Metal Gear Solid: Peacewalker

[SaintessHeart]

For some reason, Paz's school uniform looks like it is from Sakurakou High from K-ON!. So........popular culture in the 1970s Cuban Missile Crisis?

[Kaioshin Sama]

Originally Posted by Duo Maxwell

I don't even know what to say. Well, aside that I did have a good laugh.

I've got to try and take this as tongue in cheek commentary at this point or something. Even though I know it probably isn't.....

Originally Posted by Roger Rambo

I think you can distinctly trace the Metal gear franchise getting wonky with sons of Liberty. With us going from a badass techno thriller action espionage game...to some kind of fucked up existential commentary about existence with some emo guy in tights. And how did the focus shift from an allegory on Nuclear weapons to NANOMACHINES?

And does anyone think the MGS1 era sneaking suit looked better than the one we have today? I suppose you might argue some kind of latex body suit is more high tech...but I always thought it looked silly.

It's not even that, it's like how it's switched markets to cater and market to otaku (like say using Nana Mizuki as a cutesy jail-bait girl as just one of many examples). I think MGS 2 was weird, but, it it was more in a trying to mess with the gamer's head style weird and making them think about the world they live in. Mostly by integrating real world history with the events of the game which I thought was kind of cool. Metal Gear Solid 4 was where it really started getting to be like an otaku in-joke. The sudden inclusion of Monster Hunter content (which is another big deal over there with gamer otaku) just makes it seem even more likely. The fact that Kojima also recently tried to pair Snake with Nintendo content too....and yet people claim this guy is somehow a visionary along with the Metal Gear franchise. If you ask me MGS is one of the biggest shilling/sell-out franchises out there...not that there's anything wrong with that, it's just the first thing I think of when I see it now and it's a bit of a turnoff. Peacewalker just says to me that's it's going to be another one of those clusterfucks of "bonus content" at the expense of "Tactical Espionage Action" gameplay, which if you are going to put that above the title is a pretty big problem.

@SaintessHeart: It's seriousness seems to come and go at the drop of a hat if you ask me. One moment it's a gritty torture scene (at least one per game now it seems), and then you are cartwheeling around naked and getting talked too by a guy shouting weird quotes at you. Just finished taking out a room full of guys with close quarters combat techniques....but what's that up on the wall....is that a poster of a currently popular Japanese gravure model in 1960's Russia?

[kyosak]

I can't help but laugh every time I watch the PV for this game.

I mean I generally like Mizuki Nana songs but this one is so unfitting for a MGS game, lol.

[Yu Ominae]

Minor spoiler I guess of one of the characters.

Spoiler for Character:

Cécile Cosina Caminades (Yū Kobayashi/Catherine Taber) - Her name in the Japanese version is pronounced Seshiiru Kojima Kaminandesu (セシール・コジマ・カミナンデス?), a play on the phrase Kojima, kami nan desu (小島、神なんです, "Kojima, he's definitely a god"?).She is also named after Cécile Caminades, an employee from the Paris branch of Konami Digital Entertainment

[Rias]

Originally Posted by Yu Ominae

Minor spoiler I guess of one of the characters.

Spoiler for Character:

Cécile Cosina Caminades (Yū Kobayashi/Catherine Taber) - Her name in the Japanese version is pronounced Seshiiru Kojima Kaminandesu (セシール・コジマ・カミナンデス?), a play on the phrase Kojima, kami nan desu (小島、神なんです, "Kojima, he's definitely a god"?).She is also named after Cécile Caminades, an employee from the Paris branch of Konami Digital Entertainment

Two more support point for that

Spoiler:

1. One of the random soldier quote is, "Have you heard? There's a rumor about a "god" sighting in a truck...". Kojima can be recruited in a truck in the stage before you fight the first pupal.

2. Cecile also explains that コジマ・カミナンデス = コジマ・イズ・ゴッド (Kojima is god) in one of the tape recordings.

Personally, I'm hoping that the next collaboration with MGS would be Megaten.

[-Sho-]

Hmmm , should i make it a spoiler tag .. well i'll do it .

