the protagonist is an anti-Snake, you also experience that the opposing team is a bunch of boring ass cardboard cutouts with the personalities of bricks.
Jesus.
I still enjoy MGS2 because of the overall story that makes you question reality, overall design and challenge. I mean it was more of the same and MGS1 wasn’t without flaws either, it’s just that we tend to forgive and forget them more because it was the first game that captivated us the way it did, and it’s hard to do that justice.
Personally I wouldn’t be sad if there were no more Metal Gears since the fondness I have for MGS1 is so big that no sequel can ever do it justice.
I’d prefer Kojima to make new games instead of shitting on Solid Snake more xD
Kojima left Konami.
Silent Hill is property of Konami.
Passing notes isn’t exactly being involved with the project since Kojima was lead director of the project. Silent Hill 5 is kill.