Review SIGINT 3/5 · Dec 2, 2022
All right I'm gonna say it............................... it's solid
I forgot just how much fun the original Metal Gear Solid was. It's been 8-9 years or so since I played all the main MGS games in order, and I remember the first one for its wild cutscenes and conversations more than anything else. But I am now reminded that it really is an amazing game on many levels.
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I forgot just how much fun the original Metal Gear Solid was. It's been 8-9 years or so since I played all the main MGS games in order, and I remember the first one for its wild cutscenes and conversations more than anything else. But I am now reminded that it really is an amazing game on many levels.
Metal Gear Solid: VR Missions is not Metal Gear Solid, though. It's just the gameplay, spread out into a ton of bite-sized missions, that test Snake's skills with various tactics and equipment. Environments are very simple, as it's supposed to be the VR training for Snake's mission. In this day and age this would basically be the mobile game spinoff of the full game I guess.
(Side note, what if an "MGS6" had levels like this as secret side missions... That would be cool... Anyway that's never gonna happen.)
It's a lot of fun, though many of the missions are very simplistic. While there are definitely more interesting ones in here, people wanting more of a challenge on the average level will have to settle for running the missions back for a faster time. I still enjoyed all of it, though. Surprise, surprise, Metal Gear Solid is fun.
Its only real crime holding it back from a higher rating is just being exactly what it says it is. It's a fun diversion for fans of the game Metal Gear Solid, or you could look at it as a tutorial for that game, and it's not enough more than that to be a really outstanding game. And that's ok! Totally worth a play for anyone nostalgic for the old games that doesn't want to actually go replay a full game. Newer fans, probably just skip this and come back later.
