Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-25168690-20150111204934/@comment-1672596-20150112141911

Paranoid Donkey wrote: Okay. So go ahead and look the Side Ops up on this wiki.

Tell me what it says about the canonicity of the missions, and what pseduo-historical means. That they are historical reenactments with some embellishments. Just go to your standard Civil War Reenactment. There's plenty of things that they don't emulate regarding any historical reenactments (if they actually were to emulate them fully, it would get extremely messy because they would have to use live bullets and cannons, not to mention do genuine amputations and even get people genuinely killed). Or hey, just look at Blade Wolf's VR mission where he had to assassinate N'mani in his DLC story.

And like I said, if they were to make them non-canon, they would have made it obvious as heck, like have it take place during the 1950s well before MSF was ever founded and yet have MSF clearly be in existence during this time. Think Snake vs. Monkey or, heck, even the Deja Vu mission (which is an Extra Op, not a Side Op).