Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5085906-20130627191357/@comment-64.33.250.214-20150822185624

I have doubts that it's official. When I think official, I think of an employee giving a confirmation. As of right now, the strategy guide remains listed under unofficial information. Do you know how many people exactly are involved in this leak? Because if it's only like 10 people, then it could still be an elaborate hoax. Nearly everything the translations say the guide claims can be theories based on what we've already learned from trailers and previous games. For example, the translation doesn't mention anything about characters like Gurlukovich or Vamp. The characters shown in the guide are almost entirely taken from Ground Zeroes or Phantom Pain trailers. With the exception of Chico, who doesn't appear to be mentioned at all.

The translation says nothing more or less about the Medic theory that we haven't already heard. I take issue with Medic being any sort of clone of Big Boss, on the grounds that he neither looks nor sounds like Big Boss. Medic doesn't even look like Naked Snake from Snake Eater, who should be around the same age. Is Kojima ripping off the plot of Face/Off now?

If it wasn't for online sources taking Medics voice and altering the tone to make it sound like Kiefer, most of us wouldn't have thought Medic and Big Boss were related. Speaking of sources... I hope Yong Yea takes a moment from those retrospectives and addresses this issue. Or at the very least warn fans that there's a potential plot leak circulating the internet.