Hideo Kojima, the creator of Metal Gear Solid, has said that there is a single word… a single theme that can summarize each mainline game in the Metal Gear Solid saga. With that, I decided to look at each game in the series exclusively through the lens of their respective theme. Today, we will be looking at the single word/theme that summarizes Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom PainThat word is “race” and “revenge”.
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Ur channel is so good. Keep up the great work.
Let that anxiety go young man. In twenty years or so, a company like Disney or Amazon will pick up the IP and do something with it.
One thing that always annoyed me about this game is that they never give you skullface’s shotgun.
Myself and many other fans wish, hope and want an updated telling of Solid Snake’s Outer Heaven and Zanzibar Land infiltration Missions, all in one game/disc.
It would be awesome, I want it because Solid Snake is my one and only Snake, my favorite, and he had it bad in those first two missions, he wasn’t supposed to survive and find out anything, he was misled the whole way.
Five minutes in…I am happy to see another youtuber finally analyzing MGSV rather than cry about blanket statement complaints like "Unfinished", "Empty Open World", "Lack of cutscenes", "Venom is mute", etc…and actually starts discussing the elements of the story and characters in deeper detail.
That was beautiful Max.
There’s something really special about iconic bad ass special agents/super soldiers who make the impossible seem possible.
We watched Solid Snake grow and become the good hearted hero that he has created to be, and Big Boss also live long and realize that fighting the world is pointless because you only ended up losing yourself and everything that truly matters to you in the end.
Then we also recently had James Bond finally find a reason to fight, die, and live on that truly mattered to him after all the pain, betrayals, heartache and loss that he had experienced in his long action packed journey.
Heroic bad ass Iconic Legends who saved the world against ruthless evil people time and time again and inspired vast generations of men in the process.
“Heroes never truly die, their legend lives on forever”.
I told myself I wouldn’t subscribe to anyone els on YouTube because I have soooo many subscriptions it’s hard to keep up with, but after watching this video I couldn’t just pass this channel without subscribing. Very well done MGS 5 video.
Its funny how the thing that got me the wrong way most in mgs5 and its probaly very non important its Chico's death. i was expecting him to grow up into some important haracter, show up in some crazy kojima way and he actually was just a line of dialog confirming his death. Like, there is the concept art of him adult and he was like a boss that would became ally kinda like Quiet, but its unknow if it was just an early idea or cut content. Anyway that was a big bummer for me. Like, such a side character probably no one remembers but still.
No you messed up on the part about Skullface's nukes. Yes every nation will have nukes as a deterrent and in tandem with the vocal chord parasites will create smaller isolationist communities that could never grow too big due to the parasites' threat. The real kicker though is that Skullface will still be in control on whether the nukes go off or not through the use of his metallica archaea. He wasn't totally blind to the flaw that all it would take is one crazy ruler to start off a huge nuclear chain reaction.
MGS stories were always garbage(mgs2 is exception) and kojima writing were always cringe. But mgs 5 has best stealth gameplay(even rivaling chaos theory and thief 2) which just makes it one of thw best in series
Fantastic work Max
I'm not so sure Cypher didn't know Big Boss was creating a mental copy of himself on the Medic as Big Boss's phantom, because there's a tape that has a discussion between Zero and Ocelot about the mental copy of Big Boss being made with hypnotherapy of all the things Big Boss had been through. I'm sure Zero knew of everything Big Boss was planning while he was gone into hiding after 9 years of the attack on MSF.
Something I think that is fitting with skull face is that with his lack of identity taking on the persona of a phantom, he has the biggest revenge on the world by causing much of the conflicts in the series such as crippling Zero making it impossible for him to give him the possibility of making amends with Big Boss, destroying the original MSF pushing Big Boss to create a doppelgänger who would create the blue print for the war economy. Yet in the end he isn’t mentioned in any of the metal gears (obviously cuz of retconning) but it’s similar to Monster’s Johan, and to someone like Skull Face he would welcome this.
A bit late to this but what burned me the most were the implications of the plot twist within the series itself.
I get where Kojima was coming from.
Making the player a part of big bosses legend. At the same time we're the body double of big boss the same guy who is forced to sacrifice himself for big boss during Zanzibar.
