The Phantom Pain received a lot of positive gaming press in 2015. It received near perfect scores across the board, was credited with one of IGN’s infamous 10’s, and it of course won an award at the VGAs. Yet despite all this it received a mixed reception from the fans. Personally, I don’t believe that V deserves the praise it received, and in this article I will hopefully demonstrate why I believe this to be the case. I’m not going to talk about cut content, the fan service, make personal attacks against Kojima’s character, and I also have no intention of getting into what accrued at Konami. This is simply a critique of the Phantom Pain in the state it was released back in September of last year. There will be spoilers.
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The Metal Gear series has sold 60.2 million copies, as of September 2023.
Too bad it was a lazy release. They could've updated the visuals and everything. Missed opportunity.
...and yet, they couldn't give more respect and effort into the collection.
What a terrible company.
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Yea I don’t get why they’re allowing old reviews to be posted here. Someone did one on Soul Reaver and I got so excited thinking there was some stealth release of an HD Remaster, but no… it’s just someone who had a slow day posted an old review…
I liked the game but for me it felt somehow like a military simulator rather than a proper MGS.. i got bored of that
The author was in a coma for 9 years and didn't get to play the game when it released.
Amazing how bad this game looks already. We keep acting like this gen doesn't feel like an update but I think we're starting to see it.
Looks better than Starfield, Cyberpunk and most recent games out. Still fine.
The gameplay was great. It was the tacked on open world and repetitive missions that messed the game up.
The game started really strong in that hospital, but after a couple of hours I wondered if it was even an mgs game I was playing.
The hospital section was the only bit that felt like a MGS game.
MGS4 was the ending for me. I totally ignore the fact 5 exists. It didn't need to exist tbh
My biggest critique is that we never got to see an elder Big Boss/Venom Snake. We saw a lot of Yoji Shinkawa art of Big Boss in his late age as he was depicted in MG1 and MG2, but it never appeared in-game.
Even the thumbnail of this article is mad. That should've been an old Venom Snake on the other side of the smashed mirror.