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I'm really digging the game so far, but I still have problems with some of the series' mainstays.
1. David Hayter's ridiculous voice reading for Snake. I'm sure it's by design, but the constant overdelivery of lines is comical by now.
2. The cutscenes. I don't have a problem with the content this time around, only the execution. Over the past couple of years, developers have found out ways to effectively deliver the narrative through gameplay, and while that's not Kojima's style, inserting twenty seconds of gameplay between five to ten minutes of cutscenes is not the way to go.
The worst offense so far was a two to three minute cutscene showing allies descending down an elevator shaft. You are then given control, which you use to simply walk a few steps into the shaft, which then triggers another cutscene that runs nearly 5 minutes. Give me a ****ing break Kojima. Either make it one cutscene, or allow me to play the game.
3. My last complaint isn't restricted to the MGS series, but since I was reminded of it: characters performing basic functions in cutscenes that the player himself cannot do. In normal gameplay, your movement is somewhat constrained, especially in regards to speed. In cutscenes, Snake is running like Jesse Owens. C'MON BRAH LEMME MOVE FASTER.
Still, complaints aside, I'm still really digging the game, even if it is a thinly veiled exercise in Kojima indulging in gun porn and expressing his worldly views.
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