Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-166.137.88.23-20130610185107/@comment-42.98.97.34-20130616124732

82.69.15.188 wrote: "So long he finds good reasons to explain why things did not happen as the way MENTIONED by other characters (such as, a character was misled by false info), I am ready to accept it without saying he is re-writing the in-game history"

That is a good point actually; after all they explained away mistaking Doctor Clarke in for a man in MGS1 with Campbell's sexist assumption (or else that her identity was too well protected) that she was a man and not that he actually new, even if it was presented that way. But Kojima-San was able to explain it away when he wanted to make the female Para-Medic Doctor Clarke in MGS3/PO/4 The other example (which I believe you will remember right the way too) is Sunny's gender in MGS2, but these two examples (I mean hers and Dr. Clarke's), if viewed from the Japanese point of view, is not at all a problem due to the language's nature. Although Kojima did not talk about this issue high profilely in MGS4's English version (again becoz it would be wierd to specifically voice it out in the Japanese setting), I think it's just fair to say Raiden (even myself) made the same assumption Campbell did to Dr. Clarke.

Further more I also named a few other examples earlier, which is more than just a translational issue:

1. Octacon said at the end of MGS2 that the Patriots were all dead for 100+ years by then, but eventually Snake said in MGS4 Act 2 that what Octacon got at the time were "a whole load of crap" which is not the truth.

2. Nastasha Romaneko implied in "In the Darkness of Shadow Mosses" (in MGS2) that it was Snake who freed Naomi from the post-MGS1 imprisonment. Also in MGS4 Act 2, Snake countered that with his speculation that it was in fact Liquid Ocelot who did it.

3. We were all led to believe Sokolov was killed by Volgin in MGS 3, but were later told that it was the fake death pill (note: we don't have an on-screen of his MGS 3 "death")

In addition we got this -> [Liquid was wrong about being the recessive clone, so his comment on being taken from a Big Boss at the late 50s could well be wrong. If we stick with the fact that Liquid's background was so poorly detailed (becoz it was so highly classified), anything can happen before his MGS1 days.]

To me the only occasions that really see an unavoidable (but understandable) rewrite is the original MG and MG2SS games. Otherwise, I have not recall any ocassion of rewrite since MGS1. (Pls name them if so anyone thinks the opposite and let's see if Kojima explained it well)