I know i'm going to sound like i'm gushing, so excuse me. I have a raging hard-on for this series.
SPOILERS AHOY
IT WAS FUCKING INCREDIBLE. I would say it's my favorite of the series, but they all have things i love about them to keep them fighting for tops.
Cobras? AWESOME. The Fury was probably my favorite fight, but The Sorrow is easily my favorite member out of them all. I am also with Schimid in that he is absolutely the top best boss out of the entire series for me. His fight was so perfect for his character. When i saw him i thought "oh great, a goth character", but when the moaning corpses come at you, you realize that he's a badass, and then when he hits you with that screaming beam of agony or whatever, that's when i was sold. He was perfect.
The Fury was also cool, even though i made the fight harder on myself by not using the front of the room. He just screamed out "Fucked-up GI Joe" a little more than the other guys.
Sigint was actually helpful, and interesting.
Weapon prizes for beating the game :D
Volgin: Awesome. Awesome awesome awesome. Sadistic gay electric man. I love how he's a complete badass until he has to fight snake hand-to-hand, and then he wants oceot's help. His hand-to-hand moves looked pretty cool too, something that Liquid completely lacked. How many bosses in the history of videogames will hit your character with an uppercut so hard that it breaks his ribs and makes him puke? Not enough, that's how many.
Ocelot: got even cooler with this incarnation, ironically. That is to say, as he's so much cooler in 1 & 2 now by comparison to this fairyboy. The SSA is probably my favorite gun to use, too, just because you can twirl it. :O
The standard Metal Gear final battle was a little disappointing, but iy was also pretty unique, and still very fun. Nothing's going to top doing the multi-ray fight on extreme mode in MGS2, though, so i can hold nothing against it.
EVA: the game totally played me. I was like "SPY SPY SPY" from the moment i saw her, and then we find out she is one, but that she's a triple-crosser like ocelot :O
All the loose ends i can think of were tied up in this one, and i was almost certain the series had forgotten the Patriots until the very end. Now i have to finish mgs2
again to figure out what the hell ocelot had to do with them besides being a member.
The knife was fantastic, but i never got the gator cap. I wanted to jump outta the water like a ninja and rip some throats out
You can throw poisoned food to bosses :D
The ending was incredible, too. Some things weren't really necessary to have to play, though. Pretty much everything after the final shagohod fight excluding the battle with boss weren' necessary, but it's very considerate of konami to do that to keep us interested. I know that at the end of MGS2 i had no interest in watching every one of those scenes again after i finished it once.
Oh, man, i totally forgot why Solidus is alive, too. I thought only Solid and Liquid survived Les Enfants Teribles?
Big Boss.
Big.
Mother.
Fucking.
Boss.
He has gotten so much cooler that i think he might even outshine snake. But that's a really tough call. Not only did they give Boss a source of income and a motive behind the overthrow of zanzibar and the development of the first metal gear (uniting the world, or wtf ever the philosophers wanted), but they also gave him a motive for his hatred of the US. It's fantastic. I love how he refused to shake anyone else's hand when he got his medal, showing us the real turning point between Snake and Big Boss. Loved loved loved that. The grave scene was pretty sad, though ;_;
Poor T. Boss ;_;
Oh, yeah, loved the way they kept ripping on Raiden. Don't misunderstand me though, i liked Raiden. No, he's not Snake, but who fucking cares? We don't need ANOTHER Snake running around. He'll be a grizzled old veteran in another ten years anyway. But i found it amusing that the Major you had to imitate looked like Raiden, and that he happened to be very effeminate and quite literally gay. :O
One more thing: My friend and i find snake's reaction to nasty foods to be completely hilarious.
"SIIIICK!"
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