Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-86.46.22.35-20130403153709/@comment-1672596-20140613000322

0nighthawk0 wrote: Oh I've seen the life action stuff from Rising...I'm going ahead and say that I cannot consider that appearance cannon purely because Rising was done by a completely different studio and all, it's not unreasonable to think they messed that up.

That being said, he was already an adult by that time, if we take in consideration how the rapid aging worked a Solid Snake, and how the faster version works on Solidus, I think it is safe to say that his body was fully matured before the aging kicked in, because I still think the aging doesn't work as rapidly maturing but more as physically growing older much like the illness that Otacon mentioned that it looked like. Actually, Solidus would only be an adult in 1993, maybe 1989 at most, and that's assuming he was born in 1972 (which we really have no way of knowing, as it's only said that Solidus was created after Big Boss left. That could range at any date from 1972 to beyond until 1976). And either way, adult or late teen, his appearance still looked more middle aged than an actual teenager or young adult (for goodness sakes, his hair was already going gray).

And considering Raiden actually referenced the events of those trailers in a Codec conversation, they're canon, and also, Kojima Productions did the story of the game. All Platinum Games did was the game engine and the character designs, and Kojima Productions also stated the game itself was canon to the Metal Gear universe overall, even with it being a spinoff. If you're going to blame anyone for messing up, blame Kojima Productions, as they're the ones responsible for the actual story (the podcast even made that clear).

And BTW, the script for MGS2 made clear that Solid Snake already was undergoing the Werner Syndrome aspects of his cloned nature by the time of the Tanker Incident, something even implied in the game itself. And if what Ocelot said while "possessed" by Liquid was accurate, Liquid may have been undergoing the same symptoms during the Shadow Moses Incident.