{"id":164956,"date":"2020-08-05T16:00:51","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T16:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/164956\/"},"modified":"2020-08-05T16:00:51","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T16:00:51","slug":"metal-gear-solid-v-is-a-misunderstood-anti-war-masterpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/164956\/","title":{"rendered":"Metal Gear Solid V is a Misunderstood Anti-War Masterpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hV4wY2rjAWY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nMGSV is definitely an adaptation of Moby Dick. Only, instead of being about America, it&#8217;s really about Japan. Trust me, it&#8217;ll all make sense.<\/p>\n<p>It also turns out that it&#8217;s possible to do a thematic deep-dive on Metal Gear without using the word &#8220;nanomachines&#8221; a single time. Who knew?<\/p>\n<p>Say peace.<\/p>\n<p>Support this channel: http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/michaelsaba<\/p>\n<p>Streaming on Twitch: http:\/\/twitch.tv\/dreaminginneon<\/p>\n<p>Email: askdreaminginneon@gmail.com <\/p>\n<p>0:00 Intro: Chasing the White Whale<br \/>\n6:14 Prologue: A Misunderstood Masterpiece<br \/>\n13:58 Chapter 1: Black Mirror<br \/>\n22:03 Chapter 2: Hellbound<br \/>\n32:49 Chapter 3: War Without End<br \/>\n42:43 Debriefing: Empty Space, Phantom Pain<br \/>\n50:50 Credits<\/p>\n<p>Additional reading:<br \/>\nHow Should We Interpret the Story of MGSV? &#8211; https:\/\/www.famitsu.com\/news\/201602\/26099526.html<\/p>\n<p>We Are All Aboard The Pequod &#8211; https:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/articles\/we-are-all-aboard-the-pequod\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MGSV is definitely an adaptation of Moby Dick. Only, instead of being about America, it&#8217;s really about J<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":164957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20976],"tags":[107994,21855,23597,21844,21848,21847,20984,23598,14844],"class_list":{"0":"post-164956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ps4-games","8":"tag-game-analysis","9":"tag-hideo-kojima","10":"tag-metal-gear-solid-v","11":"tag-metal-gear-solid-vthe-phantom-pain","12":"tag-mgs5","13":"tag-mgsv","14":"tag-ps4-games","15":"tag-the-phantom-pain","16":"tag-video-essay"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}