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Last week I took the time to play Metal gear solid mobile on the ngage emulator, since it was released I've been very interested in it, I read a lot of articles about how it played and about the story in magazines at the time.
The game itself is nothing really special tbh, you can clearly feel that it is a game made for a phone, its slow, it barely has sound effects and the animations are poor, but it is a nice enough attempt for phones from that time.
Gameplay wise the game takes a lot of inspirations from MGS2, you have first person aiming, hanging from ledges, it still has the fixed camera, Snake's model is based on 2's, it feels like a version of mgs2 for the ps1 tbh
Now story wise the game is pretty interesting, not because it is good, god no, the writing is very very poor, but because I was very interested in how a team of people with literally no interaction, at least as far as I know, with the main team would write a metal gear game
The story is set between solid 1 and 2, a pretty good idea tbh as we only hear about that period of time at the start of mgs2, Snake is infiltrating a base were a Metal gear is supposedly being developed, they found out about it because Otacon had some info leaked by one of the scientist of the project, a woman called Victoria Reed, very similar to the tanker mission from 2, in fact most of the conversation from the initial codec is pretty much ripped from 2.
While going around the base Victoria talls Snake a sad backstory literally on their second conversation, and she tells him that she is scared, Snake finds the place she is supposed to be but it is empty, and then gets traped after using a node, turns out that Victoria Reed is an AI, and the clue was on her initials, VR.
Victoria was actually there just to make Snake drop the security of the facility so a terrorist organization would infiltrate the base and steal metal gear.
After that its just more sneaking around until snake starts noticing weird stuff, like otacon being a bit more pushy than usual, his face fucking up while they are talking and event he fucking wold around them starting to glitch out, also trhough the game snake was being contacted by a misterious figure, it turns out that it was Otacon all along, he was trying to contact snake because he was captured and placed inside a virtual reality simulation
Snake beats the terrorist leader and escapes the vr world and then I assume they just forget this ever happened.
The story is obviously trying to be a Metal gear solid 2 light, it is a nice attempt, but it fails completely, both at emulating the writing style of the series and as a story on its own.
It also has some errors lore wise (like for exaple snake using nanomachines to use the codec when his nanos dont work for that), and it also has some very clear problems pacing wise, mostly because its just an hour long game I guess, and I dont even know if the team had any real writers.
All that being said, the game is at least worth a playthrough tbh, you can beat it very quickly and it is somewhat enjoyable.
Sorry about the long autistic post, I just find the existence of this game very interesting and wanted to post my thoughts on it somewhere
The game itself is nothing really special tbh, you can clearly feel that it is a game made for a phone, its slow, it barely has sound effects and the animations are poor, but it is a nice enough attempt for phones from that time.
Gameplay wise the game takes a lot of inspirations from MGS2, you have first person aiming, hanging from ledges, it still has the fixed camera, Snake's model is based on 2's, it feels like a version of mgs2 for the ps1 tbh
Now story wise the game is pretty interesting, not because it is good, god no, the writing is very very poor, but because I was very interested in how a team of people with literally no interaction, at least as far as I know, with the main team would write a metal gear game
The story is set between solid 1 and 2, a pretty good idea tbh as we only hear about that period of time at the start of mgs2, Snake is infiltrating a base were a Metal gear is supposedly being developed, they found out about it because Otacon had some info leaked by one of the scientist of the project, a woman called Victoria Reed, very similar to the tanker mission from 2, in fact most of the conversation from the initial codec is pretty much ripped from 2.
While going around the base Victoria talls Snake a sad backstory literally on their second conversation, and she tells him that she is scared, Snake finds the place she is supposed to be but it is empty, and then gets traped after using a node, turns out that Victoria Reed is an AI, and the clue was on her initials, VR.
Victoria was actually there just to make Snake drop the security of the facility so a terrorist organization would infiltrate the base and steal metal gear.
After that its just more sneaking around until snake starts noticing weird stuff, like otacon being a bit more pushy than usual, his face fucking up while they are talking and event he fucking wold around them starting to glitch out, also trhough the game snake was being contacted by a misterious figure, it turns out that it was Otacon all along, he was trying to contact snake because he was captured and placed inside a virtual reality simulation
Snake beats the terrorist leader and escapes the vr world and then I assume they just forget this ever happened.
The story is obviously trying to be a Metal gear solid 2 light, it is a nice attempt, but it fails completely, both at emulating the writing style of the series and as a story on its own.
It also has some errors lore wise (like for exaple snake using nanomachines to use the codec when his nanos dont work for that), and it also has some very clear problems pacing wise, mostly because its just an hour long game I guess, and I dont even know if the team had any real writers.
All that being said, the game is at least worth a playthrough tbh, you can beat it very quickly and it is somewhat enjoyable.
Sorry about the long autistic post, I just find the existence of this game very interesting and wanted to post my thoughts on it somewhere
