Thread:Weedle McHairybug/@comment-38922197-20190325123948/@comment-1672596-20190325125042

Honestly, trying to talk about canon in this series is pointless thanks to Kojima constantly insisting on making a lot of retcons, several of which were completely pointless. Heck, a few times, MGSV just came across as non-canon despite being billed as the ending of the series (especially when the Truth ending alone, not to mention the Truth tapes and Big Boss's implied involvement in supplying them to Venom) basically destroyed whatever little consistency was left in the series, all to reuse the MGS2's plot twist involving Raiden in an even less necessary manner. In fact, to be honest, I'm not even sure if Hideo Kojima or George Lucas was worse regarding maintaining continuity (they both seem to not be fond of consistency or truth).

And yeah, I liked Portable Ops myself (it actually is tied with Snake Eater as my personal best received Metal Gear game, partly because those two games, unlike most other games in the series, yes, even including MGS1, at least TRIES to paint America in a good light rather than outright demonizing it to the extent that even terrorists are painted as beatified saints by comparison. That, and that game actually TRIES to adhere to continuity. Sure, it retcons Gray Fox's backstory a bit, but compared to the massive warping that Kazuhira Miller's character got in Peace Walker and especially MGSV, Gray Fox got very minimal changes by comparison.). I certainly liked it a LOT better than Peace Walker, to be honest (ironically, that game kind of DID resolve the whole deviously cunning strategist angle based on what Hot Coldman said to Big Boss upon formally meeting him face to face. In fact, Peace Walker had me lose all respect for Kojima especially after he completely failed to depict any negatives about Che Guevara [and it's not like he couldn't find anything, either: He could go for the London Daily Worker's Cuban Missile Crisis special or even go onto youtube and find his speech openly admitting he executes class enemies to the United Nations.], even had my fondness for Big Boss and Miller die rapidly thanks to being reduced to little more than cheerleaders for such garbage in that game.).