About mgs V

It's a controversial title that's for certain and for what it's worth it's my favorite of the series. The gameplay is the best it as has ever been, there's no arguing against it. The few criticisms I've heard like it's repetitive or boring can be chocked up to personal preference. MGS is known for set pieces that break away from piece by piece stealth action and because MGSV has very little less of it, it's not held in very high regard by majority of the fanbase. Not me tho because I grew up on stealth games and I'd much rather have a consistent stealth game design than gimmicks that ruin my flow of the game. Every mission gives you a small set of objectives that can be done in a million ways given you're creative enough. I can say more but it's all stuff that's already been said before.

The story is my favorite as well, at least as far as mainline entries goes but I also have a lot of problems with it. Like how the ending is ruined by a side character that never should have been in there in the first place, a lack of direction when it comes to the thematic relevance of revenge the game is going for and how so many ideas crammed in this game simply don't mesh well with the story. And before anyone says unfinished, the reason these problems exist is because they've existed since the last 20 years. Kojima is a very creative individual and has great ideas but his execution of these ideas has always been disappointing. MGSV just does more of it except doing it in a way that was a bit more palatable, in my opinion, like introducing tapes to get rid of useless, god awfully boring exposition and compositing it with much better dialogue. The characters were also better written I thought with Peace Walker doing it only a slightly bit better.

All in all, it's the one game that've played continuously over the last six months which is the longest I've ever gone simply playing one game. The story did disappoint me to some extent but it never bored me, I was always engrossed by it and once it was done, I came up so many ideas for my own works that I just can't omit the value this game holds for me. So for me MGSV is a definitive 100/100 masterpiece.

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