Spoiler for If you want to know who is the famous secret character in the game:

Spoiler for Are you sure ?:

Spoiler for You won't believe it ...:

YES it's HIDEO himself



"Hideo Kojima is not only the president of Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker, but he's also a client.
Err... that is to say, he's in Peace Walker"

"Hideo's profile says "My body is made up 70% of movies. You can decide what to do with the remaining 30%."

Hideo is S rank in healing and information gathering. But he doesn't appear to be much of a fighter... or a cook."

Ahah a medic and info specialist ^^

Also , as it was said before :

"What's particularly interesting is the hint you receive when searching for Hideo :

Have you heard the rumor that a god was found in the truck?"

That god turns out to be Hideo.

It appears there's some play on Kojima and god in one character's name. The Cecile character's full name is "Cecile Cosina Caminades." Cosina sounds a little like "Kojima." And "Caminades" sounds a little like "Kami Nandesu," or "Is god." Put it all together, and you get "Kojima is god."

I wasn't clever enough to spot this. Miller was, however, and he shares his discovery with Cecile during one of Peace Walker's briefing files."

So to say it right -> "Cecile Kojima is god"

And :

"You can hear Cecile chanting "Kojima is God" in a Nico Nico Video of the briefing file that was posted at Hachimaki (the video is mid way through the page beneath the Hideo status screen shot)."

To finish "The Cecile character, incidentally, is based off a Konami France employee, also named Cecil. "

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[Yu Ominae]

It's out already. I plan to get a limited edition one too.

[grylsyjaeger]

Originally Posted by Yu Ominae

It's out already. I plan to get a limited edition one too.

I hear that.

[SilverSyko]

Already got my copy. Limited Edition one as well. Comes with art book.~

I STILL find it amusing the robots in this game use Vocaloid for their voices. =p

[Yu Ominae]

Not to mention being creepy, like the Pupa one.

[Yu Ominae]

Got my copy already. Was the last one in my local EB store.

Liked the art book actually. Nice designs on all the characters.

[Gordy Lechance]

Played a Demo at the Taipei International Game Expo, and DARN they are HARD to get use to.

[SilverSyko]

If you use a control setup you're familiar with than it's not that hard to get used to really. If it's your first MGS game though I s'pose it could be.

I chose the MGS4 setup because I rarely play Portable Ops and never played Monster Hunter Unite.

[Nerroth]

I just got the game yesterday - I use the Portable Ops layout.

[Kyero Fox]

Originally Posted by Duo Maxwell

I don't even know what to say. Well, aside that I did have a good laugh.

lol japan =\

[pirateking]

finished the game today. Got to say its a great game with a plot twist in chapter 5. I notice that

Spoiler:

Metal Gear gets to be the final boss for the very first time in the series, since the first 4 games feature Liquid, Solidus, The Boss and Ocelot as final boss

And also

Spoiler:

R.I.P Paz. Thanks for the entertaining fight

To trigger the true final boss fight, do ALL the main and ops missions and have ZEKE ready-made. The story doesn't end at chapter 4.

[Kazu]

Originally Posted by pirateking

finished the game today. Got to say its a great game with a plot twist in chapter 5. I notice that

Spoiler:

Metal Gear gets to be the final boss for the very first time in the series, since the first 4 games feature Liquid, Solidus, The Boss and Ocelot as final boss

And also

Spoiler:

R.I.P Paz. Thanks for the entertaining fight

To trigger the true final boss fight, do ALL the main and ops missions and have ZEKE ready-made. The story doesn't end at chapter 4.

I didn't finish all the ops and I didn't finish the ai component for Zeke complete and I still got it

[Yui Is My Wife]

Have enough cash to get either the Japanese or the English version.

But here's the problem:

Is that awesome extra where you can date that cute little blonde in a bikini removed from the English version? Cos if it is, Japanese Version It Is!!

-- Aww, sorry, Yui-chan I still love you.

[Edge Meltdown]

Originally Posted by Yui Is My Wife

Have enough cash to get either the Japanese or the English version.

But here's the problem:

Is that awesome extra where you can date that cute little blonde in a bikini removed from the English version? Cos if it is, Japanese Version It Is!!

the date with paz or kaz is also in the english version

[Yui Is My Wife]

Originally Posted by DMC3alpha

the date with paz or kaz is also in the english version

Wai~i!! Kazu-Nyan!! (Leap hugs)