{"id":739836,"date":"2023-10-01T09:30:13","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T09:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/739836\/"},"modified":"2023-10-01T09:30:13","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T09:30:13","slug":"is-metal-gear-solid-5-a-misunderstood-masterpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/739836\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Metal Gear Solid 5 A Misunderstood Masterpiece?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Is Metal Gear Solid 5 A Misunderstood Masterpiece?\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n46Qp6rSvm4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nMetal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain released to a mixture of rave reviews and endless criticism of its inconclusive resolution and seemingly absurd plot twist. The concluding chapter in the Metal Gear Solid saga is said to center on themes of revenge, but there are deeper thematic elements at play too.<\/p>\n<p>Most notably, the theme of loss is explored at length in the game\u2019s 50+ hour narrative. As with much of Kojima\u2019s output, this is a story open to interpretation, but this feature argues that MGSV has a sense of incompleteness because it\u2019s one point in a circular story. Most notably, the endless cycle of war as portrayed in Venom\u2019s choice to carry on Big Boss\u2019s legacy support this notion, but there are other thematic elements discussed in the feature too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain released to a mixture of rave reviews and endless criticism of its inconc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":739837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[20976],"tags":[211033,77194,281289,39446,21844,21848,281290,20984],"class_list":{"0":"post-739836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ps4-games","8":"tag-a-look-back-at-metal-gear-solid-5","9":"tag-metal-gear-solid-5-ground-zeroes","10":"tag-metal-gear-solid-5-themes","11":"tag-metal-gear-solid-5-the-phantom-pain","12":"tag-metal-gear-solid-vthe-phantom-pain","13":"tag-mgs5","14":"tag-mgs5-story","15":"tag-ps4-games"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739836","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=739836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}