31:30 you probably know, but don't forget every nukes skull face would sell can be made a dud due to the metallic archeae will everyone else in the world would believe mutually assured destruction is possible. in reality he could enact full nuclear disarmament at any point even if all nukes are fired at once , in case of a conflict between 2 nation he could very well make one side a dud and the other side nukes would wipe out any evidence if that mean he can keep the illusion of mutually assured destruction going and since he already demonstrated he would destroy the English language for is plan a country would be a small sacrifice
here's some in game proof of that power just in case its in episode 29 "metallic archeae" heres a video with the dialogue you just need to skip to the 9th minute mark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-01hZ1k7ac&ab_channel=%E3%80%90XCV%2F%2F%E3%80%91
Mgs3 is undoubtedly my favorite because it feels the most truly "metal gear" to me overall, but MgsV is my favorite one to actually play, an addicting gameplay loop with a character that was a pleasure to control
3:00 – I never new about that. Very cool and I totally agree. Although I couldn't care less about MGSV. That game/story is sooo bad.
you can still do metal gear acid…really underrated
While mgsv is infact a finished product flaws and all i still fully believe mission 51 is required and thats for one simple reason WHERE THE HELL IS THE METAL GEAR ITS JUST GONE? Its a fully functional weapon its rex with more weapons and we are just supposed to forget its existence?
This video (Race and Revenge) what I have been waited for so long. Thank you for your great effort to make this video release.
An absolutely amazing video. Thank you, sir.
Mini correction
SAS is special air service not secret air service
*They find out Quiet is infected with the english strain of vcp.
*They torture her, in worst case making her talk english and dooming the entire DD.
Lol that was a gamble
I wonder how the whole scenario would've turned out, if Venom did never exist and we would just play as ordinary BB. Would he have killed or spared Quiet? Would he have killed Eli? Would he have killed Skull Face? So many questions.
I think the one word theme for MGS5 is WORDS (language)
You know the worst part of trying to forget that Metal Gear Solid 5 happened is the fact that every now and then someone will remember Metal Gear Solid 5 happened and be like hey remember Metal Gear Solid 5? And then I have to remember Metal Gear Solid 5.
"if we define race as this arbitrary definition that allows me to keep talking as if I'm intelligent and didn't just shoehorn a fake definition for the word race to fit where it doesn't belong…"
lol pseudo intellectual trash is rife on youtube. Talking about a video game is a "job", and not a "joke". Welcome to the end of humanity.
Honestly, there's only one thing I would have done differently, and it wouldn't have been that difficult. I believe this has been pitched before, but the last mission should have been Venom going to Camp Omega for something. I would become clear to the player that Venom has never been here before. The player would question how that's possible, I'm playing as Big Boss but an astute player would have added this to all the other clues given earlier in the game and figure out that they are not BB at all. Would be a much more cohesive way to do it than whatever nonsensical dream sequence they did at the end.
Other than the goofy final mission, the game is pretty much flawless. The greatest stealth game and the greatest sandbox period in gaming history.
Can’t even watch this cause it’s giving me anxiety now..
Matt Derrat, is there an email address we can reach you at?
Great dissertation
One minor correction: Skullface had a mechanism in place that would allow him to retain control over the usage of all the nukes he planned to sell on the world stage. Whether this was to keep unhinged leaders from carelessly utilizing these weapons…or a means for Skullface to detonate all the weapons and end the world himself…is unknown
We will watch all the videos no matter what I am still amazed with your content thank you for your hard work
That summary of V you offered was so much easier to understand than the game itself. This games story is really good in my opinion but it's presentation is awful, and that's why I feel most people found it kind of hollow
Skull Face is my favorite villain from the franchise..i just love his mysterious character and feels like a Bond villain
Found your channel yesterday ( youtube ACTUALLY directed me to some great context finally). been binge listening to most of it all and love it. You said your just getting into anime loved your vids on truth and father (how I found ur channel) and many more. Would love to see a video on the anime Death Parade. Its a deep philosophical anime on the afterlife. I lot of ur content is on AI and different mythology. But Death Parade is a anime I think you would love and is right down your alley.
Didn't Kaz lose his arm and leg during the helicopter crash after Groud Zeroes?
timestamps would be great
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Digging your Metal Gear run. Keep up the awesome work. 🙂
love all your vids especially the mgs ones! youve done such an excellent job im sad to see em go 🙁 is there anything in mg2 or portable ops worth covering?
Forgive my ignorance, BUT, isn't BB vision of Boss will was not Just creating independent nation of soldiers? But rather creating independent force that will scale the world in equilibrium. By sheer power of it. The strongest military force on the planet, one that world will unifi against, by its mere existence. It's just how i read it.
Max, I speak on behalf of your fans, and fans of the metal gear series, please, give us what we want, and make a two hour analysis on metal gear survive, which is objectively and obviously not only the best game in the series, but one of the best games ever made. Please bro, please. 🙏
This channel deserves way more views. Keep up the great videos.🙏🙏