Leviathyn.com | Jason explains why playing through Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes in the year 2012 was simultaneously a frustrating and fascinating experience.
GB: "We analyze Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes and see how it holds up in the current gaming landscape."
I think your enjoyment of Twin Snakes comes down to if you played the PS1 original first or not.
Not really, Played and enjoyed both when they were released.
The original was better, but TTS had that Jon Woo charm, and was enjoyable all the way through.
The original soundtrack was missing in Twin Snakes and for me audio is half the experience. Original OST was iconic.
The only things that held this back for me were Naomi's voice acting and the music being changed when you end Sniper Wolf in the cutscene.
Other than that I thought the cutscenes and game were absolutely phenomenal.
A mod by José Mellinas restores the voice acting of the original Metal Gear Solid from 1998 to Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes.
Everyone is talking about Metal Gear Solid remake for PS5 and PC, but where's Twin Snakes, the GameCube remake that improved so much of the original.
Twin Snakes was awful in comparison to the original .... was like a chinese copy of Metal gear for kids
the article is a blasphemy to the original legendary Kojima -made game
Considering Kojima’s heavy involvement with the game I would say he is okay with it...and so am I..
Kojima made Twin Snakes. Every change implemented in that game is also part of Kojima's vision, just FYI. Not saying it's good, but it's his vision nonetheless.
As echoed above, it's not only factual but quite clear that Kojima directed it. Every following game in the series has the same "for kids" action and tone. It's what he wanted to begin with, but was reined in by hardware limitations. It's not fine art, it's schlocky Tom Clancy with a dash of X-Files conspiracy beats, by way of John Woo (and we love it). Take off the rose tinted glasses for a minute.
Wrong, MGS:TS improved upon every aspect of the original. Nothing about it was any more "kiddy" than what we saw in future MGS games, most notably MGS3, which was plain cartoonish.
@ all the above ...Twin Snakes is not made by Kojima end of story ...get your facts straight ...has only his production approval
..it was made by the request of Nintendo to Konami to remake the game for gamecube and was given to different director and development team !! ....
George Lucas also trashed multiple Star Wars re-releases. It's a matter of opinion but I would say the majority of people that know those movies prefer the originals that weren't fiddled with.
So saying Kojima greenlit all the cut scenes means he might have liked the changes but it doesn't mean his later work on the game was any better than the earlier work.
I thought the Twin Snakes was a great remake, still own it, but I much prefer the tone of the original PlayStation game. That is the one that should be remastered and as faithfully as possible.
Just looked at the case back, it specifies that the remake was directed by Hideo Kojima. As for being "for kids", TS was far more violent and gory than the original. The hallway scene with Grey Fox was one of the most brutal scenes in video game history.
I keep hearing people rag on the game but in all these years since its release, have yet to see one person actually explain why it is worse than the original. Always just "it sucks" "its an insult to the original" etc, with no facts to support it. Seems like just butthurt from Sony Fanboys, over it being GC exclusive.
"Considering Kojima’s heavy involvement with the game"
He was barely involved with it. It was co-developed by Silicon Knights and directed by someone else. Kojima was busy working on MGS3 at the time and didn't want to get too involved with side projects so he was only supervising it from afar.
But you do have a point that he's okay with it. As I said, he did supervise it so he had to give the ridiculous cutscenes a greenlight at some point. Hell maybe he blocked a couple ideas that were even more ridiculous than what we got and (fortunately) never saw the light of day.
I didn't like the Hollywood/Bollywood bs action scenes they added in comparison to the more down to earth original.
I'm not saying it's a bad game in its own but I doubt anything will ever top the original MGS.
Twin Snakes took an amazing story about a soldier and turned it into a ridiculous Japanese Anime about a superman who can jump 30 feet into the air, kick a missile with his foot to reroute it back to the Hind D.
This was the most childish, ridiculous, Japanese Anime thing I've ever seen. Completely ruined the original which was mysterious and grounded in reality with subtle supernatural power like a psychic with telekinesis and a man who can withstand super cold temperatures. They turned it into a parody of itself. Asian commercials all look that ridiculous and it completely jumped the shark of stupidity.
Twin snakes is amazing , still play it now and again . I bought a GameCube for 3 games only this , Resi Remake and Eternal Darkness.
Yea ... I would ask for a proper Remake and in Fox Engine, please (Konami might replace it with UE).
But can Bluepoint make it? Their Remakes are really good but this requires a RE2 Remake approach.
Play with no radar on the hardest mode without being caught or killing anyone. Good luck with how "easy" that is.
You're talking difficulty setting. I'm talking specifically about a gameplay mechanic. There's a difference.
Yup... MGS2 gameplay did not work in MGS1. You could just enter an area, go to fps and hit every guard with a trank and just waltz completely unopposed.
Nah, I'd rather have a full blown remake. The GC version is fun, but some aspects broke the game. (First person aiming)
this game was just... just awful