Why Metal Gear Solid 4's Nonsense is Great, 11 Years On

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Metal Gear Solid 4 was clearly divisive upon its initial release in 2008; it was rife with structural issues, bloated melodrama and fan service whose anticlimactic answers to longstanding series questions could never satisfy the fans that wanted those mysteries solved.

That said, upon revisiting it in 2019, away from that hype and examined in a modern context, there’s something about MGS4's sheer absurdity that helps cement Snake as a character truly out of time, that has us sharing in his struggle to find narrative resolution in an increasingly nonsensical world and, as a result, ends up reflecting some of the anxieties that almost inevitably come with living in the modern age.

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