Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-93.186.150.138-20140325020658/@comment-50.186.50.212-20140331034606

192.160.117.141 wrote: Also circumstantial, but Kojima mentioned that MGSV is going to attempt to tackle more "mature themes". Chico becoming a mute transsexual because of torture and rape is exactly the sort of hilariously edgy and tonedeaf move I'd expect from someone attempting to take on a mature subject with very little experience or sensitivity with the actual subject matter. Would be fairly in line with the position on the mature-EDGY continuum established by the vaginabomb featured in Ground Zeroes. This level of cynicism is pretty lopsided. Equating Chico becoming a transexual with the current events "because vaginabomb and mature-EDGY" completely disregards the fact that all of the tragic aspects of Ground Zeroes are based on real-life Cold War tactics and the reality of war in general. Camp Omega is essentially Guantanamo Bay and the treatment of its' prisoners are based on the Abu Ghraib scandals (whose prisoners were treated much worse than what we see here).

Body-cavity bombs are also a real thing. Smuggling is the primary tactic in the application of its use. As icky as it sounds, the womb is one of the most common places used in females when it comes to smuggling. I'd wager that the construction of Paz's situation in this case has more to with connecting the dots rather than trying to be as "hilariously edgy" as possible.

The gritty aspects of this game are pushing boundaries in terms of narratives for video games, but not quite as far as what's already been accomplished in films or novels. War in reality is still far more gruesome than what happened here.