Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

-Awesome Story -Superb Graphics and Controls ( According to the time of release) -Great characters -Loved the chemistry of Big Boss and Quite.

Now listen, I personally really like Kojima. I admire his creativity and the way he forms his ideas on what concerns the story. However his games are simply not my type. Death stranding for example, is a walking simulator for 25 hours out of 40. Even though the concept is awfully interesting and the story is amazing the game robs you of any sense that you are playing a video game. Yes, I know it gets good but as I previously said if a game takes 40 hours to beat on average and you spend 20 or 25 forcing yourself to do something objectively boring just because it gets better is simply not my style. Metal Gear Solid, in a way, does the complete opposite to DS. It is a strictly gameplay focused game that however has a story that you need to watch recaps upon recaps and articles upon articles to somehow understand if you haven't played the previous games. And I personally am not such a fan of games that do not pay much attention to their story. And that's cuz to me, the most important aspect of a game is the story. Then comes the gameplay. But in order for me to like a game there has to be some sort of balance between the two. And DS along with MGSV are two perfect examples of how to have complete imbalance between the two even though they are objectively very nice games, especially Death Stranding. I have heard and seen that DS2 is more gameplay focused and more balanced and I am really looking forward to Metal Gear Solid D. I'm really hoping these two games will interest me so much that I will give another chance to DS and MGSV and actually love them. I WISH so.

Once you are dropped into the game, you are treated to beautiful cinematics and mystery. Even if you have played all of the games in the series, there is a lot of mystery and confusion. The game does a great job at revealing its story, and filling the past games' plot holes and "now I know now" moments.

The game-play of The Phantom Pain is more fluent and dense than any other in the series. From the facial animations to the crouch movement, You can clearly see the amazing effort Kojima Productions and Konami had put into this game. All of the good details, graphics, and animations all look perfect in the game's cut-scenes.

In The Phantom Pain, there is no longer the "stealth or guns- blazing" decision making. It is Unexplainable of how many ways you can infiltrate, kill, travel, or anything else (So many choices!). It has the most choices of game-play of any game EVER! Even so that I just can't explain it!

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is easily the BEST stealth oriented game to date, and the most game-play choices of any game in existence! Everybody should buy this game when the chance is given!

Positives:

• Most of the story
• Characters
• Musical score
• Graphics
• Gameplay
• Voice acting

Negatives:

• Feels incomplete (Thanks Konami...)

Metal Gear Solid: The Phantom Pain is the penultimate journey in Hideo Kojima's classic saga; even though it's a prequel there is a good deal of surprises to be found in the story. The gameplay is nothing short of phenomenal and there's so much attention to detail graphically and narratively speaking.

The Phantom Pain is a gaming experience to be remembered for generations to come. Its immersion for the players is unsurpassed, its atmosphere phenomenal, its story a bit sparse yet massive in scope and ambition. Hideo Kojima has made the 2001: A Space Odyssey of video games right here. There's endless subtexts throughout, visually and script-based, and that's excluding the ridiculously tense and terrifying start of the game, where you're at a hospital in Cyprus, trying to escape certain death.

If you haven't played the game yet, please do so, and play the 'Day One Edition' on the PS4: the definitive version of this modern masterpiece.