Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-25017623-20140715144104/@comment-25090680-20140721185344

Isn't it confirmed that the Mantis-like child is working with Cipher or XOF? I mean in the i think Red-Band trailer isn't he there while the hospital's under attack? IMO it could be any of your guesses really but i'm guessing this is just one move in XOF's attack on BB in the hospital, make him think he's crazy, make him see things, therefore he can't be sure what's real and what's not. Clearly he believes Ishmael is real, maybe he is but i think most of us assume he's just a hallucination.

But then that raises the question if that is Psycho Mantis, or some simiarly skilled person, is he the one responsible for Ishmael being a hallucination or is he BBs own hallucination? If so is everything BBs own hallucination as well, or is everything in the hospital scene because of Mantis-Child? so many questions not enough facts to go on, by the logic that he's hallucinating, on his own or another's doing, who's to say when he stops hallucinating? It hurts my head to think of this stuff :P

As for why they weren't in the new trailer, i've been under the assumption that this new trailer is simply about BB. About his feelings, his vengeance and descent into personal madness. Chances are i'm wrong but i don't think not seeing them in the new trailer means they're hallucinations themselves, though IMO the Volgin like figure clearly was, it just means that this trailer was as i said about BB whereas the Red-Band trailer was about the game in general.