Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-4016602-20150822143602/@comment-4807396-20150822152317

Phantom pain is a condition among amputees where they feel sensation in limbs that are no longer there, and both Snake and Kaz are amputees in the game. It could also refer to Snake and Kaz being haunted (figuratively, if not literally) by the deaths of so many of their comrades, both in the fall of the first Mother Base and in the game itself. It could have something to the do with the characters the game's trailers collectively refer to as "Those Who Don't Exist", or the "phantom war waged by the lost" (as one of the trailers put it) between Big Boss' Diamond Dogs, Skull Face's XOF unit, and Zero. It could mean a whole bunch of things.